Detailed Lesson Plan (Grade 5)

Poetry and Its Elements

I. Objectives:
1. Identify the elements of poetry.
2. Participate actively in reading a poem to identify the different elements of poetry.
3. Construct a poem that represents the elements of poetry.
II. Subject Matter
Topic: Poetry and Its Elements
Reference/s: M. (2022, November 11). The Elements of Poetry: Teaching the Structure of a Poem.
Mondays Made Easy. Retrieved from https://mondaysmadeeasy.com/elements-of-poetry/
Castillo, K. E. C. (2016). Joy in Learning English 5. Vibal Group Inc. (pp 61-70)
Materials: speaker, ball, tarpaper and worksheets.
Strategy: Discussion
III. Procedure
A. Learning Activities
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Daily Routines
1. Prayer
Let us all stand up.
Pupil 1, please lead the prayer. (Pupil 1 will stand up and lead the prayer)

Angel of God, my guardian dear to whom God's
love commits me here, ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
Let us bow our heads, close our eyes, and feel the
presence of the Lord.
Angel of God, my guardian dear to whom God's
love commits me here, ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard, to rule and guide. In the name of
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Good afternoon, class! Good afternoon, ma’am!

Before you sit, kindly arrange all your chairs, and
please pick up all the pieces of paper around
you. (The students will arrange their chairs and pick up
the pieces of paper)

Thank you, please be seated. (The students will be seated)

2. Attendance
Secretary, can you tell us who among
your classmates is not here for today’s Secretary: I am glad to say that no one is absent
discussion? for today’s lesson ma’am.

Wow! It is nice to hear that all of you are

here for our discussion this afternoon.

3. Review
Our lesson yesterday is all about
legends right? Who can still remember Pupil 1: Legend is the origin of things and the
what is legends? Yes pupil 1? world.

Very good! Who can give an example of

legends? Yes pupil 2? Pupil 2: The legend of firefly.
Very good! Give yourselves five claps. (The students will clap)

B. Motivation

Class, have you ever heard or read a All: Yes, Ma’am

poem?
 Okay, Very good. Now, we will have a quick
game. This game is called the "jumbled
letter game. I have a ball here; all you have
to do is pass the ball when I play a song,
but when it stops, whoever holds the ball
will go to the board and arrange the All: Yes, Ma’am
jumbled letters. Do you understand class?

(The music is playing)

(The student will arrange the jumbled letters)

Class, what is the answer? Can you please All: poem

read?

Very good. Now, I have here a poem. I will

read it first, and you are going to repeat it
after I read it. Do you understand class?
This poem is titled “TREES”
BY: JOYCE KILMER
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
“TREES”
BY: JOYCE KILMER
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in Summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Now class, who can tell me the title of the Pupil 1: Trees Ma’am
poem that we red? Yes pupil 1?

Very good. How about the author? Who is Pupil 2: Joyce Kilmer Ma’am.
the author of this poem?

Class what do you feel when you read this Pupil 3: love
poem? Yes Pupil 3?

Why do you so? Pupil 3: because I think the poem is about love for
our nature.

Okay. Very good. I know that you are

wondering what is the connection of poem
to our lesson.

All: yes Ma’am

C. Presentation

A while ago I asked you to read a poem right?

That poem is connected to our lesson this

afternoon. Our lesson is all about “Poetry and
its Elements.”
All: no Ma’am
Do you have any idea what do we mean by
poetry?

Okay thank you.

Poetry is a type of literature that aims to evoke
an emotional response in the reader through
language chosen and arranged for its meaning,
sound, and rhythm. We have the basic
elements of poetry include meter, rhyme
scheme, verse, stanza and theme.

First is meter.
Meter refers to the rhythmic structure of a
poem, created by organizing stressed and
unstressed syllables into patterns. In the case
of "Trees," the poem follows a loose iambic
tetrameter. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting
of an unstressed syllable followed by a
stressed syllable. The poem has eight syllables
per line, with alternating stressed and
unstressed beats.
Pupil 3: Meter refers to the rhythmic structure of a
For example, take a look at the first line:
poem, created by organizing stressed and
unstressed syllables into patterns.
I think / that I/ shall never / see
Who can tell me what is meter? Yes pupil 3?

Very good. Let’s move on to rhyme scheme.

