Lesson Plan

LESSON PLAN

I. OBJECTIVE

1. To enhance the vocabulary skill of the student

2. To get the soul of the poem

3. To correlate the poem to the real life situation

4. To figure out what the author trying to say about the poem

II. SUBJECT MATTER

TOPIC: The Poem entitled “Tiny Feet” by Gabriela Mistral

MATERIALS: Text book, Visual aids and picture

III. PROCEDURE

DISCUSSION:

Who among you knows or familiar to Gabriela Mistral?

* Gabriela Mistral was born in 1889 as Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga,  she was a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist and was the first Latin American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Gabriela Mistral was born and raised in poor areas of northern Chile where, from early on in her life, she was in close contact with the poor. Gabriela started helping her family as an assistant teacher in the public school system, later developing a career as a teacher while composing the poetry that made her internationally famous. She taught at schools throughout the country and developed a deep love and commitment to the poor –especially to children- of her country. Her literary successes led her international recognition.Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. 

“Tiny Feet”

by Gabriela Mistral

A child's tiny feet, 

Blue, blue with cold, 

How can they see and not protect you? 

Oh, my God! 

Tiny wounded feet, 

Bruised all over by pebbles, 

Abused by snow and soil! 

Man, being blind, ignores 

that where you step, you leave 

A blossom of bright light, 

that where you have placed 

your bleeding little soles 

a redolent tuberose grows. 

Since, however, you walk 

through the streets so straight, 

you are courageous, without fault. 

Child's tiny feet, 

Two suffering little gems, 

How can the people pass, unseeing.

What the poem is all about?

* The poem is all...