White Cliff National

School: Grade Level: 9

High School (Grade 9)
Teacher: RENAFLOR P. LAVADO Learning Area: ENGLISH
Teaching Date: December 12, 2023 Quarter: 2ND

Teaching Time: 3:00-4:00pm No. of Days 4

4 A’s LESSON Plan

I- OBJECTIVES
1. Define VUCA in the world of literature
2. Analyze the characters in the epic “Beowulf” by providing
significant information and relating them to the present time.
3. Value the importance of loyalty in any situation given in life
A. Content Standard The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literatures
and other text types serve as vehicles of expressing and
resolving conflicts among individuals or groups; also, how to
learn how to analyze literature as means of understanding
unchanging values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and
ambiguous) world.
B. Performance Standard The learner provides significant characterization, relating to the
present time emphasizing how to resolve conflicts among
individuals or groups.

C. Most Essential Learning EN10WC-IIb13.2:

Competencies Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging
values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous)
world
D. Enabling Competencies 

II- CONTENT
Weeks 5-8 (Lesson 1)

III- LEARNING RESOURCES

A. References
a. Teacher’s guide pages
b. Learner’s material Page 23-28
pages
c. Textbook pages Essential English Worktext in Lit. and Language pp. 23-28
d. Additional Material from
Learning Resources
B. List of Learning PIVOT 4A Learning Materials
Resources for Development Quarter 2 – English 9
and Engagement Activities Week 5-6 pages 23-28
IV. PROCEDURES
IV. PROCEDURES
A. Preliminary Activities

1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of attendance
4. Classroom Management
B. Developing
Motivation
 The teacher will flash some pictures, the students will identify the
said pictures.

Pre-test
Learning Task 1: In order to know if you already have knowledge about the literary
masterpiece, Beowulf, read each statement carefully and determine whether each
given statement is true or false. Write your answers in your notebook.

______ 1. King Hrothgar built a mead-hall called Heorot.

______ 2. Jubilant noise and celebration angered Grendel.
______ 3. Beowulf was a warrior from Geatland.
______ 4. Unferth was the political advisor of King Hrothgar.
______ 5. Grendel died because of a leg injury.
Lesson Proper
Vocabulary Development
ACTIVITY Direction: Match the given word in column A with its meaning in column B. Write
the letter of your answer on the space provided.

A B
_____ 1. Volatile a, not sure or doubtful
_____ 2. Uncertain b. changing moods or ideas often
_____ 3. Ambiguous c. having more than one meaning
_____ 4. Complex d. an abnormal mental state, often caused
by past experiences, desires, and fears that
influences a person’s behavior.

B. Development Unchanging Values in the VUCA World

Literature indeed reflects the society, its good values, and its ills. In its corrective
ANALYSIS function, literature mirrors the ills of the society with a view of realizing its mistakes
and making amendments. It also projects the virtues or good values in the society for
people to emulate (Benjamin, 2016).

The work of Dr. Warner Burke and his research colleagues at Columbia University
provides us with scientific data that learning agility (ability to be flexible and be open
to change and thrive on new experiences) is made up of nine (9) dimensions or
behavior patterns. They include:

1. Flexibility – willingness to try new things;

2. Speed – rapidly grasping new ideas;
3. Experimenting – testing out new ideas;
4. Performance Risk-Taking – taking on challenges;
5. Interpersonal Risk-Taking – asking others for help;
6. Collaborating – leveraging the skills of others;
7. Information Gathering – increasing your knowledge;
8. Feedback Seeking – asking for feedback; and
9. Reflecting – taking time to reflect on your effectiveness.

In this lesson, you will be introduced to literary piece in order to learn how to analyze
literature as means of understanding unchanging values in the VUCA world.

ABSTRACTION
Let us read and analyze a narrative summary by Ben Florman of the epic, Beowulf, a
literary work considered to be the most famous literary writing of Old English
Literature.

Students are reading the story for 10 minutes.

BEOWULF
 Summary by Ben Florman

Hrothgar is the King of the Danes in Southern Denmark. Through success in battle,
he has become rich and mighty. As a symbol of his power and prosperity, he builds a
magnificent mead-hall, called Heorot, in which he and his loyal warriors can feast,
drink, boast, and listen to the tales of the scops, the Anglo-Saxon bards. But soon
after Heorot is finished, the mirth of the men and the music of the scop anger
Grendel, a monster descended from Cain. Grendel raids the hall, snatching men and
eating them, then returns to his home in the marsh. He repeats his nightly raids until
no one dares sleep in the hall. Heorot, once the symbol of the Scyldings' greatness, is
now a place of shame and terror. This continues for twelve years, until Beowulf, a
young warrior of the Geats in Southern Sweden, hears about Grendel and, determined
to fight the monster, sails to Hrothgar's lands with fifteen companions.

Hrothgar, who knew Beowulf's father, Ecgtheow, accepts Beowulf's offer to fight
Grendel and gives him a feast, though Beowulf and Unferth, a warrior loyal to
Hrothgar, exchange insults. That night, the warriors sleep in Heorot, with Beowulf
keeping watch. Grendel arrives and consumes one of the warriors, then
reaches for Beowulf. Beowulf, famous for his powerful grip, which is as strong as the
grip of thirty men, struggles with Grendel, tearing off the monster's shoulder and arm.
Grendel returns to the fens to die. His arm is hung as a trophy under the roof of
Heorot.

