ENGLISH

Grade 10
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, we are
expected to:

a. Provide connotative and

denotative characteristics of the
characters from a text.

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 Activity 1:“Spelling Drill”
Labyrinth whistle
Flutter whoosh
Ferocious shuffled
Delighted terrible
Desperate excitement

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 Activity 1:“Spelling Drill”
1. A labyrinth is a maze of passages that would be so complex that it would be virtually
impossible for anyone (or anything) to ever find a way out.
2. His heart fluttered with excitement
3. The Minotaur is a ferocious creature that was half man and half bull.
4. King Minos was delighted because once the Minotaur was in the labyrinth the creature was
unable to escape
5. With every desperate swoop of his arms, more feathers fell and soon his arms were almost
bare
6. The wind whistle against his ears.
7. With a whoosh he zoomed forward, rising into the air.
8. He shuffled impatiently as his father attached the wings to his arms, then helped his father to
position his own wings.
9. To die at the hands of the Minotaur would be one of the most terrible deaths imaginable.
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Activity 1: “Describable”
Directions:
Write as many words that you can associate in each of the picture

Christmas

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Activity 1: “Describable”
Directions:
Write as many words that you can associate in each of the picture

Rain

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▸ There are times in which what the characters
say are entirely different from the literal sense.

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▸ For example: Cardo, act out the role of a Filipino hero.
There could be two things that Cardo would do should he
be asked to act it out. He might be inside the classroom
and pretend to be Jose Rizal (as what the teacher expects
him to do) or he could be literally outside the classroom
doing the same action.

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▸ Here’s another way to understand denotation and
connotation using the word “snake.”

▸ Snake, denotative use: Be careful hiking during the

day; snakes may be out looking for water.
▸ Snake, connotative use: Ralph Fiennes’ character in the new
movie is a total sellout, a cowardly snake.

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QUIZ
▸ Directions: Read the story, Daedalus and Icarus and provide
connotative and denotative characteristics of the characters by
competing the table below. Write your answer on a ½ crosswise.

Characters Denotation Connotation

Minotaur
King Minos
Daedalus
Icarus

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OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, we are
expected to:

a.) arrange the order of the parts

of the plot from the given story
b.) identify the type of conflict in a
given story
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 Activity 1:“Spelling Drill”
Lyre glimpse
Quench wandered
Soothing condemned
Goddesses summoned
inspiration pleading

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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Activity 1: “ARRANGE THE STORY BOARD

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The plot of the story

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1. introduces characters EXPOSITION
and setting

2. introduces problem of RISING ACTION

the story

3. excites the story CLIMAX

4. provides solution to FALLING

the problem ACTION
5. ends the story RESOLUTION

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The 6 Types of Literary Conflict
▸ 1. Man vs. Self
▸ This is an internal conflict, meaning that the opposition
the character faces is coming from within. This may
entail a struggle to discern what the moral or “right”
choice is, or it may also encompass mental health
struggles. All other types of conflict are external—
meaning that a character comes up against an outside
force that creates the conflict.

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The 6 Types of Literary Conflict
▸ 2. Man vs. Man
▸ This is a common type of conflict in which one
character’s needs or wants are at odds with another’s.
A character conflict can be depicted as a
straightforward fist fight, or as intricate and nuanced as
the ongoing struggle for power in the HBO series Game
of Thrones.

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The 6 Types of Literary Conflict
▸ 3. Man vs. Nature
▸ In a nature conflict, a character is set in opposition to nature.
This can mean the weather, the wilderness, or a natural
disaster. For example, in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man
and the Sea, the main character, Santiago finally manages to
reel in a fish after months and months of bad luck. He fends
off sharks, who are trying to steal his prized catch, but
eventually they eat the fish—leaving Santiago with only a
carcass. This is the essence of the man versus nature
conflict: man struggles with human emotions, while nature
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The 6 Types of Literary Conflict
▸ 4. Man vs. Supernatural
▸ Putting characters against phenomena like ghosts, gods, or
monsters raises the stakes of a conflict by creating an
unequal playing field. Supernatural conflict also covers
characters, like Harry Potter or Odysseus, who have a fate or
destiny and struggle to accept the sacrifices that come
along with it.

