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ARELLANO UNIVERSITY

Legarda, Manila

School of EducationDemonstration for Teaching of Literature

A Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan

I. EXPECTATIONSA.Learning Competencies

Elicit message about inequality of rights of man and woman

through listening to the song Babae Ako by Regine Velasquez.

Achieve literal understanding of the poem through discussing the

background of the author underscoring his personal experiences

as well as the background of the literary text.

Gain poetic meaning through the utilization symbolisms.

Extract meaning of the poem through cognitive frameworks

Reflect and express thoughts about the speakers real intention in

the poem.

B.Teaching Objectives Guide the learners in eliciting message about inequality of rights

of man and woman through listening to the song Babae Ako by

Regine Velasquez.

Provide precursory footnotes on the authors life and his poem.

Aid learners in gaining poetic meaning through the utilization ofsymbolisms.

Assist learners in extracting the poems theme and meanings

through cognitive frameworks.

Direct students thinking and thoughts in arriving at the general

truths underlying in the poem.

Assess through activating students realization about equality of

man and woman through reflective journals.

II. PROCESSTeaching Strategies and Techniques

A.Preparatory ActivityGood morning class!

Before we proceed to our next selection for today, I want you to listen to

this tagalong song entitled Babae ako by Regine Velasquez and

afterwards Im going to ask you some questions.

Is everybody ready to listen?

Okay, let us start. Heres the song.


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Babae AkoBy Regine Velasquez

Babae ako

Ano bang dapat kong gampananSa daigdig na ating ginagalawan

Ang hangganan ko ba'y hanggang saan

Babae ako

Ako ba'y mayro'ng kapangyarihan

O ako'y isa lamang na bukal

Na pagkukunan ng pagmamahal

Nais kong lumipad na may sariling bagwis

Nais kong marating pangarap nang mabilis

Nais kong manguna sa mga maya

Para makita ang bagong umaga

Ngunit kailan pa

Gusto ko na

Ngayon na

May galit ako

Ngunit pag-asa'y nasa puso ko

Bukas ang hamog makikita mo

Hihigupin niya ang paru-paro...

Ang paru-paro

Nais kong lumipad na may sariling bagwis

Nais kong marating pangarap nang mabilis

Nais kong manguna sa mga maya

Para makita ang bagong umaga

Ngunit kailan pa

Gusto ko naNgayon na

What do you think is the message of the song?

The song expresses womans search for identity and equality of right. It

expresses a womans wish for freedom and independence.

Do women and men have equality in rights and opportunities in thesociety in the late nineteenth century? What were the rights that were not

given to women that time?

Society in late nineteenth century expected women to keep house, cook,

bear and rear childrenbut little more. Despite efforts of womens-rights


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activists such as Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B.

Anthony, women still had not received the right to vote in national

elections by the centurys end. Moreover, employers generally

discriminated against women by hiring them for menial jobs only and

paying them less than men for the same work. Women were deprived of

the rights that we have now. Because the males were the most superior

then, their wives were not given the right to speak and express their

feelings.

That kind of deprivation will be the focus of our selection today. "The Story

of an Hour" is a short story centering on a young married woman of the

late nineteenth century as she reacts to a report that her husband has died

in a train accident.

B.Presentation and Discussion of Precursory Footnotes on theAuthors Life and his Novels

The woman behind this story is Kate Chopin (1850-1904, a woman ahead of

her time. She was an American novelist and short story writer. She was the

first American female novelist to wrote frankly about womens feeling toward

their roles as wives and mothers,.

Chopins best-known novel, THE AWAKENING (1899), deals with a woman

who is dissatisfied with her passionless husband. It created a scandal because

of its portrayal of a strong, unconventional woman involved in an adulterous

affair. While Kate Chopin never flouted convention as strongly as did her

fictitious heroine, she did exhibit an individuality and strength remarkable for

upper-middle-class women of the time.

"The Story of an Hour" is a short story centering on a young married woman

of the late nineteenth century as she reacts to a report that her husband has

died in a train accident.

..C. Presentation of the Story

The Story of an Hour

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great carewas taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband`sdeath.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hintsthat revealed in half concealing. Her husband`s friend Richards was there,too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office whenintelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard`s

name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himselfof its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any lesscareful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with aparalyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden,wild abandonment, in her sister`s arms. When the storm of grief had spentitself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.


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There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Intothis she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her bodyand seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were

all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in theair. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distantsong which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countlesssparrows were twittering in the eaves.

There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the cloudsthat had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.

She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite

motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a

child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams.

