ENGLISH 9
SECOND QUARTER
MODULE 2-A
UNDERSTANDING
VALUES
• Analyze literature as a
means of understanding
LEARNING
COMPETENCY: unchanging values in the
VUCA (volatile, uncertain,
complex, ambiguous) world.
Knowledge: Identify the values presented in the essay
Skills: Dramatize certain values found in the text
LEARNING
Demonstrate interest of the lesson through active
OBJECTIVES Attitude: participation
Values: Display necessary good relationship to others
LESSON CHECKPOINT
• VOCABULARY CHECK ACTIVITY
VOCABULARY:
• Clutter – a crowded or confused mass or collection
• Senile - having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age
• Ceaselessly - continuously and without end.
• Ideals - a standard of perfection
• Petty - of little importance; trivial
• Veritable - genuine or authentic
• Absurdity - the quality of being stupid and unreasonable
VOCABULARY:
• Vitality - energy and strength
• Forego - to give up or do without
• Nought – nothing
• Fleeting - passing swiftly
• Doomed - Assured to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome
• Perished – died or destroyed
• Clung – hold on tightly
ACTIVITY 1
• Read the value statements below. Then rank these according to your priorities with five as the
highest and one (1) as the lowest.
_____ 1. Money makes me happy.
_____ 2. Money enables me to help others.
_____ 3. Money is the most important thing in life.
_____ 4. Love is more important than money.
_____ 5. We need beauty in out lives for us to be happy.
_____ 6. Family is of utmost priority than earning money.
BIOGRAPHY OF ANDRE MAUROIS
CHANGING WORLD LASTING
VALUES
ANDRE MAUROIS (ANDREY
MAUROIS)
You hear many tales nowadays — that the
world is absurd, that everything has changed, that old
moral values have died. This is all non-sense, if you look
for reality beneath the clutter of words which hide it, you
will rediscover the eternal man. True values were not
invented for the pleasure of senile [Link] exist
because without them, neither society nor happiness
could survive. Here, then, are a few rules as old as
civilization itself which remain true despite the advances
of science and technology.
The first is that man must live for something other
than himself. The man who meditates ceaselessly about himself
finds a thousand reasons to be unhappy. He has not
accomplished everything he wanted to or should have done; he
has not gotten everything he thought he deserved; he has not
been loved as he dreamed of being loved- But if he lives for
ideals outside of himself — for his faith or his country, for his
friends, his wife and family, he miraculously forgets all his
petty worries. In trying to make others happy, he also makes
himself happy. "The veritable inner world is the veritable outer
world."
The second rule is that man must act. "The joy of the soul is
inaction." Instead of lamenting the absurdity of the world, let us try to
transform our own little corner. It is not impossible. We cannot change the
whole universe, but who hopes to do that?Our objective is much more simple: to
do our job and do it well, to become a master at it. Each one works in his own
field.I write books, the carpenter assembles my bookshelves, the policeman
directs traffic, the engineer, constructs, the minister governs. All of them, kept
busy at work which they know how to do well, are happy. This is so true that
when people have leisure time, they keep busy with apparently useless activities
such as games and sports. As for useful action, we know from experience that it
is effective: an active mayor makes a city prosperous; an active priest brings
vitality to a parish. "Happy are those in whose eyes men look for order."
The third rule is that one must believe in the power of the
[Link] is not true that the future is predetermined- A great man can
change the course of history. Any man who has the courage and the will
can change his own future. Naturally, none of us is all- powerful. Each
man's freedom has its limits. Freedom lies between the border of the
possible and the will. It is beyond my power to prevent war, but I can
perform an act which,multiplied by millions, will be effective. It is not
possible for me to win a battle, but it is up to me to be a courageous
[Link] this limitation of the will is dependent on what one
dares,one must not worry about his limitation; but do the best he can.
Finally, the fourth, and most precious of all values, is
faithfulness, Faithfulness to promises, contracts, to others, and to oneself.
One must be among those who can be counted [Link] is not
an easy virtue. Thousand of temptations are thrown across our paths.
"Faithfulness in marriage," said Bernard Shaw, is no more natural to man
than the cage to the tiger." Undoubtedly, faithfulness is "natural." It is
born of a voluntary decision, constantly renewed, which helps us to rise
above our natures. But it gives us the lasting joy of being at peace with
ourselves. I may forego an immediate pleasure to assure myself the great
joy in the future of looking at my past without shame, but with pride.
Every society in which citizens live for naught but fleeting
pleasures, where men no longer trust each other, and whose
members let themselves go is doomed. When Rome let go and
ceased to set store by the values which made her great, she
perished. When France clung to eternal values she was
[Link] technology may change one's modes of action,
but they change neither its values, the reasons for it, nor the
duty of faithfulness. Thus it was in the beginning and so it will
always be.
APPLICATION
Group Activity: Each group will express their response to the essay
through dramatizing four values as rules based on the essay.. They will
be given 5-10 minutes to do the task.
Group 1- First Rule
Group 2 - Second Rule
Group 3- Third Rule
Group 4 - Fourth Rule
RUBRICS
Group Activity: Each group will express their response to the essay through dramatizing four values as rules based on the essay.. They will be given 5-10
minutes to do the task.
Group 1- First Rule
Group 2 - Second Rule
Group 3- Third Rule
Group 4 - Fourth Rule
The students will be assessed using the following rubric:
5- The presentation excellently expresses the message of the essay.
4- The presentation very satisfactorily expresses the message of the essay.
3- The presentation satisfactorily expresses the message of the essay.
2- The presentation fairly expresses the message of the poem.
1- The presentation needs improvement.
ASSESSMENT
Asessment
Direction: Choose at least one rule based on
the essay and how it make sense to your life
today.
ASSIGNMENT
Quote of the day
ACCORDING TO THE FAMOUS QUOTE
BY JOHN DONE
“NO MAN IS AN ISLAND”
THANK YOU & GOD BLESS US ALL