Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Bohol

Ubay National Science High School

Grade 9 English
First Quarter

Teacher: Reynino M. Olaguir, LPT

Module 1: Enhancing the Self
Lesson 1: Recognizing Roles in Life
Learning Competency:EN9LC-Ia-3.6:, EN9V-Ia-1:, EN9LT-Ia-14:, EN9G-Ia-17:, EN9G-Ia-1.6/1.7:
Learning Target: Identifying literary devices, analyzing literature and punctuating informative article.
Reference: A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature

Reading a poem paves the way to making meaning in life. It allows you to share certain experiences.
Oftentimes, you find you share something in common to that experience that makes the poem
meaningful. This is when you think back and recall a time when you have much in common with the
same experience than what you originally thought. The poem speaks to you as you explore human
condition.

Background of the Literature: In Act 2 Scene 7 of William Shakespeare’s comedy book As You Like
It, Jaques speaks his ‘Ages of a Man’ monologue (better known by most as the ‘All the world’s a stage
speech’). In this monologue Jaques describes in some detail these seven stages of life that men go
through.
THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN
(from: “AS YOU LIKE IT” ) by: William Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women are merely players;
They have their exits and entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts
5 His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
10 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard,
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
15 Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good caper lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of white saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
20 Into the lean and ,slippered pantaloons,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
25 And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

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Key Notes:

Blank Verse: Any poetry that does have a set metrical pattern (usually iambic pentameter),
but does not have rhyme, is blank verse. Shakespeare frequently used unrhymed iambic pentameter
in his plays; his works are an early example of blank verse.

Free Verse: Most modern poetry no longer follows strict rules of meter or rhyme, especially
throughout an entire poem. Free verse, frankly, has no rules about meter or rhyme whatsoever!

[In other words, blank verse has rhythm, but no rhyme, while free verse
has neither rhythm nor rhyme.]

Alliteration: the repetition of initial sounds on the same line or stanza

(e.g. Big bad Bob bounced bravely.)
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds (anywhere in the middle or end of a line or stanza)
(e.e Tilting at windmills)
Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds (anywhere in the middle or end of a line or
stanza)
(e.g. And all the air a solemn stillness holds. (T. Gray)
Onomatopoeia: a sound device use by poets to suggest actions, movements and meanings.
(e.g Boom! Crash! Pow! Quack! Moo! Caress…)

Task 1: Word Bank

Read the poem again silently, and look out for words in the poem that fits each description
below.

1. A lyric poem that tells a story. ____________

2. A fat chicken ____________
3. crying ____________
4. promises or pledges to accomplish ____________
5. display unconsciousness or nothingness ____________
6. throwing up or vomiting due to sickness ____________
7. a school bag ____________
8. refers to stem or branch ____________
9. produce high sharp sound ____________
10. unhappy or sorrowful sound ____________

Task 2: Going Through Literature (15points)

Analyze the given literature entitled “Seven Ages of a Man’ and answer each questions below
in a complete sentence. Write your answers on the space provided.
1. Who is the Playwright of the comedy book ‘As You Like It’?
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2. What book, act and scene can we find the ‘Seven Ages of a Man’?
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3. Enumerate the seven ages of a man. (7points)
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4. What other acceptable descriptions of old age can you think of?
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5. What is compared to the “stage” in the first two lines?
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6. According to the speaker or ‘persona’ in the poem, what physical and mental changes take place
as a man reaches the sixth and seventh age? Why? (4points)
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Task 3: On Punctuation and Capitalization
When you read poems, you don’t pause or stop at the end of the lines, but you watch out for comma
or period to guide them. Use punctuation marks to help you find sensible meaning of what you’re
reading. Clarity of expressions in poetry or prose composition exists if the sentences are appropriately
punctuated and the words are properly capitalized.

Rewrite the informative article below with correct punctuation and capitalization. You can omit,
add and/or use period (.), comma (,), hyphen (-) and other necessary punctuation marks to find
sensible meaning of the article.

A Short History of Punctuation

By: Polly M. Robertus

EARLYGREEKSHAD HARDLYANYPUNCTUATION
FONOITCERIDEHTDEGNAHCNEVEDNA*
THEIRWRITINGATTHEENDOFEACHLINELATER
GNITIRWFOYAWAOTDEGNAHCYEHT*
THATFAVOREDRIGHTHANDEDPEOPLEANDSHOWED
WHEREANEWPARAGRAPHBEGANBYUNDERLINING
THEFIRSTLINEOFITLATERTHEGREEKPLAYWRIGHT
ARISTOPHANES . INVERTEDMARKSTOSHOW . WHERE
THEREADERSSHOULDTAKEBREATH:
THE . ROMANS . MADE . WRITING . MUCH . EASIER .
TO . READ . BY . PUTTING . DOTS . BETWEEN . WORDS .
AND . BY . MOVING . THE . FIRST . LETTER . OF . A .
PARAGRAPH . INTO . THE . LEFT . MARGIN: THEY .
ADAPTED . SOME . OF . THE . GREEK . MARKS . SUCH . AS .
THE . COLON . MARK . TO . INDICATE . PHRASE . ENDINGS:
INTHEEARLYMIDDLEAGESTHISSYSTEMOFPUNCTUATION
BROKEDOWNBECAUSEEVERYFEWPEOPLECOULDREAD
ANDWRITE BUTWRITERSKEPTASPACEATTHEENDOF
ASENTENCEANDCONTINUEDTOMARKPARAGRAPHS
EVENTUALLY WORDS WERESEPARATED AGAIN AND
NEW SENTENCES BEGAN WITH A LARGER LETTER
*Hint:Try reading from right to left.

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Task 4: The Best Clue
Read the poem again, and look out for words or lines that sound like they are examples of alliteration,
assonance, consonance and onomatopoeia. List all of them , and chart them on the space provided
below.

From The Seven Ages of Man by William Shakespeare

Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia

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