SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
REGION III
Grade 12 CREATIVE NONFICTION

To the learner:
As you start reading, keep in mind that this teaching module will provide every learner of Pampanga High
School like you with the education needed to compete in a global context. This module which is
conceptualized as self-contained "units" of content will enhance your skills based on the Most Essential
Learning Competencies (MELCs). Also, it highlights corresponding activities which you need to answer as
you move from page to page for each week lesson.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
To get the most out of this module, here are some reminders that you need to consider:
1. Take your time in reading all parts of the lesson.
2. Always answer all given activities intended for each week lesson.
3. Answers must be written in ONE WHOLE SHEET of PAD PAPER.
4. Do not forget to write the following data on your paper before answering all the activities. Also, please be
reminded that you have to use one (1) piece of paper per lesson. Meaning, you have to use another sheet if
you need to answer the activities in another lesson.
a. Your Complete Name (student) e. Quarter No.

b. Your Grade and Section f. Lesson No.

c. Learning Area/Subject g. Activity No. and Title, with Item Numbers
d. Name of Your Subject Teacher

Here is the illustration based on the instructions above:

Complete name: (Ex. Juan P. Dela Cruz)Learning area/subject: (Ex. Creative Non-fiction) Quarter: (Ex. 1)

Grade and Section: (Ex. 12-HUMSS A) Name of your subject teacher: (Ex. Mrs. Maria P. David) Lesson No. (Ex.1)

Activity No. Activity Title _

1.

2.

3.

Activity No. Activity Title _ 1.

5. Remember that all the activities that you need to answer will serve as your outputs and will be
forwarded to your subject teacher for checking and recording.
6. Above all, put GOD first in everything you do! 

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Detailed Lesson Plan in: CREATIVE NON-FICTION for Grades 12 – HUMSS
(WEEK 4- Quarter 1-SY 2020-2021)

Teaching Dates:
Learning Competency: Create samples of the different literary elements based on
experience: Figurative Language

Objectives:
a. Define Poetry and figurative language;
b. Understand the figures of speech
c. Write poem using figures of speech
I. Content:
Poetry is a broad genre of literature that is Creative Writing by
written in stanza form. It is Jesus Menoy
characterized by a regular rhythmic
pattern, rhyme, measure, imagery,
symbolism, and figurative language.
Poems can either be conventional or
unconventional.
Conventional Forms Traditionally, poems were written such Creative Writing by
that they possessed rhyme and Jesus Menoy
measure. These include the Filipino
tanaga, Japanese haiku and English
Shakespearean sonnets.

Unconventional Forms These are poems which do not have Creative Writing by
rhyme, rhythm and consistent Jesus Menoy
measure. These include free verses
and shape poems.

Figures of Speech are connotative presentations of words Creative Writing by

to produce a literary effect Jesus Menoy

References:
Creative Writing by Jesus Menoy
III. Procedure:

LESSON 1 of WEEK 4
A. Reviewing of previous lesson or presenting the new lesson

Directions: Let’s recall the concept of the illustration above by completing the statements below.
Choose your answers from words presented in the graphic illustration.

FICTION

Short Story Drama Poetry

Elements of Drama

Characters/
Actors/ Actresses Set/Setting Atmosphere Symbolism Dialogue Scene

Activity 1: REVIEW ON THE ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

1. It refers to a person, object, image or event that suggests more than its literal
meaning.
2. It pertains to the time and place in which the events of a narrative take place; it
includes not only the physical environment in which the characters interact,
but also the cultural, sociological, political, religious, and other milieus as well
as ideas, custom values, beliefs of a particular time and place.
3. It is the overall mood of a story or poem.
4. They usually perform their play in a theatre.
5. It is a mode of expression through words or events or the work itself,
conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or
expectation.
6. It is a form of art that depicts life’s experiences through the re-enactment of
events that take place in the real world or happen in the mind of the writer.
7. It is a division of an act in a play during which the action takes place in a single
place without a break in time.
8. It means ―conversation‖.

