English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 4
English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 4
English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 4
English 9
Activity Sheet
Quarter 2 – MELC 4
Analyzing Literature as a Means of
Understanding Unchanging Values
in a Volatile World
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Hello, Grade 9 learner! Today, you will be a reading and analyzing a poem written
by one of the famous writers in American Literature. This poem has made great impact
on what it takes to be truly great.
Activity 1
Directions: Read the poem entitled “I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great”
by Stephen Spender taken from Anglo- American Literature Learner’s Material, page 122.
The poem, broadly, is an attempt to describe what makes a person “truly great”. It was
written in the 1930’s during war time, this no doubt influenced the poet. However soldiers
are not the only people he is referring to. He is essentially referring to anyone who
selflessly fights for what they believe in.
Despite the rapid changes in our lives and in our surroundings do we forgot those
who gave great impact on the person that we are now? Analyze the poem and find out
who do we really considered truly great and can’t be forgotten through tests of time. Read
this literature thoroughly and understand the purpose and message of the poem. Ponder
upon the motive question: Who do we consider truly great?
Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor.
Vocabulary:
Comprehension Questions:
1. What distinct quality of those who are truly great does the persona mention in the
first stanza?
a. kind
b. Always ready for a war
c. influencer
d. inspiration
a. Wherever we are and whatever we have become, people who have fought and
sacrifice their lives for us must not be forgotten because they are already
history.
b. People’s values should change towards these people who have fought for
freedom.
c. The places these people have visited should be remembered
d. We should forget these heroes and move on with our lives.
5. In our journey towards the fulfillment of our lives as everything passes by so quickly
and as changes around us are so sudden, is the values of remembering and
honoring these selfless people who fought for us can be forgotten? Why or why
not?
Activity 2
Regardless of the changes in our world today, values are still inculcated in
literature that affects greatly its readers in many ways. Do the next activity and find out
what values still remains despite the circumstances or situations that humans are in.
Directions: The following are lines from Anglo- American famous poems. Read them
carefully and analyze the message being conveyed. Identify the unchanging value/s that
corresponds to it. Answers can be found inside the box below. Write the letter of the
correct answer.
A. Constant connection to our dear families, friends and to the world is one of the
greatest values that we must live our lives with for families and friends are worth
to be treasured forever.
B. Helping someone who is in great trouble rather that judging him on the situation
or circumstance that he is in is a value that is worthy to be recognized. We must
live a life with all humbleness and with the heart of helping people than laughing
at people’s misfortune.
C. Strengthening the spirit of hope and courage. Rebuilding oneself after a fall down
is not bad at all. Making good decisions and correcting previous wrong doings
for a better version of oneself.
D. Making the most out of it. The value of giving the best that you can to accomplish
something or to live a life everyday as if it’s the last day of our lives is a value
that we must have. We all come and go to this world and so we must cherish
every taste of it.
E. Having courage in everything that we do. We must live a life that is free from
doubts. We must achieve things and believe that we can and do the best that
we can to pursue our goals in life.
1. “ Give back the upward looking and the light
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?”
- SONNET 29
By: George Santayana (1863-1952)
- A PSALM OF LIFE
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- THE TELPHONE
By: Edward Field
V. Reflection
How would you value yourself and the people around you in this changing
world?
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