English

Quarter 1, Wk.7 - Module 2

Use the Correct Pitch, Juncture, Stress, Intonation,
Rate of Speech, Volume and Projection when
Delivering Lines of Poetry and Prose in Dramatic and
Conventional Speech Choirs

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English- Grade 9
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Quarter 1, Wk.7- Module 2 : Use the Correct Pitch, Juncture, Stress, Intonation,
Rate of Speech, Volume and Projection when Delivering Lines of Poetry and Prose
in Dramatic and Conventional Speech Choir

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English
Quarter 1, Wk.7 - Module 2
Use the Correct Pitch, Juncture, Stress, Intonation,
Rate of Speech, Volume and Projection when
Delivering Lines of Poetry and Prose in Dramatic and
Conventional Speech Choirs

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 Table of Contents

What This Module is About ..................................................................................... v

What I Need to Know .............................................................................................. v
How to Learn from this Module .............................................................................. vi
Icons of this Module ............................................................................................... vi

What I Know .......................................................................................................... vii

Lesson 1:
Making Life Better .................................................................................................. 1
What’s New .................................................................................... 1
What Is It ........................................................................................... 2
What’s More ..................................................................................... 3
What I Have Learned ........................................................................ 4
What I Can Do................................................................................... 5

Summary………………………………………………………………………………… 6
Assessment: (Post-Test)………………………………………… …………………… 7
Key to Answers .................................................................................................... .8

References ........................................................................................................... .9
What This Module is About

This module helps to guide you to use the correct pitch, juncture, stress,
intonation, rate of speech, volume, and projection when delivering lines of poetry and
prose in dramatic and conventional speech choirs using the Anglo-American short story.

This supplementary learning module adheres to the content standard and

learning objective prescribed in the Curriculum Guide. It encompasses understanding
the society who can only improve by analysing the writing in any culture. Anglo-
American literature has produced some of the most significant prose and poetry the
world has seen.

What I Need to Know

Learning Objective:

At the end of this module you should be able to:

 Use the correct pitch, juncture, stress, intonation, rate of speech, volume
and projection when delivering lines of poetry and prose in dramatic and
conventional speech choirs.
How to Learn from this Module
To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.
• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.
• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

Icons of this Module

What I Need to This part contains learning objectives that

Know are set for you to learn as you go along the
module.

What I know This is an assessment as to your level of

knowledge to the subject matter at hand,
meant specifically to gauge prior related
Knowledge.
What’s In This part connects previous lesson with that
of the current one.

What’s New An introduction to the new lesson through

various activities, before it will be presented
to you.

What is It These are discussions of the activities as a

way to deepen your discovery and under-
standing of the concept.

What’s More These are follow-up activities that are in-

tended for you to practice further in order to
master the competencies.

What I Have Activities designed to process what you

Learned have learned from the lesson.

What I can do These are tasks that are designed to show-

case your skills and knowledge gained, and
applied into real-life concerns and
situations.
 What I Know

In this module, you are going to connect what you have learned about
jazz chants.

Answer the pre-test below to check whether you have some ideas about
prosodic features.

Pre-test

1. A prosodic feature that gives emphasis to a particular syllable or word in speech,

typically through a combination of relatively greater loudness, higher pitch, and longer
duration

a. stress b. intonation c. juncture d. projection

2. An activity where one can give beats while reading.

a. movie b. jazz chant c. running d. writing

3. The degree of loudness of sound.

a. stress b. volume c. rate d. intonation

4. This is a type of poem.

a. sonnet b. myths

5. The rise and fall of the voice in speaking is called __________.

a. pitch b. intonation c. volume

6. One of the things that can help you develop prosody is _____

a. singing b. reading once c. reading many times

7-10( in any order) the prosodic features

_________quiz ________rate of speech ________jazz chant

_________intonation ________volume ________songs

_________stress ________ stress ________sonnet

_________jazz chant ________ pitch ________poems

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 Use the Correct Pitch,
Juncture, Stress, Intonation,
Rate of Speech, Volume and
Projection when Delivering
Lines of Poetry and Prose in
Dramatic and Conventional
Lesson Speech Choirs
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What’s New
One of the things that can help you develop prosody is reading the
same text multiple times. When you read for the second, third or even fourth
time, the pressure to worry about decoding is minimized, and you can focus
more intently on how you read.

Task 1 . Read this excerpt from the poem The Highwayman by Alfred
Noyes. Read it once with your eyes, and read it out loud. Then, find a
partner (you may ask a family member) to listen as you read the poem. Ask
your partner to take a turn reading the same passage out loud again.

The Highwayman
BY ALFRED NOYES
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

And the highwayman came riding— riding—riding—

The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.

He’d a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,

A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin.

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They fitted with never a wrinkle. His boots were up to the thigh.

And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,

His pistol butts a-twinkle,

His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky.

What have you noticed in your voice and the voice of your partner as you
read the same passage for a third time?

