ENGLISH 9 WORKSHEET NO.

2A

NAME: ___________________________________________ SECTION: ____________

DATE: ___________________________________________ SCORE: _____________

Analyzing literature as means of understanding unchanging

values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous)
world

I. Introduction:

This worksheet helps you analyze literature as means of understanding unchanging values
in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world. The worksheet makes you
analyze literature as means of valuing other people and other various circumstances in life;
explain how a selection may be influenced by culture, history, environment or other factors;
identify and explain the literary devices present in the poem; get the meaning of words
through context clues; and paraphrase stanzas.

II. What I Know

Directions: Read the poem carefully then answer the questions that follow. Choose the letter
of the correct answer. Write all the answers in your notebook.

BREAKING THROUGH
Myrna Pena Reyes

1 Haltingly I undo the knots

2 around your parcel that came this morning.
3 A small box should require little labor,
4 but you’ve always been thorough,
5 tying things tight and well.
6 the twine lengthens,
7 curls beside the box.
8 I see your fingers pull,
9 snapping the knots into place
10 (once your belt slapped sharply against my skin)
11 You hoped the package would hold its shape
12 across 10,000 miles of ocean.
13 It’s not a bride’s superstition
14 that leaves the scissors in the drawer.
15 Unraveling what you’ve done with love
16 I practice more than patience
17 a kind of thoroughness
18 I couldn’t see before.

19 I shall not let it pass.

20 My father,
21 this undoing is what binds us.

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1. Who is talking in the poem?

A. father B. daughter C. mother D. son
2. What word in the poem gives clue to the meaning of parcel?
A. knots B. box C. belt D. scissors
3. Which line tells who sent the parcel?
A. line 5 B. line 10 C. line 15 D. line 20
4. Which line tells who receives the parcel?
A. line 1 B. line 8 C. line 13 D. line 18
5. What is the relationship of the receiver of the parcel to the sender?
A. son B. daughter C. neighbor D. relative
6. Why does the answer to question number 5 receive the parcel?
A. getting married C. living far away
B. working abroad D. celebrating birthday
7. Which line describes the character of the father?
A. line 4 B. line 8 C. line 16 D. line 21
8. Which of the following illustrates the answer to question number 6?
A. sending a parcel C. tying the parcel
B. undoing the knots D. leaving the scissors
9. What did the father use to discipline his child?
A. belt B. twine C. knot D. scissors
10. What does the daughter discover?
A. scissors in the drawer C. curls beside the box
B. the content of the parcel D. her father’s love for her
11. What does the title suggest?
A. broken things C. receiving gifts
B. new discovery D. untying packages

III. What’s In
Activity 1: Picture Interpretation
Directions: Study the picture below and answer the questions that follow.

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1. What images do you see in the picture?

a. _____________________
b. _____________________
c. _____________________
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2. Consider the meaning of the images you see in the picture. What does the picture mean
to you? Explain your answer below.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Activity 2. Vocabulary Development.
Directions: Match the underlined words in Column A with their meaning in Column B. Write
the letter of your answer on the blank before the number.

Column A Column B
______1. Out of the night that covers me, A. a big hole in the ground
Black as the pit from pole to pole, B. from North pole to South
______2. Under the bludgeoning of chance, pole
My head is bloody, but unbowed. C. act of hitting someone or
______3. It matters not how strait the gate, something with a heavy
______4. Out of the night that covers me, object
Black as the pit from pole to pole, D. something that might cause
______5. And yet the menace of the years harm or pain
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. E. very narrow; small; difficult

Activity 3. Poetry Reading

Read the poem below.

Invictus
William Ernest Henley

I
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
II
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
III
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
IV
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Activity 4. Comprehension Check
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1. Give the rhyme scheme used in each stanza of the poem, Invictus.
a. First stanza - __________________
b. Second stanza - _______________
c. Third stanza - _________________
d. Fourth stanza - ________________
2. Identify the figure of speech used in the italicized words in the following lines. Choose
your answers below.

A. simile B. metaphor C. assonance D. alliteration E. personification

a. Out of the night that covers me _______________________

b. Black as the pit from pole to pole _______________________
c. It matters not how strait the gate _______________________
d. Black as the pit from pole to pole _______________________
e. My head is bloody, but unbowed _______________________
3. Complete the table below with sensory images that reveal the feeling of Henley while
he was writing the poem.

Sight Hearing Touch/Feeling

4. Identify the stanza paraphrased:

_____ 1. The poet says that death has always lurked behind him but it always finds him
unafraid. Whenever trouble has come in his life, he has faced it bravely.
_____ 2. He claims that whenever he fell into some difficulty, he always remained
unbeatable. However, situations have tried to destroy him but he always fights
back with courage. In fact, he agrees that sometimes difficulties have made
him bleed and suffer but he never let himself give up and cry out of fear.
_____ 3. Though life is short and difficult, he will definitely pass it with vigor.
Moreover, he declares that he makes his fortune and he is in control of his life.
_____ 4. He wants to thank God. In fact, he admits that his life has no ray of hope rather his
future seems to be uncertain but then he is also grateful to God for his ‘unconquerable soul’.
He says that no pain can be able to curve his soul.

5. Complete the chart below to discover the theme of the poem.

1. What is the significance of the title?

2. How does the speaker feel about the

topic?
3. What emotion did you feel at the end?

4. What is the mood of the piece?

5. What message is the poet trying to

convey?

What I Can Do:

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It is human nature to resist change – particularly if it has to change one’s ways and
beliefs. Abrupt change usually brings adversity and challenges to those who cannot easily
adapt. Change is unavoidable though, like the change that the COVID 19 pandemic has
brought to our lives. The choices we make every day determine how we cope with this trying
times. Resilience helps us survive change, learn, grow, and thrive in it. It is the capacity to
cope with stress and adversity. It comes from believing in yourself and thinking bigger than
yourself.
Write an anecdote about an incident in your life in which you showed resilience to
cope with a difficult problem. Observe the following rubric in writing an anecdote.

3 2 1

Organization My anecdote has a It is not that so easy The beginning,

clear beginning, to tell the beginning, middle, and end is
middle, and end. middle, and end. unclear.

Content My writing makes My writing mostly My writing does not

sense. It helps many makes sense and make sense and has
details that help the has some details. few details.
reader know what I
am describing.

Craftmanship My work is neat and My work is quite My work is difficult to

easy to read. neat and easy to read.
read.

Mechanics All of my sentences Some of sentences Rules on

are punctuated are punctuated punctuations and
correctly and correctly and capitalizations are
capitalization is capitalization is seldom observed.
observed. observed
sometimes.