TODAY’S TOPIC

IF
By Rudyard Kipling
Prayer
Lord, we offer to You our class today. We pray that through Your Divine
Guidance, we would learn how to listen attentively to the inputs of our
teacher. May we appreciate her effort in imparting her knowledge to us.
May we participate actively in the discussions and activities, so we could
learn more while having fun. May we value each other’s contributions as a
building block towards harmony and peace. Grant that as we interact with
one another, we recognize the fact that all our learning activities should be
accomplished for Your greater glory. Grant that we recognize YOU in each
of our classmates and teachers.
As we battle the challenges that the new normal entails, we pray that You
keep us safe from harm and illnesses.

Grant, we beseech You, Father that we would be able to apply correctly

what we have learned today.
All these we ask in Your most powerful name.
Amen.
House Rules
 Keep your microphone muted unless it
is your turn to speak.
 Remain seated with your video camera
active. If you need to excuse yourself,
just raise your hand using the
appropriate icon on the screen.
 REMEMBER to RESPECT each other.
 Share your bright ideas, don’t keep
them to yourself.
 Have fun while learning!
CHECKING OF
ATTENDANCE,
UNIFORM,
CAMERA AND
MICROPHONE
 WORD OF THE DAY
inchoate [in-KHO-ut]
imperfectly formed or formulated
J.K. Rowling described the process by
which she took a series of inchoate
vignettes and shaped them into her best-
selling novel.
Amorphous, elementary, embryonic, formless,
immature, imperfect, incipient, preliminary,
rudimentary, shapeless, unfinished, unformed,
inceptive, unshaped, nascent
 LEARNING TARGETS

AT THE END OF THE LESSON, I AM EXPECTED TO:

1. Identify central themes of song lyrics and poetry.

2. Analyze the poem to identify the speaker’s tone,
conviction, and aspiration by answering the guide
questions.
3. Video record a talk show interview to discuss the
unchanging values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain,
complex, ambiguous) world presented in the poem.

Who is the biggest influence in your life? In what way was s/he able to influence you?
 PRE-READING ACTIVITY

“Father and Son” by Cat Stevens (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsVPg9DFVz8)

 QUESTIONS
TO PONDER
1. What is the song mainly about?
2. What character traits would you
give to the speaker in the song?
3. What is the mood of the song?
How does it make you feel?
4. What do you think this song is
saying about life?
SPOTLIGHT ON THE
AUTHOR
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a leading
English novelist, poet, and short story
writer.
• He is best remembered for his stories and
poems about the British-governed India
during the late 1800’s, and his children’s
books– The Jungle Book, Captain
Courageous, and Kim.
• He was Awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1907.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudyard-Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about
you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt
you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too
wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your
master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your
aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
Answer the following questions:

1. How do you feel having read and listened

to the poem? Why did it make you feel
that way?
2. For whom is the poem? How do you know
this?
3. In the context of this poem, what does it
mean to be a grown up?
4. How will you compare the song “Father
and Son” to the poem?
5. What is the central theme of the poem?
Listen to the song “Leader of the Band” by Dan
Fogelberg and pay close attention to how the song
relates to the poem’s message.
 IMPACT PROCEDURE
In this lesson, I realized that ________________________
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Something I am still wondering about is_______________
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 SUMMARY
Rudyard Kipling's poem "If—" lists a set
of conditionals for the speaker's son to
follow in order to become an ideal man.
The speaker advises his son about how to
perceive the world and life's challenges
so that he can both learn from his
experiences and resolutely overcome
barriers.
https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-is-a-detailed-summary-of-the-
poem-if--by-265336
PERFORMANCE TASK
With your triad, construct at least five
interview questions if you were to
interview the father and son in the
poem “If”. Video record a 3-minute
talk show to discuss the unchanging
values in the VUCA (volatile,
uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
presented in the poem.
ACTIVITY RUBRIC
CRITERIA Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
(5 points) (4 points) (3 points) (2points)
Content Very detailed Clear Questions and Does not address
and sensible questions and answers are any of the
questions and answers vague. Few elements of the
answers about about poem. specifics about assignment. No
the poem. The The audience the poem. direct questions
audience has has a clear The audience about the poem.
an excellent understandin has a vague The audience
understanding g of the understanding does not
of the content. content. of the content. understand the
content.
Preparation There are at There are at There are at Student has less
least five least 4 least 3 than or a total of
questions and questions and questions and two questions
answers and answers and answers but and/or answers.
there is a there is there is little There is no
significant evidence of evidence of any evidence of
evidence of some practice. practice.
practice. practice.
 ACTIVITY RUBRIC
CRITERIA Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement
(5 points) (4 points) (3 points) (2points)
Performance Students are Students are in Students are Students are not in
clearly in the the character quite in the the character role
character role role of a talk character role of a talk show host
of a talk show show host or of a talk show or father and son
host or father father and son as host or father as interviewees.
and son as interviewees, can and son as The pacing is poor.
interviewees. work without interviewees.  
They provide a scripts, and the The pacing is
realistic and interview has no poor.
well-paced interruptions or  
interview. dead spots.

Grammar, The interview The interview The interview The interview questions
questions questions questions contain several errors in
Mechanics, grammar, punctuation,
contain very contain a few contain
and few errors in minor errors in several errors or spelling that greatly
Neatness grammar, grammar, in grammar, distract the reader from
punctuation, or punctuation, or punctuation, the content.
spelling, or no spelling that or spelling
errors at all that distract the that distract
distract the reader from the the reader
reader from the content. from the
content. content.

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 Literary Response
Answer the following questions:
1. What desirable traits does the speaker want to instill
in the other person? (3pts)
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2. Why shouldn’t we make dreams our master? Explain
by giving an example. (3pts)
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 Literary Response
Answer the following questions:
3. Consider the line, “If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, /But make
allowance for their doubting too.” Do you think it’s important to allow people to doubt
you? Explain your answer. (3pts)
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4. Which do you think is the best piece of advice? Why? (3pts)
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5. What new piece of advice would be appropriate to be added in the poem? Why?
(3pts)
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Short-Response Rubric
3 2 1
The response indicates The response indicates The response indicates that
that the student has a that the student has a the student does not
complete partial understanding demonstrate an
understanding of the of the ideas embodied understanding of the ideas
ideas embodied in the in the poem. The embodied in the poem. The
poem. The student has student has provided a student has provided a
provided a response response that includes response that is inaccurate;
that is accurate, information that is the response has an
complete, and fulfills all essentially correct, and insufficient amount of
the requirements of text based, but the information to determine
the task. Necessary information is too the student’s understanding
support and/or general or too of the poem; or the student
examples are included, simplistic. Some of the has failed to respond to the
and the information support and/or task.
given is clearly text- examples may be
based. incomplete or omitted.

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References:
• Aranzamendez, J.A., et.al (2017). English Learning
Portals (Accessing Language Skills Through Anglo-
American Literature. Quezon City: The Intelligente
Publishing, Inc.
• Payawal-Gabriel, J., et.al. (2018). English,
American, and Philippine Literature and
Communication Arts
• Poetry Foundation.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
CLOSING
PRAYER