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English

Quarter 2 – Module 7:

Chasing Dreams

Name of Learner: ___________________________

Grade & Section: ___________________________

Name of School: ___________________________

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What I Need to Know

“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear

and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with

optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for

ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for

ways to nurture your dream.” - Lao Tzu

People who have the desire to make their life better never stop chasing their

dreams no matter what challenges and obstacles they are facing. The difficulties

they encounter may seem unconquerable, but with strong determination and

courage, they will surely overcome them.

This module focuses on Drama as a means of understanding unchanging

values in a VUCA world. And to keep track of your journey, you are expected to:

• analyze dialogue as one of the elements in revealing a character’s

feelings in a drama;

• explain the human values shown in the drama; and

• internalize the values needed in realizing one’s dream.

What’s In

Activity 1: Working Together

Directions: Imagine that you and Roger in Thank You, Ma’am meet. If the two of you

spoke about how to work with each other in achieving your dreams, what could be

the topic of your conversation? Why would that be your topic?

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What’s New

Activity 2: Guess that Dream

Directions: Most people hold on to a dream. Take a good look at the pictures below.

In each given condition, can you tell what they dream about? Write your answer

below each picture.

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Activity 3: Know the Number

Directions: Determine the word defined in Column A. Take note that each letter of

the word is represented by a number in Column B like A is 1, B is 2, C is 3, and so

on. Write the word in Column C. The first is done for you.

A B C

1. sad and lonely because of isolation or desertion

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2. lowness of spirits 4-5-10-5-3-20-9-15-15

3. to take a brief look 16-5-5-11

4. to act in a threatening manner

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What is it

Do you have dreams for your family? What are those?

Motive Question: What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family?

Read the story “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, and discover what

Mama does to fulfill her dream.

A Raisin in the Sun

By Lorraine Hansberry

The action of the play is set in Chicago’s Southside, sometime between

World War II and the present.

Act I

Scene One: Friday Morning

Scene Two: The following morning

(RUTH comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection. Mama and

Beneatha both turn to look at her.

RUTH (dispiritedly): Well, I guess from all the happy faces – everybody knows.

BENEATHA: You pregnant?

MAMA: Lord have mercy, I sure hope it’s a little old girl. Travis ought to have a

sister.

(BENEATHA and RUTH give her a hopeless look for this grandmother

enthusiasm.)

BENEATHA: How far along are you?

RUTH: Two months

BENEATHA: Did you mean to? I mean did you plan it or was it an accident?

MAMA: What do you know about planning or not planning?

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BENEATHA: Oh, Mama.

RUTH (wearily): She’s twenty years old, Lena.

BENEATHA: Did you plan it, Ruth?

RUTH: Mind your own business.

BENEATHA: It is my business – where is he going to live, on the roof? (There is

silence following the remark as the three women react to the sense of it.) Gee-I

didn’t mean that, Ruth, honest. Gee, I don’t feel like that at all. I – I think it is

wonderful.

RUTH (dully):Wonderful.

BENEATHA: Yes – really.

MAMA (looking at RUTH, worried): Doctor say everything is going to be alright?

RUTH (far away): Yes – she says everything is going to be fine…

MAMA (immediately suspicious): “She” – what doctor you went to?

(RUTH folds over, near hysteria)

MAMA (worriedly hovering over RUTH): Ruth honey – what’s the matter with you

– you sick?

(RUTH has her fist clenched on her thighs and is fighting hard to suppress a

scream that seems to be rising her.)

BENEATHA: What’s the matter with her, Mama?

MAMA (working her fingers in Ruth’s shoulders to relax her): She be all right.

Women gets right depressed sometimes when they get her way. (Speaking softly,

expertly, rapidly). Now you just relax. That’s right…just lean back, don’t think ‘bout

nothing at all…nothing at all –

RUTH: I’m all right…

(The glassy-eyed look melts and then she collapses into a fit of heavy sobbing.

The bell rings.)

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(The front door opens slowly, interrupting him, and TRAVIS peeks his head in, less

than hopefully.)

TRAVIS (to his mother): Mama, I –

RUTH: “Mama I” nothing! You’re going to get it, boy! Get on in that bedroom, and

get yourself ready!

TRAVIS: But I –

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MAMA: Why don’t you all never let the child explain hisself

RUTH: Kepp of it now, Lena.

(Mama clamps her lips together, and RUTH advances toward her son menacingly.)

RUTH: A thousand times I have you not to go off like that –

MAMA (holding out her arms to her grandson): Well – at least let me tell him

something. I want him to be the first bone to hear…Come here, Travis. (The boy

obeys, gladly.) Travis – (She takes him by the shoulder and looks into his face) –

you know that money we got in the mail this morning?

TRAVIS: Yes “m—

MAMA: Well – What you think your grandma gone and done with that money?

TRAVIS: I don’t know, Grandmama.

MAMA (putting her fingers on his nose for emphasis): She went out and bought

you a house! (The explosion comes from WALTER at the end of revelation and he

jumps up and turns away from all of them in a fury. MAMA continues, to TRAVIS)

You glad about the house? It’s going to be yours when you get to be a man.

TRAVIS: Yeah – I always wanted to live in a house.

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MAMA (She takes an envelope out of her handbag and puts it in front of him and

he watches her without speaking or moving.) I paid the main thirty-five hundred

dollars down on the house. That leaves sixty-five hundred dollars. Monday morning

I want you to take this money and take three thousand dollars and put it in a saving

s account for Beneatha’s medical schooling. The rest you put in a checking account

– with your name on it. And from now on, any penny that come out of it or that go

in it is for you to look after. For you to decide. (She drops her hand a little

helplessly.) It ain’t much, but it’s all I got in the world and I’m putting it in your hands.

