COURSE OUTLINE

A.Y. 2022-2023

ENGLISH GRADE 9
FIRST QUARTER

LITERATURE: British and American Poetry

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What is the best way to express one’s self?

REAL-LIFE PERFORMANCE TASK: As last year’s winner of the El Indio: Poetry in Motion Contest,
you are invited to be a guest performer for this year’s award ceremonies for the said contest.
The organizers want you to share an original poem expressing heightened emotions and a
thought-provoking message and highlighting the discovery of one’s self through an entertaining
and inspiring performance. The poem must be thought-provoking, creative, and imaginative.
The delivery must be effective, dynamically delivered, and engaging.

LEARNING COMPETENCIES TO BE DISCUSSED:

PART ONE: WHAT DO WE NEED TO PERFORM?

 Identify types and features of poetry.

 What is poetry?
 Three Major Types and the Poems under them
 Lines and Line Break
 Stanza
 Types of Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
 Meter and Feet

SCAFFOLDING TASK 1: Poetry Plan

 Use normal and inverted word order in creative writing.

 Types of Inverted Sentences
 Use appropriate punctuation marks and capitalization to convey meaning.
 Capitalization Rules
 Punctuation Rules (focus only on end marks, comma, colon, and semicolon)
 Use interjections to convey meaning.
 Two Types of Interjections
 Six Functions of Interjections
 Use literary devices and techniques to craft poetic forms.
 Sound Devices
 Figures of Speech
 Poetic Syntax
 Other Literary Devices
  Compose lines of poetry.

SCAFFOLDING TASK 2: Draft of the Poem

 Use the appropriate segmentals and suprasegmentals when delivering lines of poetry.
 Classification of Segmentals
 Classification of Suprasegmentals
 Use the correct pitch, juncture, stress, intonation, rate of speech, and volume and
projection when delivering lines of poetry.
 Use the appropriate gestures (hand, face, and body).
 Use the appropriate and effective speech conventions expected of poem interpretation.

PART TWO: WHY DO WE NEED TO PERFORM?

 Explain how information from Anglo-American lyric poetry, songs, and poems contribute
to the theme of a particular literary selection.
 Explain how Anglo-American lyric poetry, songs, and poems may be influenced by
culture, history, environment, or other factors.
 Analyze literature as a means of discovering the self.

READING ASSIGNMENTS (Mark these selections in our textbook):

 “Soldier, Rest” by Sir Walter Scott

 “Battle of Trenton”
 “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
 “Song of the Sky Loom: by the Tewa Tribe
 “On His Blindness” by John Milton
 “Love is not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
 “Death of the Hired Man” by Robert Frost

SCAFFOLDING TASK 3: Recorded Practice of the Poem Reading

PART THREE: ARE WE READY TO PERFORM?

 Deliver a poetry reading with ease and confidence.

SCAFFOLDING TASK 4: A Performance Task Presentation

FIRST QUARTERLY EXAM: October 19-21, 2022

NOTES:
1. Have a copy of this course outline.
2. Locate in our textbook the page numbers of the mentioned learning competencies.
3. Aside from the textbook, Sir Guerra will be using Grade 9 English books by other
publishing companies; thus, the English notebook is very important.
4. For the literature part, Sir Guerra will be announcing the selected literary text from
among the selections above. You have to read and highlight and answer the After
Reading questions before the class starts.
5. Exercises and activities are incorporated into the mentioned learning competencies.
6. All scaffolding tasks must be completed before doing the performance task which is to
be scheduled a week or two before the quarterly exam.
7. All outputs must be submitted primarily in the Google Classroom. Sir Guerra may decide
on another means of submitting the outputs when face-to-face classes happen.
8. Other learning competencies not mentioned will be discussed if time permits.
9. If there will be no classes for any reason, you will be noticed in advance. Adjustments
will be made to the schedule.
10. For other announcements and updates, regularly check our group chat. Kindly post your
questions and concerns in the group chat as well for Sir Guerra to answer.