Khalil Gibran On Friendship

1. “Best Friend
Test”

2. Game Mechanics
1.Each pair will be given 2
whiteboards and 2 markers.
2.Each pair will stand facing
opposite to each other.

3. 3. The teacher will ask either Best
Friend A or Best Friend B a
question about their partner’s
personal information.
4.Best Friend A and Best Friend B
will write their answers on the
white board using the marker.

4. 5. After the partners have
answered, the teacher will signal
the players to face their
classmates.
6. The pair with the same answers
get a point.
7. The pair who scored 3 points
first will win the game.

5. “On Friendship”

6. Author’s Background:
Khalil
Gibran

7.  Born in Bsharri, Lebanon
(January 06, 1883)
 Died in April 10, 1931
 He was a Lebanese-American
artist, poet, and writer.
 He was regarded as a literary
and political rebel in the Arab
world.

8.  He is the third best-selling
poet of all time,
behind Shakespeare and Lao
Tzu.
 He is also the best-selling
American poet of the twentieth
century

9. The Prophet’s
Background:

10.  a book of 28 prose
poetry essays.
written in English by
the Lebanese artist, philosopher
and writer Khalil Gibran.

11. originally published in 1923 by
Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best
known work. The Prophet has
been translated into over forty
different languages and has never
been out of print.

12. His romantic style was at the
heart of a renaissance in
modern Arabic literature,
especially prose poetry,
breaking away from the
classical school. In Lebanon,
he is still celebrated as a
literary hero.

13. He is chiefly known in the
English-speaking world for his
1923 book The Prophet, an
early example of inspirational
fiction including a series of
philosophical essays written in
poetic English prose.

14. Unlock Me!

15. Directions: Find the meaning
of the poetic line on the choices
below by writing the letter of
the correct answer on the box
provided beside the activity.

16. 1. “Sow with love and reap with
thanksgiving.”
a. Give love and earn with
gratitude.
b. Eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth.
c. Do unto others what you want
them to do unto you.

17. 2. “Your board and your
fireside.”
a. Comfort and warmth
b. Light and shining armor
c. My rock and my fortress

18. 3. “As the mountain to the
climber is clearer from the pain.”
a.Long distance relationship.
b.Missing someone.
c. True appreciation in the
absence of someone.

19. 4. “The heart finds morning and is
refreshed.”
a. Heart that finds hope.
b. Finds relaxation.
c. Relying on each other.

20. •ANSWERS:

21. 1. “Sow with love and reap with
thanksgiving.”
a. Give love and earn with
gratitude.
b. Eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth.
c. Do unto others what you want
them to do unto you.
ANSWERS:

22. 2. “Your board and your
fireside.”
a. Comfort and warmth
b. Light and shining armor
c. My rock and my fortress

23. 3. “As the mountain to the
climber is clearer from the pain.”
a.Long distance relationship.
b.Missing someone.
c. True appreciation in the
absence of someone.

24. 4. “The heart finds morning and is
refreshed.”
a. Heart that finds hope.
b. Finds relaxation.
c. Relying on each other.

25. ON FRIENDSHIP
1. And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
2. Your friend is your needs answered.
3.He is your field which you sow with love and
reap with thanksgiving.
4. And he is your board and your fireside.
5.For you come to him with your hunger, and
you seek him for peace.

26. 1. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in
your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
2. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his
heart;
3. For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all
expectations are born and shared, with joy that is
unacclaimed.
4. When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
5.For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his
absence,
6. as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
7. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
8. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery
is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is
caught.

27. 1.And let your best be for your friend.
2. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let
him know its flood also.
3. For what is your friend that you should seek
him with hours to kill?
4. Seek him always with hours to live.
5. For it is his to fill your need, but not your
emptiness.
6. And in the sweetness of friendship let
there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
7. For in the dew of little things the heart
finds its morning and is refreshed.

28. Questions:
1. Who is the author of the poetic
essay, “On Friendship”?
2. According to the 2nd line, what
is born and shared with joy that
is unacclaimed without words in
friendship?

29. 3. According to the 1st stanza, who
is your board and your fireside?
4. According to the 2nd stanza,
when does your heart cease to
listen to his friend’s heart?
5. According to the 3rd stanza, if
your friend know the ebb of your
tide, what you should let him
know also?

30. 6. For whom the author wants to
address the essay?
7. How does the author defined
friendship in the first stanza?
8. Why does the author use the
word “field” in the first stanza to
describe friendship?

31. • What does the 3rd line in the
2nd stanza mean?
• What does the 3rd line in the
1st stanza mean?
• What does the 2nd line in the
3rd stanza mean?

32. 1. When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in
your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."
2. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his
heart;
3. For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires,
all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is
unacclaimed.
4. When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
5.For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his
absence,
6. as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
7. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the
deepening of the spirit.
8. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery
is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is
caught.

33. ON FRIENDSHIP
1. And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."
2. Your friend is your needs answered.
3.He is your field which you sow with love
and reap with thanksgiving.
4. And he is your board and your fireside.
5.For you come to him with your hunger, and
you seek him for peace.

34. 1.And let your best be for your friend.
2. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let
him know its flood also.
3. For what is your friend that you should seek
him with hours to kill?
4. Seek him always with hours to live.
5. For it is his to fill your need, but not your
emptiness.
6. And in the sweetness of friendship let
there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
7. For in the dew of little things the heart
finds its morning and is refreshed.

35. • What is the mood of the
poem?
• What is the message of the
poem?

36. • What are the words that Khalil
Gibran used to compare
friendship with?
• What do you think Khalil
Gibran is advicing you to do?

37. • What will you do if you accidentally
overheard the news that your friend
has only 1 year to live from his/her
parents and they plan to keep it a
secret from him/her?
Will you have the courage to say the
truth because you are his/her
precious friend or you’ll just go with
the flow because you do not want
your friend to bother worrying about
her life?

38. •What line or
paragraph in the poem
struck you the most
why?

39. Directions: Compose a song using
the poem as an inspiration.

40. Activity 1
Directions: Answer the cloze test below by filling
up the blanks. Choose your answer in the box
before the paragraph.
Crisis share plain presence
flood absence see
ulterior motives winter life
appreciate true friendship

42. Answers:

44. Activity 2
Directions: Choose 1 below and write an essay
about it in a 1 whole sheet of paper in about 5
minutes.
1. “Who finds a faithful friend finds a treasure.”
Do you agree? Base your answer on Khalil
Gibran’s “On Friendship”.
2. List all the qualities a true friend should have
according to Khalil Gibran.

45. • rubrics.docx

46. Assignment:
Directions: Create a poem
using friendship as a
theme.