I’m telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be.

WALTER (stares at the money): You trust me like that, Mama?

MAMA: I ain’t never stop trusting you. Like I ain’t never stop loving you.

(She goes out, and WALTER sits looking at the money on the table. Finally, in a

decisive gesture, he gets up, and in mingled joy and desperation, picks up the

money.)

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Activity 4: Grasp It!

Directions: Answer each question based on the story.

1. What is Mama’s greatest dream for her family? Illustrate it in the box. State her

reasons behind it.

Mama’s Greatest Dream Reasons

2. What is the dream of every member of the Younger family? How does each of them

try to fulfill his or her dream? Accomplish the chart below.

Younger family member

Dream Way/s to Fulfill the Dream

1. Mama

2. Walter

3. Beneatha

3. What does Walter want to do with the insurance check? Discuss his motive. Why

do you think Mama does not approve of it?

Summary:

The rising action of the play reveals the pregnancy of Ruth. Mama (Lena)

has paid the initial amount for a house in Clybourne Park. Then, she hands the

remaining money to Walter to put it in a savings account for Beneatha’s medical

schooling. The rest of the money shall be put in a checking account in Walter’s

name. However, Walter intends to invest the money in a liquor business which

Mama does not approve of.

Source: Liza Almonte, et. al., A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature Pasig:

Department of Education, 2014., 433-437.

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4. Does any of the characters in the play remind you of someone? How does that

someone plan his/her course of action to realize his/her dream?

5. Would you have dreamt of the same thing for your family? Why?

What’s More

Activity 5: Something to Say

Directions: Read and analyze the dialogue below. What does it reveal about Walter’s

feelings? Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

You trust me

like that,

Mama?

I ain’t never stop

trusting you. Like

I ain’t never stop

loving you.

Walter Lee Lena (Mama)

Dialogue is one of the major elements of drama. It is the conversation that takes

place among the characters in a drama. Dialogue can reveal events, actions, and

settings as well as the character’s thoughts and feelings. It has three major

functions: to advance the plot, to establish setting, to reveal the character.

Source: Liza Almonte, et. al., A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature Pasig:

Department of Education, 2014., 440.

illustrated by Flordelou Endino Baroro

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Activity 6: Mind the Values

Directions: Determine the values that Mama in A Raisin in the Sun tries to instill in

her family. Cite pieces of evidence from the drama to support your answer.

Values Evidences

Activity 7: The Reflection

Directions: Reflect on the message of the quotation below.

• Do you have the courage to pursue your dream? Complete the clause.

I believe I can realize my dream because _____________________________

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What I Can Do

Activity 8: The Dream Route

Directions: Draw a map that represents your real-life journey about a dream or goal

you’ve pursued. Use symbols to represent the challenges you encounter along the

way. Mark it with a trait or value you believe you possess, and that enables you to

leap over it. Do this in a separate sheet of paper.

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and

make your dreams come true.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Assessment

Directions: Read the statements carefully and encircle the letter of your answer.

1. Which city does the play take place?

A. Los Angeles B. Chicago C. Boston D. Harlem

2. Who intends to invest in a liquor business?

A. Mama B. Ruth C. Walter D. Travis

3. Who dreams of a buying a house?

A. Ruth B. Walter C. Travis D. Mama

4. What is Beneatha’s dream?

A. to open a liquor business

B. to become a teacher

C. to become a lawyer

D. to become a doctor

5. What does Mama want to do with the money?

A. buy a new house for her family

B. pay for the apartment rent

C. buy a new car

D. buy clothes

6. What did the Younger family found out about Ruth?

A. She is pregnant.

B. She lost her job.

C. She got a new job.

D. She won the lottery.

7. How does Ruth feel about her condition?

A. She is sad.

B. She is happy.

C. She is excited.

D. She is overjoyed.

8. What did Mama possibly feel and realize when Ruth told her, “Yes – she says

everything is going to be fine?”

A. She is happy because Ruth is fine.

B. She is thankful that the doctor is concerned about Ruth.

C. She is upset because Ruth attempted to abort her child.

D. She is excited because the doctor is taking care of Ruth and the baby.

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9. Which statements shows courage to pursue one’s dream?

A. studying hard despite financial difficulties

B. working hard when someone is watching

C. sending gifts to the manager to be promoted in the job

D. asking an intelligent classmate to answer all your assignments

10. Which is NOT a function of dialogue in a drama?

A. to advance the plot

B. to establish setting

C. to introduce the writer

D. to reveal the character

REFERENCES

Book

Almonte, Liza, Adelle Soliaban, Lerma Fernandez, Nedia Lagustan, Henone Langutan,

Dreamrose Malayo, Liberty Mangaluz, Elenita Miranda, Lito Palomar, and Grace Annette

Soriano. A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature. First Edition. Pasig:

Department of Education, 2014.

Online

“A Raisin in the Sun - Act 1 - Quiz.” Quizizz.com. Accessed August 20, 20202.

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5ae0bfd758f09f001a5992f0/a-raisin-in-the-sun-act-1.

“Dreams Sayings and Dreams Quotes | Wise Old Sayings.” Www.Wiseoldsayings.com.

Accessed August 20, 2020. https://www.wiseoldsayings.com/dreams-quotes/.

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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)