ENGLISH 9

WEEK
WEEK 3-42– SECOND QUARTER

Name: ____________________________________ Grade & Section: ________________

Teacher: __________________________________ Date: ___________________________

Learning Competencies (Essential Competencies)

❖ Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values
in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world

Objectives
At the end of this module, the students should be able to:
a. analyze an excerpt from a full-length play by relating it to the real-
life situation or happenings,

b. create a dream map as a demonstration of one’s understanding on

the value of dreams and goals in life, and

c. explain the message of the play/story through a poster that

expresses unchanging values in the volatile, uncertain, complex,
or ambiguous word.

Let’s Recall (Review)

Listen attentively to the lyrics of the song, The Climb. Be ready to

answer the following questions. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpAEncw-H5Q)

I can almost see it

That dream I'm dreaming' but
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"you'll never reach it".
Every step I'm taking.
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction.
My faith is shakin'
But I, I gotta keep tryin'
Gotta keep my head held high.

There's always gonna be another mountain.

I'm always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose.
Ain't about how fast I get there.
QUESTIONS:Ain't about
(Share yourwhat's waitin on the other
insight/experience side.
with your partner)
It's the climb.
- Miley Cyrus

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 Answer the following questions:

1. What is the message of the song?

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2. Was there a time/situation in your life that you felt like giving up? Why?
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3. How did you overcome/surpass that situation?
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Let’s Understand (Study the Concept)

Read the excerpt from the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” by
Lorraine Hansberry.

Characters:
Ruth Younger Joseph Asagai
Travis Younger George Murchison
Walter Lee Younger (Brother) Karl Lindner
Lena Younger (Mama) Bobo
Moving Men
ACT 1
Scene One: Friday morning
Scene Two: The following morning
(Ruth comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and
Beneatha both turn to look at her.)
RUTH (dispiritedly): Well, I guess from all the happy faces – everybody knows.
BENEATHA: You, pregnant?
MAMA: Lord, have mercy, I sure hope it’s a little old girl. Travis ought to have
a sister.
(Beneatha and Ruth give her a hopeless look for this grandmotherly
enthusiasm.

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BENETHEA: How far along are you?
RUTH: Two months
BENETHEA: Did you mean two? I mean did you plan it or was it an accident?
MAMA: What do you know about planning or not planning?
BENETHEA: Oh, mama.
RUTH (wearily): She’s twenty years old, Lena.
BENETHEA: Did you plan it, Ruth?
RUTH: Mind your own business.
BENETHEA: It is my business – where is he going to live, on the roof? (There is
silence following the remark as the three women react to the sense of it.) Gee – I
didn’t mean that, Ruth, honest. Gee, I don’t feel like that at all. I – I think it is
wonderful.
RUTH (dully): Wonderful.
BENETHEA: Yes – really.
MAMA: (looking at Ruth, worried): Doctor says everything is going to be all
right?
RUTH (far away): Yes – she says everything is going to be fine.
MAMA (immediately suspicious): “She”- What doctor you went to?
(Ruth folds over; near hysteria)
MAMA (worriedly hovering over RUTH): Ruth honey – what’s the matter with
you – you sick?

(Ruth has her fist clenched on her thighs and is fighting hard to suppress a
scream that seems to be rising in her.)

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BENETHEA: What’s the matter with her, mama?
MAMA (working with fingers in Ruth’s shoulders to relax her): She be all right.
Women gets right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking softly,
expertly, rapidly). Now you just relax. That’s right… just lean back, don’t think
‘bout nothing at all… nothing at all –
RUTH: I’m all right…
(The glassy-eyed look melts and then she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing.
The bell rings)
(The front door opens slowly, interrupting him, and TRAVIS peeks his head in,
less than hopefully. )
TRAVIS (to his mother): Mama, I –
RUTH: “Mama I” nothing! You’re going to get it, boy! Get on in that bedroom,
and get yourself ready!
TRAVIS: But I –
MAMA: Why don’t you all never let the child explain himself.
RUTH: Keep of it now, Lena.
(Mama clamps her lips together, and Ruth advances toward her son men –
acingly.)
RUTH: A thousand times I have told you not to go off like that –
MAMA (holding out her arms to her grandson): Well – at least let me tell him
something. I want him to be the first one to hear… Come here, Travis. (The boy
obeys, badly.) Travis – (She takes him by the shoulder and looks into his face) –
you know that money we got in the mail this morning?
TRAVIS: Yes ‘m ---

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MAMA: Well – What you think your grandma gone and done with that money?
TRAVIS: I don’t know, grandma.
MAMA (putting her fingers on his nose for emphasis): She went out and bought
you a house! (The explosion comes from Walter at the end of the revelation, and
he jumps and turns away from all of them in a fury. Mama continues, to Travis).
You glad about the house? It’s going to be yours when you get to be a man.
TRAVIS: Yeah – I always wanted to live in a house.
MAMA (She takes an envelope out of her handbag and puts it in front of him,
and he watches her without speaking or moving.) I paid the man thirty-five
hundred dollars down on the house. That leaves sixty-five hundred dollars.
Monday morning I want you to take this money and take three thousand
dollars, and put it in a savings account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The
rest you put in a checking account – with your name on it. And from now on,
any penny that come out of it or that go in it is for you to look after. For you to
decide. (She drops her hand a little helplessly.) It ain’t much, but it’s all I got in
the world and I’m putting it in your hands. I’m telling you to be the head of this
family from now on like you supposed to be.
WALTER (stares at the money): You trust me like that, Mama?
MAMA: I ain’t never stop trusting you.Like ain’t never stop loving you.
(She goes out, and Walter sits looking at the money on the table. Finally, in a
decisive gesture, he gets up, and in mingled joy and desperation, picks up the
money.)

