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English 9
Activity Sheet
Quarter 2 – MELC 3
Making Connections Between
Texts to Dispositions in Real Life

REGION VI – WESTERN VISAYAS

English Grade 9
Activity Sheet No. 3
First Edition, 2020

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Introductory Message
Welcome to English, Grade 9!

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ENGLISH 9 ACTIVITY SHEET

Making Connections Between Texts to Dispositions in Real Life

I. Learning Competency with Code

Make connections between texts to particular social issues, concerns, or
dispositions in real life

Make connections between texts to dispositions in real life

II. Background Information for Learners

Reading becomes meaningful when you recognize how ideas in a text connect to
your experiences and beliefs. Relating these ideas to your personal experiences allows
you to make sense of what you read, retain information better, and engage more
with the text itself.
Reading texts may also reveal your dispositions in life by reacting to the overall
message of the text, to the lines delivered by the speaker or the author or to the
situations presented in the story.
It is said that your personal dispositions can influence how you respond
to opportunities, problems, and challenges you encounter in your daily life. Thus, in
this lesson, you will relate the text content to your dispositions in life. A
disposition is an attitude or approach that you have towards your experiences in
life. It can also be considered as your core attitudes, values, and beliefs that are
the foundation of your behavior. Acceptance to failure, flexibility, optimism,
persistence, self-control, and curiosity are some examples of dispositions.
III. Accompanying DepEd Textbook and Educational Sites
• Department of Education (2014). A Journey through Anglo-American Literature -
Grade 9, pages 431-436.

IV. Activity Proper

1. Directions
Answer and accomplish the activities on pages 4 to 6.

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2. Activity/Exercise

Activity 1. Play Time!

Read the excerpt of a play “Raisin in the Sun” and answer the questions that
follow.

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Characters
(In Order of Appearance)
Ruth Younger
Travis Younger
Walter Lee Younger (Brother)
Beneatha Younger
Lena Younger (Mama)
Joseph Asagai
George Murchison
Karl Lindner
Bobo
Moving Men

The action of the play is set in Chicago’s Southside, sometime between World
War II and the present.

Act I
Scene One: Friday Morning
Scene Two: The following morning
(RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and Beneatha
both turn to look at her.)
RUTH (dispiritedly): Well, I guess from all the happy faces—everybody knows.
BENEATHA: You pregnant?
MAMA: Lord have mercy, I sure hope it’s a little old girl. Travis ought to have a sister.
(BENEATHA and RUTH give her a hopeless look for this grandmotherly enthusiasm).
BENEATHA: How far along are you? RUTH: Two months.
BENEATHA: Did you mean to? I mean did you plan it or was it an accident?
MAMA: What do you know about planning or not planning?
BENEATHA: Oh, Mama.

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RUTH (wearily): She’s twenty years old, Lena.
BENEATHA: Did you plan it, Ruth?
RUTH: Mind your own business.
BENEATHA: It is my business—where is he going to live, on the roof? (There is silence
following the remark as the three women react to the sense of it.) Gee—I didn’t mean
that, Ruth, honest. Gee, I don’t feel like that at all. I—I think it is wonderful.
RUTH (dully): Wonderful.
BENEATHA: Yes—really.
MAMA (looking at RUTH, worried): Doctor say everything is going to be all right?
RUTH (far away): Yes—she says everything is going to be fine...
MAMA (immediately suspicious): “She”—What doctor you went to?
(RUTH folds over, near hysteria)
MAMA (worriedly hovering over RUTH): Ruth honey—what’s the matter with you—you
sick?
(RUTH has her fist clenched on her thighs and is fighting hard to suppress a scream
that seems to be rising in her)
BENEATHA: What’s the matter with her, Mama?
MAMA (working her fingers in RUTH’s shoulders to relax her): She be all right. Women
gets right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking softly, expertly,
rapidly). Now you just relax. That’s right...just lean back, don’t think ‘bout nothing at
all...nothing at all—
RUTH: I’m all right...
(The glassy-eyed look melts and then she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing. The bell
rings.)
(The front door opens slowly, interrupting him, and TRAVIS peeks his head in, less than
hopefully)
TRAVIS (to his mother): Mama, I—
RUTH: “Mama I” nothing! You’re going to get it, boy! Get on in that bedroom, and get
yourself ready!
TRAVIS: But I—
MAMA: Why don’t you all never let the child explain himself?
RUTH: Keep out of it now, Lena.
(Mama clamps her lips together, and RUTH advances toward her son men- acingly.)
RUTH: A thousand times I have told you not to go off like that—

