LESSON PLAN FOR DEMO TEACHING

Prepared by: JOHN DAVE A. ABAÑO

I. Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of an hour of lesson, the students are expected to:
Cognitive:
Identify the meaning of each stanza of the poem Invictus, and use the vocabulary in a
sentence
Affective:
Relate the poem to their own life experience.
Psychomotor:
Recite the poem with proper expression, pausing, word stress

II. Subject matter

Topic: Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Materials: DPL, PPT, Audio file, Laptop, Speaker,
III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
Strategy: 4A’s
Elicit:
Pre-activity:
Opening Prayer
Announcements

Lesson Review:
Let us review some of the vocabularies that
we have discussed yesterday.
Read the definition, and please use it in the
sentence:
1. Unconquerable Students read the vocabularies and the
\ ˌən-ˈkäŋ-k(ə-)rə-bəl \ definition and one of them would give a
(adj.) cannot be defeated sample sentence.

2. Circumstance
\ˈsər-kəm-ˌstan(t)s\
(n.)something that happens

3. Bludgeon
\ ˈblə-jən \
(v) beat (someone) repeatedly with a
heavy object.
Force someone to do something
Make one’s way by brute force

4. Unbowed
\ ˌən-ˈbau̇d \
(adj.) not to be defeated
 5. Menace
\ ˈme-nəs \
(n) a threat
Lesson Proper
A. Motivation/Activity
Invictus:
You will be listening to an audio while
reading poem written by William Ernest
Henley entitled “Invictus”
The task that you are going to do is to listen to
the poem, how it is being delivered, the
emotion, the pausing, and the pronunciation.
Also, you are going to draw the meaning of
each stanza while listening.
Is it your first time to hear this poem?
What was your first impression upon hearing
the poem?
Analysis (Identify the meaning of each stanza of the poem Invictus)
Let us now visit each stanzas and unlock their
meaning.
* Let us first read the stanza no. 1
A while ago I asked you to imagine each
stanza. Now we have here the first one. What
image can you imagine in this part of the
poem?
Metaphorically speaking what does this dark
night mean?
Students listen to the audio while reading the
poem silently.
INVICTUS
By William Ernest Henley
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
Yes/ No, Sir.
Students read
“Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.”
Dark world, a tunnel, a dark night
Student answers:
A world filled with darkness could symbolize
a chaotic world, a world filled with grief and
pain. In other words a living hell.
What do the 3rd and 4th line speak about? Student answers:
Being grateful towards the gods for granting
him an unshakeable resilience.

* Let us now read the stanza no. 2 In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

What was the author talking about in the first Student answers:
two lines of this stanza? He is talking about the how he never
complained when caught by the challenges of
the past

Student answers:
And what about the last two lines? Despite being beaten by the heavy loads of
life’s, he managed to remain resolved and
proud.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

* Let us first read the stanza no. 3 Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

Student answers:
rd
In the first two lines of the 3 stanza, The speaker talks about death as the certain
according to the speaker, what thing is end of everything.
certain?

Student answers:
According to the next lines, how will the He will face death courageously
speaker face the certainty of death?

*Finally, let us read the last stanza:

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
 Student answers:
The speaker doesn’t care how hard life can
What about the first two lines of the last be, nor does he care how horrible his faith
stanza? What do these lines mean? could be.

Student answers:
The speaker is the one who controls his life.
Here the speaker exclaims:
I am the master of my fate,
I am he captain of my soul
This means that?

B. Application (Recite the poem with proper expression, pausing, word stress)
We will be listening once again to the poem
and this time, please take not how it is being Three groups would read.
delivered. After which, I will ask each group
to read the poem. Let us see which group
reads with excellent expression, with proper
pausing, with proper word stress.
C. Abstraction (Relate the poem to their own life experience.)

How can you relate this poem in your own Student answers according to his own insight.
life experience?

D. Evaluation
I. Write True if the statement is correct and false if otherwise
1. The word “Menace” means a threat.
2. The word “Bludgeon means to act gently.
3. Unconquerable means can be defeated
4. Circumstance is defined as something that happens
5. Unbowed means not to be overthrown.
II. Write your favorite line in the poem “Invictus” and briefly discuss its significance
in your life.

References:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51642/invictus
https://www.merriam-webster.com/