She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and

even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose

gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It wasnot a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligentthought.

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully.

What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. Butshe felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds,the scents, the color that filled the air.

Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize

this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beatit back with her willas powerless as her two white slender hands wouldhave been.

When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly

parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "free, free, free!" Thevacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing bloodwarmed and relaxed every inch of her body.

She did not stop to ask if it were or were not a monstrous joy that held her. Aclear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.

She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender handsfolded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixedand gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a longprocession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And sheopened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would livefor herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind

persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose aprivate will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intentionmade the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief momentof illumination.

And yet she had loved himsometimes. Often she had not. What did itmatter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this


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possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongestimpulse of her being!

"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole,imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg, open the dooryouwill make yourself ill. What are you doing Louise? For heaven`s sake openthe door."

"Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixirof life through that open window.

Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, andsummer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed aquick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thoughtwith a shudder that life might be long.

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister`s importunities. Therewas a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like agoddess of Victory. She clasped her sister`s waist, and together theydescended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.

Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was BrentlyMallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did noteven know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine`s piercingcry; at Richards` quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

But Richards was too late.

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart diseaseof joy thatkills.

Our focus question for this poem is the following:

a. Why is it titled Story of an hour?

b. What was life like for Mrs. Mallard in the home of Brently Mallard?

These questions will be answered as we go through our discussion.

Who are the characters in the story?

Identify their roles.

Mrs. Louise Mallard: Young, attractive woman who mourns the reporteddeath of her husband but exults in the freedom she will enjoy in the years to

come.

Brently Mallard: Mrs. Mallard's husband.

Josephine: Mrs. Mallard's sister.


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Richards: Friend of Brently Mallard.

Doctors: Physicians who arrive too late to save Mrs. Mallard.

Where is the setting of the story?

.The action takes place in a single hour in an American home in the last

decade of the nineteenth Century.

Were you surprised by the storys ending?

This has an element of controversy;

Mrs. Mallard is happy her husband has died. Why?

What kind of relationship do you think they had?

Mrs. Mallard is happy for her husbands death because it means freedom.

Shes excited about the chance to make her own decisions and not feel

accountable to anyone.

Since Mrs. Mallard who wants desperately escape Mr. Mallard it means she

was trapped in a repressive marriage life thats why she felt very happy when

about her husbands death.

What is freedom to Mrs. Mallard?

Does she find it?

Freedom to Mrs. Mallard

How does this story portray marriage?

How does this fit Chopins theme of women revolting against convention?

Of women search for identity?

The most important idea that is conveyed in the story is summed up in two

sentences, near the end of the story, There would be no powerful will

bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe

they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.

This woman is trapped and stifled by conventions. Though she is loved, and

occasionally loves, her basic human rights are being denied her in the

marriage that society condoned. She was being denied any opportunity for

self-expression or freedom of choice. Her only opportunity for escape is death,

though she hadnt even contemplated the death of her husband until that day.

Such things as the word free repeated three times and her whispered Free!

Body and soul free! clearly illustrate the immense reliefand joy she feels at

the awful news and drive home the fact of the inadvertent tyranny under

which she live.


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Identify the foreshadowing in the story.

The opening sentence of the story foreshadows the endingor at least hints

that Mrs. Mallards heart condition will affect the outcome of the story.

Moreover, this sentence also makes the ending believable. Without an early

reference to her heart ailment, the ending would seem implausible and

contrived.

What do you think is the reason why Mrs. Mallard has a heart ailment?

As the story unfolds, the reader discovers that Mrs. Mallards heart ailment

may have resultedin part, at leastfrom the stress caused by her reaction toher inferior status in a male-dominated culture and to a less-than-ideal

marriage. For example, in paragraph 8, Chopin says the young womans face

bespoke repression; in paragraph 14, the author tells us that a powerful

will was bending" Mrs. Mallard. Finally, in paragraph 15, Chopin notes:

Often she had not loved her husband.

What are the figures of speech that can be found in the story?

Examples offigures of speech are the following:

Revealed in half-concealing (Paragraph 2):Paradox

Storm of grief (Paragraph 3):Metaphor

Physical exhaustion that haunted her body (Paragraph

4):Metaphor/Personification

Breath of rain (Paragraph 5):Metaphor

Song which someone was singing (Paragraph 5):Alliteration

Clouds that had met (Paragraph 6):Metaphor/Personification

The sounds, the scents (Paragraph 9):Alliteration

Thing that was approaching to possess her (Paragraph10):Metaphor/Personification

Monstrous joy (Paragraph 12):Oxymoron

She carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory (Paragraph

20):Simile

Joy that kills (Paragraph 23):Paradox. The phrase is also ironic, since the

doctors mistakenly believe that Mrs. Mallard was happy to see her

husband alive.
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C. Exploring the Poetic Meaning of the Literary PieceNow is the theme for this poem.

