English 9 Q2 Week 2
English 9 Q2 Week 2
English 9 Q2 Week 2
English
Quarter 2 : Module 2
Understanding Unchanging
Values in VUCA World
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EXPECTATIONS
This module tries to walk you through analyzing literature as a means of
understanding unchanging values in the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and
Ambiguous) world.
PRE-TEST
Directions: Read the speech of US President Abraham Lincoln. Then,
answer the questions that follow. Choose the letter of your answer.
Gettysburg Address
By Abraham Lincoln
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
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We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 4We have come to
dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that nation might live. 5It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this.
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But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot
consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. 7The brave men, living
and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our
poor power to add or detract. 8The world will little note, nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did
here. 9It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. 10It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Source: “W.F. Hooley Reads Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1898).” The Public Domain Review,
publicdomainreview.org/collection/w-f-hooley-reads-linvoln-s-gettysburg-address-1898.
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1. To what composition does Abraham Lincoln refer in the beginning sentence of
his famous speech, Gettysburg Address?
A. Constitution of the Confederate States of America
B. The Articles of Confederation
C. The Declaration of Independence
D. The United States Constitution (E) Emancipation Proclamation
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Activity 1. Read and Analyze Your Text!
Read the speech excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
I Have a Dream (Excerpt)
Martin Luther King Jr.
I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.” I have a
dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of
former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have
a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of
injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of
freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their
character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day down in Alabama—with its vicious racists, with its
Governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification—one
day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with
little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and
mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be plain and the crooked places will
be made straight, “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together.”
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith
we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we
will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of
brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle
together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be
free one day. And this will be the day. This will be the day when all of God’s children will
be able to sing with new meaning, “My country ’tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I
sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims’ pride, from every mountainside,
let freedom ring.” And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York; let freedom ring from the heightening
Alleghenies of Pennsylvania; let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of
Colorado; let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that.
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia; let freedom ring from Lookout
Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
“From every mountainside, let freedom ring.”
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring
from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God’s children—black men and white men, Jews and
Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics—will be able to join hands and sing in the words of
the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at
last.”
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Source: “I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr.” McDougal Littell Inc.,
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=b3N3ZWdvMzA4Lm9yZ3xtci1nYWx1aG4tcy11LXMtaGlzdG9ye
S1jbGFzczJ8Z3g6MmM2NzFiZTg3Y2Y3NmVhYQ.
Discussion Questions:
1. What does Martin Luther King Jr. mean when he said, “I have a dream that one
day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, ‘We hold
these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’ ”?
Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same;
or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.
Examples: 1. Like father, like son
2. Flying is fast, comfortable and safe
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Allusion is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical,
cultural, literary or political significance
Examples: 1. Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.
2. Hey! Guess who the new Newton of our school is?”
B. Scan the speech once again and find the following literary devices in the text.
REMEMBER
POINTS INDICATORS
2 The content is relevant, well-explained and directly answer the
questions.
2 The thoughts and idea are well-organized and coherent
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1 Technical terminologies and punctuation marks are properly and
correctly used.
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Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=3296776600352966&set=bc.
In this task, you are expected to reflect and write the valuable insights that you
gained from the different activities in this lesson.
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WRITING REFLECTION RUBRICS
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POST-TEST
Directions: Read the poem I, Too by Langston Hughes. Then, answer the
questions that follow. Choose the letter of your answer.
I, Too
by Langston Hughes
1. What kind of social values does the speaker want to emphasize in the poem?
A. honesty and consistency C. equality and freedom
B. respect and responsibility D. commitment and loyalty
2. In which line from the poem does the speaker describe the unjust treatment he
experienced?
A. line 3 C. line 18
B. line 7 D. line 12
5. Which of the following sentences did not make use of any literary devices?
A. They'll see how beautiful I am C. I, Too, Sing America
B. I am the darker brother D. They send me to eat in the kitchen
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Answer Sheet
Pretest
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Activity 1.1
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Post test
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