DLP 3
DLP 3
DLP 3
DLP No: 3 Learning Area: English Grade level: 6 Quarter:1 Duration: 50mins.
Learning
Competency/ies Analyze sound devices (assonance) Code:EN6LC-Ia-
2.3.2
Key Concepts/
Understandings
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words with different consonants in a line.
to be
Developed
1.Objectives
Knowledge Identify the sound device used in poetry.
Skills Create assonance by circling the appropriate word.
Attitudes Observe politeness at all times.
Values Preserving the sanctity of marriage.
2.Content/Topic Analyzing sound devices (Assonance)
3. Learning English for All Times 6 1999 pp. 144-146; English for You and Me (Reading) 2011 pp. 51-52; chart
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4. Procedure
4.1 Introductory What is alliteration? What is onomatopeia?
Activity
(5mins)
4.2 Activity What sound device is used in poetry wherein there is repetition of vowel sound with different
(10mins) consonants in a line?
Sample:
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.
We light fire on the mountain.
I feel depressed and restless.
Go and mow the lawn.
Johnny went here and there and everywhere.
Men sell the wedding bells.
The same vowel sound of the short vowel “-e-” repeats itself in almost all the words excluding the
definite article. The words do share the same vowel sounds but start with different consonant sounds.
Assonance is primarily used in poetry in order to add rhythm and music, by adding an internal rhyme to
a poem. Let us look at some more examples of assonance from literature.
Example #1
Try to notice the use of assonance in Robert Frosts poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”:
The underlined bold letters in the above extract are vowels that are repeated to create assonance.
4.4 Abstraction
(5mins)
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in words with different consonants in a line.
4.5 Application Underline the vowels that are repeated to create assonance.
(10mins)
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things.
So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
2. Passage from Dylan Thomas’ famous poem “Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night”:
5. Assessment Create assonance by circling the appropriate word from each line.
(5mins)
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6. Assignment Underline the words in the short poem below that create assonance.
(5 mins)
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o‘er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…”
7. Concluding Let the pupils complete this sentence on their notebooks….Today, I learned ____________
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