English 10

QUARTER 1
Week 6
Day 1- Literary Value
General Directions: Watch the movie / Read the story “The Three Musketeers”. Be guided by the question,
how would you embody harmony in times of struggles and conflicts? Then, do the activities below:
The Three Musketeers
Alexander Dumas
In Venice, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with the help of Milady de Winter, steal airship
blueprints made by Leonardo da Vinci. However, they are betrayed by Milady, who incapacitates them and
sells the blueprints to the Duke of Buckingham.
A year later, d'Artagnan leaves his village in Gascony for Paris in hopes of becoming a musketeer as his father
was, only to learn that they were disbanded. At a rural bar, he challenges Captain Rochefort, leader of Cardinal
Richelieu's guard, to a duel after being insulted by him, but Rochefort merely shoots him while he's distracted.
Once in Paris, d'Artagnan separately encounters Athos, Porthos and Aramis and, accidentally offending all
three, schedules separate duels with each. Athos brings Porthos and Aramis to the duel as his seconds,
causing d'Artagnan to realize their true identities. Richelieu's guards arrive to apprehend them, but, inspired by
d'Artagnan, the musketeers fight together and win. All four are summoned before the young King Louis
XIII and Richelieu urges him to execute them, but Queen Anne is impressed by their bravery and the king
decorates them instead.
Richelieu instructs Milady, now his accomplice, to plant false love letters among Queen Anne's possessions,
steal her diamond necklace, and take it to the Tower of London in order to frame her as having an affair with
Buckingham, which would force King Louis to execute her and declare war on England. At this point, the
people would demand a more experienced leader: Richelieu himself. In order to secure her own position,
Milady demands that Richelieu declare in a written authorization that she is working on behalf of France.
The false letters are found and given to King Louis, who is advised by Richelieu to set up a ball at which
Queen Anne would be forced to wear the necklace. If she doesn't, then her affair is real, and there will be war.
Queen Anne's lady-in-waiting Constance Bonacieux discovers Richelieu's plan and pleads with the musketeers
to stop him. They follow Milady and Buckingham to London, while Constance is captured by Rochefort for
helping the musketeers to escape from him.
In London, Milady tells Buckingham the musketeers have arrived to take revenge on him and exposes to him
all their tendencies in battle. D'Artagnan is captured, but he is in fact acting as a decoy following the plan
Milady would have expected the Musketeers to follow, allowing his associates to hijack Buckingham's airship
and rescue him. Milady's getaway coachman reveals himself as the musketeers' manservant Planchet and
delivers her to his masters, who retrieve the necklace from her. Athos prepares to execute Milady for her
treachery, but she leaps off the airship, seemingly dying on her own terms.
The musketeers depart back to Paris, only to be intercepted by Rochefort in a much larger airship, for Milady
had given Richelieu copies of da Vinci's blueprints. Rochefort offers to exchange Constance for the necklace,
but captures d'Artagnan and mounts an assault as soon as he retrieves the jewels. His superior airship has the
upper hand and severely damages the opposing vessel, but the musketeers use the clouds to rally and
counterattack. The fight ends when both ships ram each other, crashing onto Notre Dame. On the roof,
d'Artagnan challenges and ultimately kills Rochefort, recovering the necklace in the process. Constance is sent
ahead to quietly return the necklace to Queen Anne. The musketeers arrive at the ball and, for the sake of King
Louis and his people, lie by claiming that Rochefort tried to sabotage an airship that Richelieu built for them,
and that they executed him for his treason on Richelieu's permission. To convince the king, Athos presents
Milady's authorization, which the former accepts. Richelieu, satisfied, offers the musketeers a place in his
guards, but they refuse, and Richelieu vows revenge.

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Meanwhile, Milady is found alive at the English Channel by Buckingham, who declares his intention to exact
revenge. The camera then pulls back to show him advancing towards France with a massive fleet of
battleships and airships.
A. Color the word that does not belong in the group:
1. Jostle chant shove push
2. Siege attack bout pacify
3. Noble highbred outcast royal
4. Revenge vengeance retaliation payback
5. laboratory hangout rendezvous refuge
B. Accomplish the chart to track how the conflict is resolved by each character.

Character Conflict Resolution

D’Artagnan Determined, thirsty for He grows as a person with the
victory. Is an arrogant, musketeers he looked up to. He got a
short-tempered, and new written letter from Treville
aggressive person that
gets into trouble. He lost
the invitation letter
Athos, Porthos, Aramis They plead with the queen They went up against the Cardinal’s
and avoid the execution guards
Cardinal He knew about the Offered a solution to the problem
diamond necklace issue
that might cause an uproar
Queen She’s being thrown aside Tries to take back the stolen diamond
by framing her up necklace
Milady Remorseless and She used her wits against her targets,
unrepentant for her tried poisoning D'artagnan as such
countless "misdeeds"

Day 2 –Evaluate the Value

Direction: Evaluate whether the story,” The Three Musketeers”, meet the following criteria.