LESSON 2 of WEEK 4

B. Establishing a purpose for the lesson (Paghahabi sa layunin ng aralin)

B.1 Activity 2.1: POEM ANALYSIS

Boto by Beverly L. Basa
Sa kanilang pagtakbo Huwag
sanang malito Mga palipad hangin
Sana nama’y tuparin
How many stanzas does the poem have?
Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem.
What are the rhyming words used in the poem?
How many lines does the poem have?
Identify the meter of the poem.

Sa kanilang pag upo Bayan ay

malulumpo Ika nga’y may hangarin
Isinulat sa hangin
 B.2 Activity 2.2: POEM ANALYSIS

T.O.T.G.A. by Eduard A. Briones How many stanzas does the poem

have?
In my deepest dream, I longed for you After we met, all Identify the rhyme scheme of the
were good mem’ries From the first time I saw you, I poem.
loved you What are the rhyming words used in
You were what I needed in this cold breeze the poem?
How many lines does the poem have?
In my deepest dream, I looked for you Seeing you smile, Identify the meter of the poem.
makes my heart at ease

Along the way, we were abruptly lost Restless, troubled

and abandoned

From my sight, you’re the one who walked away

Asking myself, ―What have gone wrong?‖

Activity 2.3: Compare and contrast the poems BOTO and T.O.T.G.A.

LESSON 3 of WEEK 4
C. Presenting examples/instances of the lesson
Activity 3: WORD DEFINITION
Directions: Read the sample poem below. Complete the table by writing the denotative
and connotative meaning of the words in column A.

Unwrapped Gift
by Beverly Joy L. Basa

You are an unwrapped gift

Hands await to receive
You come in different hues
Unfolding life’s hidden blues

You are an unwrapped gift

A present thought twice keep
You arrived with no clue
Tracing shadows of changing cues

You, you are a gift

wrapped in only’s and ordinary
You, still, are a gift
wrapped in a rare find beauty

COLUMN A DENOTATIVE CONNOTATIVE

1. Gift
2. Hues
3. Present
4. Shadows
5. Hands
D. Discussing new concepts
FICTION

Short Story Drama Poetry

Conventional Unconventional

Figures of Speech

Key Ideas:
Poetry is a broad genre of literature that is written in stanza form. It is characterized by a
regular rhythmic pattern, rhyme, measure, imagery, symbolism, and figurative language. Poems
can either be conventional or unconventional.
Conventional Forms
Traditionally, poems were written such that they possessed rhyme and measure. These
include the Filipino tanaga, Japanese haiku and English Shakespearean sonnets.

Unconventional Forms
These are poems which do not have rhyme, rhythm and consistent measure. These include
free verses and shape poems.

LESSON 4 of WEEK 4

E. Continuation of the discussion of new concepts

Figures of Speech
-are connotative presentations of words to produce a literary effect.

1. Simile- a figurative comparison with the use of as and

like Examples: Life is like a game.
Your lips are as red as roses.

2. Metaphor- a figurative comparison with the use of as and like

Examples: Life is a game.
Your lips are roses.

3. Oxymoron- placing side by side of two contrasting words

Examples: Blinding darkness
Living dead

4. Synecdoche- a figurative representation of a part of a whole

Examples: I feed seven mouths.
The boots arrived home safely.

5. Personification- a figurative attribution of personal or human quantities

to things that are not humans
Examples: Earth with her thousand voices praise God.
Money talks.

6. Aphaeresis- omission of a letter/s from the beginning of a word

Examples: „Tis the season of Christmas
„Cause I found you

7. Apocope- omission of a letter/s from the end of a word

Example: Love that is everlastin‟

8. Alliteration-repitition of the initial letter or sound on a succession of words

Example: Pedro Paterno picked a pack of pad paper.
 9. Assonance-repetition of the vowel sound (not necessarily in the initial
sound) in succession of words
Example: Haste makes waste.

10. Consonance-repetition of the consonant sound (not necessarily in the initial

sound) in a succession of words
Example: Ninety-nine nannies renewed their contracts.

