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English
Grade 9
Ephraim L. Gibas
IT & Logistics
The module is designed to suit your needs and interests using the
IDEA instructional process. This will help you attain the prescribed grade-
level knowledge, skills, attitude, and values at your own pace outside the
normal classroom setting.
The module is composed of different types of activities that are ar-
ranged according to graduated levels of difficulty—from simple to complex.
You are expected to :
a. answer all activities on separate sheets of paper;
b. accomplish the PIVOT Assessment Card for Learners on page
38 by providing the appropriate symbols that correspond to your
personal assessment of your performance; and
c. submit the outputs to your respective teachers on the time
and date agreed upon.
What I need to know learning outcomes for the day or week, purpose of
the lesson, core content and relevant samples.
This maximizes awareness of his/her own
What is new knowledge as regards content and skills required
for the lesson.
In this lesson, you will learn how to make connections between texts to
particular issues, concerns, and dispositions in life.
Let us read the poem below. Reflect if this relates to you and the world you
live in by answering the questions that follow.
Reading materials like the one presented above portray particular themes
and meanings. By understanding their elements, we can say that they create
significant connections to our personal experiences and to the world we live in.
Recognizing that our Nation has yet to reach Dr. King's promised
land is not an admission of defeat, but a call to action. In these
challenging times, too many Americans face limited opportunities, but
our capacity to support each other remains limitless. Today, let us ask
ourselves what Dr. King believed to be life's most urgent and persistent
question: "What are you doing for others?"…
Source: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/the-press-office/
presidential-proclamation-martin-luther-king-jr-day
MAKING CONNECTIONS
You might have not noticed, but your previous experiences, knowledge,
emotions, and understanding affect what and how you learn (Harvey & Goudvis,
2000). Called the schema, your background knowledge and experiences actually
help you make sense and meaning of the material you are exposed to. Learning
how to access these prior knowledge, experiences, emotions, and opinions can
help you make a connection to the text to help you understand concepts better.
How you relate yourself to the character of King Arthur in the “King Arthur
and His Knights of the Round Table” by Roger Lancelyn Green is text-to-self
connection. The way you compare the theme of the novels written by Nicholas
Sparks to each other is text-to-text connection. Relating real-life issues and scenarios
to things read from a selection, on the other hand, is text-to-world connection.
Making Annotations
The best way to remember and associate your experiences with those
presented in any text is by annotating.
Azevedo (2017) added that the following annotation strategies may be used:
Circle any unfamiliar words, then look them up, and write down the
definition.
Use question marks to indicate areas of uncertainty.
Use stars to indicate anything that seems important such as themes,
symbols, foreshadowing, etc.
Use exclamation points to indicate something dramatic or a key turning
point.
Circle (or mark somehow) character names any time they are introduced for
the first time.
To make it more engaging and interesting, you may also use illustrated
annotations which use images to represent concepts and elements. The creation of
illustrations may help you synthesize information and, at the same time, may help
increase creativity and engagement while reading. They make annotating texts a
more hands-on experience and learning a more meaningful and personal (Gehr,
2019).
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
This article reminds me of my community because:
Learning Task 3: Based on the text in Learning Task 1, make a Community Plan
using the template below. Use a separate sheet for your output.
William Sydney Porter, also known as O. Henry, was born on September 11, 1862
in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. He was an American writer known for writing
short stories about the lives of ordinary people. He died on June 5, 1910 in New
York, New York.
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in
pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the
vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the
silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della
counted it. One dollar and eighty- seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and
howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs,
sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to
the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly
provide a beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for
the mendicancy squad.
In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an
electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring. Also appertaining
thereunto was a card bearing the name "Mr. James Dillingham Young."
The "Dillingham" had been flung to the breeze during a former period of
prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income
was shrunk to $20, though, they were thinking seriously of contracting to a modest
and unassuming D. But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and
reached his flat above he was called "Jim" and greatly hugged by Mrs. James
Dillingham Young, already introduced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended to her cheeks with the powder rag. She
stood by the window and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray
backyard. Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to
buy Jim a present. She had been saving every penny she could for months, with this
result. Twenty dollars a week doesn't go far. Expenses had been greater than she had
calculated. They always are. Only $1.87 to buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a
happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and
rare and sterling--something just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor of being
owned by Jim.
