Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

English Quarter 2 - Module 3:

Taking the Courage

Zest for Progress

Zeal of Partnership

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Name of Learner: ___________________________

Grade & Section: ___________________________

Name of School: ___________________________

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What I Need to Know As a responsible student who is willing to respond to issues and concerns, you must take the courage to act on your thoughts. This module contains compositions that will help you boost your self-confidence, maximizing your full potentials.

In charting the course of your journey in this module, you are expected to:

• determine the underlying meaning of the text; • make a connection between the text to self.; and

• value the importance of encouraging oneself in facing particular social issues, concerns and dispositions in life.

What’s In

Examine the following realities and provide for a better response.

Reality Usual Reaction/Response Better Response

COVID-19 Pandemic

“Oh No! We are surely going to die!”

“There is no use wearing masks. It won’t help at all.”

Poverty

“This is all the government’s fault since they cannot provide

employment to everyone.”

“It’s okay not to work. Let’s just wait for the 4Ps release.”

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What’s New

Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND

One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, One belonging to me and one to my Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at many times along the path of my life, especially at the very lowest and saddest times, there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it. "Lord, you said once I decided to follow you, You'd walk with me all the way. But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."

He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testing. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you."

Source: “Footprints in the Sand Poem | Beautiful Poem from Only the Bible.com,” Onlythebible.com, Accessed August 16, 2020, https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html

1. Who were in the dream?

2. What were they doing? Where?

3. What did the speaker see?

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4. What did he notice that made him confused? Why?

5. What was the revelation at the end of the poem?

6. How did you feel as the poem ended?

7. Was there ever a time that you felt so alone in the world? Share your experience.

8. What lesson did you get from the poem? Explain your answer.

What is it

The poem Footprints in the Sand is a narrative poem since it tells us a story. It is also an allegory – a poem when interpreted reveals a hidden meaning, typically a moral one.

As a literary device, an allegory is a narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.

Writers and speakers typically use allegories to convey (semi-)hidden or complex meanings through symbolic figures, actions, imagery, or events, which together create the moral, spiritual, or political meaning the author wishes to convey. Many allegories use personification of abstract concepts.

Source: “Allegory.” Wikipedia, Accessed August 16, 2020,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory.

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What’s More Activity 1: Story Time Directions: Illustrate the events from the poem Footprints in the Sand. You may opt to draw or cut pictures. Be creative, do as you wish.

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Activity 2: Text-to-Self Connection Directions: Connect the poem Footprints in the Sand to your own experiences or something that had happened to you. Use the graphic organizer below. Activity 3: Thanksgiving Time

Directions: Craft a Thank You Card expressing your gratitude to someone who helped you in times of problems, - someone whom God used as instrument of His Grace in helping you overcome the problem.

(Paste a copy of your card here.

Make sure you sent a copy of this card to the person you want to thank.)

Text-to-Self Connection

I read…

My connection is…

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What I Have Learned

In 5-4-3-2-1 Directions: Explain your answers or provide the following.

A. Summarize the events in the poem Footprints in the Sand in 5 sentences.

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________

5. _______________________________________________________

B. What are your realizations after reading and analyzing the poem? In 4 sentences

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________

C. To whom are you grateful for after the revelation? In 3 sentences.

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________

D. What is an allegory? What is a narrative poem? In 2 sentences

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

E. How did you find the lesson? In 1 sentence.

1. _______________________________________________________

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What I Can Do

Getting Deeper Directions: Create a graffiti design for your wall that would remind you of the lesson you learned from this module- something that will encourage you in facing challenges in life. You may do it in a separate piece of paper and clip a copy in this module.

Sample graffiti: Designed by vectorstock (Image #33645069 at VectorStock.com) Designed by fashanbd (Image #31119645 at VectorStock.com)

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Assessment

Let us check how well you have mastered the lesson in this module. Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers on the space before each number. _____1. Which is NOT true in the poem Footprints in the Sand? A. the speaker was dreaming B. he was walking with the Lord C. there were only one set of footprints all throughout the scenes D. only the saddest scenes of his life was flashed across the sky

_____2. Why was the speaker in the poem Footprints in the Sand confused upon seeing there was only one set of footprints during the lowest and saddest times of his life? A. He thought God left him all alone during those times. B. He was not looking at the scenes flashed across the sky. C. Those times, he was with somebody. D. He did not understand what happened in his life.

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What is meant by that line?

A. God is always with us.

B. God is the one carrying our burdens.

C. God cares and loves us

D. All of the above.

_____4. Which is NOT true about the poem Footprints in the Sand? A. It is an epic poetry B. It tells us a story. C. It teaches us morale. D. It is an allegory. _____5. Which best describes the poem’s mood? A. lively B. melancholy C. engaging D. inspiring

“It was then that I carried you.”

