Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DIVISION OF DAVAO DE ORO
MONKAYO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Monkayo, Davao de Oro
Date: February 06-07,2024
Name of Teacher: Ruther Y. Ibanez
Grade and Section: 11-Broka, Hernandez,Tolentino
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS
A. OBJECTIVES:
1. Distinguish the patterns of paragraph development in writing Narration and
Description across disciplines;
2. Identify the pattern of paragraph development used in a specific
paragraph; and
3. Use one pattern of paragraph development in writing a composition
B. TOPIC
Narration and Description
C. Background Information for Learners
Paragraphs can be developed using a variety of patterns that reflect our thinking
about the material. As a jumpstart, you explore for ways to structure your thinking.
Then, you write about the topic sentence and its supporting sentences. As you revise
your composition, personal preferences come in. Some advance their material by
physical description; others by narrating series of events while others favored
comparison and contrast.
PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT:
1. NARRATION- A Narrative is a story. As a method of development, storytelling can
be very effective for thesimple reason that people love to hear stories, and will tune in
to a story when their eyes glazeover at other styles of writing.In developing a
paragraph using narration, sequential presentation of events is observe. It isnormally
chronological although at times can use flashbacks. Narratives contain action words–
verbs and adverbs – that help move the story or process along, and make it more
interesting.They also use transitions such as “first”, “then”, “soon”, “after”, “suddenly”,
etc. which maintaincoherence and show movement from one event to the next.
Points to remember in developing a Paragraph using Narration:
1. Your paragraph/s is/are characterized by words that show action and words that
showsequence. You can use action verbs and transitional expressions since a story
is builtaround people doing things.
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Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DIVISION OF DAVAO DE ORO
MONKAYO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Monkayo, Davao de Oro
2. Descriptive details in a narrative paragraph are essential to a good story. Details
help readers to connect to the world the author envisions.
3. Choose the right words for their meaning and use specific expressions.4. Be
guided by the sample narratives below:
2. DESCRIPTION
When you need to elucidate the nature of people, places and things you use
description. You should start with the physical description – the details of how your
subject looks, sounds, feels, smells or even tastes like. The details can be arranged
in any pattern you think is best. Your perspective will tell you where to begin and where
to end.
Two Types of Description:
1. Subjective Description – the writer is describing an ‘impression’ of what is
observed. Examples: a. “It was dark and lonely night” This helps us imagine the
kind of night it was.b. “Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been half
affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its
power of observation and analysis. Self-interest with her was high, but not
strong. It was nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Warm with the fancies
of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the formative period, possessed of
a figure promising eventual shapeliness and an eye alight with certain native
intelligence, she was a fair example of the middle American class . . . " In this
type of description, the author is describing an impression of what is observed.
2. 2. Objective Description – is usually employed in reportorial and scientific
writing. The goal of the writer is to present an impartial and actual picture of an
object or scene. The writer has to stay away from emotional impressions or
responses, bracketing his/herbiases.Examples:a. When detectives cover crime
scenes and has to write clear reports of their observation b. The Acer barbatum
is a small to medium-sized, deciduous tree usually ranging from15–25 m. (50–
80 ft.) tall when mature. Bark is light gray and smooth on younger trees,
becoming ridged and furrowed with age. Leaves are opposite and shallowly to
deeply palmately lobed, with a few blunt teeth but no serrations. The leaf
sinuses are rounded, unlike those of red maple (Acer rubrum) which are sharply
V-shaped. Also, the sides of terminal leaf lobes are more or less parallel, while
those of red maple are widest at the base, tapering to the tip. . . .Whether your
goal is to write objective or subjective description, your paragraph should have
a clear controlling idea so that your reader knows what to do with your
descriptive details.
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Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DIVISION OF DAVAO DE ORO
MONKAYO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Monkayo, Davao de Oro
D.LEARNING ACTIVITY
Practice Exercises/Activity Directions: Compare and Contrast Narration and
Description from each other. Use the Venn diagram below to show your
comparison and contrast.
NARRATION
DESCRIPTION
E. EVALUATION
Directions: Read the following paragraphs carefully. Identify what pattern of
development is used in each paragraph
1. One North Carolina man found quite a surprise last year while fishing in the
Catawba River: apiranha. Jerry Melton, of Gastonia, reeled in a one pound,
four ounce fish with an unusualbite. Melton could not identify it, but a nearby
fisherman did. Melton at first could not believehe had caught a piranha. He
said, “That ain’t no piranha. They ain’t got piranha around here.”Melton was
right: the fish is native to South America, and North Carolina prohibits
owning thefish as a pet or introducing the species to local waterways.
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2. What is the difference between subjective description and objective
description?
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3. How reading and writing interrelated to each other?
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Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
DIVISION OF DAVAO DE ORO
MONKAYO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Monkayo, Davao de Oro
4. For item #4
F. Generalization
From this lesson I learned that ……….
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