A Detailed Lesson Plan in Grade IX

I. OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a. deduce the meaning of unfamiliar words used;

b. explain lines of the poem;
c. identify literary device used; and
d. express insights based on the ideas presented in the poem.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

B. Reference: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-
me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds
C. Materials: Speaker, laptop, and worksheet

III. PROCEDURE

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY

A. PRE-READING

1. Goal Setting

This afternoon, you’re expected to deduce

the meaning of unfamiliar words used,
explain lines of the poem, identify literary
devices used, and express insights based
on the ideas presented in the poem.

2. Motivation

Before we read, I have prepared an activity

and this is entitled SPOTIFY.

I will play a song and you will guess the

title. Then, a reward will be given to those
students who can guess rightly the title of
the song. Let’s start the activity!
From This Moment by Eurika
Grow Old With you!
My Happy Ending by Avril
Thinking Out loud by Ed Sheran
Marry Me by Train
Perfect by Ed Sheran
Based on the songs, what do you think is
their similarity? The songs are all about expression of love
or affection to someone.
Very good! Those songs are about love.
This afternoon, we will read a sonnet that is
about love which is Sonnet 116.

3. Vocabulary Development

Before reading the sonnet, let’s familiarize

ourselves with the unfamiliar words and we
are going to use context clues to know the
meaning of these.
I will distribute a worksheet and you will
accomplish this in just three (3) minutes.

Direction: Match column A to column B.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
1. I received a writ a. something
from the supreme immaterial that
court. interferes with 1. C
action or 2. A
progress 3. E
2. Hiking is difficult b. change or 4. B
if it is added with make different 5. D
impediment of
heavy loads.
3. The principal c. a legal
handled the document from
tempest in the the judicial
school over his officer
pleasures.
4. Carla altered her d. move or cause
answer after to move in a
knowing the correct circular course.
answer.
5. Jeremie was e. a violent
wandering around commotion or
their house. disturbance
f. take something
away as by lifting,
pushing, or taking
off

4. Presentation

Since you already know the meaning of the

unfamiliar words, let’s get to know the
author of the Sonnet 116.

a. Author’s Biography

Who is the man in the picture?

What do you know about William

Shakespeare?

Very good! In addition, the one who inspires
Shakespeare in writing is his fellow writers
Geoffrey Chaucer and Plutarch.
b. Motive Question
He is William Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare is an English poet,
playwright and writer. He was referred as
Bard of Avon and England’s National
Poet.

Now, I want you to ponder on this question

“Why do people seek for a perfect love
when perfection in any form doesn’t exist?”

B. READING
Guide Questions
1. How did the author define love?
2. Can love persist even if one of the
parties involved is not loyal? 

Reading of the Poem

 By the teacher
 By the whole class

C. POST-READING

1. Comprehension Check

What do these lines mean?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love.
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

The first two lines do not literally mean

What is the rhyme scheme of the lines?
What do the lines mean?
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never
shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his
height be taken.
marriage rather it talks about true love or
perfect love. The true minds pertain to the
two individuals. In the third and fourth
lines, if the lovers themselves change true
love remains or constant. Nothing will
change even how difficult the problems
are. Real love doesn’t give in and vanish.
Faced with adversities, love will always
survive.
It’s ABAB

The lines want to convey that love is ever-

What is the rhyme scheme?
What do the lines mean?
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and
cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
fixed mark wherein it is not easy to fade or
it cannot be easily changed. Just like the
north star even decades will pass, the
position of the star is still the same and
that is like love that even decades has
passed the love is still the same.
It’s CDCD

What is the rhyme scheme? The lines mean that love doesn’t change
over time. It endures the passing of time
What do the lines mean? even how long it is and the love will not
If this be error and upon me proved, change the age is turning old.
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
It’s EFEF

What is the rhyme scheme of the last two
lines?
Very good! How did the author define love?
The last two lines challenge the readers if
his definition of love is wrong or
questionable and he will take back
everything .That’s the definition of the
author about love.

It’s GG
Can love persist even if one of the parties
involved is not loyal? 
He defined love in an ideal way that even
though there are a lot of adversities, love
will still be same and nothing will change.

If this person will promise to change and

2. Valuing decide if he/she will stay like in the MMK
that he chose to be with her long-time
What did you learn from the sonnet 116? girlfriend than to that girl that makes him
happy for just a shorter time.

All of us have our own definition of love

because we do have our own experiences We should not let the problems ruin our
with it. In sonnet 116, love here is seen as a relation with the person we love. We
truly powerful, irresistible. It’s a guiding star should always love them no matter what
for all who are lost out there. This tells us will happen.
that even how difficult the problems are or
even there are a lot of changes you will still
choose to be with the person you love since
then. Also, if your love to one another is
true or authentic, then no one can ruin it.

3. Answering the motive question

Let’s go back to the motive question that I
gave you awhile back.

“Why do people seek for a perfect love

when perfection in any form doesn’t exist?”

People tend to be ideal especially when

they are in love. They tend to block their
mind of the possible flaws of love and
Very good! In addition, people seek for focus only to those that please them to
perfect love even if perfection doesn’t exist pain and disappointments when the
because people are just human being moment comes that the flaws are
blinded with the perception of what is ideal overpowering those that are pleasing
and what seems to be or vital for them. them.
With the expectation for perfect love,
sometimes the relationship will not last
because you are looking for more
something perfect or comparing your
relationship to other’s and that might ruin
the relationship.
IV. EVALUATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY

Kindly bring out a pen and I will let you

answer the exit card that I am going to
distribute.
Students’ follow
1. I learned in the Sonnet 116 is . . .
2. Love for me is. . .

V. AGREEMENT

A. Follow Up

Make a two stanza poem about your definition of love. Write your poem on a half-sheet
cut of short bond paper

CRITERIA POINTS
Content 3
Grammar and
2
Neatness
Total 5