Eng10 Q3 W6 Capslet-2
Eng10 Q3 W6 Capslet-2
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ENGLISH
QUARTER 3
WEEK 6
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Written by: CRISTINA G. COLUMBRES (HT-III) Don Pablo Lorenzo MHS (Lesson 2)
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CapSLET
Capsulized Self-Learning Empowerment Toolkit
SUBJECT &
English 10 QUARTER 3 WEEK 6 DAY ___________________________________
GRADE/LEVEL dd/mm/yyyy
UNDERSTAND
Title: CRITIQUING A TEXT
When a reader captures the main points of a material he read, he summarizes. When he puts
ideas or information together or dissects it, to check how it works, he analyses. And, when he
evaluates the material, he critiques.
Criticism may sound negative, but in the academic sense, critiquing is not being negative or
mean. Rather, it’s a constructive way to understand the material we are working with.
When we critique, we identify, evaluate, and respond to the author’s ideas, positively and
negatively. Readers are expected to engage with the material rather than just summarizing it. And
when we do critiquing, we interrogate. Our opinions and ideas become part of the textual analysis.
We even question the text, we argue with it, and we dig into it for deeper meanings.
So, how to critique a material? There are various ways to evaluate a reading material. The
internet provides access to some tools we can use to critique, but what is commonly applied is by
answering series of questions. Questions may vary, for it depends on the type of material we are
evaluating.
It is not primarily a summary; rather comments and evaluations of the work in the light of
specific issues and theoretic concerns.
1. INTRODUCTORY. This paragraph gives the background of the material, your opinion on the
work as a whole. The background includes all of the relevant information like, who wrote the
material, when and where he wrote it, and of course what was his purpose, why he wrote it.
2. DEVELOPMENT. These paragraphs can vary in length and in number. The paragraphs may
focus on the different parts or elements of the story or how you assess the plot of the story.
Contents in these paragraphs may be positive or negative for it depends on your assessment as
a reader.
3. CONCLUDING. Here you give your general impression of the story. Did you enjoy it? In
general are the descriptions clear, over emphasized or not clear enough. You should also
briefly summarize all the issues under discussions. Any additional opinions on the subject
would be appropriate at this time as well as any final conclusions.
Source: Burnell, Carol, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and
Nicole Rosevear. “Critiquing a Text.” The Word on College Reading and
Writing. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Accessed August 9, 2020.
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/wrd/chapter/critiquing-a-text/.
_____ 1. It’s okay to make a critique paper without reading the whole story.
_____ 2. Author’s purpose is not important.
_____ 3. When we do critiquing, it should always be constructive.
_____ 4. The developmental paragraphs in a critique paper may vary in lengths and numbers.
_____ 5. It is important to fully understand what the argument is all about before writing a paper.
REMEMBER
Key Points
When critiquing a text, read the entire material. Do not rate a text or book unless you did not
read it entirely. It’s not fair to the author, and your judgement will be biased because you have not
given the material 100% chance.
Write pros and cons in your critique paper. An assessment with only compliments is
suspicious and a lame way of critiquing. Nevertheless, do not dwell much on the cons. The key point
is to do a fair or balance review.
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TRY
Let us see how much you have learned today!
Directions: Read and understand the given selection and write a short critique following the
given criteria.
Content (substantial information) 20 pts.
Organization (well-organized and ideas are clearly supported) 20 pts
Grammar Usage & Mechanics (Mastery of the convention) 10 pts.
(Write your answers on the separate sheets provided.)
Pandora’s Box
By Hesoid
The story begins with the great god of Olympus, Zeus, Prometheus, and Epimetheus.
Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus were Titans but pledged their loyalty to Zeus and the
Olympians, since Prometheus was born with the special power of prophecy and knew that Zeus
would defeat the Titans. Zeus rewarded Prometheus and Epimetheus for their loyalty and gave them
the job of creating the first creatures to live on Earth. Epimetheus formed the animals and gave each a
special skill and form of protection. Prometheus took his time molding man, and was left with no
forms of protection since Epimetheus had already given them all away. Prometheus knew man
needed some form of protection and asked Zeus if he could let man have fire. Zeus refused. Fire was
only for the gods. Prometheus ignored Zeus and gave man fire anyway. For this, Prometheus was
punished. Zeus tied him with chains to a rock far away in the Caucasus Mountains where nobody
would find him. Every day Zeus sent an eagle to feast upon Prometheus’ liver, which grew back
every day so that Prometheus would have to endure this torture daily until Heracles found
Prometheus and killed the eagle and let Prometheus go.
This torture wasn’t enough of a punishment for Zeus who also believed that humans should be
punished for accepting the gift of fire from Prometheus. To punish man, Zeus created a woman
named Pandora. She was molded to look like the beautiful goddess Aphrodite. She received the gifts
of wisdom, beauty, kindness, peace, generosity, and health from the gods.
