Semi-Detailed LP My Last Duchess
Semi-Detailed LP My Last Duchess
Semi-Detailed LP My Last Duchess
I. Objectives:
At the end of the lessons the students should be able to:
a. Understand the use of dramatic monologue as a poetic device.
b. Situate Robert Browning within his historical and literary context.
c. Provide a well-supported reading of Browning's poem, "My Last Duchess".
III. Procedures:
A. Preliminary Activities:
Prayer
Greetings
Checking of Attendance
Classroom Management
B. Motivation:
Directions: The teacher will give a copies of poetic monologue of My last Duchess
then we will be reading “My Last Duchess”. After reading the poem, the teacher will
ask the students “I’ll ask, You share”.
Guide Questions:
- What have you notice about our topic for today?
C. Presentation of the Lesson:
Authors Background:
Robert Browning was an English
poet and playwright born in
Camberwell, London in 1812. He
was an intelligent child who was
fluent in five languages by the age
of fourteen. He was also passionate
about poetry and was a talented
musician, composing arrangements
of several songs as well as writing
poetry.
Robert Browning published "My
Last Duchess" in 1842 in a book of
poems titled Dramatic Lyrics. As
the title suggests, in these poems
Browning experiments with form,
combining some aspects of stage
plays and some aspects of Romantic
verse to create a new type of poetry
for his own Victorian age. The
Victorians are the poor unfortunates who come between the Romantics
and the Modernists. In other words, authors in this period got
sandwiched between two great movements that majorly influenced
Western Culture, and so readers sometimes forget about the Victorian
age writers.
Unlocking Difficulties:
1. Is ample warrant that no just pretense.
2. The bough of cherries some officious fool.
3. Strangers like you that pictured countenance.
4. Of mine for dowry will be disallowed.
5. The depth and passion of its earnest glance.
Discussion:
-The Teacher will play a short Video of “My last Duchess” then after that there’s a guide
questions that they will answer.
Guide Questions:
1. When was Browning Born?
Ans.: 1812
2. Who wrote the following line?
“I was ever a fighter, so one fight more!”
Ans.: Browning
3. What is Browning’s popular poetic form?
Ans.: Dramatic Monologue
4. What is the Duke’s complaint against the Duchess?
Ans.: Not being available to him at all times.
5. Where does this poem take place?
Ans.: Ferrara, Italy
IV. Generalization:
“Jumbled Words”
Directions: You will solve the jumbled words given.
SSEHCUD – DUCHESS
ALWL – WALL
ITAPN – PAINT
EATHR – HEART
ANMLTE – MANTLE
OOTHFORS – FORSOOTH
RWDYO – DOWRY
DRAHCRO- ORCHARD
UGHBO – BOUGH
ECEIP – PIECE
V. Evaluation:
Direction: Fill in the blank. Answer the following choices by choosing inside the box.
Wall Robert Browning Fra Pandolph
Monk Italy Power
Nine-hundred years old
Duchess Duke Possessive
Answer Key:
1. Robert Brown
2. Duke
3. Fra Pandolph
4. Italy
5. Possessive
6. Wall
7. Power
8. Nine-Hundred-Year-Old
9. Monk
10. Duchess
VI. Assignment:
- Make 10 Reasons why obsession is bad and wrong.