SAMPLE INSTRUCTIONAL PLAN IN ENGLISH 5 (POEM)

I. Learning Outcomes

Content Standard: demonstrates understanding that reading a wide range of texts

Performance Standard: uses linguistic cues to appropriately construct meaning from a

variety of texts for a variety of purposes

Learning Competencies/Objectives

Analyze a poem in terms of its elements (rhymes, sound devices, imagery and figurative
language) EN5RC-Ie-6

II. Content/Subject Matter

Analyzing a poem in terms of its elements

Value Integration: True friendship

III. Learning Resources

Photocopies of the poem “Friends” by Abbie Farwell Brown

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/friends-by-abbie-farwell-brown
MP3 copy of “You’ve Got A Friend” by James Taylor
Powerpoint presentation
Digital lamp projector

IV. Learning Activities

A. Before Reading

1. Motivation

a. Have Class listen to the song “You’ve Goa a Friend” by James Taylor
b. Ask the class:

1) What is the message of the song?

2) How many friends do you have?
3) Why are friends precious to any one?

2. Unlocking of Difficulties

Ask learners to pick out the meaning of the underlined words as used in the sentence.

With the wind, the candle flickers through the window

a. burn steadily b. shine irregularly c. move firmly
 I could not describe the taste of that fruit because I scarcely eat it.
a. Seldom b. hardly c. often

3. Motive Question

In what ways Nature is a friend to man?

B. During Reading

1. Model Recitation/first reading of the poem by the teacher

FRIENDS by Abbie Farwell Brown

How good to lie a little while

And look up through the tree!
The Sky is like a kind big smile
Bent sweetly over me.

The Sunshine flickers through the lace

Of leaves above my head,
And kisses me upon the face
Like Mother, before bed.

The Wind comes stealing o'er the grass

To whisper pretty things;
And though I cannot see him pass,
I feel his careful wings.

So many gentle Friends are near

Whom one can scarcely see,
A child should never feel a fear,
Wherever he may be.

2. Reading of the poem by the class, group, a learner

3. Second reading of the poem by the teacher

C. After Reading

Ask the following questions:

1. Based on the title of the poem, what is the poem all about?
2. Who is talking in the poem?
3. Who are the speaker’s friends in the first, second, and third stanzas?
4. What good/comfort do the friends (sky, sunshine, and wind) provide to the
speaker?
 5. Let us read the words at the end of each line. What do you notice with the sounds
of the words? What words sound similarly with the other words in each stanza?
What name is used to refer to these words that have similar sounds?
6. What image do you see in your mind as described in each stanza?
7. Describe what you hear as described in each stanza.
8. What human characteristics does the speaker give to the sky, sunshine, and wind?
What name is given to this technique of the poet in making the non-humans
behave or act like human beings?
9. According to the speaker in the poem, why should a child not be afraid?
10. Who is a good friend to you? Explain

V. Evaluation

Using the ideas and lessons from the poem, complete the sentences:

1. The Sky is a friend because_______________________________.

2. The word sunshine has the same sound with ______________________.
3. Children should not be afraid because there is a _______________________.
4. Poets use personification in making non-humans _____________________.
5. A good friend is one who ______________________________________.

VI. Assignment

Write in a five-sentence paragraph how you could be a true friend to others.