There was a pier-glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps you have
seen a pier-glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his
reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate
conception of his looks. Della, being slender, had mastered the art.
Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the glass. her eyes
were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds. Rapidly
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she pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which
they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's
and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair. Had the queen of Sheba lived in the
flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the window some day
to dry just to depreciate Her Majesty's jewels and gifts. Had King Solomon been the
janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the basement, Jim would have pulled out his
watch every time he passed, just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
So now Della's beautiful hair fell about her rippling and shining like a cascade
of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.
And then she did it up again nervously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute
and stood still while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With a whirl of skirts
and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she fluttered out the door and down the
stairs to the street.
Where she stopped the sign read: "Mne. Sofronie. Hair Goods of All Kinds." One
flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting. Madame, large, too white, chilly,
hardly looked the "Sofronie."
"I buy hair," said Madame. "Take yer hat off and let's have a sight at the looks
of it."
"Twenty dollars," said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.
Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the hashed
metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim's present.
She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. There
was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It
was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value
by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should
do. It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew that it must be
Jim's. It was like him. Quietness and value--the description applied to both. Twenty-
one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents. With that
chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.
Grand as the watch was, he sometimes looked at it on the sly on account of the old
leather strap that he used in place of a chain.
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to prudence and
reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the gas and went to work repairing
the ravages made by generosity added to love. Which is always a tremendous task,
dear friends--a mammoth task.
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close-lying curls that
made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her reflection in the
mirror long, carefully, and critically.
At 7 o'clock the coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back of the
stove hot and ready to cook the chops.
Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand and sat on the
corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard his step on
the stair away down on the first flight, and she turned white for just a moment. She
had a habit for saying little silent prayer about the simplest everyday things, and now
she whispered: "Please God, make him think I am still pretty."
The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. He looked thin and very
serious. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two--and to be burdened with a family! He
needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.
Jim stopped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent of quail. His
eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression in them that she could not
read, and it terrified her. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror,
nor any of the sentiments that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her
fixedly with that peculiar expression on his face.
"Jim, darling," she cried, "don't look at me that way. I had my hair cut off and
sold because I couldn't have lived through Christmas without giving you a present. It'll
grow out again--you won't mind, will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully
fast. Say `Merry Christmas!' Jim, and let's be happy. You don't know what a nice--
what a beautiful, nice gift I've got for you."
"You've cut off your hair?" asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at
that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor.
"Cut it off and sold it," said Della. "Don't you like me just as well, anyhow? I'm
me without my hair, ain't I?"
"You say your hair is gone?" he said, with an air almost of idiocy.
"You needn't look for it," said Della. "It's sold, I tell you--sold and gone, too. It's
Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to me, for it went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head
were numbered," she went on with sudden serious sweetness, "but nobody could ever
count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?"
Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his Della. For ten
seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some inconsequential object in the other
direction. Eight dollars a week or a million a year--what is the difference? A
mathematician or a wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable
gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be illuminated later on.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.
"Don't make any mistake, Dell," he said, "about me. I don't think there's
White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And then an ecstatic
scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change to hysterical tears and wails,
necessitating the immediate employment of all the comforting powers of the lord of the
flat.
For there lay The Combs--the set of combs, side and back, that Della had
worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with
jewelled rims--just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. They were
expensive combs, she knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them
without the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the tresses that
should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up with
dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"
And them Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him eagerly upon
her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with a reflection of her bright
and ardent spirit.
"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have to look at
the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks
on it."
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands under
the back of his head and smiled.
"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while.
They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your
combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."
The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought
gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of
exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful
chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other
the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it
be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive
gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
Source: http://webhome.auburn.edu/~vestmon/Gift_of_the_Magi.html
Thissummer,2,000
Portuguese firefighters battled a
deadly, weeklong wildfire that killed
64 people. Besides facing serious
danger, these firefighters had
something in common: they were
doing it for no pay.
During the summer fire season, firefighters are often sent to fires far from
their homes. Then the government pays these brave men and women $2 an hour.
