Northern Mindanao Colleges, Inc.

City of Cabadbaran

Detailed Lesson Plan in Teaching English

I. Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to;

a. Analyze Feminism as critical approach;
b. Internalize the message of the poem;
c. Construct a 5 sentence - paragraph critiquing the poem using the feminist
approach

II. Subject Matter

Literary Genre: Lyric Poem – “Still I Rise”
Author: Maya Angelou
Language Focus: Feminism
Learners: Grade 11 Senior High School
Materials: PowerPoint, Laptop, Cartolina, Scissors, Marker
References: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46446/still-i-rise’
English for Academic and Professional Purposes Book pp. 44 by Garrido-
Ruiz
Miguel F., Silveria-Palmer Juan C. and Gomez-Fortanet Immaculada (2010)
English for Academic and Professional Purposes Syllabus pp 4(Writing a
Reaction Paper, Review, & Critique)

III. Procedure
Teacher’s Activity Students Activity

A. Preliminaries

Good morning class!

Good morning, Ma’am!
How are you all today?
We’re good, Ma’am!
Very well. Not Let us bow down our head
and feel the presence of the Lord.
Together, let us pray.
Students are praying.
In the name of the father and the son and
the holy spirit. Amen.

Please settle. Let me check your

attendance. And say present when your
name is called.
Students are participating.
 Very good, no one is absent today.
Now to proceed, I just want to remind all
of you class to our six important House
Rules:
1. To maintain the cleanliness
2. Pick up the pieces of paper under your
desk.
3. Keep your chairs aligned.
4. Throw your garbage into a proper
waste can.
5. Listen very carefully.
Lastly,
6. RESPECT ONE ANOTHER.
Yes Maam!
B. Review of previous lesson

Who can recall the topic we have

yesterday?
Yes, you are raising a hand, Gemuel.
We tackled about the critical
approach of literature maam which is
a Reader’s Response Criticism.
Very good! Again, what is critical
approaches?
Yes, Sheena. Critical Approaches are different
perspectives we consider when
looking at a piece of literature.
That’s right. What does critical
approaches aid us in interpreting
literature?
Yes, Sheila.
They aid us in interpreting literature
On what do we read, why do we read
and how do we read.
Great! So, what does readers response
criticism based on what have we
discussed?
Reader-Response Criticism asserts
that a great deal of meaning in a text
lies with how the reader responds to
it. Also, it focuses on the act of
reading and how the reader responds
 to it.

Very Good!

Motivation

Before we start our lesson, I want to ask if

do you know what does the Month of
March suggest for a celebration?
Women’s Month maam.
Very good! March is the month
celebrating the Women’s Month.
Now, why do think Women’s Month is
celebrated during the month of March? March is the reigning month of the
women showing how significant
they had contributed in our history.

That’s right! Why do you think we should
celebrate this every march?
Every March, we celebrate the
contributions of history-making
women to remind ourselves of the
accomplishments of women
throughout the years to our culture
and society.

Very good!

Now, let us move one. I have here the

learning objectives that will serve as a
guide for you to be able to know the
things that we are going to tackle this
morning. Everybody, please read.
Learning Objectives:

a. Analyze Feminism as critical

approach;
b. Internalize the message of the poem;
c. Construct a 5 sentence - paragraph
critiquing the poem using the feminist Students are participating.
approach

Very Good!
 Okay class, I have here a picture.

C. Presentation

Do you have any idea whom this person No, Ma’am.

is? Anyone?

Well class, she is Marguerite Annie

Johnson Angelou, commonly known as
Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was an
American author, actress, screenwriter,
dancer, poet and civil rights activist best
known for her 1969 memoir, I Know
Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made
literary history as the first nonfiction
bestseller by an African American
woman.
They are black people maam.
Now, how do you describe an African
American based on history?
They look at them as slaves maam.
What do you think black people are being Some people try to pick racial
treated before class? discrimination about them because
of their skin color maam.

Yes class. African American defines as

black people. And the famous writer,
Maya is an African American. And as an
African American, Angelou experienced
firsthand racial prejudices and
discrimination in Arkansas. She also
suffered at the hands of a family associate
around the age of 7. During a visit with
 her mother, Angelou was raped by her
mother's boyfriend. As vengeance for the Students are listening.
sexual assault, Angelou's uncles killed the
boyfriend.

So traumatized by the experience,

Angelou stopped talking. She returned to
Arkansas and spent years as a virtual
mute. But Maya is very strong she had
overcome it all and write her own books
and poems concerning the prejudices of
the people to a black African American
woman. None so far maam.
So, class have you heard or read some of
Maya Angelou’s masterpieces?

Well, the piece that we will talk about

(Students are participating)
today is a poem. Let me just check if you
still remember the Elements of a Poem.
What are those?

Unlocking of Difficulties

Directions: The jumble letters correspond

the words meaning. Solve the jumble
letters to understand how these words is
meant.
Ex. Huts – pacm
Ans. Huts – Camp Stepped

Bold-faced
1. Trod - tepsped

2. Sassiness- obdl-cedaf Trouble

3. Beset – bletrou Arrogant

4. haughtiness - arorgnat Jump

5. leaping – pumj

Okay class, lets check your answer.

 Thankyou for participating.

Presentation of the Lesson

Now class, we are going to read a poem

entitled, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. I read Yes Ma’am.
it first, then you will read it after okay.

“Still I Rise” The students are listening.

By Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
 Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Students are reading…
Now your turn to read class.

Intellectual Discussion "Still I Rise" is an empowering

What was the poem all about? Karl? poem about the struggle to overcome
prejudice and injustice.

That’s right! Now, can you give me the abcb to abcc and aabb
Rhyme Scheme of the poem? Yes, Ryan?