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The 6 Types of Literary Conflict
▸ 5. Man vs. Society
▸ A character vs. society conflict is an external conflict that
occurs in literature when the protagonist is placed in
opposition with society, the government, or a cultural
tradition or societal norm of some kind. Characters may be
motivated to take action against their society by a need to
survive, a moral sense of right and wrong, or a desire for
happiness, freedom, justice, or love.

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QUIZ
▸ Directions: Supply each corresponding box given the plot of the story
“Orpheus.” Write the whole paragraphs inside the column A box.

ORPHEUS
Column A Column B
1. EXPOSITION
2. RISING ACTION
3. CLIMAX
4. FALLING ACTION
5. RESOLUTION
6. TYPE OF LITERARY
CONFLICT
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QUIZ
Sentence Box:

A. Orpheus is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. He has the ability to
charm all living things and even stones with his music.

B. Orpheus met and wooed the maiden, Eurydice. They were married. Directly after their wedding, as the bride
walks in the meadow with her bridesmaid, a viper bit her and caused to death.

C. Orpheus went to the underworld and successfully convinced Hades and Persephone to give his wife in a condition
that he should not turn a glimpse to her until they reach the world of the living. They pass the great doors of Hades
to the path that which would take them out of the darkness. Climbing up and up. But when they almost there, and
he turned to her. It was too soon in the cavern. He saw her in the dim light and held out his arms to clasp her, but on
the instant, she was gone.

D. Desperately, he tried to rush after her and follow her down, but he is not allowed. The Gods did not allow him to
go down to land of the dead the second time, while he is alive.

E. He wandered through the wild solitude of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, the
rocks and the rivers and the trees him gladly, his only companions.
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OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, we are
expected to:

a.) distinguish direct and indirect

characterization used in the story

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CHARACTERIZATION
▸ CHARACTERIZATION – the narrative description of an
individual’s physical and personality traits

▸ INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION describes a character

through their thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue.
▸ DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION, or explicit characterization,
describes the character through their physical description,
line of work, or passions and pursuits.
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Directions: Read following paragraphs
and examine the type of
characterization used.

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Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. “Occupied in
observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far
from suspecting that she was herself becoming an object of some
interest in the eyes of his friend. Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely
allowed her to be pretty: he had looked at her without admiration at
the ball; and when they next met, he looked at her only to criticise.
But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that
she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it
was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression
of her dark eyes.”
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From shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

“Many a morning hath he there been seen,

With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs…
…Away from the light steals home my heavy son,
And private in his chamber pens himself,
Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out
And makes himself an artificial night…”
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QUIZ
▸ Directions: Distinguished whether the following
narration is a direct or indirect characterization.
Write DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION and INDIRECT
CHARACTERIZATION respectively.

▸ 1.) Old man Humphrey never liked children, even

when he himself was a child.
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▸ 2.) Old man Humphrey stiffened the moment

the child came close. “Get out of here!” he
snapped abruptly. “I’m sick of you kids
trampling my lawn!”

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▸ 3.) Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged
countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty
and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean,
long, dusty, dreary and yet somehow lovable. At friendly
meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something
eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed
which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not
only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but
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▸ 4.) Matthew dreaded all women except Marilla and Mrs.
Rachel; he had an uncomfortable feeling that the mysterious
creatures were secretly laughing at him. He may have been
quite right in thinking so, for he was an odd-looking
personage, with an ungainly figure and long iron-gray hair
that touched his stooping shoulders, and a full, soft brown
beard which he had worn ever since he was twenty. In fact,
he had looked at twenty very much as he looked at sixty,
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▸ 5.) “John snapped at the man without
warning.”

▸ 6.) Because Sonia had grown up without much

money, she developed a strong sense of
compassion and gave to the needy every
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▸ 7.) Sonia reached for her wallet the moment

she saw the beggar. Remembering what it was
like to go hungry as a child, she put her last
dollar into his cup without hesitation.

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8.) He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I
think he revalued everything in his house
according to the measure of response it drew
from her well-loved eyes.

9.) “I wouldn’t ask too much of her,” I ventured.

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▸ 10.) Looking up, there he was – Mr. Ramsay – advancing

towards them, swinging, careless, oblivious, remote. A bit of
a hypocrite? she repeated. Oh no – the most sincere of men,
the truest (here he was), the best; but, looking down, she
thought, he is absorbed in himself, he is tyrannical, he is
unjust…

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