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English 9
Activity Sheet
Quarter 2 – MELC 6
Analyzing Literature as a Means of
Understanding Unchanging
Values in a Complex World

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

English 9
Activity Sheet No. 6
First Edition, 2020

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ENGLISH 9 ACTIVITY SHEET

Analyzing Literature as a Means of Understanding Unchanging

Values in a Complex World

I. Learning Competency with Code

a) Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values in the
VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world.

II. Background Information for Learners

The lesson objective on analyzing literature as a means of understanding

unchanging values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
will highlight human values that remain the same throughout the years. This week's
lesson will focus on unchanging values in a complex world. This will guide you in
your journey through life and will help you realize that no matter how different you
might become in the future; your value system should remain intact.

Furthermore, the lesson will help you understand that life is made more
meaningful through literary pieces, reading selections, viewing materials that are filled
with worthwhile values.

VUCA is an acronym that stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity,

and ambiguity, a combination of qualities that, when taken together, characterize
the nature of some difficult conditions and situations.
Source: www.whatis.techtarget.com

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 Complexity refers to the number of factors
that we need to consider, their variety and the
relationships between them. The more factors,
the greater their variety and the more they are
interconnected, the more complex an environment
is. Under high complexity, it is impossible to fully
analyze the environment and come to rational
conclusions. The more complex the world is, the
harder it is to analyze.
Source: flatworldbusiness-wordpress.com Source: forbes.com

Examples of unchanging values in the complex world.

1. Making tough decisions in choosing the direction to follow
2. Planning ahead before deciding
3. Making the right choices

III. Accompanying DepEd textbooks and Educational sites

• A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature - Grade 9

IV. Activity Proper

1. Activity 1 . Poetry reading!

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

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 “The Road Not Taken”
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.

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 Vocabulary
• claim – demand on right
• diverged – branched off
• fair – promising; favorable
• hence – from this time
• trodden – walked on
• undergrowth – small trees and plants growing beneath larger trees

1. Who is the author of the poem?

2. Where is the setting?
3. What do the two roads symbolize?
4. What is the attitude of the speaker in choosing the road less traveled by?
5. Does his choice influence his behavior in life?

Activity 2. Individual task

1. Have you encountered a situation in which you had to make a choice?

2. Referring your answer to no. 1, did you make the right decision? Was the
outcome favorable or not?

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Activity 1.
1. The speaker himself.
2. In the woods where the road in forked / diverged road
3. The two roads symbolize the choice the speaker has to make in life.
4. The speaker tells us why the path is better – it seems like it hasn’t been walked on
very much, because it’s grassy and doesn’t look worn
5. Answer may vary.
Activity 2.
Answers may vary
Reflection
Answers may vary
V. Answer Key