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that
repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
Lets take a look again the poem by Joyce
Kilmer.
The rhyme scheme of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
is aa/bb/cc/dd/ee/aa.

I think that I shall never see --a

A poem lovely as a tree. --a

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest--b

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;--b

A tree that looks at God all day,--c

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;--c

A tree that may in Summer wear--d

A nest of robins in her hair;--d

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;--e

Who intimately lives with rain.--e
All: aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, aa.
Poems are made by fools like me,--a
But only God can make a tree.—a

Again class what is rhyme scheme of this

poem?
(The students will count the lines)
Very good. Next is verse.
All: twelve lines
Verse:
A verse refers to a single line of poetry.
Okay let’s count how many lines are there in
All: no Ma’am
the poem.
Pupil 4: yes Ma’am.
Class how many lines do we have?
(the student will read)
Very good. We have twelve lines in total.
Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines within the
The next elements of poetry is stanza.
verse of a poem. They often follow a similar pattern
Do you have any idea what is stanza?
or meter or contain a similar idea, but not always.
Okay thank you. Can you please read what is
stanza? Yes pupil 4?
Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines within the
verse of a poem. They often follow a similar (The student will count)
pattern or meter or contain a similar idea, but
not always.

Okay thank you. In the poem by Joyce Kilmer,

how many stanzas do we have? Let’s count
again. (the student will read)
The theme of a poem is the message an author
Okay, we have six stanzas all in all. wants to communicate through the piece.

Next is theme.
Please read pupil 5. Pupil 6: beauty of nature and love for nature.

The theme of a poem is the message an author All: yes Ma’am.

wants to communicate through the piece.

What do you think the theme of this poem? Yes

pupil 6?
Do you understand class?
Okay, let’s move to another example. This
poem is titled “Silver Ship”
Please read.
“Silver Ship”
By: Mildred Plew Meigs
There are trails that a lad may follow
When the years of his boyhood slip,
But I shall soar like a swallow
On the wings of a silver ship.
Guiding my bird of metal,
One with her throbbing frame,
Floating down like a pedal,
Roaring up like a flame
Winding the wind that scatters
Smoke from the chimney's lip,
Tearing the clouds to tatters
With the wings of a silver ship.
Grazing the brood blue skylight
Up where the falcon's fare,
Riding the realms of twilight
Brushed by a comet's hair
(The students will read the poem.)
“Silver Ship”
By: Mildred Plew Meigs
There are trails that a lad may follow
When the years of his boyhood slip,
But I shall soar like a swallow
On the wings of a silver ship.
Guiding my bird of metal,
One with her throbbing frame,
Floating down like a pedal,
Roaring up like a flame
Winding the wind that scatters
Smoke from the chimney's lip,
Tearing the clouds to tatters
With the wings of a silver ship.
Grazing the brood blue skylight
Up where the falcon's fare,
Riding the realms of twilight
Brushed by a comet's hair
Snug in my coat of leather
Watching the skyline swing
Shedding the world like a feather
From the tip of a tilted wing

Snug in my coat of leather There are trails that a lad may travel
Watching the skyline swing When the years of his boyhood wane
Shedding the world like a feather But I'll let the rainbow ravel
From the tip of a tilted wing Through the wings of my silver plane.

Pupils: meter, rhyme scheme, verse, stanza and

There are trails that a lad may travel theme.
When the years of his boyhood wane
But I'll let the rainbow ravel
Through the wings of my silver plane.

Again class, what is elements of poetry?

Very good. Using these elements let us answer

the following.
The meter in the poem "Silver Ship" by Mildred
Plew Meigs is primarily iambic tetrameter. An
iambic foot consists of two syllables, with the
first syllable being unstressed and the second
syllable stressed.
Take a look at this stanza.
Winding the wind that scatters
Smoke from the chimney's lip,
Tearing the clouds to tatters
With the wings of a silver ship.

The stressed syllables are capitalized, and the

unstressed syllables are in lowercase.
WIN-ding the WIND that SCAT-ters
SMOKE from the CHIM-ney's LIP
TEAR-ing the CLOUDS to TAT-ters
WITH the WINGS of a SIL-ver SHIP
(The student will read.)
Pupil 6: WIN-ding the WIND that SCAT-ters
SMOKE from the CHIM-ney's LIP
TEAR-ing the CLOUDS to TAT-ters
WITH the WINGS of a SIL-ver SHIP

Can you please read this line? Pupil 6?

