Felizardo C. Lipana National High School D.

VALUE
Relate to the author’s perspective by:
Sta. Rita, Guiguinto, Bulacan
1. Reflecting to the poem and relating it to their real-life
A.Y. 2018 – 2019 experiences

Lesson Plan in English 10 II. SUBJECT MATTER

I. OBJECTIVES Lesson:‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’,a poem by Craig
At the span of the 60-minute lesson, students should be able to: Raine
A. READING
Familiarize themselves with the imagery and creativity Reference:Celebrating Diversity through World Literature
used by the writer by: (English 10 Learner’s Material)
1. Inferring the implied meanings using evidences in the
text. Materials: Pictures (of objects described in the poem), pictures
2. Identifying where and how the meanings were implied (for guessing activity), blank postcards, chalk, blackboard, task
in the poem. cards,visual aids, laptop and projector
B. WRITING
Be acquainted with the structure of the text by: III. PROCEDURE
1. Making a postcard in describing something usual the
Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity
way the author did in the poem. A. Pre-Reading
2. Echoing the poet’s style as closely as possibleas if 1. Preliminary
describing humans from some invisible vantage point. Activities
C. LISTENING “Stand up let us pray. Gian, would
Appreciate the writer’s style in writing by: you please lead the prayer?”
1. Matching pictures of the implied objects from the poem (Gian will lead the prayer)
into the appropriate couplet which describes said “Good morning, 10 – Rizal!”
“Good morning, Sir Louis!”
objects.
2. Guessing an object pre-described in an unusual way. “Before you sit down, pick up any
pieces of paper and trash under
your chair. Align your chairs. Be
seated.” (Students will do so)
“Class Secretary, do we have any
absentees today?”
“Glad to hear that, thank you very
much! How’s your day, Rizal? So
far, so good?”
2. Review of the
Previous Lesson
“Okay! Now can you still recall
our previous discussion?”
“What was our topic in our last
discussion?”
“Right! What do you think is the
state of our society nowadays? Is
it good or bad?”
“If the state of our society is bad,
how do you think can we rebuild
our society? How do we bring it
back to where it was?”
“Yeah, that’s right. What else?”
“Very good! We say we should be
smart in electing officials because
we have experienced countless
corrupt officials, and we’re fed up
with them. Are you tired of all the
corrupt officials?” “Yes, sir!”
“Sir, I am thrilled to say that there are
no absentees today.” “Yes, we’re all tired of them, but
even so, there are still many
officials that are corrupt in the
government, why do you think did
“Yes, sir!” they get elected?” “Because, the people didn’t know they
were corrupt.”
“That’s right! Because the people
didn’t know that they are corrupt.
“Yes, Sir!” But what if the people knew that
“No.”
the official will be corrupt? Will
you vote him?”
“Sir, we talked about ‘Rebuilding Our “Because we already know that he is
Societies.’” corrupt!”
“Why?”
“It’s bad, Sir.” “Yes, but if we didn’t know, we “Yes.”
could make the mistake of voting
for him, right?”
“Yes, sir!”
“So it’s important that we know a
“We can start by practicing discipline lot of things, right?”
by ourselves.”
3. Motivation
“We should be smart in electing “Okay, I have here some things,
officials that will lead the society.” and I want you to describe them
as detailed as possible.” (shows “A bottle opener!”
bottle opener) “What’s this?”
“How do you use a bottle “You put it on top of the bottle’s cap,
opener?” lodge the bottom point of the bottle
opener under the cap, and carefully

