Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

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English
Quarter 2 – Module 2:

My Message to the World

Name of Learner: ___________________________

Grade & Section: ___________________________
Name of School: ___________________________
 What I Need to Know

As a student who is aware of the things happening in the world around you, you
might have a lot of unspoken thoughts.
This module contains compositions that will help you realize that your voice
matters.

In charting the course of your journey in this module, you are expected to:
 Respond to particular social issues, concerns or dispositions in real life.
 Write a short persuasive essay.
 Realize the value of doing good or showing kindness.

What’s In

What have you done in response to your awareness of social issues or

concerns your society has been facing?

1. COVID-19
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2. Cyber Bullying
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3. Typhoons
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 What’s New

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

I Shall Not Pass This Way Again

(Anonymous)
Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass,
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.

Source: “Poem: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again by Anonymous,” Poetry Nook, accessed
July 9, 2020, https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-shall-not-pass-way-again.

1. What is the poem all about?

2. What is the speaker trying to tell us?

3. How did he describe the world? Why do you think he described it that way?

4. What does he intend to do? Why?

5. Would you do the same? Why? Why not?

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 What is it

The Poem “I Shall Never Pass This Way Again” is a lyric poem inspiring us to
do good while we still have time.

Poem
 A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or
emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of
language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of
literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
 A composition in verse rather than in prose: wrote both prose and
poems.
 A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language
more characteristic of poetry than of prose.

The Basics of Poetry

1. Stanzas

They are a series of lines grouped together. It’s the poetry version of a paper's
paragraph.

 couplet (2 lines)
 tercet (3 lines)
 quatrain (4 lines)
 cinquain (5 lines)
 sestet (6 lines) (sometimes it's called a sexain)
 septet (7 lines)
 octave (8 lines)

2. Form
It is basically another word for style. Most people use lyric, narrative or descriptive
styles of poetry.

3. Sound Patterns
Rhyme is the repetition of similar sounds. In poetry, the most common kind of rhyme
is the end rhyme, which occurs at the end of two or more lines.

4. Figurative Devices
These can be simile, metaphor, personification, etc.

Source: “Learning the Basics of Poetry,” The Odyssey Online, Accessed July 10, 2020,
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/learning-basics-poetry.

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 What’s More
Activity 1: Do and Say
Directions: Imagine that you have witnessed the following situations. What would
you do and say?
Situation What to do? What to say?

1.
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2.
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3.
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4.
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5.

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Activity 2: I Will Do It Now

Directions: List five (5) things that you ought to do now, realizing you will never pass
this way again. Explain your answers.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

After you have done this, you will received “Relating with others Badge” in Senior
Scout.

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Activity 3: I Will Say It Now
Directions: Fill in the table with your message to your friends, classmates,
neighbors, to all Filipinos, to the world or to anybody you wish to specify after the
realization you gained from the poem, I Shall Never Pass This Way Again.

My Message to Message
1. My Friends

2. My Classmates

3. My Neighbors

4. All Filipinos

5. The World

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 What I Have Learned

Complete Me

Directions: Assess your learning by completing the statements below.

1. In this lesson, I learned that a poem is

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2. A poem can
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3. The poem “I shall never pass this way again” …

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4. According to the poem “I shall never pass this way again”, the world is…
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5. That is why, I will…

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 What I Can Do

A persuasive essay is an essay used to convince a reader about a particular idea or

focus, usually one that you believe in.

Directions: Write a short persuasive essay convincing your readers to do something

you believe can help us in facing a particular social issue or concern.

Assessment
Let us check how well you have mastered the lesson in this module.
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers on the space
before each number.

_____1. Which is NOT true about a poem?

A. a way of communicating ideas or information
B. may convey feelings/emotions of the speaker
C. has different types and purpose
D. has the same form no matter the type

_____2. Which of the following is not a type of poem?

A. epic B. lyric C. sonnet D. stanza
_____3. What is the speaker’s tone in the poem I Shall Never Pass This Way Again?
A. hopeful B. hopeless C. regretful D. humorous

_____4. Which message does the speaker wish to convey in the poem, I Shall Never
Pass This Way Again?
A. The world has a lot of problems. Stay kind.
B. Life is short. Let’s spend it doing good.
C. People are suffering so be kind.
D. We only live once. So be kind.

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5-8. Refer to the verse below.

“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a
vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

-James 4:14 KJV Bible

_____5. To what is our life compared to?

A. morrow B. vapour C. time D. vanisheth

_____6. What characteristic does it have?

A. It only last for a short time.
B. It will be useful tomorrow.
C. It will last for a long time.
D. It comes and goes.

_____7. What does it tell us about life?

A. Life is good. C. Life is certain
B. Life is short. D. Life is uncertain.
_____8. What is an optimist likely to be?
A. Spend his life trying to leave a legacy.
B. Sulk and murmur.
C. Spend life in luxury.
D. Repay good for good and evil for evil.

