Department of Education

National Capital Region

Schools Division of Parañaque City
Self-Learning Modules
English 9 Quarter 2 Week 3-4

Name: __________________________________Grade & Section: ________________

Teacher: ________________________________ Date: _________________________

Learning Competency (Essential Competency)

❖ Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values in the VUCA
(Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world.

Objectives
1. Analyze an excerpt from a full-length play by relating it to the real-life situation
or happenings.

2. Create a dream map as a demonstration of one’s understanding on the value of

dreams and goals in life.

3. Explain the message of the play/story through a poster that expresses

unchanging values in the volatile, uncertain, complex, or ambiguous world.

Let’s Recall (Review)

Listen attentively to the lyrics of the song, “The Climb” by Miley Cyrus. Be ready
to answer the questions that follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFGcsQkcP-k

I can almost see it

That dream I'm dreaming' but
But there's a voice inside my head saying
"you'll never reach it".
Every step I'm taking.
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction.
My faith is shakin'
But I, I gotta keep tryin'
Gotta keep my head held high.

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 There's always gonna be another mountain.
I'm always gonna wanna make it move.
Always gonna be an uphill battle
Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose.
Ain't about how fast I get there.
Ain't about what's waitin on the other side.
It's the climb.
Questions:

1. What is the message of the song?

2. Was there a time/situation in your life that you felt like giving up on your dream/s? Why?

3. How did you overcome/surpass that situation? What was your motivation in pursuing
that dream?

Let’s Understand (Study the Concept)

Read the excerpt from the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry.

Characters:
Ruth Younger Joseph Asagai
Travis Younger George Murchison
Walter Lee Younger (Brother) Karl Lindner
Lena Younger (Mama) Bobo
Moving Men
ACT 1
Scene One: Friday morning…

Scene Two: The following morning…

(Ruth comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and Beneatha both turn

to look at her.)

RUTH (dispiritedly): Well, I guess from all the happy faces – everybody knows.

BENEATHA: You, pregnant?

MAMA: Lord, have mercy, I sure hope it’s a little old girl. Travis ought to have a sister.

(Beneatha and Ruth give her a hopeless look for this grandmotherly enthusiasm.

BENEATHA: How far along are you?

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RUTH: Two months

BENEATHA: Did you mean two? I mean did you plan it or was it an accident?

MAMA: What do you know about planning or not planning?

BENEATHA: Oh, mama.

RUTH (wearily): She’s twenty years old, Lena.

BENETHEA: Did you plan it, Ruth?

RUTH: Mind your own business.

BENEATHA: It is my business – where is he going to live, on the roof? (There is silence

following the remark as the three women react to the sense of it.) Gee – I didn’t mean that,

Ruth, honest. Gee, I don’t feel like that at all. I – I think it is wonderful.

RUTH (dully): Wonderful.

BENEATHA: Yes – really.

MAMA: (looking at Ruth, worried): Doctor says everything is going to be all right?

RUTH (far away): Yes – she says everything is going to be fine.

MAMA (immediately suspicious): “She”- What doctor you went to? (Ruth folds over; near

hysteria)

MAMA (worriedly hovering over RUTH): Ruth honey – what’s the matter with you – you

sick? (Ruth has her fist clenched on her thighs and is fighting hard to suppress a scream

that seems to be rising in her.)

BENEATHA: What’s the matter with her, mama?

MAMA (working with fingers in Ruth’s shoulders to relax her): She be all right. Women gets

right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking softly, expertly, rapidly). Now

you just relax. That’s right… just lean back, don’t think ‘bout nothing at all… nothing at all-

RUTH: I’m all right…

(The glassy-eyed look melts and then she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing. The bell

rings.) (The front door opens slowly, interrupting him, and TRAVIS peeks his head in, less

than hopefully.)

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TRAVIS (to his mother): Mama, I –

RUTH: “Mama, I”… nothing! You’re going to get it, boy! Get on in that bedroom, and get

yourself ready!

TRAVIS: But I –

MAMA: Why don’t you let the child explain himself?

