DETAILED LESSON PLAN March 09, 2023

ENGLISH 10

I. Objectives

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

a. Describe formalist approach;

b. explain the importance of formalist approach; and
c. write a formalist literary criticism.
II. Subject Matter

Topic: 4.1 Critique a literary text using a formalist approach B.

Instructional Materials: Visual Aids
References:

Teacher’s Activity Students’ Activity

I. Preliminaries

A. Greetings

Good morning, class! Good morning, ma’am!

B. Checking of Attendance
Let me check first the attendance. Say “Present” or “Absent”
“present” if your name is called.
(Calling of names)

C. Motivation

Charades!
Direction: "Act out" a word without speaking,
while the others try to guess what the word is.

 Hangover D. Hangover
 Vlogger E. Vlogger
 Love F. Love
 Basketball G. Basketball
 Dance H. Dance

A. Activity

Literary criticism is the comparison,

analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of
works of literature. It is essentially an opinion,
supported by evidence, relating to the theme,
style, setting or historical or political context.
(Dickinson Waidner-Spahr Library, 2020)
Researching, reading, and writing
works of literary criticism will help you to:
make a better sense of the work; b. form
judgments about literature; c. study ideas
from different points of view; and d.
determine on an individual level whether a
literary work is worth reading. (Dickinson
Waidner-Spahr Library, 2020)
There are several approaches to
literary criticism namely formalism,
structuralism, Marxism, historicism, cultural
studies, psychoanalytic, gender studies/queer
theory, reader response, and more. Today you
will learn how to critique literary works using
formalism.

Discuss the following:

Things to Remember in Formalist
Approach:
(Note: Text means literary work such as
short story, novel, poem, drama, or film.)
I. Formalist criticism analyzes only
one work/literary text at a time.
J. It analyzes the structure of a text
without looking at ‘outside’
factors such as the author,
historical & cultural background,
etc.
K. This approach requires close
reading.
L. This approach looks for patterns
within the text.
M. It does not list down elements of
fiction, instead, explains how the
characters, setting, plot, images,
symbols, and theme relate to each
other and how their ‘coming
together’ create meaning.
N. It examines form, diction, and
unity.
a. Form can be examined in
the work’s recurrences,
repetitions, relationships,
 motifs—all the
organizational devices that
create the total effect. It
answers the questions:
What words, images,
actions, and feelings are
repeated on the text? How
are they related to the
theme and to the other
elements? What is the
effect of the repetition to
the whole text?

b. Diction is the choice of

words, imagery, and
symbol that a writer
makes to effectively
convey an idea, a point of
view, or tell a story.
c. If a work has unity, all its
aspects fit together in
significant ways that
create a whole. Each
element contributes to the
totality of the work and its
meaning.
O. Here are some of the typical
questions in formalist criticism:
a. How does the narrator’s
point of view shape the
meaning?
b. How do the characters,
setting, imagery and plot
relate to the theme and to
each other?
c. How are the various parts
of the work
interconnected?
d. How do these parts and
their collective whole
contribute to or not
contribute to the aesthetic
quality of the work?
What words, images, and symbols appear
more than once or have a certain effect in
the text?
 Annabel Lee
BY  ED GA R A LLAN POE
It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

   In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than
love—
   I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven
   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

   In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
   My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
   In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

   Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
   In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

   Of those who were older than we—
   Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
   Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams, without bringing me

dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright
eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
 And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
   Of my darling—my darling—my life and my
bride,
   In her sepulcher there by the sea—
   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

B. Analysis
Synonyms!
Give a word or phrase that is related to
Formalistic or Structural approach.

 Construction
 Form  Construction
 Formation  Form
 Composition  Formation
 Organization  Composition
 Layout  Organization
 Arrangement  Layout
 Arrangement

C. Abstraction
What is a formalistic approach?

A formalist critic examines the form of the

work as a whole, the form of each
individual part of the text (the individual
scenes and chapters), the characters, the
settings, the tone, the point of view, the
diction, and all other elements of the text
which join to make it a single text.

What is the importance of formalistic approach?

Formalism may be defined as a critical

approach in which the text under
discussion is considered primarily as a
structure of words. That is, the main focus
is on the arrangement of language, rather
than on the implications of the words, or
on the biographical and historical
relevance of the work in question.

III. Evaluation
Write a critique paper on the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost using a formalist
approach.
 The Road Not Taken
BY  ROBE RT FROST
And both that morning equally lay
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
In leaves no step had trodden black.
And sorry I could not travel both
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
And be one traveler, long I stood
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
And looked down one as far as I could
I doubted if I should ever come back.
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Then took the other, as just as fair,
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
And having perhaps the better claim,
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
I took the one less traveled by,
Though as for that the passing there
And that has made all the difference.
Had worn them really about the same,

IV. Assignment
Search on the internet: What is a Moralist approach? Write your answer on your notebook.

RUBRICS
 Excellent Good Fair NI
Criteria
4 3 2 1

Introduction made
Introduction’s The The introduction’s
use of a creative
strategy produced introduction’s strategy actually
strategy to produce
Introduction some desire on the strategy made the made the reader
a strong desire on
reader to read reader indifferent stop reading the
the reader to read
further. to the text. text.
further.

All details
Most details are
All the details connected well to Some details are
not well-
Focus and connect well to the the topic, but some not connected
connected to the
Coherence topic and to each are not well- well to the topic
topic or to each
other. connected to each or to each other.
other.
other.

Details were more Details were Details were

than enough to enough to barely enough to Details were
Elaboration
elaborate the main elaborate the main elaborate the clearly lacking.
idea. idea. main idea.

The conclusion The conclusion

The conclusion The conclusion
was adequate to was actually
provided a good left the text
Conclusion dose the text but Inappropriate to
dosing that made somewhat
not make it the ending of the
the text notable. hanging.
notable. text.

Two or more
Spelling, grammar, Spelling, grammar, One element of
elements of
Convention and punctuations and punctuations convention is not
conventions are
are all excellent. are all good. done well.
not done well.