Department of Education
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CITY OF MEYCAUAYAN
Pag-asa St., Malhacan, City of Meycauayan, Bulacan
Activity Sheet
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ENGLISH
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Fourth Quarter – Week 1-5:
Judge the Relevance and Worth of Ideas,
Soundness of Author’s Reasoning,
and the Effectiveness of the Presentation
(EN9RC-IVf-2.22)
JUDGE THE RELEVANCE AND WORTH OF IDEAS,
SOUNDNESS OF AUTHOR’S REASONING,
AND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PRESENTATION
LET US KNOW
Have you experienced accomplishing something which you can
never imagine or expect to do? That is what we consider as
challenge. A challenge can be physical, mental, or emotional in nature.
At the of this activity sheet, you are expected to:
1. Read and analyze the Speech of His Excellency, Jose P. Laurel,
President.
2. Compose an essay about the importance of relevance and worth of
someone’s idea in our life;
3. Appreciate the relevance and worth of someone’s idea
LET US REVIEW
Directions: Analyze each picture and answer the following
questions. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
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1. What does each picture suggest?
2. Using one of the pictures, what commitment as a person were you
able to come up? Start your statement as indicated below.
My commitment: I stand up to commit myself in
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LET US STUDY
Relevance and Worth of Ideas, Soundness of Author’s
Reasoning, and the Effectiveness of the Presentation
Relevance is a difficult concept to pin down.
• Relevance is the perception that something is interesting and worth
knowing, notice that it has two parts (1) interest and (2) worth
knowing. Many attempt to add relevance to otherwise uninteresting
content by focusing efforts on creating interest.
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A good paragraph should contain sentences that are relevant to the
paragraph’s main subject and point. While the topic sentence sets up
the main idea, the rest of the sentences provide details that support or
explain this main idea. If you see a sentence that does not seem to relate
to the topic sentence, it is probably irrelevant.
Soundness - an argument is sound if it meets these two criteria: (1) It is valid.
(2) Its premises are true.
In other words, a sound argument has the right form AND it is true.
Note: A sound argument will always have a true conclusion. This follows every
time these 2 criteria for soundness are met.
Examples:
1. All rabbits are mammals.
2. Bugs Bunny is a rabbit.
3. Therefore, Bugs Bunny is a mammal.
In this argument, if the premises are true, then the conclusion is necessarily
true (so it is valid). AND, as it turns out, the premises ARE true (all rabbits
ARE in fact mammals, and Bugs Bunny IS in fact a rabbit)—so the conclusion
must also be true (so the argument is sound).
Presentation
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. It is
typically a demonstration, introduction, lecture, or speech meant to inform,
persuade, inspire, motivate, or to build good will or to present a new idea.
In public speaking and rhetorical debate, as well as in much communication,
three is a magic number. The brain finds it relatively easy to grasp three
points at a time.
People find three points, ideas or numbers, easier to understand and
remember than four or more.
➢ What, Why, How?
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An alternative structure uses the questions “What?”, “Why?” and
“How?” to communicate your message to the audience.
“What?” identifies the key message you wish to communicate. Think
about the benefit of your message for your audience. What will they
gain, what can they do with the information, and what will the benefit
be?
“Why?” addresses the next obvious question that arises for the
audience. Having been told “what”, the audience will naturally then
start to think “why should I do that?”, “why should I think that?” or
“why should that be the case?”. Directly addressing the “why?” question
in the next stage of your presentation means that you are answering
these questions and your talk is following a natural route through the
material. This will ensure that you have the audience on your side
immediately.
“How?” is the final question that naturally arises in the audience’s
mind. They want to know how they are going to achieve what you have
just suggested. Try not to be too prescriptive here. Instead of telling
people exactly how they should act on your message, offer suggestions
as to how they can act, perhaps using examples.
Speech of His Excellency, Jose P. Laurel, President of the Republic of
the Philippines, delivered over Station PIAM Manila, on February 29,
1944, addressed to the Filipino youth.
YOUTH OF MY BELOVED LAND:
In this critical period of our history, we need the heart, the soul, and the vigor
of the youth of our land to help us build our country on the most enduring
basis of brotherhood and solidarity of all Filipinos. I am, therefore, happy to
know of the integration of the Filipino youth and that the Filipino youth is
now on the march. The question is: Where is it going? Is it marching with
irresistible will and determination toward progress and civilization, peace and
order, and the prosperity and happiness of the Fatherland? If it is, I, as the
chosen head of our nation and our people, heartily welcome it and bid it
Godspeed.
It is trite saying that the future belongs to youth, especially to those dynamic,
aggressive, and self-confident young men and women who have foresight.
Thus, they have the bounden duty to ensure it. So much faith the greatest
Filipino patriot and hero, Rizal, had in the youth of the land that while he was
still in his teens, he dedicated to it his prize winning poem entitled “To the
Filipino Youth,” and he called the Filipino youth not without reason and
justification “Fair hope of my Fatherland.”