Alright! What do you think about the The poem is like an encouragement
to the oppressed not to give in any
poem?
battles.

I think the poem is likely want us to

That’s right! What else? realize the word “I rise” because it
was repeated like a mantra.

Very good!

Aesthetic Discussion

What have you observed about the poem? In the poem, they are boldly
highlighted letters, ma’am.
Correct!
What are those? Can you elaborate? Yes ma’am. Those are moons, suns,
tides and black oceans.

Why do you think those words are being

highlighted? Yes, Louie?
That’s right! The author wants this
message to reach the Black Women
signifying Black Feminism. Do you know
what is black feminism class? Any idea?
I think that those words were
highlighted because those words are
like a symbol of hope that the author
Maya wants the black women to
realize.
None maam.

Well, Black Feminism is a branch of

Feminism. To know what black feminism
is, we should know firstly what feminism
None maam.
is. Any idea, class?
Students just keep on being quiet.
Are you sure none of you has any idea?

Well okay, please listen. Students listening.

Feminism, according to Maggie Humm’s

“The Dictionary of Feminist Theory”, is
explained as a term used by the feminist
to describe ideology of female quality of
being better. Furthermore, it is explained
that feminism is a doctrine for women to
have the equal right of men, and it also
means feminism is an ideology of a social
transformation which happens to make
social equality between men and women.

Now class, why do you think Maya

Angelou portrays the spirit of Black
I think that Maya tries to portray the
Feminism?
black women as he herself is cruelly
mistreated, experienced racism and
prejudices and she was also born as a
Black woman, as shown through her
poems.
 Alright! So class, let us go back to the
poem and let us interpret the stanzas
according to your own ideas of what
Maya is trying to say. I will call each one
of you to explain their opinions so that
everyone will be able to participate.
Okay? Are we clear? Yes Ma’am.

Thank you, class. Now, have you realized

that all of your answers play a criticism
using a feminist critical approach. Now,
to be clear, the practice of feminist
criticism usually entails examining how
the gender roles of a work of literature
reflect or subvert “traditional gender”
roles. As to what in this poem, feminist
criticism aims to interpret the old texts
and establish the importance of women’s
writing to save it from being lost or
ignored in the male-dominated world.
For example:
Feminist critics may claim that certain
male writers address their readers as if
they were all men and exclude the
female reader.
Understood? Yes maam.

Now, can you give me one a critical

approach you may have in the poem? Students answering…

Okay, very good everyone.

Generalization

Now class, what is the theme of the

poem?
"Still I Rise" is primarily about self-
respect and confidence. In the poem,
Angelou reveals how she will
overcome anything through her self-

Very well, what else?
Fantastic!
Well, What does Feminist Critical
Approach implies in literature?
Very good. Now how will you analyze the
feminist approach of Maya in writing
poems?
Great answer! Thank you. So, for
clarification, this Feminist critical
approach wants us to analyze the light
part of very literature.
Understood class?
Valuing
What is the message of the poem?
esteem. She shows how nothing can
get her down. She will rise to any
occasion and nothing, not even her
skin color, will hold her back.
This poem is not only a
proclamation of her own
determination to rise above society,
but was also a call to others to live
above the society in which they were
brought up.
Feminism critical approach helps us
look at literature in a different light.
It applies the philosophies and
perspectives of feminism to the
literature we read.
In writing poems, female poet
usually makes close relation between
the idea of romantic and feminism
but Maya Angelou has her own style
in writing her poems. She does not
only use the active changing and
altered condition of the biology
identity but also uses the fact of her
own specific being. She emphasizes
the importance of individual
situation especially to the
individuality of a woman.
Yes ma’am.
The message is loud and clear—no
matter the cruelty, regardless of
 Very Good! What else?
Can you give me a scenario where you
encountered discrimation, prejudices or
abused? And how did you overcome it?
Oh, very well. Thankyou for sharing.
How about the others? Camille?
What thinking that drives you to be
strong?
Wow, that’s very nice.
Thank you everyone. I hope that you will
put inside your heart what you have
learned today.
D. Application
Okay let’s go for an activity.
Now class, construct a 5 sentence -
paragraph critiquing the poem using the
feminist approach.
method and circumstance, the victim
will rise up, the slave will overcome
adversity.
Students answering…
.
I was called pig because I’m fat.
They used to call me “baboy” and I
will always cry a lot. But later on I
realize that, problems were created
for us to be stronger, for us to be
happier, because we won’t be able to
appreciate this sweetness without
experiencing the bitterness of this
life.
It was when our in-depth father left
us with nothing so all we had to do
was to help our poor mother by
having a having part-time jobs
whenever we had no class. And I
was discriminated because I have no
father, and my family is broken.
But we remained being strong
despite of the hardships. I just keep
thinking ma’am that all of it has an
end. And whatever I’m going
through God will always be my
armor and I will always stand my
ground.
Yes ma’am.
 Understood?

Okay, I will give you 5 minutes to make it

and pass it in front and I will rate your
paper using this Writing criteria Student participating.

Evaluation
Directions: Enumerate the possible topics
that the poem “Still I Rise” can? Yes ma’am.

Answers:
Politics
History
Trade
Oppression
E. Assignment
Societal Issues
Individual Rights
Now class, I want you all to search and
Slavery
read in advance about the New Historic
Peaceful Protest
Approach. Understand?

Okay, any clarifications? Questions?

Confusions?

Okay, I think that’s all for today class.

Yes ma’am.
Goodbye everyone!

None so far ma’am.

Goodbye Ma’am!
Submitted by: Carla Sheen A. Babaylan

Submitted to: Aldrian C. Sinonta

Instructor