“Very good! How about this?”
“What’s the use of the key?”
“Very good! Now what about
this?”
“Very well said! How did you
managed to identify all these
things? How were you able to
describe them with ease?”
“That’s right! You’re already
familiar with these things, that’s
why you were able to describe
them easily. But, if you don’t
know about these things in the
first place, do you think you
would have easily described
them?”
“Imagine if you’re an alien, and
pull the handle upward. This will bend
the cap and release the bottle from the
cap’s hold.”
“A key!”
“To open doors or locks, you put it
inside the appropriate keyhole and
then twist it until the lock opens.”
“A smartphone. You use it to
communicate to people and you can
do a lot of things to it, people use it for
entertainment, studies, even business.”
“Sir, because we already know about
these things. We’re used to using
them, that’s why we can identify and
describe them with ease.”
“No, Sir. I don’t think so.”
you visited Earth. It’s your first
time seeing all these humans and
these things. Would you have
described them the same way as “No, Sir. We would have described it
you did a while ago?” differently.”
“Because an alien seeing these things
“And why is that?” for the first time won’t know what
those things were, and therefore would
not know how to describe them.”
“That’s right! That’s exactly the
dilemma of the character in the
poem that we’re going to read
today.
4. Unlocking of
Difficulties
“But before we actually discuss
the poem, there might be some
words in the poem that you may
find unfamiliar. I have here some “Hilda borrowed a caxton from the
sentences with the unfamiliar library. She needed it as a reference
words underlined Please read the for her research.”
first one.”
“Thank you. Now, from the “A book, Sir.”
sentence, what do you think does
the word caxton mean?”
“Very good! A caxton is a book
printed by William Caxton, the “Caxton.”
first man to print books in
English. Everybody say caxton.”
“How about the 2nd one? Will
someone please read the 2nd one?”
“Thank you. Now, from the
sentence, what is the meaning of
the word shriek?”
“Very good! A shriek is a loud,
sharp, high-pitched cry people
make, commonly when in sudden
pain, or when scared. Everybody
say shriek.”
“Please read the third sentence.”
“Harold shrieked with pain when his
finger toes hit the edge of the wall. His
high-pitched cry woke his sister up.”
“A loud, high-pitched cry.”
“Shriek”
“The experts are still trying to figure
out the meaning of the engravings in
the wall. These inscriptions were
probably written thousands of years
ago.”
“Those are examples of
engravings. Everybody say
engravings.”
“Let’s move on to the fourth one.
Please read.”
“What could the word apparatus
mean based on the sentence?”
“Very good! An apparatus is any
instrument, machinery, tool,
material, that has a particular
function or intended for a specific
use. Apparatus.”
“Let’s move to the final sentence.
Please read.”
“Engravings.”
“Juan tried to work with the apparatus
for his project. The complicated
instrument was really hard to work
with.”
“It refers to a complicated instrument.
Probably a machine.”
“Apparatus.”
“The mother tried to soothe the crying
baby with her lullaby. She tried to
make the baby feel better.”

“Sir, in the sentence, the word

“What do you think is the engravings refers to an inscription or a
meaning of the word engravings?” etched design on the wall.” “Based on the sentence, what is “It meant calming down the baby and
the meaning of the word making it feel better.”
‘soothe’?”
“That’s right. Engravings are
designs formed on a hard surface, “Very good! Since we already
such as wood, metal or stone. Do know the meaning of these words, (Answers may vary)
you guys know of the drawings in “Yes, sir.”
let’s try to use them in sentences.
the cave walls during pre-historic Who wants to try?”
times?”
 5. Discussion
“Very good! Now let’s proceed to
the poem. This poem is entitled
‘A Martian Sends a Postcard
Home’ and is written by Craig
Raine. Raine is well known as one
of the exponents of ‘Martian’
poetry. Through unusual,
ingenious and sometimes
humorous visual images, Raine
attempts to make readers look at
the familiar in fresh, illuminating (students will read the poem)
ways. Move to your respective
groups and I’ll assign you all parts
of the poem to read aloud.”
“Let’s figure out what things are
the speaker describing in the
poem. Again, what is a caxton?”
“Okay, so the Martian is referring mechanical bird with many wings, it
to a book. How did the Martian
describe the book?”
“Very good. How about in the
next lines? What other things did
the Martian describe?”
“How did the Martian describe
“A book.”
“The Martian described the book as a
also said that books cause the eyes to
melt and the body to shriek without
pain.”
“Sir the Martian described the mist
and the rain.”
“He said that the mist happens when
the sky is tired, and it rests its soft
machines on the ground.”
the mist?”
“When the Martian said it rests its “Sir it meant the clouds, because when
machines on the ground, what do there is mist, there is thick fog and it
you think it meant by ‘soft looks like fog.”
machines’?”
“Sir the Martian said that rain is when
the earth is television, for it has the
“Very well said! How about the
property of making colors darker.”
rain? How did the Martian
describe rain?”
“Because just like a television, the rain
“Why do you think did the can change the color of the
Martian compare the rain to a surroundings once it starts pouring.”
television?”
“The letter T.”
“Very good! When we’re looking
at a car from the top view, what
letter does it look like?”
“A car.”
“Very good, so in these next lines,
when the Martian described
Model T, it was referring to?”
“The Martian described it as a world
“Right you are. What other details that needs a key to free the movement,
and a car needs a key to start.”
did the Martian said that
confirmed that it’s a car?”

