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English
Quarter 4, Wk. 5
(EN9LC-IVc-13.2)
(EN9VC-IVd-13.2/2.3)

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 What This Module is About

Learning takes part as to how we develop our four macro-skills (Reading, Writing,
Speaking, and Listening) in order to promote a good communication. In promoting
communication, we must understand that listening must take a greater part in order to
avoid miscommunication.
In this module, you will learn to experience the art of listening as part in promoting
a good communication. This will also help you widen your knowledge to better
understand our world.
This learning material provides you a variety of texts and activities like poems,
songs and drills.

What I Need to Know

Learning Objectives:

1. Predict the message underlying in a song.

2. Formulate prediction base on the material viewed.
3. Determine the tone, mood, technique and purpose of the director.
4. Judge the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of director’s reasoning, and the
effectiveness of the presentation.
5. Take a stand on a critical issue brought in a material viewed.

How to Learn from this Module

To achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the following:

• Take your time listening and reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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 Lesson
Holding on to Dream in a
1 Changing World

What’s In

TASK 1 The River of Dreams

Take your time in listening he song “The River of Dreams” by Billy Joel. Link of the video is
given below for you to view and listen with the song.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq4B_zHqPM)

The River of Dreams

Billy Joel
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To the river so deep
I must be looking for something
Something sacred I lost
But the river is wide
And it's too hard to cross
Even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
I try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
Through the valley of fear
To a river so deep
I've been searching for something
Taken out of my soul
Something I'd never lose
Something somebody stole
I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I've been looking for
In…

Source: LyricFind
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Task 1.
 Listen attentively to the lyrics of the song, “The River of Dreams” by Billy Joel. Be
ready to answer the following questions.

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 1. What issues about life are confronting the speaker in the song?

2. Among these issues, what do you think he values the most? Why do you say so?
Explain your answer.
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3. If you were him, how would you resolve the issue?

What I need to know

Learning Objective:

a. To predict the message underlying in the song.

b. To appreciate the message of the song in
connection with life lessons.
c. To compose a poem.

What’s New

Activity 1: Peek at the Note

Ebony and Ivory Video Link: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LajppsE2_LY)

Ebony and Ivory

Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony

Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord, why don't we?
We all know that people are the same wherever you go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive, together alive
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?
Ebony, ivory, living in perfect harmony
Ebony, ivory, ooh
We all know that people are the same wherever you go
There is good and bad in ev'ryone
We learn to live, when we learn to give
Each other what we need to survive, together alive
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord…
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Activity 1
As the song goes, “Ebony and ivory, live together in perfect harmony
Side by side on m piano, keyboard, Oh Lord
Why don’t we?”
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1. Can you determine the underlying meaning of the lyrics of the song?

2. How would you apply that in our current situation now that we are in the time of pandemic
(Covid 19)?

3. As a student, what can you do to promote understanding in this time of pandemic?

Let us remember
The answer that you have arrived leads you to understand the movie more easily.
The questions will lead you to unlock the message of the movie.

What I Have Learned

Let’s do this
Activity 2:

At this time, you are going to view the movie entitled “Trough Night and Day”. With
the movie you can learn many life learning that you need to understand and reflect.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D459XhM-MuY

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What I Can Do?
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Activity 3: Making a life connection

Imagine that you are the character as Ben or Jen, would you still be happy even if you
are no longer a part of someone’s happiness? How and Why?
Would you believe that happiness can complete a person as a whole? Yes or No.
Why?

What I Know
Activity 4 Write from the Star

To assess your understanding of the previous lesson presented, it is already

understood that better communication is achieved by listening to each other’s point of view.
Write a Free Verse four-stanza four poems, having four (4) lines in each stanza, free
verse where you will not consider the rhyming at the end of each stanza. Try to follow the
elements of poetry.

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 Lesson

2 Unchanging Values in a
Changing World

What I need to know

Learning Objectives:
a.To judge the relevance and worth of ideas,
soundness of author’s reasoning and the
effectiveness of the presentation.
b. Take a stand on a critical issue brought in a
material viewed.
c. To compose a speech out from the message of Martin Luther
King Jr.

What’s New?
Activity 1 Standing Up for a Reason

Analyze the picture sand then answer the following questions.