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MAMA (holding out her arms to her grandson): Well—at least let me tell him something.
I want him to be the first one to hear... Come here, Travis. (The boy obeys, gladly.)
Travis—
(She takes him by the shoulder and looks into his face)—you know that money we got
in the mail this morning?
TRAVIS: Yes ‘m---
MAMA: Well—What you think your grandma gone and done with that money?
TRAVIS: I don’t know, Grandmama.
MAMA (putting her fingers on his nose for emphasis): She went out and bought you a
house! (The explosion comes from WALTER at the end of the revelation and he jumps
up and turns away from all of them in a fury. MAMA continues, to TRAVIS) You glad
about the house? It’s going to be yours when you get to be a man.
TRAVIS: Yeah—I always wanted to live in a house.
MAMA (She takes an envelope out of her handbag and puts it in front of him and he
watches her without speaking or moving.) I paid the man thirty-five hundred dollars
down on the house. That leaves sixty-five hundred dollars. Monday morning I want you
to take this money and take three thousand dollars and put it in a savings account for
Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest you put in a checking account—with your name
on it. And from now on, any penny that come out of it or that go in it is for you to look
after. For you to decide. (She drops her hand a little helplessly.) It ain’t much, but it’s all I
got in the world and I’m putting it in your hands. I’m telling you to be the head of this
family from now on like you supposed to be.
WALTER (stares at the money): You trust me like that, Mama?
MAMA: I ain’t never stop trusting you. Like I ain’t never stop loving you.
(She goes out, and WALTER sits looking at the money on the table. Finally, in a
decisive gesture, he gets up, and, in mingled joy and desperation, picks up the money.)
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Summary:

The rising action of the play reveals the pregnancy of Ruth. Mama (Lena) has
paid the initial amount for a house in Clybourne Park. Then, she hands the remaining
money to Walter to put it in a savings account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The
rest of the money shall be put in a checking account in Walter’s name. However, Walter
intends to invest the money in a liquor business which Mama does not approve of.

Questions:
1. What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family? Illustrate in the box. State her
reasons behind it.

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Mama’s Greatest Dream Reasons

2. How does the dream of every member of the Younger family differ and agree
with one another? Accomplish the bubble map then discuss your answer.

Mama

Walter Dream Beneatha

3. What does Walter want to do with the insurance check? Discuss his motive. Why
do you think Mama does not approve of it?

4. Does any of the characters in the play remind you of someone? How does that
someone plan his course of action to realize his dream?

5. Would you have dreamt of the same thing for your family? Why?

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Activity 2. Note to Self!
Complete only ONE of the following statements below:

What I just read reminds me of the time when I _________________________

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I agree with what I just read because in my own life _____________________

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I don’t agree with what I just read because in my own life _________________
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3. Guide Question
1. How does the story relate to your own life?
2. What kind of experiences or feelings do you share with the characters in the
story?
3. What similarities or differences do you notice between your life and that of the
people or situations in the story?

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V. Reflection

I have learned that my disposition in life is ______________________________

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VI. Answer Key

with one another? Accomplish the bubble map then discuss your answer.
2. How does the dream of every member of the Younger family differ and agree

her reasons behind it.

1. What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family? Illustrate in the box. State

Exercise 1 (Possible Answers)

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3. What does Walter want to do with the insurance check? Discuss his motive.
Why do you think Mama does not approve of it?
Walter wants to use his mother’s insurance check to start his own liquor
business to attain financial success. He believes that he will be able to buy happiness
and thinks money will solve all his problems. However, Mama disapproves it because
she has saved the money for other purposes, such as the payment for the new house
and for Beneatha’s medical schooling.
4. Does any of the characters in the play remind you of someone? How does
that someone plan his course of action to realize his dream?
One character of a play reminds me of a classmate who pursued her dream of
becoming a doctor. She was persistent and optimistic that she could surpass medical
school. She looked for scholarship to help attain her dream.
5. Would you have dreamt of the same thing for your family? Why?
Like Mama, I would dream the same thing for the family because nothing is
more satisfying than seeing your children become successful one day. It is the legacy
of optimism and perseverance that you could leave them so they can survive in this
world.
Exercise 2.
Answers may vary.