Oppression

.......Society in late nineteenth century expected women to keep house, cook,

bear and rear childrenbut little more. Despite efforts of womens-rightsactivists such as Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B.Anthony, women still had not received the right to vote in national electionsby the centurys end. Moreover, employers generally discriminated againstwomen by hiring them for menial jobs only and paying them less than men forthe same work. The Story of an Hourhints that Mrs. Mallards husbandperhaps a typical husband of his daydominated his wife.

Repression

.......Louise Mallard appears to have been a weak-willed woman, one whoprobably repressed her desire to control her destiny. Consequently, during hermarriage, she suffered constant stress that may well have caused orcontributed to her "heart trouble," referred to in the first sentence of thestory.

Kate Chopins Literary Themes

Womens search for identity, self-discovery Womens revolt against gender conformity and social norms Womens understanding of feminine sexuality, motherhood, childbirth,

etc.

D.Application of Theoretical UnderpinningsTo achieve very clear understanding of the story, we will use at least lenses

called theoretical underpinnings to dissect or explore the poem.

Style:

Symbolism

Spring time

Patches of blue sky

The new, exciting life that Mrs. Mallard thinks

is awaiting her.

Emergence of her new life.

Heart disease of Mrs. Mallard

Death of Mr. Mallard

Mr. Mallard came back

Joy that kills

repression

freedom

frustration

Forbidden Joy of Independence resulted to

death


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The biographical underpinning is historical-biographical . Here we refer to

the story behind the poem underscoring Kate Chopins biography and other

works which shows relation of theme. When Kate was very young, her father

Thomas O'Flaherty died in a work-related accident. He left behind a family of

four generations of women all living in the same house. Kate was very close to

her maternal great-grandmother, Madame Charleville, who first introduced

her to the world of storytelling. Madame Charleville spoke only French to Kate

and told her elaborate, somewhat risqu stories.

Published in 1899,The Awakeningcreated a scandal because of its portrayal

of a strong, unconventional woman involved in an adulterous affair. While

Kate Chopin never flouted convention as strongly as did her fictitious heroine,

she did exhibit an individuality and strength remarkable for upper-middle-

class women of the time.

Without this historical-biographical underpinning, the poems interpretationwill be out of bounds.

The last underpinning is Feminism. Arising in conjunction with

sociopolitical feminism, critiques patriarchal language and literature byexposing how these reflect masculine ideology. It examines gender politicsin works and traces the subtle construction of masculinity and femininity,

and their relative status, positionings, and marginalizations within works.

Feminism aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political,

economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its conceptsoverlap with those ofwomen's rights. Feminism is mainly focused on women's

issues, but because feminism seeks gender equality, some feminists argue thatmen's liberation is therefore a necessary part of feminism, and that men arealso harmed by sexism and gender roles

E.Arriving at the General Understanding Feminism

Female Male

economic social

Equality

politicalopportunity

RIGHTS
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WOMAN and MAN must have equal RIGHTS in terms of ECONIMC,

SOCILA, POLITICAL and in the OPPORTUNITY given by the society.

WOMAN is not an inferior being than MAN; they must have EQUALITY in

power and RIGHTS.

F. Performing Differentiated-tasks underscoring the PoeticMeaning

Work in two groups. Choose a leader and perform the activity assigned to

your group. Do your tasks ten minutes and we will have the presentation

afterwards.

Group 1: Act out a scene which portrays Mrs. Mallards dream of the yearsahead without his husband.

Group 2: come up with a dramatic skit depicting the inequality between

man and woman in relation to the theme of the story.

Group Presentation..

III. ASSESSMENTGiven ten minutes, I want you to accomplish this reflective journal. Fill this

out by scribbling the significant information, insights and wisdom that you

gained in todays discussion.


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REFLECTIVE JOURNAL:

ON KATE CHOPINS STORY OF AN HOUR

PERSPECTIVE FROM FEMINISM

NAME: _____________________________ DATE: _________ SCORE: _______

Facts and Information Gathered

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Insights Arrived At

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Wisdom Gained

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Teachers Comment

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Prepared by:

Joy Mariette Burce Cristo

BSED3-English


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