Lesson Plan in English

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should have:

a. narrated details that are found in the poem leading to making inferences;
b. drawn the imagery depicted in the poem;
c. written reactions/insights about the poem; and
d. identified infinitives and their functions in the sentence

II. Subject Matter

A. Literary Focus: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

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B. Language Focus: Infinitive and its functions in the sentence

Reference: A Journey through Anglo-American Literature by Almonte, et al., p. 296, 315,

& 341

C. Materials: PowerPoint presentation, audio-video clips, photocopy of the poem, bond

paper, crayons, pencil and worksheets

III. Procedure

A. Preliminary Activities

1. Prayer
2. Roll Call
3. Review

B. Motivation

The teacher will ask the following questions:

Have you ever wanted to escape from the world for a little while? Get rid of your phone?
Perhaps to go outside and relax?
Sometimes we crave a little vacation from responsibility. In a world in which we are so
busy, do we get to spend much time alone anymore?
Sometimes we get hungry for alone time like what the speaker does in "Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening."

C. Presentation

Our lesson for today is about “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert
Frost.

D. Lesson Proper

1. Unlocking of Difficulties

Harness- a set of straps that are placed on an animal (such as horse) so

that it can pull something heavy
Queer- differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal
 Downy-used to describe small, soft feathers or something that resembles
such feathers
Flake- a thin flattened piece or layer
Woods- an area of land covered with many trees

2. Discussion

The students will read in unison the poem below. Before they read, an audio-
video clip will be played to serve as their guide. After reading, they will listen to the sung
version of the poem. They can also sing with the video clip.

“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

3. Comprehension Activities:

a. While sitting in a seminar circle students are directed to analyze, discuss and interpret the
poem using these questions below. They will cite words, phrases or lines to justify their
answers.
1. What was the speaker's attitude about the woods?
2. Why does the horse stop in the woods?
3. Why did the author use a winter scene?
4. What happens at the end of the poem? Do you think the ending was positive or
negative? Why?

b. An Image is a picture we can imagine created by words. Imagery is the collective noun
for a group of images.
1. What is the main image in the poem? What feeling is the poet trying to create with this
image?
2. While the fact that the woods are "lovely, dark and deep" might not seem visually
helpful, this description actually helps us visualize the image of the woods even more
clearly. Find the words in the poem that help us visualize this wintery scene.
3. Draw/create through an art medium this wintery scene with the aid of the descriptive
words in the poem.
 4. Discussion on Infinitives

Infinitives are formed from verbs but function as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. Infinitive
is the “to” form of the verb. Hence, the infinitive form of the verb “learn” is “to learn” and “to
walk” for the verb “walk.” Some examples of infinitives are to sing, to dance, to laugh, to read,
to write, to cook, to break, to bring, etc.

Base on the definition and examples, can you cite the infinitives in the poem? What are
they? Can you determine their functions?

Further discussion about infinitives.

Infinitive Board Game

The class will be divided into two groups. Each group will choose one board player to
represent the group. The players will complete the phrases with infinitives to make them
sentences. For every correct sentence means one step forward to the finish line. The teacher will
serve as the judge.
 IV. Evaluation
A.
The students are forced to deduce Frost’s cards by means of direct textual evidence as well as
by inference drawing from the hints and clues he has left us in the poem.

As the poem opens, we find ourselves in the middle of the snow-covered woods in the dead
of winter, expressing uncertainty about exactly where we are and why we need to stop. We need
to discover what are the effects of the images conjured here. How does the darkness and cold and
snow impact the speaker and, by default, us?

The students will need to figure out what perspective they must have to attribute to this
speaker’s “little horse” that seems to “ask if there is some mistake.” They will make a three-
column chart to work all this out and notate the following:

a. narrative details that are directly described in the poem;

b. evidence in the poem that leads to making inferences;
c. inferences that are arrived at with no supporting evidence.

No. Narrative details that are Evidence in the poem that Inferences that are
directly described in the leads to making inferences arrived at with no
poem supporting evidence

1
2
3
4

B.
Choose three infinitives from the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and
use them in the sentences. Each infinitive should be differently used, in terms of function, in the
sentence.

Write the sentence on the appropriate column of the function of the infinitive in the
sentence.

Infinitives Noun Adjective Adverb

(Example) To draw cartoon

To draw characters is my favorite
hobby.

1.
2.
3.
V. Assignment

The students will make a journal about this woodland experience using hints and questions
raised by the evidence in the narrative. They can:
  imagine the circumstances that have brought the speaker to this place in the wood;
 speculate on what it is that compels him to stop on so cold and dark a night;
 speculate on the nature of the promises the speaker has made;
 write about the speaker's relationship to the person “whose woods these are.”

The only rule is, their inferences must have some defensible basis in the actual words of the
poem. They also have to underline the infinitives they used in their sentences.

Prepared by:
MAR JOHN NOEL F. ACANTO