LEARNING PLAN IN ENGLISH

I. OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, the students shall have::a) defined what is a music in relation to the myth;b) listened and watched a video song having the theme of the myth;c) arrived at the meanings of words through contextual clues;d) analyzed the story through reflection; e) discussed related stories or verse with the same theme; and f) expressed values about the same theme through writing an essay.

II. SUBJECT MATTER:A story, Orpheus and EurydiceReferences: Encyclopedia Mythica (internet)

III. PROCEDURE:A. Motivation/Opening

1) UNFREEZING ACTIVITY- Students will be asked to ponder on the following questions.

What is music for you? When do you like listening to it? What song can best describe your life story or to what you are

going through right now?

2) MUSIC VIDEO PRESENTATION – Students will listen and watch a music video related to the main theme of the story. Then, students will be asked as a reflection of the music video being watched.

1. What have you already given up?2. Do you believe that there really isn’t anything as special as our first love? And

why?3. Are you holding onto something that you need to let go of?4. How do you know whether it’s time to continue holding on or time to let go?5. If you were to meet someone which you would have the most amazing love,

but 6 months later, he/she would die, would you want to meet him/her?6. A person whom you want to spend the rest of your life dies. If you can

possibly go underground, will you risk your life and beg him/her back home?7. Will you end your life just to be the one you love?

B. Statement of the LessonMOTIVE QUESTION - How do you trust? Is it difficult to trust someone? To what extent do you trust the one you love more than your life?

C. First Reading

Eurydice and Orpheus were young and in love. So deep was their love that they were practically inseparable. So dependent was their love that each felt they could not live without the other. Eurydice and Orpheus were young and in love. So deep was their love that they were practically inseparable. So dependent was their love that each felt they could not live without the other.

Orpheus was son of the great Olympian god Apollo. In many ways, Apollo was the god of music and Orpheus was blessed with musical talents. He was so desperate and found so little else meaningful, that he decided to address Hades. As the overseer of the underworld, Hades’ heart had to be hard as steel, and so it was. Many approached Hades to beg for loved ones back and as many times were refused. But Orpheus' music was so sweet and so moving that it softened the steel hearted heart of Hades himself. Hades gave permission to Orpheus to bring Eurydice back to the surface of the earth to enjoy the light of day. 

There was only one condition. Orpheus was not to look back as he ascended. He was to trust that Eurydice was immediately behind him. It was a long way back up and just as Orpheus had almost finished that last part of the trek, he looked behind him to make sure Eurydice was still with him. At that very moment, she was snatched back because he did not trust that she was there.

Orpheus swore he would never love another, and it may have been the steadfastness of this vow which caused certain wild women of Thrace to tear him limb from limb in a fit of jealousy. They threw his head into a river, and it kept on singing all the way to the sea. When you hear music which mourns lost love, it is Orpheus' spirit who guides the hand of the musicians who play it.

D. Word SearchUNLOCKING OF DIFFICULTY - The unfamiliar terms will be defined upon reading.

frolicking – playingmeadows - pasturesgaily – happilytrek - walk

E. DiscussionCOMPREHENSION CHECK1) What was Orpheus most famous for being the best at?2) What was Orpheus' instrument called?3) Who was Orpheus in love with?4) What was Eurydice bit and killed by?5) Where did Orpheus decide to go, where Eurydice would be?6) Who would Orpheus ask to bring Eurydice back?7) Eurydice's release comes with a catch. What does Hades forbid Orpheus from doing as the couple travels to the upper world?8) When could Orpheus look back?9) What was Orpheus listening for?

10) When Orpheus was nearly at the surface, what did he do?11) Why do you think Orpheus turned to look at Eurydice? 12) If someone you loved were following you up from the land of the dead, would you be able to resist the urge to turn around and check on them? 13) Did Orpheus believe that there really isn’t anything as special as his love for Eurydice? 14) What did he give up?15) Was he holding onto something that you think he needed to let go?16) Was he wise of not giving himself the chance to love for the second time?17) If you were to advice Orpheus, what song can you possibly encourage him to listen?

F. Engagement Activity Can you think of any other story or maybe a movie that has similarity with the story read?

Genesis 19:26, But his wife looked back from behind him,and she became a “pillar of salt.”

PROCESSING QUESTIONS:1) What is life in Sodom?2) Why did God judge Sodom for destruction?3) What was the condition of God not to destroy the place and its people?4) What instruction is given to the family of Lot to be saved from the destruction

of Sodom?5) Was the wife ready to let go of the things she used to live?6) Why did the wife turn into salt and not of anything else?7) What does the ‘salt’ symbolize?8) What are the similarities of “Lot’s wife” and “Orpheus and Eurydice”? 9) Is there really something wrong about looking back? 10) What do these stories tell about you and the people?

IV. ASSIGNMENT (Enrichment Activity)ESSAY – The students will be asked to write an essay about “trust” that will never be shaken. They may relate it to a movie or any story they can find about the same theme.

Prepared by:

FLORENS C. GENOVESEnglish Instructor