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 1. What does each picture suggest?
2. Using one of the pictures, what commitment as a person you are able to
come up with? Start your statement as indicated below.

My commitment: I stand up to commit myself in

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What I have learned
Activity 2 Realizing a General Idea

You are about to listen to a speech of Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a
Dream” having envision for freedom of the black Americans during his speech
delivered at 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s

Martin Luther King, Jr.
I Have a Dream
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest
demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today,
signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon
light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering
injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of
the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the
midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still
languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And
so, we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of
our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be
guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is
obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of
color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred
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people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there
are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to
cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the
security of justice.
We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of
Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of
gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise
from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the
time to lift our nation from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering
summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating
autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And
those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a
rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor
tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt
will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm
threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place,
we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by
drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the
high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate
into physical violence. Again, and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting
physical force with soul force.
The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a
distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence
here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have
come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be
satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable
horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the
fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the
cities. **We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto
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to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-
hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."** We cannot be
satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he
has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until
"justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and
tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have
come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of
persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of
creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go
back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go
back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that
somehow this situation can and will be changed.
Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.
And so 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, the 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.
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I have a dream that my four little children
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 made 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."2
This is our hope, and 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 Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
And 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 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,

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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!3

What I can do?

Activity 3 What Influences a Text?

The speech which you had just listened focused on the vision of freedom and
brotherhood of the black Americans. Explain how this speech may affect the
disposition, aspiration, state policies and lives of the citizen in general. Write your
ideas in the organizer bellow. Write the word freedom as your main topic.

What I Know
Activity 4 Extracting Information

In listening with the speech of Martin Luther King Jr, try to express your
thoughts of understanding by answering the following questions.

1. What is the implication of the phrase “Let Freedom ring”?

2. What are the key values that Martin Luther King Jr. is trying to express in
his speech?
3. Do you think those values are relevant in your life? How?
4. With the values you had gathered from the speech, how would you apply
the same values in your community?
5.How would you promote brotherhood in your own simple way?

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 What’s more?
Activity 5 Shout it Out!

Write your own simple speech about brotherhood in this time of Covid 19
pandemic applying all you learned from the different activities that you had. A
minimum of three paragraphs well do.

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 Summary
With the presentation of varied activities here, the student would be able to
develop his listening skill especially with the support of the social media, an essential in
this kind of new normal platform. The activities will also help them in evaluating
themselves against the issues that would relate to their everyday life.

Assessment: (Post – Test)

1. Martin Luther King, Jr. uses the image of “the valley” to represent
A. justice
B. bad times
C. the future
D. peace

2. The main focus of Dr. King’s speech is

A. getting more money for America’s black population
B. convincing everyone to live in peace and tranquility
C. celebrating the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
D. ending segregation and racial injustice in America

3. In paragraphs four and five, Dr. King uses an analogy to illustrate America’s broken
promise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to “her citizens of color.” What is this
analogy?
A. A promissory note--a check that has come back marked “insufficient funds”
B. A dark empty well with a bottomless bucket tied to a frayed rope
C. A crossroads in a dark forest
D. A vast stretch of sand occasionally interrupted by lakes--which prove to be illusions
E. A recurrent nightmare

4. Martin Luther King, Jr. appeals mainly to his listeners’

A. common sense
B. desire for a better future
C. sense of guilt
D. concerns about America’s status among the world’s nations

5. What type of genre is the movie “Trough Night and Day”.

A. Drama
B. Melodrama
C. Tragedy
D. Comedy

6. What do the lines of the movie mean? “ Ang ganda ng sunset”. Parang ako palubog
na? Hindi, parang ikaw, maganda”.
A. a representation of failure
B. a representation of ending life.
C. a representation of another day.
D. a representation of love.

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7. Why it is important to have dream in our life?
A. to teach us lesson
B. to enlighten our life
C. to guide us on the right track
D. to encourage us to be happier.

8. What are the common basis for racism as observed in our society.
A. Color
B. Gender
C. Religion
D. All of the above

9. A situation that occurs when one person is treated less favorably than another
because of his or her race.

A. Drug Court
B. Incapacitation
C. General Deterrence
D. Racial Discrimination

10. The act or process of restoring something to its original state of being.
A. Specific Deterrence.
B. Rehabilitation
C. Severity
D. Drug Court

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