SUMMARY:
The rising action of the play reveals the pregnancy of Ruth. Mama (Lena) has
paid the initial amount for a house in Clybourne Park. Then, she hands the
remaining money to Walter to put it in savings account for Benethea’s medical
schooling. The rest of the money shall be put in a checking account in Walter’s
name. However, Walter intends to invest the money in a liquor business which
Mama does not approve of.

Full story:
https://khdzamlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/6/11261956/a_raisin_in_the_sun_-
_lorraine_hansberry.pdf

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 Let’s Apply

Choose the correct answer from the given choices. Write your answer on
the space provided before the number.

___________1. Who is Beneatha?

A. Mama C. Walter’s sister
B. Travis's sister D. Ruth’s daughter

___________2. What is the setting of the story?

A. Omaha NE C. Sioux City Iowa
B. Minneapolis MN D. South Side Chicago

____________3. What does “a raisin in the sun” symbolize in the play?

A. The struggles of the characters
B. The house where the family live in
C. The dreams of the family members
D. The conflict in the characters’ decisions

_____________4. Why was Mama getting the check for 10,000?

A. She had won the lottery.
B. She had won a contest.
C. It was life insurance money.
D. It was money she found.

_____________5. What happened to Ruth at the end of scene 1?

A. She fainted. C. She fell asleep.
B. She burst into tears. D. Walter hit her.

_____________6. What is Beneatha's dream?

A. She wants to be a nurse.
B. She wants to be a doctor.
C. She wants to be a teacher.
D. She wants to own her own business.

______________7. Who is Travis?

A. Mama's son C. Walter's brother
B. Beneatha's uncle D. Walter and Ruth's son

______________8. What did Ruth find out at the doctor's office?

A. She was pregnant.
B. Beneatha was pregnant.
C. She was suffering from depression.
D. She was exhausted and needed rest.

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____________9. What reason does Walter want money? What dream does he have?
A. Get a new house C. Open a liquor store
B. Have another child D. Open a dry-cleaning shop

____________10. The furniture in the Younger apartment is described as

A. colorful and sturdy C. shiny and patterned
B. worn and weary D. new and comfortable

Let’s Analyze

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” – Unknown

1. How would you describe the picture?

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2. Think of a scene or situation in the story in which you

can relate to this picture. Explain your answer.

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3. Does any of the characters in the play remind you of someone?

Why?
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 Let’s Try (Evaluation)

DREAM MAP
Design a dream map that represents your real-life journey, from the
moment you were born until the time you believe you will achieve your dreams.
Use icons to represent the different stations in your life and the dreams you want
to achieve. Place a marker on where you are at this point in your life. BE
CREATIVE!

DREAM MAP RUBRIC

Category 4 3 2 1
Neatness & The dream The dream The dream map The dream map
map is well- map is is presented, and is presented
Presentation
presented, and mostly well- few of the with little
all the presented, information are information.
information and some of easy to
are easy to the understand.
understand. information
are easy to
understand
Use of Most Some A few categories The dream
categories are categories are are enhanced map includes
Images/
enhanced with enhanced with simple some images
Symbols appropriate with symbols symbols or icons. or icons.
symbols or or icons.
icons.
Visual Color, shape, Color, shape, Color, shape, Color, shape,
size, and size, and size, and size, and
appeal
arrangement arrangement arrangement arrangement
contribute contributed contributed a few contribute no
meaning to the some meanings to the meaning to the
overall meanings to overall message. overall
message. the overall message.
message.

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 Let’s Create

Create a creative and inspiring poster that

GOAL
symbolizes faith, hope, and determination despite
the difficult situation in this changing world.

ROLE You are an artist who inspires other through your

poster despite in this VUCA world.

AUDIENCE Your target audience are your fellow students,

and other local teenagers/millennials who might
have experienced crisis brought by COVID-19
pandemic.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, some people/

SITUATION
families have become unemployed or jobless, or
have unstable job status. As a young artist, you
are tasked to inspire your classmates, fellow
students, and other local teenagers or millennials
to keep reaching their dreams or goals even if the
situation is hard and uncertain.

Product/Performance In an oslo paper or ¼ illustration board, create an

inspiring poster that symbolizes faith, hope and
determination.

STANDARD Your output will be graded based on the rubric

provided.

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 POSTER RUBRIC
Category 4 3 2 1

Presentation The poster is The poster is The poster is The poster is

exceptionally attractive in acceptably distractingly
attractive in terms of attractive messy or very
terms of design, lay- though it may poorly
design, layout, out and be a bit messy designed. It is
and neatness. neatness not attractive.
Relevance to All graphics All graphics All graphics Graphics do not
the topic are are relate to the relate to the
related to the related to the topic. Most topic or several
topic topic borrowed borrowed
and make it and most graphics have graphics do not
easier to make it a source have a source
understand. easier to citation. citation.
All understand.
borrowed All
graphics borrowed
have a source graphics
citation. have a source
citation.
Language Uses Utilizes strong Utilizes vague Utilizes
purposeful grade-level word or incorrect or
and choice basic word simplistic word
appropriate choice choice
terminology
Utilizes
strong and
precise word
choice

REFERENCES:
Textbook
➢ Almonte, L. R. et al., 2017. A Journey Through Anglo-American
Literature Learner’s Material. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc.

Internet
➢ https://khdzamlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/6/11261956/a_rai
sin_in_the_sun_-_lorraine_hansberry.pdf

➢ https://www.slideshare.net/shielalabs/g9-english-lesson-
exemplar-4th-quarter

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