Celebrating Children’s Month!
How witty can kids be?
Habang nasa byahe,
Kate: Kahla, ang ganda ng
ulap no?
Kahla: Opo, parang bulak..
Yan ba yung bulak na
pinangwa-wash ni Mama
Mary kay baby Jesus pag
pumu-poo?
How witty can kids be?
Mommy Kate tells the legend of
Mount Mayon to Kahla.
Kate: ...ayun, tapos, kung san
namatay si Daragang Magayon, may
umusbong na lupa, lumaki ng lumaki,
hanggang sa naging bundok..
Kahla suddenly interrupts me
saying, "teka, teka.. eh sinong
namatay sa Bundok Maculot???!
(Maculot is the mountain in our native
town, Cuenca, Batangas.
Kate: ...Wala.. walang namatay dun.
Iba naman ang alamat nun e!
Kahla: ah alam ko na, namatay dun
yung manliligaw ni Magayon na kulot.
How witty can kids be?
kahla: mommy, mommy..
apat ang pangarap ko..
mommy kate: wow, talaga?!
ano ano yun?
kahla: uhm,
doctor..teacher...singer.. and
dancer!
mommy kate: andami
naman!
kahla: bakit, di ba pwede
yun?!
Share your childhood memories
with your seatmates/groupmates.
YOUR TURN!
The Writing Process
Striving to be systematic and creative at the same time
Objectives:
1) Diagram some common steps in writing;
2) Apply strategies for writing introduction, body, and
conclusion; and;
3) Detail key points for writing narrative, descriptive,
expository, and argumentative/persuasive papers.
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Scenario:
You are tasked to write a narrative-descriptive essay
inspired by the lessons you learned from our IP Month
celebration.
Think-Group-Share
Come up with your game plan. Enumerate the steps
you will follow to accomplish the task.
1) Choose and narrow down topic (free writing, mind
mapping, clustering, brainstorming).
2) Decide on your thesis statement.
3) Make an outline.
4) Write first draft (Intro, Body, Conclusion)
5) Revise draft.
Does your game plan look something
like this?
Or like this?
Or like this?
Or this?
MY
MIND
MAP
Time for MCQs!
Is this an effective thesis statement?
A. Indigenous peoples are our
links to the past.
Is this an effective thesis statement?
B. Remembering one’s roots is an
important step towards knowing one’s
identity, and setting direction for one’s life.
Is this an effective thesis statement?
C. While most people have forgotten our
indigenous culture, there are still many who
actively seek lessons of the past by studying
history, conversing with elders, and
participating in cultural advocacy.
Is this an effective thesis statement?
D. With the intention of finding my roots, I
remember the life, values, and moral
convictions of my beloved grandfather, the
late Fr. Emilio Palma.
If I were to write a narrative-descriptive essay,
which thesis statement is most appropriate?
A. Remembering one’s roots is an important step towards
knowing one’s identity, and setting direction for one’s life.
B. While most people have forgotten our indigenous culture,
there are still many who actively seek lessons of the past by
studying history, conversing with elders, and participating in
cultural advocacy.
C. With the intention of finding my roots, I remember the life,
values, and moral convictions of my beloved grandfather, the
late Fr. Emilio Palma.
Thesis Statement:
With the intention of finding my roots, I remember the life,
values, and moral convictions of my beloved grandfather, the
late Fr. Emilio Palma.
I. Why it is important to remember the lives of our
forefathers
II. Who Fr. Emilio Palma is
III. What I remember about Lolo
IV. What I learned from Lolo’s life, his values, and his
moral convictions
V. What the next generation can do to remain rooted
Let your thesis statement
be your guide!
Think-Group-Share
Narrative Writing – Survival of the Fittest
1. Narrative writing has a plot. Based on the
article, answer the following:
a.Where did the event happen?
b.Who was/were involved in the
situation?
c.What were the consequences of this
event?
d.Is the story finished? If not, what
continuation do you anticipate?
2. What more formal term can you substitute
for “shitty” in Par. 1?
3. Were dialogues/direct speech used
effectively in the said article? Give the line
you like best.
Sample text for revision:
From an essay titled “Is this UP?”
I do not consider myself worthy of being a University of the
Philippines student. The school itself is overwhelming for an
average Joe like me.
I nearly spent the day walking even with tight classes because I
do not know where the jeepneys travel. I nearly got myself to
Forestry.
Expository – Are today’s youth less creative and imaginative?
1. What does the article explain/inform us
about?
2. Identify the paragraph/s that used the
following modes of development? Simply
write the paragraph number.
a. Illustration and examples
b. Cause and effect
c. Comparison and contrast
d. Analysis of a Process
Argumentative – Why Instagram is Not All that Bad
1. What is the author’s main
argument?