Hrothgar gives a second feast to celebrate Beowulf's victory. At the feast, Hrothgar
generously rewards Beowulf with treasure. The scop sings again, and Beowulf is
praised until nightfall. That night, Grendel's mother comes to the hall from her home
at the bottom of a lake, seeking revenge for the death of her son. She grabs Aeschere,
a favorite warrior and adviser of Hrothgar's, and consumes him, then returns home. In
the morning, the warriors follow her tracks to her lake, where they see Aeschere's
head. Beowulf enters the lake, and swims for hours before reaching her cave at the
bottom. He fights with Grendel's mother, but the sword Hrunting, which Unferth lent
to Beowulf in a sign of fellowship, fails for the first time. From the treasure hoard in
the cave, Beowulf seizes a sword forged long ago by giants and kills Grendel's
mother. He sees Grendel's body, and removes the head, and takes it and the hilt of the
giant's sword (the blade melted on contact with the monster's blood) back to
Hrothgar.

There is another celebration in Heorot with more gifts and promises of friendship.
Hrothgar says he feels like Beowulf is his son, and weeps at Beowulf's departure.
Beowulf and his men return to Geatland, the land of the Geats, where his uncle the
king, Hygelac, and Hygelac's queen Hygd, greet Beowulf, accepting the treasure
Beowulf gives them, and in turn rewarding Beowulf with a sword, praise, and land.
Hygelac is eventually killed by the Swedes; his son Heardred, though young, takes
the throne with Beowulf's support. At Heardred's death, Beowulf takes the throne of
the Geats, and rules in great prosperity and fame for fifty years.

In Beowulf's old age, a thief finds a passageway into an old barrow. Inside, a dragon
guards a treasure trove left there long ago by the last survivor of an extinct people.
The thief steals a cup, but the dragon discovers the theft and burns the land, including
Beowulf's mead-hall. Beowulf, knowing his death is near, decides to fight the dragon.
Accompanied by his kinsman Wiglaf, ten warriors, and the thief, Beowulf sets out to
confront the dragon. But when Beowulf and the dragon fight, all of Beowulf's men
flee except Wiglaf. With Wiglaf's help, Beowulf kills the dragon, but not before he
himself is terribly wounded.

Before he dies, Beowulf tells Wiglaf to rule after him, and to build him a funeral
barrow that overlooks the sea. Wiglaf chastises the men for abandoning their lord. A
messenger sent to tell the Geats of Beowulf's death also warns of hard times for the
Geats, now that Beowulf is dead. The Geats build a pyre and cremate Beowulf, then
construct a barrow overlooking the sea, burying the dragon's cursed treasure with
 him.

Students answer LEARNING TASK 2

Having read the epic Beowulf, answer the following questions.

1. Who is main character in the story you have read.

2. Describe Beowulf base from the story.
3. Why did Beowulf decided to free the Danes from Grendel?
4. Why did Beowulf fight Grendel with his bare hands? What does this
reveal about his character?

GENERALIZATION:
As a student how can you express your loyalty in any situation?

APPLICATION The students will be divided into 4 groups, each of the group will
represent one character from the story.
Learning Task 3: Analyze the characters in the epic, Beowulf, by
providing significant information about them and relating them to the
present time.

You will be graded using this rubric:

Significant Details Representation of
Character about the Character the Character in the
Present Society
Beowulf
King Hrothgar
Grendel
Wiglaf

Criteria Points
1. Significant characterization 10
2. Appropriateness of representation 10
of the character
3. Presentation 5
4. Total 25

V. EVALUATION (Post Test) Learning Task 1: Read each statement carefully and determine whether
each given statement is true or false. Write your answers in your notebook.

______ 1. King Hrothgar built a mead-hall called Heorot.

______ 2. Jubilant noise and celebration angered Grendel.
______ 3. Beowulf was a warrior from Geatland.
______ 4. Unferth was the political advisor of King Hrothgar.
______ 5. Grendel died because of a leg injury.

Direction: Read carefully the following questions then choose the

best answer.

1. If you are Beowulf would you fight Grendel’s Mother even if it

means that you will lose your own life?
a. No, I will not fight Grendel’s mother.
b. No, I will not fight Grendel’s mother but I will order others to do it.
c. Yes, I will fight Grendel’s mother even I sacrifice my own life.
d. Yes, I will fight Grendel’s mother for the peace of all my
people.

2. What are the behavioral patterns that was portrayed by Beowulf?

a. Flexibility, speed, and performance risk-taking
 b. Interpersonal risk-taking, collaborating; feedback seeking
c. Flexibility, speed, and feedback seeking
d. Flexibility, collaborating; feedback seeking

3. The observable behavioral patterns of King Hrothgar are?

a. Flexibility, speed, and performance risk-taking
b. Interpersonal risk-taking, collaborating; speed
c. Reflecting, speed, and feedback seeking
d. Feedback seeking, Reflecting, Interpersonal Risk-Taking
V. REFLECTION:
Directions: Reflect on what you learned on this lesson about
VUCA world and the epic of Beowulf by completing the
statements below.
1. The aspect of the lesson I believe I learned most about is…
2. The task which I found the most challenging is
________________ because…
3. I realized that I can use the things I learned from this lesson
when…

Prepared by: Noted By:

RENAFLOR P. LAVADO MIRALONA A. UY

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