NAME: DATE: SCORE:

ENGLISH 9
WEEK 7 - FOURTH QUARTER
Learning Competency:
React to lay value judgment on critical issues that demand sound analysis
and call for prompt actions. (EN9LT-IVa-17)

Objectives
1. To define value judgment
2. To analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values
in a changing world
3. To relate text content to particular social issues, concerns, or
dispositions in real life
4. To create a dream collage
Let’s Understand

A value judgment refers to an individual’s opinion. It is a

judgment of the rightness or wrongness of one thing or somebody. It
is also an assessment of something as good or bad in terms of one's
standards or priorities. "The specification of this standard is pure value judgment"
(Definition by Oxford Languages)

Let’s Apply
Directions: Suppose you are the President of the country. How would you
have addressed or resolved the following social issues and concerns affecting
the values of your countrymen? Discuss your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. Unemployment and Underemployment
2. Drug Dependency
3. Poverty
Let’s Analyze

REQUIEM

(Death of a Salesman)

CHARLEY: It’s getting dark, Linda. (Linda doesn’t react. She stares at the grave.)
BIFF: How about it, Mom? Better get some rest, heh? They’ll be closing the gate soon. (Linda
makes no move. Pause)
HAPPY: (deeply angered): He had no right to do that! There was no necessity for it. We
would’ve helped him.
CHARLEY: (grunting): hmmm,
BIFF: Come along, Mom.
LINDA: Why didn’t anybody come?

1 │ ENGLISH GRADE 9 LAS 7 WEEK 7 FOURTH QUARTER

NAME: DATE: SCORE:

CHARLEY: It was a very nice funeral.

LINDA: But where are all the people he knew? Maybe they blame him.

CHARLEY: Naa, It’s a rough world, Linda. They wouldn’t blame him.

LINDA: I can’t understand it. At this time especially. First time in thirty–five years, we were just

about free and clear. He only needed a little salary. He was even finished with the dentist.

CHARLEY: No man needs only a little salary.

LINDA: I can’t understand it.

BIFF: There were a lot of nice days. When he’d come home from a trip; or on Sundays making
the stoop; finishing the cellar; putting on the new porch; when he built the extra bathroom; and
pat up the garage. You know something, Charley, there’s more of him in that front stoop than
in all the sales he ever made.

CHARLEY: Yeah. He was a happy man with a batch of cement.

LINDA: He was so wonderful with his hands.

BIFF: He had the wrong dreams. All, all, wrong.

HAPPY (almost ready to fight Biff): Don’t say that!

BIFF: He never knew who he was.

CHARLEY: (Stopping HAPPY’s movement and reply. To Biff) Nobody dast blame this man.
You don’t understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to
life. He doesn’t put a bolt to a nut, he doesn’t tell you the law or gives you medicine. He’s a
man out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling
back---- an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re
finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the
territory.

BIFF: Charley, the man didn’t know who he was.

HAPPY: (infuriated): Don’t say that!

BIFF: Why don’t you come with me, Happy?

HAPPY: I’m not licked that easily. I’m staying right in this city, and I’m gonna beat this racket!

(He looks at BIFF, his chin set.) The Loman Brothers!

BIFF: I know who I am, kid.

HAPPY: All right, boy. I’m gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in
vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have---- to come out a number – one
man. He fought it out here, and this is where I’m gonna win it for him.

BIFF: (with a hopeless glance at HAPPY, bends toward his mother) Let’s go, Mom.

2 │ ENGLISH GRADE 9 LAS 7 WEEK 7 FOURTH QUARTER

NAME: DATE: SCORE:

LINDA: I’ll be with you in a minute. Go on, Charley. (He hesitates.) I want to, just for a minute. I
never had the chance to say goodby. (Charley moves away, followed by HAPPY. BIFF
remains a slight distance up and left of LINDA. She sits there, summoning herself. The flute
begins, no far away, playing behind her speech.)

LINDA: Forgive me, dear. I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t cry. I don’t understand
it. Why did you ever do that? Help me, Willy, I can’t cry. It seems to me that you’re just on
another trip. I keep expecting you. Willy, dear, I can’t cry. Why did you do it? I search and
search and I search, and I can’t understand it, Willy. I made the last payment on the house
today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home. (A sob rises in her throat.) We’re free and
clear. (Sobbing more fully, released.) We’re free. (BIFF comes slowly toward her.) We’re
free… We’re free… (BIFF lifts her to her feet and moves out upright with her in his arms.
LINDA sobs quietly. BERNARD and CHARLEY come together and follow them, followed by
HAPPY. Only the music of the flute is left on the darkening stage as over the house the hard
towers of the apartment buildings rise into a sharp focus, and-

Directions: Read and answer them for the clarification of their details.
1. What does Biff learn in Boston that influences his life? Why can’t Biff be what his
father wants him to be? Why does Biff steal things? Does Biff use Willy’s behavior as
an excuse for his waywardness? What does he say to Willy about the way he wants
to live and what Willy expects of him?
2. What is the turning point in Willy’s life? Is Willy the main character in the play or is it
Biff? Why? What does Biff discover about himself? How does this discovery affect
his relationship with Willy? How is Biff’s self-realization dramatic? What is the climax
of the play?

Let’s Try (Evaluation)

Directions: After reading the text, you are now ready to digest what you have
discovered. In your group, discuss the causes of the characters’ actions or
dialogues based on your understanding and come up with a positive disposition
which you should undertake to establish a good relationship among the
members of your family. Explain the values which will be instilled or developed
once the disposition is being done.
Characters’ Causes Positive Disposition to Be
Actions/Dialogues Undertaken

BIFF: He had the wrong

dreams. All, all, wrong

HAPPY: All right, boy. I’m

gonna show you and
everybody else that Willy
Loman did not die in vain.

3 │ ENGLISH GRADE 9 LAS 7 WEEK 7 FOURTH QUARTER

NAME: DATE: SCORE:

CHARLEY: No man needs

only a little salary.

LINDA: Forgive me, dear. I

can’t cry. I don’t know what it
is, but I can’t cry.

Let’s Create
Your final task.

Integrative Performance Task (English, EsP, Arts)

Subject Most Essential Learning Competencies

English • React to lay value judgment on critical issues that demand sound
analysis and call for prompt actions.
• Relate text content to particular social issues, concerns, or
dispositions in real life.
EsP • Nahihinuha na ang kanyang Personal na Pahayag ng Misyon
sa Buhay ay dapat na nagsasalamin ng kanyang pagiging
natatanging nilalang na nagpapasya at kumikilos nang
mapanagutan tungo sa kabutihang panlahat
Create a dream collage inspired by the song titled,
➢ We Can Be Anything by Apl D Ap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQIz08QURPY

GRASPS
Goal Create a dream collage inspired by the song titled,
We Can Be Anything by Apl D Ap

Role You are a Grade 9 student with a good disposition in life.

Audience Parents, siblings, and subject teacher
Situation Watch/listen to the song titled, We Can Be Anything by Apl D Ap,
and from that song you will envision your life 10 years from now.

Product A dream collage

Standard Be guided with the criteria for grading to be sent by your teacher in
your group chat.

4 │ ENGLISH GRADE 9 LAS 7 WEEK 7 FOURTH QUARTER