RUTH: Keep of it now, Lena.

(Mama clamps her lips together, and Ruth advances toward her son menacingly.)

RUTH: A thousand times I have told you not to go off like that –

MAMA (holding out her arms to her grandson): Well – at least let me tell him something. I

want him to be the first one to hear… Come here, Travis. (The boy obeys, badly.) Travis –

(She takes him by the shoulder and looks into his face) – you know that money we got in

the mail this morning?

TRAVIS: Yes ‘m ---

MAMA: Well – What you think your grandma gone and done with that money?

TRAVIS: I don’t know, grandma.

MAMA (putting her fingers on his nose for emphasis): She went out and bought you a

house! (The explosion comes from Walter at the end of the revelation, and he jumps and

turns away from all of them in a fury. Mama continues, to Travis). You glad about the

house? It’s going to be yours when you get to be a man.

TRAVIS: Yeah – I always wanted to live in a house.

MAMA: (She takes an envelope out of her handbag and puts it in front of him, and he

watches her without speaking or moving.) I paid the man $3,500 down on the house. That

leaves, $6,500. Monday morning, I want you to take this money, and take $3000, and put

it in a saving’s account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest you put in a checking

account – with your name on it. And, from now on, any penny that come out of it or that go

in, it is for you to look after. For you to decide. (She drops her hand a little helplessly.)

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It ain’t much, but it’s all I got in the world, and I’m putting it in your hands. I’m telling you to

be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be.

WALTER (stares at the money): You trust me like that, Mama?

MAMA: I ain’t never stop trusting you. Like ain’t never stop loving you.

(She goes out, and Walter sits looking at the money on the table. Finally, in a decisive

gesture, he gets up, and in mingled joy and desperation, picks up the money.)

SUMMARY:
The rising action of the play reveals the pregnancy of Ruth. Mama (Lena) has paid
the initial amount for a house in Clybourne Park. Then, she hands the remaining money to
Walter to put it in savings account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest of the money
shall be put in a checking account in Walter’s name. However, Walter intends to invest the
money in a liquor business which Mama does not approve of.

Full story:
https://khdzamlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/6/11261956/a_raisin_in_the_sun_-
_lorraine_hansberry.pdf

Let’s Apply

I. Matching Type. Match the words in column A with their appropriate description in column B.
Write the letter of your answer on your answer sheet. Use CAPITAL LETTERS only.

Column A Column B

1.Travis A. Walter’s sister

2. Lena B. Beneatha’s dream
3. Doctor C. Travis’s sister
4. $3000 D. Setting of the play
5. $3,500 C. Theme of the play

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6. Dreams E. Author of the play
7. Beneatha F. Walter and Ruth’s son
8. Liquor business G. Beneatha and Walter’s mother
9. Lorraine Hansberry H. Walter’s dream investment
10. South Side Chicago I. Down payment of the house
J. Savings for Beneatha’s schooling

II. Application: Design a dream map that represents your real-life journey, from the
moment you were born until the time you believe you will achieve your dreams. Use icons
to represent the different stations in your life and the dreams you want to achieve. Place a
marker on where you are at this point in your life. BE CREATIVE!

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 DREAM MAP RUBRIC

Category 4 3 2 1
Neatness & The dream map The dream The dream map The dream map
Presentation is well- map is mostly is presented, is presented
presented, and well- and few of the with little
all the presented, and information are information.
information are some of the easy to
easy to information are understand.
understand. easy to
understand.

Use of Most categories Some A few categories The dream

Images/ are enhanced categories are are enhanced map includes
Symbols with appropriate enhanced with with simple some images
symbols or symbols or symbols or or icons.
icons. icons. icons.

Visual appeal Color, shape, Color, shape, Color, shape, Color, shape,
size, and size, and size, and size, and
arrangement arrangement arrangement arrangement
greatly contribute contribute a little contribute no
contribute some meaning meaning to the meaning to the
meaning to the to the overall overall overall
overall message. message. message.
message.

