SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN IN ENGLISH GRADE 9 (4A’S)

Prepared by: Angelo T. Navidad

I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the grade 9 students should be able to meet an 80%
proficiency with the following objectives:
A. Define oxymoron and foreshadowing.
B. Determine the oxymoron and foreshadowing in a text.
C. Construct oxymoron and foreshadowing sentences.

II. Subject Matter:

A. Topic: Oxymoron and Foreshadowing

B. Teaching Materials
 Visual Aid
 Strips of Paper
C. Resources: Prototype Lesson Plans in English III (First Edition, 2003) New
Horizons in Learning English III

III. Procedure:
A. Preliminary Activities
A1: Greetings.
A2: Arranging of chairs.
A3: Checking of attendance.
A4: Review of the past lesson.
(The teacher will call some students for recap of the previous lesson.)

B. Motivation
Message Relay
(The teacher will divide the class into two—the left side and the right side.
The class will be playing a message relay. The game will start the moment
the first person in the group read the message and the message shall be
passed to the next person to the next person and to the next person until
the message reaches the final student at the end. The group with the
fastest time to finish the relay will be the winner.)

Messages:
“A damned saint, an honorable villain!”
“Inhale the fresh air and exhale the bad breath.”
 (The teacher will ask the students about their thoughts to the messages
they have relayed, and the teacher will reinforce their ideas and opinions
by telling them how their answers are relevant to the lesson.)

C. Activity
Match Maker
(With the words/sentences from columns 1 and columns 2, the students
must be able to match the pair that suits each other.)

Oxymoron:
- deafening - silence
- Original - Copy
- Same - Difference
- Awfully - Good
- Friendly - Fight

Foreshadowing:
Column 1:
- That morning on her way to work, Mary Ann took a gun from a
cabinet in the garage, loaded it, and thrust it into her coat pocket.
- The air in the house was deadly cold.
- Before I gone off, I heard a rumbling from the sky.

Column 2:
- A murder happened.
- A monster in the loose was hiding.
- She went home drenched from the rain.

D. Analysis
(The teacher will call students from the class and let them explain the
literal meaning and figurative meaning of the quotes from the previous
activity.)

E. Abstraction
Oxymoron - is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with
opposing meanings, like “old news,” “deafening silence,” or “organized
chaos.” Oxymorons may seem illogical at first, but in context they usually
make sense.
Example:
“All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite
agony of this.”
—Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head . . .”
—Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism”

“Of melancholy merriment, to quote.”

—Lord Byron, Don Juan: Canto VIII

“His honour rooted in dishonour stood,

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.”
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King

“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“O brawling love! O loving hate!”

—William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Foreshadowing – Foreshadowing is a literary device that alludes to a later

point in the story.
What foreshadowing is not
- Foreshadowing is not a spoiler.
- Foreshadowing is not a flash-forward.
- Foreshadowing is not a red herring.

Types of foreshadowing:
1. Direct (overt) foreshadowing - Direct foreshadowing is explicit
about what it is. When a narrator says something like, “Little did I
know . . .” the character is about to divulge something that
happens later. Direct foreshadowing might also show up in an
introduction, a prelude, or even a title. Murder on the Orient
Express, a detective novel by Agatha Christie, directly
foreshadows that there will be a murder on a train called the
Orient Express. It doesn’t take a lot of sleuthing to figure that out.

2. Indirect (covert) foreshadowing - Indirect foreshadowing is a

subtle hint about the future. Oftentimes indirect foreshadowing
can be so understated that it goes unnoticed by the reader until
after the later event has happened, which leads to that light-bulb
moment.

When does a writer use foreshadowing?

Title
Why not begin at the beginning? The title of a book can provide a
huge hint about what’s going to happen in the book’s plot. For
example, readers of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the
King are primed for a return of the king. Death on the Nile
suggests that there will be a death on the Nile, and As I Lay Dying
does more than hint at the fate of the narrator.

Dialogue
Dialogue can also be a great way to include indirect
foreshadowing in the form of a joke or an offhand comment. Let’s
say Mary tells Sally that she’ll only get a promotion if her boss
takes an extended absence, and then later in the story her boss
takes an extended absence. In dialogue, it may have seemed like
an exaggerated way of saying the occurrence is unlikely, but
when the boss does go on leave, the reader thinks back on that
moment and understands it in a new way.