11. Onomatopoeia- use of a word to indicate sound

Example: In the field, birds chirp, cows moo, cats meow, snakes hiss.

12. Anaphora- repetition of a word or words at the beginning of lines, clauses

or sentences
Example: Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit
adultery. Thou shalt not steal.

13. Epistrophe- Repetition of a word or words at the end of lines, clauses

or sentences
Example: The poor in spirit are blessed.
The humble are blessed.
The merciful are
blessed.

14. Gemination- Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause in a succession (with

no other words between)
Example: Row, row, row your boat

15. Hyperbole- an exaggeration or overstatement for literary effect

Example: Cowards die a thousand times.
The orphaned child cried an ocean of tears.
LESSON 5 OF WEEK 4
F. Developing mastery
Activity 4: IDENTIFYING FIGURES OF SPEECH
Directions: Identify the figures of speech used in the poem.

Unwrapped Gift
by Beverly Joy L. Basa

You are an unwrapped gift

Hands await to receive
You come in different hues
Unfolding life’s hidden blues

You are an unwrapped gift

A present thought twice keep
You arrived with no clue
Tracing shadows of changing cues

You, you are a gift

wrapped in only’s and ordinary
You, still, are a gift
wrapped in a rare find beauty

Line/s from the Poem Figure of Speech Used

1.
2.
3.
 G. Finding practical applications of concepts and skills in daily
living Activity 5: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUIZ
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer.
1. What rhyme scheme is employed in the poem ―Invictus‖?
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
A. aaaa B. aabb C. abab D. abba
For item # 2: “All the world‟s a stage,
And all the men and women merely
players; they have their exits and their
entrances; And one man in his time plays
many parts,”
2. These lines are symbolic of the fact that men and women, in the course of their lives,
perform different roles. ―A stage‖ here symbolizes the world, and ―players‖ is a symbol
for
.

A. Women B. Human C. Men D. Actor

For item # 3: ‖Ah Sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the
sun;
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveler‟s journey is done;”
3. Blake uses a ―sunflower‖ as a symbol for human beings, and ―the sun‖ symbolizes _ .
A. Process B. Life C. Dreams D. Victory
4. ―Ah, that I should have forgotten the well-known saying, with the crown of snow,
there cometh wisdom!‖ What does the underlined figurative language mean?
A. It implies that someone wears a crown of snow.
B. It conveys that a person will be rewarded with a crown of snow.
C. It suggests that someone possesses a wisdom that can only be learned from life’s
experiences.
D. It describes a person who has an impressive wisdom that no one can ever
understand.
5. . ―When the last leaf falls, I must go too. Look out the window, dear, at the last ivy leaf
on the wall. Didn’t you wonder why it never fluttered or moved when the wind blew? Ah,
darling, it’s Behrman’s masterpiece – he painted it there the night that the last leaf fell.‖
What does the last leaf symbolize?
A. The leaf symbolizes a great masterpiece painted on the wall.
B. The leaf depicts hope and the will to live.
C. The leaf implies a part of a tree.
D. The leaf signifies despair.
H. Making generalizations and abstractions about the lesson
 Poems can come in two forms; conventional and unconventional.
 Poems utilize figures of speech – simile, metaphor, aphaeresis, apocope,
anaphora, epistrophe, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, alliteration,
assonance, consonance, synechdoche, oxymoron and germination.

PERFORMANCE TASK
Activity 6: POETRY
WRITING
Directions: Write a FOUR-stanza poem of your realizations during the community
quarantine employing the figurative language.
Rubric VGE GE SE LE
1. The learner was able to write a poem 8 FOS 6 FOS 4 FOS 2 FOS
using figures of speech (FOS) 20 18 16 14

2. The learner was able to write a poem 20 18 16 14

with proper diction. Ideas reflected in
each stanza were
comprehensive/cohesive.
TOTAL 40
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Legend: VGE – To a very great extent; GE – To a great extent; SE – To some extent; LE – To a little extent