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 Let’s Analyze

Answer the following questions based on the given picture. Write your answer on your
answer sheet.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” – Unknown

1. How would you describe the image?

2. Think of a situation in the play that you can relate with this image. Explain your answer.

3. Does any of the characters in the play remind you of someone in this image? Explain
your answer.

Let’s Try (Evaluation)

I. Multiple Choice: Choose the best answer from the given choices. Write your answer on
your answer sheet.

1. Who revealed Ruth's pregnancy to Walter?

A. Lena C. Ruth
B. Beneatha D. Travis

2. What was Beneatha's dream?

A. She wanted to be a nurse. C. She wanted to be a teacher.
B. She wanted to be a doctor. D. She wanted to have her own business.

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3. Why had Ruth fainted?
A. She was pregnant. C. She was not eating properly.
B. She was diabetic. D. She wasn’t able to sleep early.

4. What does “a raisin in the sun” symbolize?

A. The struggles of the characters
B. The house where the family lives in
C. The dreams of the family members
D. The conflict in the characters’ decisions

5. How did Mama (Lena) get the check for 10,000?

A. She won the lottery. C. It was life insurance money.
B. She won a contest. D. It was the money she found somewhere.

6. What did Ruth find out at the doctor's office?

A. She was pregnant. C. Mama was suffering from depression.
B. Beneatha was pregnant. D. She was exhausted and needed rest.

7. What was the reason why Walter wanted the money?

A. To get a new house C. To open a liquor store
B. To have another child D. To open a dry-cleaning shop

8. Which conflict took place in Act I?

A. Travis struggled to maintain his grades in school.
B. Walter Lee struggled to keep his job as a chauffeur.
C. Mama struggled with Ruth in controlling the household.
D. Walter Lee struggled with other family members over money.

9. Why did Mama (Lena) slap Beneatha?

A. Beneatha got pregnant.
B. Beneatha insulted her sister-in-law.
C. Beneatha said that there’s no God.
D. Beneatha refused to marry the wealthy man, George Murchison.

10. Why did Mama (Lena) object about Walter’s investment idea?
A. She had a strong religious conviction.
B. Her husband did not want the money invested.
C. They tried to invest in the business, and did not succeed.
D. She wanted to put the money in Beneatha’s savings account.

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II. Essay. Read and answer the following questions concisely. Write your answer on your
answer sheet.

1. What moral / lesson did you learn from the excerpt of the play? Explain your answer.

2. If you were given $10,000, what would you do with the money? How would you use it?
Why?

Let’s Create

Create a creative and inspiring poster that symbolizes faith,

GOAL
hope, and determination despite the difficult situation in this
changing world.

ROLE You are an artist who inspires others through your poster
despite this VUCA world.
AUDIENCE Your target audience are your fellow students, and other
local teenagers/millennials who might have experienced
crisis brought by COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, some people/ families have

SITUATION
become unemployed or jobless, or have unstable job status.
As a young artist, you are tasked to inspire your classmates,
fellow students, and other local teenagers or millennials to
keep reaching their dreams or goals even if the situation is
hard and uncertain.

Product/Performance On an Oslo paper or ¼ illustration board, create an inspiring

poster that symbolizes faith, hope and determination.

STANDARD Your output will be graded based on the rubric provided.

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 POSTER RUBRIC

Category 4 3 2 1

Presentation The poster is The poster is The poster is The poster is

exceptionally attractive in terms acceptably distractingly
attractive in of design, layout attractive messy or very
terms of design, and neatness. though it may poorly
layout, and be a bit designed. It is
neatness. messy. not attractive.

Relevance All graphics are All graphics are All graphics Graphics do
related to the related to the relate to the not relate to
topic topic topic. Most the topic, or
and make it and most make it borrowed several
easier to easier to graphics borrowed
understand. All understand. All have a graphics do
borrowed borrowed source not have a
graphics graphics citation. source citation.
have a source have a source
citation. citation.

Language Uses Utilizes strong Utilizes Utilizes

purposeful grade-level word vague or incorrect or
and appropriate choice. basic word simplistic word
terminology. choice. choice.

Utilizes strong
and
precise word
choice.

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