2. Identify a sentence where author
appealed to logic.
3. Identify a sentence where author
appealed to emotion.
4. Identify a sentence where author
conceded to the opposing view. How
did he turn this around to support his
own argument?
General Questions:
1. Choose the article with…
a. most interesting and attention-grabbing
introduction
b. least interesting introduction
c. most impacting conclusion
d. least impacting conclusion
2. Article you will recommend for your
friends to read. Why?
TITLE OF THE ARTICLE
Let’s have a
Dance Break!
Introduction:
How to have the “hook” effect
interesting story or anecdote
compelling or surprising statistics
provocative question
attention grabbing quotation or piece of dialogue
brief example
Interesting quote
Let us examine
this sample essay.
How to Bore the Children
by Charles Eisenstein
How to Bore the Children
Here is how to make a child bored: first and foremost, keep
him indoors so that the infinitude of nature, its endless variation
and chaotic messiness is replaced by a finite, orderly, predictable
realm. Second, through television and video games, habituate him
to intense stimuli so that everything else seems boring by
comparison. Third, eliminate as much as possible any
unstructured time with other children, so that he loses his
capacity for creative play and needs entertainment instead.
Fourth, shorten his attention span with fast-paced programming,
dumbed-down books, and frequent interruptions of his play. Fifth,
hover over him whenever possible to stunt his self-trust and make
him dependent on outside stimulation. Sixth, hurry him from
activity to activity to create anxiety about time and eliminate the
easy sense of timelessness native to the young.
No one, of course, sets out on purpose to strip away their
children’s most primal self-sufficiency — the self-sufficiency of
play — but that is the net effect of a culture fixated on safety,
bound to schedules, and addicted to entertainment.
In a former time, children, despite a dearth of complicated
toys, were rarely bored. Ask your grandparents whether they
were bored as children, with their bikes, bats and balls, simple
dolls that didn’t speak or move by themselves, in the days before
television. Boredom, in fact, is a very recent word, apparently
not having appeared in print until the mid-19th century. It is not
a natural state, and did not exist in state of nature, or in a state
anywhere near nature. It is a symptom of our alienation.
Alienation – happens when the things we created begin to overpower
and control us
Reflect on the forms of alienation depicted in the photos.
Boredom, however, is quite good for the
economy. It motivates all kinds of consumption, an
endless hunger to keep ourselves entertained. It
points therefore to a need that was once met
without money, but that is now met with money;
the phenomenon of boredom and its alleviation
exemplifies a much more general economic
principle.
In order for the (money) economy to grow, some
function once exercised without money must be
converted into a good or a service. One can view
economic growth as a progressive stripmining of nature
and community, turning the former into commodities
and the latter into paid services, depleting,
respectively, the natural and social commons. Pollute
the water and sell bottled water; disempower folk
healing and make people pay for medical care; destroy
cultural traditions that bestow identity and sell brand
name sneakers… the examples are endless. Boredom is
a symptom of a similar stripmining of what was once a
kind of wealth native to us all: the ability to feel good
doing nothing, the ability to create our own fun, a
general sense of sovereignty over our own time. This is
a form of what I call spiritual capital.
As I write this, my six-year-old sits a few feet away,
wholly absorbed in threading a colored string through an old
tape roll. Without a screen in front of him, his brain must
make its own images — an ability that counts among the
forms of spiritual capital. Before that he was begging to be
allowed to watch a video. His whining and cajoling seemed
almost like an addict wanting a fix. I haven’t tried to isolate
him from society. Even though we don’t have TV, we do have
videos, and he still gets plenty of that kind of thing
elsewhere. Besides, there are rarely any kids playing outside.
Their parents won’t let them, at least not in this
neighborhood. They are afraid: afraid of nature, afraid of
other people, afraid of what might happen, suspicious of
play, loath to have their children unsupervised.
A good conclusion must:
stress the importance of the thesis
statement,
give the essay a sense of completeness, and
leave a final impression on the reader
Conclusion: How to deliver that IMPACT
echoing the introduction
challenging the reader
looking to the future
posing a question
Here’s the concluding paragraph of
our SAMPLE ESSAY.
Let us create a world of real wealth,
where our ability to play and imagine are
intact, and where the outdoors is full of
children.
Homework:
1) Do your own pre-writing strategy, and come up with a topic.
2) Tweet your topic using #narrative-descriptiveX1
#narrative-descriptiveH
#narrative-descriptiveX2
Sample tweet:
I wanna write about how I stood up for my belief (Ala Macli-ing)
when I was in high school. Dilemma: Truth or Friendship
Thank you so much for your kind heart!