Unit 3, Lesson 16; Analyzing

Autobiographical Essay
3 Quarter: Week 22, January
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31- Feb. 4, 2022

Grade 9
Skills in Focus
• Recognize autobiographical essays
• Respond to key statements in an essay
• Identify and use figurative language
• Determine the meaning of words through their prefixes and suffixes
• Pick out synonyms for given words
• React to the experiences of the characters in relation to real-life situations
• Single out worthwhile human values
• State the effect of a literary piece on one’s value system
• Describe the forms of the perfect tenses
• Write an informal essay
 Enjoying Literature
 Before You Read
 Sharing Prior Knowledge
What would make your life worth living? If given the chance, would you live it
again?
 Essential Question
Which of the writer’s three passions do you share?
 Listening Comprehension
Listen attentively to the best reader in your class as he/she reads the selection .
find out what made the author’s life worth living.
 About the Author
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher and mathematician
esteemed as the most important logician (expert in science and logic) since the
ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. He received the 1950 Nobel Prize for
literature. He wrote many autobiographical accounts, including a three-volume
critical autobiography published from 1967-1969. One of his famous introductions
is titled “What I Have Lived For.”
 Building Word Power for Vocabulary Improvement
Figurative Language
What figures of speech are expressed in the following statement and phrase found
in the essay?
1. “These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither.”
2. “Over a deep ocean of anguish”
Prefixes
Determine the meaning of each of the following words. Be guided by the prefixes
and suffixes. Write the meaning opposite
3. Unbearable
4. unfathomable
5. Lifeless
6. prefiguring
7. helpless
Synonyms
From the given list, pick out the word which is similar in meaning to the italicized
word in each of the following phrases. Write the synonyms beside the word.
1. above the flux _______________________ deep hole
2. reaching to the verge of despair_________________ lessen
3. lifeless abyss _______________________________ symbolic
4. mystic miniature _____________________________ uncontrollable
5. alleviate ___________________________________ change
6. in a wayward course __________________________ edge
 Literary Selection 1 “What I Have Lived For” Bertrand Russell
 Reading Comprehension
1. What three “passions” have governed the writers life? Why does he call them
“passions”?
2. Why was he sought love? Cite three reasons given by the writer?
3. How far did he succeed in his search for knowledge?
4. “Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward heavens. but always pity
brought me back to earth.”
5. Would the writer, if given the chance, live the same life again? Why?
 Integrating Values
React to the following passages from Bertrand Russel
1. “I have sought love first because it brings ecstacy-ecstacy so great that I would often have
sacrificed all the rest of my life for a few hours of this joy.”
2. “The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what life could be. I long to
alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I, too, suffer.”
 Literary selection 2
 Sharing Prior Knowledge
If you had the money and you like a small ordinary toy, a colorful trinket,
would you pay all your money, say one hundred pesos, for it?
 Essential Questions
Have you ever given too much for a whistle? Did you regret it and vowed not to
do it again?
 Listening Comprehension
The popular expression, “giving too much for a whistle” originated from Benjamin
Franklin. Listen to this essay and find out what lesson he had learned in early life
which guided him constantly.
 About the Author
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) is one of the greatest figures of the United States.
This “First American,” “The Multiple American,” “The father of all Yankees,” as he
was addressed and praised by both-Europe and America-made his contributions both
to the building of a new nation and the beginning of a national literature. Although he
had only two years of formal schooling, he rose to world prominence as a diplomat,
stateman, writer and inventor . . . .
 Literary Selection 2, “From Autobiography” Benjamin Franklin page 315-316
Reading / Viewing Comprehension page 316
• Literary Selection 4
 Before Reading
 Sharing Prior Knowledge
Among the significant moments you have experienced so far in your life ,
which one has left an indelible mark on your heart, mind, and soul because it has
touched you in a way find difficult to explain?
 Essential Question
 Are there times of choices and decisions when you have to follow only your
heart and not your mind?
 Listening Comprehension
Tips for Reading Essay
You will come across more essays in your reading lessons during the course of
your student years. The following tips for reading essay will be helpful in
considering the author’s purpose , and in understanding the essay.
1. Identify the main idea or theme. It may be stated directly, often near the
beginning or at the end of the essay or merely implied.
2. Find the supporting details- facts, agreements, and examples that the author
used to illustrate or defend the main idea.
3. Decide which statements on the essay are facts and which are opinions.
4. Use your knowledge and experience to decide whether or not you agree with the
author’s conclusion.
This essay, “A Little Child,”relates the writer’s most significant experience.
 About the Author
Diplomat Salvador P. Lopez is an essayist of note. In 1940, he won the
commonwealth Award for his book of essays, Literature and Society which deals
with life , letters, and culture.
 Literary selection 4, “A Little Child” Salvador P. Lopez
 Building Word Power for Vocabulary Improvement page 326-327
 Reading/ Viewing Comprehension page 327
 Integrating Values
Have you found out “how the heart keeps its own sovereignty unimpaired by the
rule of reason”?
Is its meaning echoed in the following passages: “The heart has reasons which
reason itself does not understand”?
 Literary Selection 5, “The Blue Dress” by Ilda Olorga-Canal
 Sharing Prior Knowledge
What is the significance of having a good memory? How does our memory serve
us in our daily life, in our relationships and interactions with others?
 Essential Questions
Why is it sad and tragic when a persons memory fails? What is Alzheimer’s
disease?
 Reading Comprehension
 Find out the significant human experience’s shared by the writer
 Literary Selection 5, “The Blue , “A” by Ilda Olorga-Canal page 328-330
 Reading/Viewing Comprehension page 330
 Integrating Values
have you experienced losing someone or something very dear to you? How did
you feel about it?
 Enrichment: Reacting to Quotes page 330
 Assignment # 3.3 page 334
 Virtual Performance Reading : Choose one of the two essay identified below
1. Literary selection 4, “A Little Child” page 325
2. Literary selection 5, “The Blue Dress” page 328
 Rubrics:
Delivery of lines 20%
Rubrics:
Delivery of lines 20pts
Voice Quality 10
Stage Presence/Audience Appeal 10
Pronunciation/Articulation 10
Costume/Attire 10
Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60