Symbolism
Writers can use symbolism and motif to create more conceptual
foreshadowing. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young
Goodman Brown,” the main character’s rejection of Puritanism is
foreshadowed using symbolism associated with the devil. For
example, on a nightmarish trek through the woods, he meets a
man with a snake-shaped staff.

Examples:
1. Foreshadowing in Literature

Mystery and thriller novels rely heavily on suspense, so they are

good places to look for examples of foreshadowing. But
foreshadowing can be found in other literary genres if you know
what to look for.

I don’t know, darling. I’ve always been afraid of the rain.

—Catherine in A Farewell to Arms
In the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, the reader
learns that Catherine is afraid of the rain, though she can’t tell
why. It later becomes clear that rain symbolizes death, and it is
death that Catherine fears. Spoiler alert: Catherine dies in the
end, and the narrator walks away in the rain.
 It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin
anyway and see it through no matter what.
—Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird
In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, lawyer Atticus Finch
explains courage to his children while simultaneously
foreshadowing the outcome of his legal case. This is an example
of using foreshadowing in dialogue.

I say that you are the murderer you are seeking.

—Tiresias in Oedipus the King
In the ancient Greek play about Oedipus Rex, a prophet named
Tiresias tells Oedipus that he is the murderer he is seeking,
foreshadowing (not so subtly) that Oedipus will murder his father.
The foreshadowing in this instance is direct and embedded in
dialogue. While audiences today might consider this a spoiler,
audiences at the time of the play were familiar with the fate of
Oedipus, so hearing this exchange wouldn’t ruin the plot for them.

2. Foreshadowing in Conversation
 I am going to tell you about what happened on the
camping trip shortly but first I must tell you where we
went.
 Louise was really angry, and I’ll tell you why in a moment,
she was so mad that she punched Andrew in the nose.
 She will definitely be coming later, but until then we will
watch this TV show.
 The most terrible thing happened on that stormy night,
the war between evil and good had begun.

F. Application
The Figuring Trees
(The teacher will post two big pictures of trees in the board. The trees
don’t bear fruits yet. For the trees to have fruits, the teacher will give each
student with two sticky fruit-shaped note—an apple and a guava. The
students should write their own-made foreshadowing sentence on the
apple while oxymoron for the guava. After the students have finished
making their figures of speech, they will post them on the leaves and
branches of the trees for it to finally bear fruits.)

Note: For foreshadowing, they must choose a particular event in their past
and give clues about it before it happened.
 Ex: (I passed my test.) Right before the exam started, I saw a number
down the aisle, written on it was 100%.

G. Generalization
(The teacher will ask the following questions to the class:)
1. What is Oxymoron?
2. What is foreshadowing?
3. Why is it important to know how to make these literary devices?

IV. Evaluation

Oxymoron:
I. Direction: Read the paragraph below and list down the oxymoron
phrases utilized.
Holly put on the light charcoal gown and placed the cap on her head like a
crown. Her four years of school had reached the final chapter, and she
would be walking stiff across the stage to receive her diploma today. This
was a bittersweet moment. While she would be celebrating her success as
a star student, she would also be saying so long to her friends.
She was honored to be selected as valedictorian. When she reached the
podium, the words leapt off the paper putting everyone on eloquent
silence. Her voice cracked with emotion as she talked about how quickly
time had flown by. She also mentioned many of the terribly good
memories they made as a class.

Foreshadowing:
II. Direction: Read the excerpts below and determine the foreshadowing
that was used and the event that eventually take place.

Before I enter the bathroom, I halted anxiously when Gina came out with a
small dent of bloods in her shirt, wavering and pale. She ran away leaving
me questioning everything. Soon after, I entered the bathroom slowly and
nervously. The moment I found out what was in there, I screamed and
screeched—there I saw our friend in the cubicle lifeless.

I was in the living room with my friend and we’re casually talking about life
and stuff. I got bored with the topic, so I steered my attention to my phone
and scrolled through my feed. Then suddenly, she mentioned this line,
“world would’ve been better perhaps without me.” I didn’t bother thinking
about it for I thought she was just being figurative. Three days after, I got
devasted when a report came saying that this friend of mine committed
suicide.
 Signed by:

MS. BRENDA B. RAQUEL

Cooperating Teacher Educator