Several years later, when Rizal was in Madrid, he thought again of the Filipino
youth. On the occasion of the signal honor and distinction conferred upon the
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famous Filipino painter Juan Luna when one of his paintings was awarded
the highest prize in the artistic world, Rizal offered a touching toast. He
expressed the fervent hope that the worthy and commendable examples of
Juan Luna, and Resurrection, another famed Filipino painter, will be imitated
or emulated by the Filipino youth. In the course of a few years that youth had
become to him more than the “fair hope of my fatherland”; it had become the
“sacred hope of my Fatherland.”
Rizal’s fair and sacred hope is represented by the young men and women of
today, by you, the Filipino youth on the march, you who will be either the
leaders and masters of your country and your country’s fate tomorrow or the
hewers of wood and drawers of water for other people more ambitious and farseeing than you, men with vision, with courage, and with an indomitable will
to succeed whatever be the obstacles.
Inspired by the same noble sentiment, the late Dr. Rafael Palma, builder of
the University of the Philippines, dedicated to the same youth, to the same
“fair and sacred hope” of the Fatherland, his last work and masterpiece, his
life-size biography of Rizal. In his dedicatory remarks he gave voice to his
abiding faith and confidence in the ability of the Filipino young men and
women to make good.
Have they made good or are they making good? Were Rizal living today would
he be proud of them? Would he say, if he could see them from beyond the
tomb, that he did not die in vain, that his country’s sacred and beautiful hope
has not disappointed him and those who like him had given their full measure
of sacrifice for the glory of their Fatherland?
How fare the youth of the land? Are they planting the seeds that will make
their country great? Do they realize the serious problems that now confront
the Republic of the Philippines, which is their Republic, and are they
contributing to the fullest extent to the solution of such problems? Are they
putting their strong and broad shoulders on the wheel of progress and
prosperity? Are they helping actively in the complete restoration of peace and
order in their country and in the gigantic reconstruction work which both the
people and the government must undertake? Are they doing their duty as
citizens of the Republic, working for the common happiness and welfare of
their respective communities?
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Are the Filipino young men and women of today
sowing the seeds of peace and prosperity so that they will reap the fruits of
progress and tranquillity? Man is the archetype of society. Both society and
the nation grow as the individuals grow. Unless our youth prepare for the
future, there will be no future for them.
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“I want to let those who deny us every feeling of patriotism,” wrote Rizal, “that
we know how to die for our duty and for our convictions. What matters death
if one dies for what one loves, for one’s country, and for those one adores?”
In one of his parting letters he wrote “My future, my life, my joys, all I have
sacrificed for my love for her”—referring to the Philippines. “Whatever be my
fate, I will die blessing her and wishing her the dawn of her redemption.” That,
you will agree, is a wonderful sentiment. Does the Filipino youth of today feel
and cherish it?
Isagani, one of the youthful characters that stand out in bold relief in Rizal’s
Noli, once called on one of the leading lawyers in Manila for an advice. The
lawyer advised Isagani to follow the line of least resistance. “Why fight, why
think,” he argued, “when somebody else will do the fighting and thinking for
you? Prosperity, happiness, and peace of mind,” the legal adviser pointed out,
lie in the direction of the current. “Believe me,” he concluded, “you will
remember me and think me right when you have gray heirs like mine.”
What was Isagani’s retort? “When I have gray hairs like yours,” he answered,
“and I look back upon my past and see that I had worked only for myself,
without having done what I could well have done and should have done for
the country which has given me everything, then, every gray hair of mine will
be for me a thorn and instead of being proud of my gray hairs, I shall be
ashamed of them.”
Do the Filipino youth of today talk and feel that way? Are they fully aware of
the tremendous responsibility placed upon them by Rizal when he called them
“fair and sacred hope of the Fatherland?” Are they willing to die for their
convictions, to fight hunger and poverty and all the other evils that hard times
bring in their train so that their country, their people, their Republic, might
live in peace and in abundance?
Contrasting his age and that of his son, the father of Ibarra, Rizal’s hero in
the NOLI, said: “The future opens itself for you; for me it is closing. Your
affections are being born; mine are dying. Fire burns in your blood; frost is
congealing in mine; and yet you cry and do not know how to sacrifice the
present for the future, a future which will be useful to you and your country.”
“You do not know how to sacrifice the present for a useful, fruitful future.”
Surely, the youth of today cannot and will not accept that serious charge.
They cannot and will not disappoint their greatest hero, martyr and model.
They are ready and willing, I take it, to do their part, to work with their duly
constituted leaders for the salvation of their country especially during these
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days of supreme ordeal when the fate of the Philippines is at stake as a result
of the scarcity of food and the continued pernicious and disloyal activities of
some of our citizens.