T Yes No Evidence (annotation from the text)

Explores great theme in human nature and ✔ It applies the concept that denotes the
experience fundamental disposition and characters. Their
ways of thinking, feeling and acting is what it
means to be human
Expresses universal meaning ✔ Faces the problems no matter what era
Conveys timeless message ✔ People experience the same daily lives each
generation
Vivid impressions of characters and setting ✔ The Three Musketeers is set in 17th century
France during the reign of Louis XIII, the
characters have deep explanation within them
which makes them mysterious and fun

Day 3- Whip it!

Directions: Read the text “The Plague”. Evaluate the text by answering the questions/criteria below:
The Plague is a novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats’
stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population, the newspapers begin clamoring for
action. The authorities finally arrange for the daily collection and cremation of the rats. Soon thereafter, M.
Michel, the concierge for the building where Dr. Rieux works, dies after falling ill with a strange fever. When a

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cluster of similar cases appears, Dr. Rieux's colleague, Castel, becomes certain that the illness is the bubonic
plague. He and Dr. Rieux are forced to confront the indifference and denial of the authorities and other doctors
in their attempts to urge quick, decisive action. Only after it becomes impossible to deny that a serious
epidemic is ravaging Oran, do the authorities enact strict sanitation measures, placing the whole city under
quarantine.
The public reacts to their sudden imprisonment with intense longing for absent loved ones. They indulge in
selfish personal distress, convinced that their pain is unique in comparison to common suffering. Father
Paneloux delivers a stern sermon, declaring that the plague is God's punishment for Oran's sins. Raymond
Rambert endeavors to escape Oran to rejoin his wife in Paris, but the city's bureaucrats refuse to let him leave.
He tries to escape by illegal means with the help of Cottard's criminal associates. Meanwhile, Rieux, Tarrou,
and Grand doggedly battle the death and suffering wrought by the plague. Rambert finalizes his escape plan,
but, after Tarrou tells him that Rieux is likewise separated from his wife, Rambert is ashamed to flee. He
chooses to stay behind and help fight the epidemic. Cottard committed a crime (which he does not name) in
the past, so he has lived in constant fear of arrest and punishment. He greets the plague epidemic with open
arms because he no longer feels alone in his fearful suffering. He accumulates a great deal of wealth as a
smuggler during the epidemic.
After the term of exile lasts several months, many of Oran's citizens lose their selfish obsession with personal
suffering. They come to recognize the plague as a collective disaster that is everyone's concern. They confront
their social responsibility and join the anti-plague efforts. When M. Othon's small son suffers a prolonged,
excruciating death from the plague, Dr. Rieux shouts at Paneloux that he was an innocent victim. Paneloux,
deeply shaken by the boy's death, delivers a second sermon that modifies the first. He declares that the
inexplicable deaths of innocents force the Christian to choose between believing everything and believing
nothing about God. When he falls ill, he refuses to consult a doctor, leaving his fate entirely in the hands of
divine Providence. He dies clutching his crucifix, but the symptoms of his illness do not match those of the
plague. Dr. Rieux records him as a "doubtful case."
When the epidemic ends, Cottard cannot cope. He begins randomly firing his gun into the street until he is
captured by the police. Grand, having recovered from a bout of plague, vows to make a fresh start in life.
Tarrou dies just as the epidemic is waning, but he battles with all his strength for his life, just as he helped
Rieux battle for the lives of others. Rambert's wife joins him in Oran after the city gates are finally opened, but
Dr. Rieux's own wife dies of a prolonged illness before she and her husband can be reunited. The public
quickly returns to its old routine, but Rieux knows that the battle against the plague is never over because the
bacillus microbe can lie dormant for years. The Plague is his chronicle of the scene of human suffering that all
too many people are willing to forget.
explanation
How original and inventive is the work? It shows that pandemics happened from centuries
ago till this day
How effectively does the writing achieve the purpose? It informs the people to take it more seriously,
especially when we’re experiencing this issues
ourselves
How vividly and believably are the characters, settings, They’re so realistic as if it happened in real life
dialogues, actions, and feelings portrayed?
How strongly did I react to the work? Did I identify with I felt sorry for them. Unlike today’s pandemic,
the character, situation, or feeling? Did the work stir people like Paneloux ignored the experts advices
my memories and emotions? and follow his beliefs and dies. People going mad
is terrifying to say the least
Does the message of the work have meaning for me? Yes, because it’s a once in a lifetime worldwide
Will I remember it a year from now? problem that take months or years to be resolved

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SUMMING IT UP
Day 4 and 5- Free Style Evaluation
Directions: Compose your own evaluation of any of the speeches or on any of the literary text discuss in the
class.

The movie ‘Life of Pi’ indicates to a person who went through countless days of suffering and already
in the depths of despair, but continued to live on despite being aware that he’s as if God abandoned
him. It hit a lot of audiences of how deep it is. We can’t predict the future or change the past and might
just leave regrets of our decisions and actions. But it is okay, people grow and become wiser.