Next is rhyme scheme. Let’s identify what is the

rhyme scheme of this poem.
For the first stanza, we have abab
For the second stanza, we have cbcb
For the third stanza, we have dbdb
For the fourth stanza, we have efef
For the fifth stanza, we have ghgh
and for the last stanza, we have cbcb. Pupil 8: the rhyme scheme of this poem are abab,
cbcb, dbdb, efef, ghgh, and cbcb.
That is why our rhyme scheme are abab, cbcb,
dbdb, efef, ghgh, and cbcb.

Again what is the rhyme scheme of this poem? (The students will count the lines.)
Yes pupil 8?

Very good. Next is verse. Verse is single line of

the poem right, Now let’s count the lines of the
poem. (The students will count the stanzas.)
Pupil 9: This poem has six stanzas.
We have twenty-four lines in total. (The students will clap.)

Next is stanza. Pupil 9, can you come here in

front and count how many stanzas there are in Pupil 10: freedom
the poem?

Very good, give your classmate five claps. All: none Ma’am.

Next is theme. Who can tell me what is the

theme of this poem. Yes pupil 10? Pupil 11: Poetry is a type of literature that aims to
evoke an emotional response in the reader through
Very good. Do you have any question language chosen and arranged for its meaning,
regarding to our lesson? sound, and rhythm.

D. Generalization Pupil 12: meter.

Again class, what is poetry? Yes pupil 11?
Pupil 13: rhyme scheme and verse.

Pupil 14: stanza and theme.

Now who can give me the elements of poetry?

Pupil 12?

Very good. What else? Yes pupil 13?

How about the others? Yes pupil 14?

E. Application
For your group activity, I will be grouping
you into two groups.

You are going to make a two-stanza or

three stanza poem that can represent the
 elements of poetry.

Example:
Thank you, God!
By Carmen G. Malimban.

Thank You, God for the eyes that see

The pretty things You’ve made of me.
Thank you for the nose smells
The fragrant flowers in the meadows and
dales.

Thank You, God, for the ears that hear

The bird-songs sweet and clear.
Thank You for the lips that can sing
Of Your goodness, to all man bring:

Thank You, for the feet that run

On willing errands, for play in the sun.
Thank You . for all these , oh God of Love!
Thank You, again, our Father above.

Using this table you are going to write the

following:
Meter Rhyme Verse Stanza Theme
Scheme
In the aabb, Twelv Three The
first and ccdd, e stanza theme
second and eeff lines s of the
line poem
consists "Than
of eight k You,
syllables God!"
, with by
alternati Carme
ng n G.
stressed Malim
and ban is
unstress gratitu
ed de
syllables toward
. This s God
pattern and
is apprec
consiste iation.
nt
through
out the
poem,
indicatin
g a
trochaic
tetramet
er
meter.

Here is the rubrics for your activity.

Content 5pts
Structure 5pts
Creativity 5pts Direction: Draw a star if the answer is
Presentation 5pts true and draw a heart if the answer is
total: 20pts false.

I will give you 15 minutes to do your activity.

_____1. Meter refers to the rhythmic
IV. Evaluation structure of a poem, created by organizing
True or False. stressed and unstressed syllables into
Direction: Draw a star if the answer patterns.
is true and draw a heart if the _____2. The elements of poetry consist of
answer is false. only two elements.
_____3. A stanza is a group of lines within
_____1. Meter refers to the rhythmic the verse of a poem.
structure of a poem, created by _____4. Trees by Joyce Kilmer has eight
 organizing stressed and unstressed stanzas.
syllables into patterns. _____5. Silver Ship by Mildred Plew Meigs
_____2. The elements of poetry consist has twenty-four lines.
of only two elements.
_____3. A stanza is a group of lines
within the verse of a poem.
_____4. Trees by Joyce Kilmer has
eight stanzas.
_____5. Silver Ship by Mildred Plew
Meigs has twenty-four lines.

V. Assignment

Browse your book on page 65 and read the

poem titled "Thank You, For All These" by S.R.
Enriquez, using the elements of poetry,
answers the following question on page 57.

Prepared by:
Noted by:
Vinuya, Erika V.
Ms. Micalyne M. Amurao
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