Interpret the image below by answering the questions that follow.

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9. What message does the image convey? Do you agree with the message?

10. Do you think the illustrator is successful in conveying the message to the
readers? Explain your answer.

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REFERENCES

Online
“Learning the Basics of Poetry.” The Odyssey Online, February 6, 2017.
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/learning-basics-poetry.
“Poem: I Shall Not Pass This Way Again by Anonymous.” Www.Poetrynook.com. Accessed
July 9, 2020. https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/i-shall-not-pass-way-again.
“James 4:14 KJV - - Bible Gateway.” Www.Biblegateway.com, n.d.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%204:14&version=KJV.

Images

Freepik.com. Super woman multitasking illustration Free Vector.

Freepik.com. Man carries a cardboard box Free Vector.
Freepik.com. Beggars lying on the side of the street with dirty clothes. Free Photo.
Freepik.com. Illustration of a person with a cold Free Vector.
Freepik.com. Flat design bullying concept with kids Free Vector.
Freepik.com. Young woman standing in front of mirror motivate and confident you can do it
vector illustration Free Vector.

Development Team

Writer: Maria Cristina Sundiam Estrao

Timalang National High School
Timalang, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay
Editors/QA: Marjorie R. Daligdig
Garend E. Temporada
Reviewer: Evelyn F. Importante
OIC-CID Chief EPS
Illustrator:

Layout Artist:

Management Team:
Jerry C. Bokingkito
OIC-Assistant SDS
Raymond M. Salvador
OIC-Assistant SDS
Dr. Jeanelyn A. Aleman, CESE
OIC-Schools Division Superintendent

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My Final Farewell
Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun
caress'd Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost!,
Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life's
best, And were it brighter, fresher, or more
blest
Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost.
On the field of battle, 'mid the frenzy of fight,
Others have given their lives, without doubt or
heed; The place matters not-cypress or laurel or
lily white, Scaffold or open plain, combat or
martyrdom's plight, T is ever the same, to serve
our home and country's need.
I die just when I see the dawn break,
Through the gloom of night, to herald the
day; And if color is lacking my blood thou
shalt take, Pour'd out at need for thy dear
sake
To dye with its crimson the waking ray.
And when the dark night wraps the graveyard
around With only the dead in their vigil to see
Break not my repose or the mystery profound
And perchance thou mayst hear a sad hymn
resound 'T is I, O my country, raising a song
unto thee.
And even my grave is remembered no
more Unmark'd by never a cross nor a
stone
Let the plow sweep through it, the spade turn
it o'er That my ashes may carpet earthly floor,
Before into nothingness at last they are blown.
Then will oblivion bring to me no
care As over thy vales and
plains I sweep;
Throbbing and cleansed in thy space and
air With color and light, with song and
lament I fare, Ever repeating the faith that I
keep.

My dreams, when life first opened to me,
My dreams, when the hopes of youth beat high,
Were to see thy lov'd face, O gem of the Orient
sea From gloom and grief, from care and sorrow
free; No blush on thy brow, no tear in thine eye.
Dream of my life, my living and burning
desire, All hail ! cries the soul that is now to
take flight; All hail ! And sweet it is for thee to
expire ;
To die for thy sake, that thou mayst aspire;
And sleep in thy bosom eternity's long
night.
If over my grave some day thou seest
grow, In the grassy sod, a humble flower,
Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so,
While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb
below The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's
warm power.
My Fatherland ador'd, that sadness to my
sorrow lends
Beloved Filipinas, hear now my last good-by!
I give thee all: parents and kindred and friends
For I go where no slave before the oppressor
bends, Where faith can never kill, and God
reigns e'er on high!
Farewell to you all, from my soul torn away,
Friends of my childhood in the home
dispossessed ! Give thanks that I rest from the
wearisome day !
Farewell to thee, too, sweet friend that
lightened my way;
Beloved creatures all, farewell! In death there is
rest!

Let the moon beam over me soft and

serene, Let the dawn shed over me its
radiant flashes, Let the wind with sad
lament over me keen ; And if on my cross a
bird should be seen,
Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my
ashes. Let the sun draw the vapors up to
the sky,
And heavenward in purity bear my tardy
protest Let some kind soul o 'er my untimely
fate sigh, And in the still evening a prayer be
lifted on high From thee, 0 my country, that in
God I may rest. (This is the 1911 translation by Charles
Derbyshire of the Spanish original of José
Pray for all those that hapless have died, Rizal's poem, Mi Ultimo Adiós)
For all who have suffered the unmeasur'd pain;
For our mothers that bitterly their woes have
cried,
For widows and orphans, for captives by torture
tried And then for thyself that redemption thou
mayst gain.

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