I am taking the liberty, therefore, on this occasion to invite and call upon all
the youth of the land to join hands with the forces of the government to
stimulate food production, to restore complete peace and order throughout
the length and breadth of the Philippines, and to work actively and
persistently for the welfare, progress and prosperity of the Republic. The
Republic is not of this generation to keep, but it is particularly for the young
generation and future generations to preserve and to enjoy.
I thank you for this opportunity of addressing the youth of the land on this
memorable occasion. I shall be happy to say a few words to you later in
connection with the integration movement of the Filipino youth not only in
the public and private schools but of all Filipino young men and women all
over the islands so that the youth of the land may be not only a strong factor
in supporting this government and in making this Republic an enduring
nation but also so that with the help and cooperation and loyalty of the
Filipino youth, we may be in a position to transmit as a heritage to future
generations a country, a people, compact and united in the bonds of a
common affection.
I thank you.
Source: Office of the Solicitor General Library
LET US PRACTICE
Directions: Former President Jose P. Laurel’s family dream
sounded to be so good. Below are statements extracted from his
speech, judge whether these promises are likely to be realized or not.
Explain the possible causes of successes or failures of these goals. Write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. In this critical period of our history, we need the heart, the soul, and
the vigor of the youth of our land to help us build our country on the
most enduring basis of brotherhood and solidarity of all Filipinos.
2. The youth of the land may be not only a strong factor in supporting this
government and in making this Republic an enduring nation but also
so that with the help and cooperation and loyalty of the Filipino youth,
we may be in a position to transmit as a heritage to future generations
a country, a people, compact and united in the bonds of a common
affection.
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3. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Are the Filipino young men and women of
today sowing the seeds of peace and prosperity so that they will reap
the fruits of progress and tranquility?
4. The Republic is not of this generation to keep, but it is particularly for
the young generation and future generations to preserve and to enjoy.
5. “You do not know how to sacrifice the present for a useful, fruitful
future.”
LET US REMEMBER
Relevance is the perception that something is interesting and
worth knowing.
Soundness - an argument is sound if it meets these two criteria: (1) It is valid.
(2) Its premises are true.
A presentation is the process of presenting a topic to an audience. A
demonstration, introduction, lecture, or speech meant to inform, persuade,
inspire, motivate, or to build good will or to present a new idea.
LET US APPRECIATE
Directions: The speech which you have just read focused
on Filipino youth. Explain how this speech may affect the
disposition, aspirations, state policies, and lives of the citizens in general.
Write your ideas on a separate sheet of paper.
LET US PRACTICE MORE
Directions: The speech of President Jose P. Laurel, is it still
relevant to our country now? Why? Explain your answer in five
sentences. Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper. Be guided with
the Rubric on the next page.
EVALUATION
Directions: Based on the speech of President Jose P. Laurel, write
three (3) paragraph essay judging the relevance and worth of
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ideas, soundness of reasoning and effectiveness of presentation. Write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper. Be guided with the Rubric below.
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3
2
1
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor
The writing is fairly
insightful,
containing
generally well –
developed
thoughts
and
ideas.
The writing shows
some evidence of
meaningful
thought,
but
several ideas are
not
clearly
developed.
The writing lacks
evidence
of
meaningful
thought, and ideas
are
hardly
developed.
Most ideas are
connected
and
arranged
clearly
and effectively.
Ideas are often not
connected
or
arranged clearly or
effectively.
Ideas are hardly
connected
or
arranged clearly or
effectively.
CONTENT
The
writing
is
insightful,
containing well –
developed
thoughts
and
ideas.
ORGANIZATION
All
ideas
are
connected
and
arranged
clearly
and effectively.
PURPOSE AND FORM
The purpose is
very clearly seen in
the writing. The
form of writing fits
and achieves the
purpose
completely.
The purpose is The purpose is not The purpose is not
mostly seen in the easy to tell from easy to tell from
writing. The form the form of writing. the form of writing.
of writing fits and
achieves
the
purpose
adequately.
CONVENTIONS
There are no errors
in
grammar,
punctuation and
spelling.
There few errors in
grammar,
punctuation
or
spelling.
There
several
errors in grammar,
punctuation
or
spelling.
There many errors
in
grammar,
punctuation
or
spelling.
TOTAL SCORE: ________
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2020
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CAROLINA S. VIOLETA, EdD
Schools Division Superintendent
JERRY D. CRUZ, PhD, CESE
Asst. Schools Division Superintendent
DOMINADOR M. CABRERA, PhD
Chief, Curriculum Implementation Division
EDWARD C. JIMENEZ, PhD
Education Program Supervisor- LR Manager
MARILOU J. DEL ROSARIO, PhD
Education Program Supervisor- ENGLISH
KLEAVHEL C. FAMISAN/
MARVIN Q. GOSIACO/
MA. CECILIA DJ. MULDONG /
VERONICA T. ESCABILLAS
Content /Language /Layout Evaluator
RIZZEL U. LIBRANDO
Developer/Writer
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