Lesson Plan

I. Objectives: Within the period, students with 80% accuracy should be able to :

• define poetry;
• interpret a poem; and
• make their on poem

II. Sunject Matter:

1. Topic:

• Content Focus: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
• Skill focus: interpreting a poem
• Value Focus: giving importance to one's emotion and being true to oneself

    2. References

• Harmonizing Poetry and Technology by Carmen Abaya Cruz, Andrew Gonzalez,FSC and Lolita v. Arcinas
• The Norton Anthology o f English Literature
• Wikipedia.com

   3. Materials

• Manila paper where the 2 poems are written
• strips of cartolina for the questions
• rolled paper

III. Procedure:

1. Preparation

•  The teacher will ask the following questions

For boys: Have you been inlove?
                How will you express your feelingd to the one you loved?
For girls: Have you experienced being loved?
              How will you react if you don't like the boy? 

• The teacher will tell to the class some ways of expressing feelings to someone.

           There are many ways in expressing your feelings to someone, you can have it through sending letters containing how you love that person and you can also have it through sending text messages which all of us are familia with. You can also express our feelings by using your talent and imagination through making poems that you may address to the one you love.

• Then the teacher will ask the following questions:

            What form of literature is a poem?
            Who can define poetry?

• After asking the students to define poetry, the teacher will psot on the board her own meaning of poetry.
• Then the teacher will present to the class some difficult words that are found in the 2 poems that will be presented later.

                   groves                                       Philomel
                   madrigals                                   wanton
                   posies                                        wayward
                   kirtle                                          reckoning
                   myrtle                                        gall
                   amber                                        folly
                

• After presenting the difficult words the teacher will introduce to the class the poems' authors.

  2. Presentation

•  The teacher  will present to the class the first poem, " The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" ; then she will let the class read the poem in chorus.

 

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragrant poises, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love. The shepherds's swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love. Christopher Marlowe 1599

• After letting the students read the poem she will ask the following questions:

                   1)In the first stanza, what did the passionate Shepherd say to his love?

                   2)What will the maiden get if she will live with the shepherd?

                   3)In the second stanza,what will the shepherd and his maiden do wil sitting on the rocks?

                   4) What do you think soes the last line imply, " Melodious birds sing madrigals"?

                   5)In the last stanza, what will dance and sing? Why?

                   6) What does these line imply, " If these delights thy mind may move then live with me and be my love"?

• After having their first discussion in the first poem, she will now present the second poem, "The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd".

The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Time drives the flocks from field to fold
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall,

Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten--
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.

But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind may move
To live with thee and be thy love.

Sir Walter Raleigh

• Then the teacher will ask the students some questions about the second poem.

                1)What was the nymph's replly to the shepherd in the first stanza?

                 2) In the second stanza, whatdid the nymph mean when she said, " Time drives the flocks from field to fold"?

                 3) In the third stanza, what do you think was the nymph trying to imply whan she said, " A honey tongue, a heart of gall"?

                 4) What did the nymph trying to say in the last stanza?

                 5) What kind of woman is the nymph? Whay do you say so?

  3.  Performance

• The teacher will group the class into 3 groups. The three groups will acr out the poem through dialogue. One member in each group will act as the shepherd and another one will act as the nymph. The shepherd will read the first stanza and the nymph will reply and so on and so forth. Each group will present in front of the class after 3 minutes.

IV. Evaluation.

           Answer the following.

     1) What kind  of a lover is the shepherd? Why?

      2) What kind of woman is the nymph? why?

      3) What did the shepherd promised to his love?

      4) Compare the shepherd and the men in the present generation.

      5) Compare the nymph and the women in the present generation.