SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN ON UNDERSTANDING A POEM

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students are expected to:
1. Answer a crossword puzzle for vocabulary.
2. Discuss the poem “The man with the Hoe”.
3. Write the political, economic and moral implication of the poem.

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Understanding a poem
Subtopic: The Man with the Hoe
References: Linking the World through English III
Social Science Book
Materials: Crossword Puzzle Chalk and Chalkboard
Paper Hoe Weighing Scale
Picture of the Man with the Hoe

III. Teaching Procedure

A. Preparation
1. Routinary Activities
a. Greetings
b. Checking of Attendance
c. Magic Word
2. Review
a. What are the three social classes?
b. Draw the social structure.
c. What do you mean with political, economic and moral?
3. Motivation
The teacher will post a weighing scale on the board, which is not properly or equally weighed. She
will ask the students about the things which are usually weighed. Afterwards, she will put a picture of a
wealthy man on the higher side and a laborer on the lower side, which will reveal social injustice. Also
relating the line, “Tinimbang ka Ngunit Kulang”.
B. Lesson Proper
1. Vocabulary – Crossword Puzzle
-rapture -stolid
-portents -censure
-plundered -seraphim
-profaned -infamies
-perfidious -reckon
2. Reading of the poem “The Man with the Hoe”
3. Discussion
a. What does the first stanza describes?
b. What does the poet asks in the second stanza?
c. What does the author expresses in the third stanza?
d. When the poet refers to the man with the hoe as “monstrous thing” in the fourth stanza, what is he
trying to express?
e. To whom does the poet address the fifth stanza?
f. What is the general mood of the poem?
g. Who does the poet blame for the situation of the man with the hoe?
h. Who does the man with the hoe symbolizes?
C. Generalization
D. Application
Showing the picture of the man with the hoe with a comic balloon, the students will give lines that they want to
put on the blank balloon of the man.

IV. Evaluation
Writing the political, economic and moral implication of the poem “The Man with the Hoe”.

VI. Assignment
1. Cite other situations with social injustices. Write it in a paragraph form.
2. What is diction?

Reference book:
English II, pp.23-25

Existentialism because it employs value clarification strategy. It also includes a great deal with individual contact
with the teacher .Its gives tremendous emphasis to unleash the creativity and self-expression of students.