Pangasinan State University
Bayambang Campus
College of Teacher Education
Laboratory Integrated School – High School
A SEMI-DETAILED LESSON PLAN
IN
CREATIVE WRITING
(FREE VERSE)
Prepared by:
John Lexter G. Gloria
(Teaching Intern)
Prepared for:
Ms. Jearica B. Ico
(Cooperating Teacher)
I. Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:
A. define free verse poetry;
B. identify the characteristics of a free verse poetry;
C. explain the advantage of a free verse poem; and
D. write a free verse poem.
II. Subject Matter
A. Topic: Free Verse
B. References:
a. Free Verse Retrieved from: ([Link]
devices-and-terms/free-verse)
b. Literary Devices Retrieved from: ([Link]
verse/)
C. Learning Materials:
a. PowerPoint Presentation
b. Laptop
c. Smart TV
d. Chalk
III. Procedure
A. Preliminaries
1. Prayer
The teacher will assign a student to lead the prayer.
2. Checking of Attendance
The teacher will ask the class secretary to report the names of the
absentees.
3. Review
The teacher will ask the students to recall their previous lesson.
B. Lesson Proper
1. Motivation
The class will be divided into five groups to perform an activity.
Directions: Each group will be given two minutes to rearrange the
sentences within the paragraph as a stanza to create a poem. You
may add words on your poem to make it more pleasing. Each
group must have one representative to read their poem.
I will always be hoping. You're the risk I am willing to take. The
only person I would love to wait. Even if it results nothing.
2. Presentation of the Lesson
The teacher will relate the motivational activity to the lesson by
emphasizing that there is no incorrect arrangement with the students'
output because that is the characteristic of the main topic — free verse.
Development of the Lesson
The teacher will now discuss the free verse and provide an
example.
Free verse is an open form of poetry because it is free from the
limitations of a regular meter or rhythm. A free verse poem doesn't
rely on any form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful
feelings and ideas. Rather than letting a certain structure define the
poem, the poet lets the poem structure itself through the interplay of
language, sound, and literary devices.
Characteristics of Free Verse:
Free verse poems have no regular meter or rhythm.
They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme; these poems do
not have any set of rules.
Additional Details about Free Verse:
It is also called vers libre, which is a French word meaning
“free verse”.
Walt Whitman pioneered the free verse in the 1800s and is
even referred to today as the “father of free verse”.
The opposite of free verse is formal verse, or poetry that uses
both a strict meter and rhyme scheme.
Most poets nowadays are writing in free verse.
Not only do poets writing in free verse have the freedom to
write unrhymed lines of any length, but they also often
use enjambment in unconventional ways, inserting line breaks
in the middle of sentences and even in the middle of words.
Example of a free verse poem:
A Noiseless Patient Spider
by Walt Whitman
“A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space…
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.”
Discussion Question:
What did you notice about the poem in terms of its structure?
Expected answers:
i. The number of syllables per line is not the same.
ii. The poem has no rhyme scheme.
If you are going to write a poem. Will you write it in free
verse? Why?
Possible answers:
i. Yes, I will write it in free verse because it is easier to
write when there are no restrictions and you can
make whatever you want with your poem.
ii. No, I want to put rhyme and follow a pattern in
creating my poem because for me rhyme is one of the
elements that sets the tone in a poem.
3. Enrichment of the Lesson
The class will be divided into five groups to do an activity.
“Creating a Free Verse Poem”
Directions: Collaborate with your group and create a free verse poem.
Each group will be assigned a different topic and will be given seven
minutes before presenting their free verse poem.
Topics:
Group 1 – Love
Group 2 – Happiness
Group 3 – Hope
Group 4 – Dreams
Group 5 – Fears
Rubric:
Criteria Exceptional Good Work Developing Beginning
(5) (4 – 3) (2) (1 – 0)
Focus on The entire poem Most of the Some of the No attempt has
Assigned Topic is related to the poem is related poem is related been made to
assigned topic to the assigned to the assigned relate the poem
and allows the topic. The poem topic, but a to the assigned
reader to wanders off at reader does not topic.
understand one point, but learn much
much more the reader can about the topic.
about the topic. still learn
something
about the topic.