What is it
Task 2
Prosodic features are features that appear when we put sounds
together in connected speech. It is important to learn prosodic features a
successful communication depends as much on intonation, stress and
rhythm as on the correct pronunciation of sounds. Read the following
prosodic features that you will learn to use in this module.

1. Pitch - the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations

producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone.
2. Juncture - the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a
word or phrase boundary
3. Stress - emphasis given to a particular syllable or word in speech,
typically through a combination of relatively greater loudness, higher pitch,
and longer duration
4. Intonation - the rise and fall of the voice in speaking
5. Rate of Speech - the term given to the speed at which you speak. It's
calculated in the number of words spoken in a minute
6. Volume - the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound
7. Projection - control of the volume, clarity, and distinctness of a voice to
gain greater audibility

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 What’s more

Task 3

Jazz Chants can also be fun reading aloud with the help of prosodic features.
Read aloud the jazz chant written by Carolyn Graham using the correct
pitch, juncture, stress, intonation, rate of speech, volume, and projection.
Record your performance using mobile phone.

Is the Post Office Open Tomorrow?

(excerpt from Jazz Chants by Carolyn Graham)

Is the post office* open tomorrow?

It’s open from nine to five.
Is the post office open tomorrow?
It’s open from nine to five.
What time does it open?
It opens at nine.
What time does it close?
It closes at five.
It opens at nine and closes at five.
It’s open from nine to five.

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 What I Have Learned

Task 4.

Choose a poem or a jazz chant that you like. Read it silently. Think about what your
voice sounded like 'in your minds' as you read. Read it aloud. Record your performance
and send it to your teacher. Please look at the rubric below to have a good use of
prosodic features.

Rubrics

Features 3 2 1
Pitch Student’s pitch does Student’s pitch changes Student’s pitch
not change the the meaning of at least changes the
meaning of the two(2) words/phrases meaning of all the
word/phrase words/phrases
Juncture Student pauses in Student pauses in at Student pauses in
all periods and least two (2) periods or one (1) period or
commas commas. comma
Stress Student emphasizes Student emphasizes at Student emphasizes
all words and least two ( 2) words and one (1) word and
syllables correctly syllables correctly syllable correctly
Intonation Student observes all Student observes at Student observes
possible intonation least two ( 2) possible ONE (1) possible
patterns correctly intonation patterns intonation pattern
correctly correctly
Rate of Student reads at an Student reads at a Student reads very
Speech average speed speed just enough to be fast and
understood incomprehensible
Volume Student applies the Student applies only Student applies only
correct volume in two (2) correct volumes one (1) correct
reading in reading volume in reading
Projection Student reads the Student reads some Student’s reading is
text loudly and text loudly and clearly not loud and clear
clearly

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 What I Can Do

Task 4. A sonnet is a type of poem. Read aloud the sonnet written by

William Shakespeare and answer the questions below. Write your answers in your
notebook.

1. While reading the Sonnet 18, can you use the 7 prosodic features?
2. What have you notice to your voice when reading the sonnet?
3. Are prosodic features important in reading aloud? Why? Why not?

Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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 Summary

Prosodic features are features that appear when we put sounds together
in connected speech.
There are seven (7) prosodic features that you can use in reading.
Jazz Chants and other types of poems can be applied with the pitch, stress, intonation,
volume, juncture, rate of speech , and projection.

Complete each clue in your notebook.

Summing up what I learned in my journey through this lesson, it enables me to

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

This made me realize that

______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________

Through this, I therefore commit

______________________________________________________________________
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 Assessment: (Post-Test)

Provide your answer.

A. Fill in the blanks.

1._______________ the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a

word or phrase boundary.

2. ___________________ control of the volume, clarity, and distinctness of a voice to gain

greater audibility.

3. ____________________ the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.

4. ____________________ the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound.

5. ____________________ emphasis given to a particular syllable or word in speech,

typically through a combination of relatively greater loudness, higher pitch, and longer
duration

B. True or False

6. Jazz chants can be used in applying the prosodic features.

7. One can never use stress in reading.
8. Sonnet can also be useful in applying the prosodic features.
9. Intonation is not applicable in reading poems.
10. Prosodic features are features that does not appear when we put sounds together in
connected speech.

C. Tell whether one can use a prosodic feature. Write PF if yes and N if not.

11. Jazz chants 12. Songs 13. Rap 14. Sonnet 15. Movie

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A. 1. Juncture
2. Projection
3. Intonation
4. Volume
5. Stress
B. 6. True
7. False
8. True
9. False
10. False
C. 11. PF
12. PF
13. PF
14. PF
15. N
Key to Answers
References

● Included all third party materials or sources in developing the material

For your guide,

https://www.google.com/search?q=prosodic+features+of+speech&oq=pr&aqs=chrome.1.69
i59l3j69i57j69i59j0l3.2637j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45087/sonnet-18-shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-
summers-day
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/teaching_with_jazz_chants_0.pdf

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