“Very good! What other things
did the Martian describe?”
“What lines in the poem did the
Martian describe a wristwatch?”
“That’s right! Now imagine you
were the Martian, and while you
were watching a house, something
started ringing and vibrating?
What will be our first reaction,
having no knowledge about the
ringing object?”
“You would get scared, yes.
That’s probably the reaction of
the Martian too, since he
described the ringing object a
‘haunted apparatus’. But what do
you think is the Martian talking
about?”
“What lines in the poem makes
you think it’s referring to a
phone?”
“A wristwatch, Sir!”
“The Martian said that time is tied to
the wrist, or kept in a box. It also said
that time is ticking with impatience.”
“I would get scared.”
“Sir, I think it’s referring to a phone.”
“Sir, the Martian said that the ‘haunted
apparatus’ snores when you pick it up,
and then when it wakes up, people
bring it to their ears and they speak to
it, as if soothing it to sleep.”
“Sir, a phone, it rings when someone
is calling, so the Martian thought it’s
haunted because it’s ringing on its
own. Then people pick it up and talk
“How is that related to a phone?” to the person at the other end of the
line, and the Martian thought the
person is talking to the phone itself.”
(answers may vary)
“Very well said! Now who here
has a baby brother/sister?” “Yes, sir.”
“Isn’t it that babies who wear
diapers cry when their diapers are
full?”
“They also cry when they need to
do their business and the adults
have to clean up for them. Now, “I would think that the baby is
imagine if you’re the Martian and suffering, or is in pain.”
you saw a baby cry because the
baby’s diapers are full, what
would you think?”
“Yes, because the baby is crying,
that’s why the Martian thought it
was in pain. In these lines of the “Sir, it’s describing a toilet.”
poem, the Martian said that only
children are allowed to suffer
alone, and the adults have to go to
a ‘punishment room’. What do
you think is that punishment
room?”
“Sir, it’s describing the humans as
they sleep. Mostly couples sleep
“Very good! Now the last lines
said that when all colors die,
humans hide in pairs and read
about themselves with their eyes
shut. What could the Martian be
describing?”
“Very good! Do you have any
questions about the poem?”
“Oh, but I do. Listen. What is the
first object that the Martian is able
to describe?”
“How did he describe the book?”
“Very good! Now, what two
forms of weather are mentioned in
the poem?”
“Very good! In the poem, the
Martian tried to be very
descriptive and detailed as
possible, tell me, how different
does the Marian see the objects?
Is it really different compared to
our perspective?”
together and they dream during their
sleep.”
“None so far, Sir.”
“The book, sir.”
“A mechanical bird with many
wings.”
“The mist, and the rain, sir.”
“Sir, it’s really different because the
Martian described the objects with an
ignorant perspective, while we see
those objects as something common, it
saw the objects as unusual things.”
“Very well said!” “Yes, Sir!”
6. Generalization
“Now, I have here some pictures, (the students will do the activity)
these are the things that the
Martian described in the poem, I
want you to put the objects
alongside the part of the poem
that described them, understood?”
“Okay! Who wants to start?” “Yes, Sir!”
7. Application
“Very good, class! Now let’s see (Students will do the activity)
if you can stand alone, apart from
your group. I have here a bank of
objects, and someone will come
up here, pick an object, and
describe it, Martian-style. Got it?”
“Okay! Who wants to be our first
Martian?”
IV. EVALUATION
The teacher will split the class into 4 groups: Musical, Linguistic,
Artistic, and Dramatic groups. Each group will be instructed to do
a task.
Musical Group – Compose a 2-stanza poem with 12 syllables
per line about the Martian’s experiences on Earth. After that.
 Linguistic Group – Correctly describe the things that the Head Teacher III – English
Martian described in the poem.
Artistic Group – Draw an object that the Martian described LOIDA D. HILARIO
the way the Martian saw it. Ex. Draw a mechanical bird as a book OIC – Head Teacher IV - Mathematics
Dramatic Group – Re-enact the experience of the Martian on
Earth as he describes things

V. ASSIGNMENT
Watch the 2009 American science film Planet 51 directed by Jorge
Blanco and, in your groups, answer the following questions.
Communicate wisely.

1. Choose one word to describe your reaction to the movie.

2. What image from the movie lingers in your mind?
3. How would you describe the film to someone who hasn’t seen
it?
4. What do you think is the message of the film?
5. Has the film influenced your thinking in terms of overcoming
differences? Explain your answer.

Prepared by:
LOUIS ALEXIS P. VARGAS
Student Teacher

Checked by:
MARIA ROXANNE G. LUISA
Cooperating Teacher

Approved by:
ANTIFAS R. REYES, PH.D