The volunteer firefighters usually give the money to their fire departments.
Volunteer firefighters are not uncommon in Europe and beyond. More than
97 percent of German firefighters are volunteers. In the
United States that figure is around 70 percent. But in Portugal, these volunteer
services are the front line in emergencies. There are just seven paid fire
departments in the country.
Cultural Tradition
"Here in Portugal, it has been like this for a long time," he shrugs. "We like
what we do. On hot days when we could go to the beach, we come here to the fire
department instead."
In June, there was a huge blaze about 90 miles north of Lisbon in Pedrogao
Grande. Simoes set off with four vehicles and their crews.
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"Some walked out of work and risked being marked as absent," Simoes
says. Across the country, other volunteer firefighters did the same.
The Pedrogao Grande blaze grew because of hot weather, strong winds and
dry woods. The fire spread quickly and trapped people in their cars when they
tried to escape.
Similar scenes play out every summer in Portugal. Giant flames make the
firefighters look tiny. Huge clouds of smoke stretch to the horizon. Locals help out
with buckets and garden hoses and try to stop the flames with broken-off tree
branches. Wildfires race through eucalyptus and pine forests that are uncleared
and tightly packed.
This year has been particularly bad, due to a severe drought. Portugal is
one of 28 countries in the European Union. But the
wildfires in Portugal caused more than one-third of the burnt forest of the
European Union.
Last week, Simoes and his team were sent to a major forest fire near
Pedrogao Grande. Firefighters had the blaze under control within 48 hours.
Simoes says the department has always had enough workers, though it is
stretched in emergencies. It has just enough money. Fire suits cost over $2,000
each. The recent purchase of 100 new helmets cost $33,000.
Questions:
1. What are the two main ideas of the article?
2. What do you think is the purpose of the article?
3. Do you know any similar circumstances experienced by Filipino firefighters
and/or other risk-reduction personnel in your community?
4. Complete the Community Connections graphic organizer on the next page.
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Learning Activity 8: Make a Cultural Content Connections Project related to the
text you have read in Learning Task 1. Do this in your notebook.
You have five (5) choices for the type of product that you will be completing.
Choose one (1) from the given options.
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Fill in the blanks with the correct terms relevant to what you have learned
in this lesson. Choose from the word pool below.
In this lesson, you will be introduced to literary pieces in order to learn how
to analyze literature as means of understanding unchanging values in the VUCA
(volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world.
Let us read and analyze the poem written by Alfred Edward Housman, an
English scholar and poet. Evaluate the specific values embedded in the given text.
Then, answer and reflect on the questions that follow.
Reflection
Questions:
1. What is the theme portrayed by the poem?
2. What specific attitude of the young towards life is shown in the text?
3. What specific advice was given by the wise man to the young man?
4. Did the young man listen to the advice of the wise man? Explain your
answer.
5. Based on the text, how does the wise man perceive life?
6. How will you explain the idea of ‘wisdom of elders’ in the given poem?
Relate your answer to your personal experiences.
It is said that literature serves as a pool of values. From each literary work,
readers can learn various lessons which may help them in redirecting their lives.
Through the years, these positive values remain unchanged in this changing
world.
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Learning Task 1: In order to know if you already have knowledge about the
literary masterpiece, Beowulf, read each statement carefully and determine
whether each given statement is true or false. Write your answers in your
notebook.
The work of Dr. Warner Burke and his research colleagues at Columbia
University provides us with scientific data that learning agility (ability to be
flexible and be open to change and thrive on new experiences) is made up of nine
(9) dimensions or behavior patterns. They include:
BEOWULF
Summary by Ben Florman
In Beowulf's old age, a thief finds a passageway into an old barrow. Inside,
a dragon guards a treasure trove left there long ago by the last survivor of an
extinct people. The thief steals a cup, but the dragon discovers the theft and
burns the land, including Beowulf's mead-hall. Beowulf, knowing his death is
near, decides to fight the dragon. Accompanied by his kinsman Wiglaf, ten
warriors, and the thief, Beowulf sets out to confront the dragon. But when
Beowulf and the dragon fight, all of Beowulf's men flee except Wiglaf. With Wiglaf's
help, Beowulf kills the dragon, but not before he himself is terribly wounded.