Creativity The poem The poem The poem There is little
contains many contains a few contains a few evidence of
creative details creative details creative details creativity in the
and/or and/or and/or poem. The
descriptions that descriptions that descriptions, author does not
contribute to the contribute to the but they distract seem to have
reader's reader's from the poem. used much
enjoyment. The enjoyment. The The author has imagination.
author has author has used tried to use his
really used his his imagination. imagination.
imagination.
Spelling and There are no There is one There are 2-3 The final draft
Punctuation spelling or spelling or spelling and has more than 3
punctuation punctuation punctuation spelling and
errors in the error in the final errors in the punctuation
final draft. draft. final draft. errors.
Title Title is creative, Title is related Title is present No title.
sparks interest to the poem and but does not
and is related to topic. appear to be
the poem and related to the
topic. poem and topic.
4. Generalization
After the discussion, the teacher will wrap up the lesson and ask if
the students still have questions. Then, the teacher will ask a
question:
“Why do most poets today write in free verse?”
“Because it allows more freedom. They have the freedom to choose
whatever words, and sounds they want in their poetry. Rhyme
and meter are powerful tools in creating poetry, but they also dictate
the form a poem takes.”
IV. Evaluation
Part One
Cloze Test
Directions: Complete the statements by writing the appropriate words in the
blanks.
(1) _______ poems have no regular (2) ________ or (3) ________. It is also
called (4) _______, which is a French word meaning “free verse”. They do not
follow a proper (5) _______.
Part Two
Identification
Directions: List down what is being asked on each of the following items.
1. Most poets nowadays are writing in this form of poetry.
2. It is a literary device in which a line of poetry carries its idea over to the
next line without a grammatical pause
3. Referred to today as the “father of free verse”.
4. The opposite of free verse. It is a poetry that uses both a strict meter and
rhyme scheme.
5. Poets writing in free verse have the freedom to write _______ lines of any
length.
Answers:
Part One
1. Free verse
2. meter
3. rhythm
4. verse libre
5. rhyme scheme
Part Two
1. free verse
2. enjambment
3. Walt Whitman
4. formal verse
5. unrhymed
V. Assignment
Directions: Create a free verse poem about an unforgettable event that happened to you.
Make sure to use other literary devices such as figures of speech to make your free verse
more interesting. Write your poem on a one whole sheet of paper.
Rubric:
Criteria Exceptional Good Work Developing Beginning
(5) (4 – 3) (2) (1 – 0)
Focus on The entire poem Most of the Some of the No attempt has
Assigned Topic is related to the poem is related poem is related been made to
assigned topic to the assigned to the assigned relate the poem
and allows the topic. The poem topic, but a to the assigned
reader to wanders off at reader does not topic.
understand one point, but learn much
much more the reader can about the topic.
about the topic. still learn
something
about the topic.
Creativity The poem The poem The poem There is little
contains many contains a few contains a few evidence of
creative details creative details creative details creativity in the
and/or and/or and/or poem. The
descriptions that descriptions that descriptions, author does not
contribute to the contribute to the but they distract seem to have
reader's reader's from the poem. used much
enjoyment. The enjoyment. The The author has imagination.
author has author has used tried to use his
really used his his imagination. imagination.
imagination.
Spelling and There are no There is one There are 2-3 The final draft
Punctuation spelling or spelling or spelling and has more than 3
punctuation punctuation punctuation spelling and
errors in the error in the final errors in the punctuation
final draft. draft. final draft. errors.
Title Title is creative, Title is related Title is present No title.
sparks interest to the poem and but does not
and is related to topic. appear to be
the poem and related to the
topic. poem and topic.