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6-10. Arrange the pictures coherently as that of the events in the poem Footprints in the Sand.

A. C. Image:Freepik.com Image:Freepik.com

B D. Image:Freepik.com Image:Freepik.com

E. Image:Freepik.com

_____6. _____7. _____8. _____9. _____10.

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REFERENCES Online “Allegory.” Wikipedia, July 21, 2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory. “Footprints in the Sand Poem | Beautiful Poem from Only the Bible.com.” Onlythebible.com, April 26, 2010. https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html.

Images Freepik.com. High angle of footprint in the sand at the beach Free Photo. Freepik.com. Vector illustration of a realistic style of bright glowing lightning isolated on a dark, natural light effect. Free Vector. Freepik.com. Flat person sleeping at night in bed background Free Vector. Freepik.com. Footprints of a man on the desert sand on a sunny day Free Photo. Freepik.com. Jesus with a children group cartoon character Free Vector. Vectorstock.com. Designed by vectorstock (Image #33645069 at VectorStock.com). Vectorstock.com. Designed by fashanbd (Image #31119645 at VectorStock.com).

Development Team

Writer: Maria Cristina Sundiam Estrao Timalang National High School Timalang, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay Editors/QA: Marjorie R. Daligdig

Garend E. Temporada Reviewer: Evelyn F. Importante

OIC-CID Chief EPS Illustrator: Layout Artist: Management Team:

Jerry C. Bokingkito OIC-Assistant SDS Raymond M. Salvador

OIC-Assistant SDS Dr. Jeanelyn A. Aleman, CESE OIC-Schools Division Superintendent

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My Final Farewell

Farewell, dear Fatherland, clime of the sun caress'd Pearl of the Orient seas, our Eden lost!, Gladly now I go to give thee this faded life's best, And were it brighter, fresher, or more blest Still would I give it thee, nor count the cost.

On the field of battle, 'mid the frenzy of fight, Others have given their lives, without doubt or heed; The place matters not-cypress or laurel or lily white, Scaffold or open plain, combat or martyrdom's plight, T is ever the same, to serve our home and country's need.

I die just when I see the dawn break, Through the gloom of night, to herald the day; And if color is lacking my blood thou shalt take, Pour'd out at need for thy dear sake To dye with its crimson the waking ray.

My dreams, when life first opened to me, My dreams, when the hopes of youth beat high, Were to see thy lov'd face, O gem of the Orient sea From gloom and grief, from care and sorrow free; No blush on thy brow, no tear in thine eye.

Dream of my life, my living and burning desire, All hail ! cries the soul that is now to take flight; All hail ! And sweet it is for thee to expire ;

To die for thy sake, that thou mayst aspire; And sleep in thy bosom eternity's long night.

If over my grave some day thou seest grow, In the grassy sod, a humble flower, Draw it to thy lips and kiss my soul so, While I may feel on my brow in the cold tomb below The touch of thy tenderness, thy breath's warm power.

Let the moon beam over me soft and serene, Let the dawn shed over me its radiant flashes, Let the wind with sad lament over me keen ; And if on my cross a bird should be seen, Let it trill there its hymn of peace to my ashes. Let the sun draw the vapors up to the sky, And heavenward in purity bear my tardy protest Let some kind soul o 'er my untimely fate sigh, And in the still evening a prayer be lifted on high From thee, 0 my country, that in God I may rest.

Pray for all those that hapless have died, For all who have suffered the unmeasur'd pain; For our mothers that bitterly their woes have cried, For widows and orphans, for captives by torture tried And then for thyself that redemption thou mayst gain.

And when the dark night wraps the graveyard around With only the dead in their vigil to see Break not my repose or the mystery profound

And perchance thou mayst hear a sad hymn resound 'T is I, O my country, raising a song unto thee.

And even my grave is remembered no more Unmark'd by never a cross nor a stone Let the plow sweep through it, the spade turn it o'er That my ashes may carpet earthly floor, Before into nothingness at last they are blown.

Then will oblivion bring to me no care As over thy vales and plains I sweep; Throbbing and cleansed in thy space and air With color and light, with song and lament I fare, Ever repeating the faith that I keep.

My Fatherland ador'd, that sadness to my sorrow lends Beloved Filipinas, hear now my last good-by! I give thee all: parents and kindred and friends For I go where no slave before the oppressor bends, Where faith can never kill, and God reigns e'er on high!

Farewell to you all, from my soul torn away, Friends of my childhood in the home dispossessed ! Give thanks that I rest from the wearisome day ! Farewell to thee, too, sweet friend that lightened my way; Beloved creatures all, farewell! In death there is rest!

(This is the 1911 translation by Charles Derbyshire of the Spanish original of José Rizal's poem, Mi Ultimo Adiós)