Before he dies, Beowulf tells Wiglaf to rule after him, and to build him a
funeral barrow that overlooks the sea. Wiglaf chastises the men for abandoning
their lord. A messenger sent to tell the Geats of Beowulf's death also warns of
hard times for the Geats, now that Beowulf is dead. The Geats build a pyre and
cremate Beowulf, then construct a barrow overlooking the sea, burying the
dragon's cursed treasure with him.
Source: https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beowulf.html
Learning Task 2: Having read the epic Beowulf, answer the following questions
in your notebook.
When Beowulf was an old man, however, a (9) stole a golden cup
from a cave where a great dragon lived. Enraged, the dragon emerged from the
cave and begun unleashing fiery destruction upon the Geats. Sensing his own
death approaching, Beowulf went to fight the dragon. With the aid of
(10) , he succeeded in killing the beast, but at a heavy cost. The dragon
bit Beowulf and its fiery venom killed him after their encounter.
The Geats burned Beowulf’s body on a huge funeral pyre and then buried
him with a massive treasure in a barrow overlooking the sea.
Representation
Significant Details
Character of the Character
about the Character
in the Present Society
Beowulf
King Hrothgar
Grendel
Grendel’s Mother
Wiglaf
Dragon
Evidence
Character Behavioral Pattern
(State a scene or instance)
Beowulf
King Hrothgar
Grendel
Grendel’s mother
Wiglaf
Dragon
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the Philippines in early March, people
started looking for answers.
In a country that has faced disease outbreaks, the sight of doctors and
nurses aiding the sick is comforting to many. It came as a surprise when some
people started to turn against frontline health workers shortly after the lockdown
in mid-March.
Being in the front line exposes them to immediate risks, so they’ve come to
rely on each other.
But when they find themselves alone at times, fear gets to them and hits
the hardest during end of shift.
“We face an internal struggle at the end of the day,” says Jose Karganilla, a 32-
year-old nurse. “What if I get sick? I’m on my own.”
His colleague and friend, Patrick Tan, 31, believes the pandemic makes
some of them question why they do what they do. “Some of us struggle to accept
that we’re risking our lives,” he says as he weighs his next words. “We’re working
with one foot in the grave.”
“People always see doctors and nurses. They don’t see the lab scientist
With the number of cases increasing in the Philippines every day, DOH
says some 15,000 additional medical personnel are needed. Recently, the
government enacted the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, a law improving support
to health workers. The City of Manila followed suit with an ordinance prohibiting
discrimination against health workers.
Jose is thrilled about these developments but cautions that he and his
colleagues may be reaching the tipping point – physically and mentally.
“It’s not if, but when, we get sick. When I do, I hope I have enough strength
to fight for my own life,” Jose says.
When asked why they continue to work despite the risks, they told UNICEF
the same thing. They’re serving in very trying times, but every patient they send
home alive and well far outweighs the negativity.
“Nursing isn’t just a profession, it’s a calling,” Patrick says. “My purpose is
to help people and my colleagues.”
Jose, Sanita and Sarah have been away from home since March. Their
families worry about the attacks and the news of over 1,000 medical personnel
sick with COVID-19.
“I’m very happy when a patient gets well. I tell them to hold their family
close, something I can’t do right now,” Jose says, apologizing for suddenly
breaking into tears.
1. What does the article say about the medical frontliners' situation in the
country?
Initial
Final
If We Must Die
By Claude McKay (1889–1948)
Questions:
If We Must Die
Health workers speak
to UNICEF about
their struggles
Dear Frontliners:
- I was able to do/perform the task without any difficulty. The task
helped me in understanding the target content/lesson.
- I was able to do/perform the task. It was quite challenging but it still
helped me in understanding the target content/lesson.
- I was not able to do/perform the task. It was extremely difficult. I need
additional enrichment activities to be able to do/perform this task.
Note: If the lesson is designed for two or more weeks as shown in the eartag, just copy your
personal evaluation indicated in the first Level of Performance found in the second column
up to the succeeding columns, i.e. if the lesson is designed for weeks 4-6, just copy your
personal evaluation indicated in the LP column for week 4, week 5 and week 6. Thank you.
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