Zeus brought her to Earth to be Epimetheus’ wife. Even though Epimetheus’ brother,
Prometheus, had warned him of Zeus’ trickery and told him not to accept gifts from the gods,
Epimetheus was too taken with her beauty and wanted to marry her anyway.
As a wedding present, Zeus gave Pandora a box (in ancient Greece this was called a jar) but
warned her never to open it. Pandora, who was created to be curious, couldn’t stay away from the box
and the urge to open the box overcame her. Horrible things flew out of the box including greed, envy,
hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death. All of life’s miseries had been let out into the
world. Pandora slammed the lid of the box back down quickly, ashamed of what she had done. She
sought Epimetheus’ forgiveness.
Soon, Pandora heard the voice coming from the box again, but she didn’t want to be tricked a
second time. Deciding the situation could not get any worse, she opened the box a second time. A
white flame flew out, which is hope. It was the last thing remaining inside of the box.
Ever since, humans have been able to hold onto this hope in order to survive the wickedness
that Pandora had let out.
“Pandora’s box” now means anything that is best left untouched, for fear of what might come
out of it.
Written by GreekBoston.com in Greek Mythology. “The Story of Pandora's Box.” iCal, February 26, 2018.
https://www.greekboston.com/culture/mythology/pandoras-box/.
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For further readings and exercises, you may access the following links:
Burnell, Carol, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, and Nicole
Rosevear. “Critiquing a Text.” The Word on College Reading and
Writing. Open Oregon Educational Resources. Accessed August 9,
2020. https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/wrd/chapter/critiquing-a-text/.
Joni. “A Guide to Critiquing a Story: Seven Vital Elements Every Story Must
REFERENCE/S Have.” Writers & Illustrators of the Future. Joni
https://www.writersofthefuture.com/wp-
content/uploads/2019/02/Writers-of-the-Future-logo.jpg, July 2, 2020.
https://www.writersofthefuture.com/seven-vital-elements-every-story-
must-have/.
Written by: SHERYLL J. SANTIAGO (MT-I) Don Pablo Lorenzo MHS (Lesson 1)
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CapSLET
Capsulized Self-Learning Empowerment Toolkit
SUBJECT &
English 10 QUARTER 3 WEEK 6 DAY ___________________________________
GRADE/LEVEL dd/mm/yyyy
UNDERSTAND
Title: Use Pronouns Effectively: Pronoun-antecedent agreement
In our previous lesson, the focus was to use the types of pronouns, and learn its cases. This time,
our main goal is to learn the antecedent of pronouns and to identify the rules for pronoun-antecedent
agreement. Generally, a Pronoun is referred to something prior in the text, commonly known as its
antecedent, and essentially it agrees in number- singular or plural, with the thing in which it is being
referred to (Pronouns and Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement. Accessed August 10, 2020). “In grammar,
an antecedent is a word that another word refers back to. That word is technically called a proform,
and while English allows for types of antecedents based on many parts of speech, such as pro-verbs
and pro-adverbs, it is far more common for a pronoun to refer to an antecedent (Salter, Matt. “What Is
an Antecedent?” English Grammar Rules & Usage. Accessed August 17, 2020).”
Let’s identify some rules for pronoun-antecedent agreement by using some examples.
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On the other hand, some nouns can be labeled as a group or as a single entity: club, company,
government, family, jury, team, army, group. “Because they can describe either the group as a
SINGLE ENTITY (only one – singular) or the INDIVIDUALS in the group (more than one – plural),
these nouns pose special problems as antecedents” (“Self Teaching Unit:” Pronoun - Antecedent
Agreements. Accessed September 1, 2020).
Guidelines that can help in deciding which referent pronoun agrees with such noun antecedents
1. When referring to a group as a whole, or as a single unit, consider the noun as singular and this
will also have singular referent pronoun.
Example: The company is working according to its scheduled plan.
Company = a single unit antecedent / its = singular referent pronoun
2. When referring to the individuals with the group, make the noun plural, and it must have plural
referent pronoun.
Example: The company must submit reports according to their specialized areas.
The company = more than one individual plural antecedent / their = plural referent
pronoun
3. If used in the plural form, a group noun means more than one group. It certainly takes
a plural referent pronoun.
Example: The clubs are holding their series of webinars.
Clubs = more than one club plural antecedent / their = plural referent
It is a common knowledge, that a special problem is also met, when trying to use Indefinite
pronouns as antecedents. Consider the following examples that are explicitly stated in the concept
table.
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B. Consider the video transcription about David and Beth’s conversation on Khan Academy Youtube
Channel to answer the items that follow:
David: “Hello Grammarians. Hello, visiting cousin, Beth.”
Beth: “Hello, Cousin David.”
David: “So today we're gonna be talking about pronoun-antecedent agreement…” So we've got a
sentence, like Jillian rode her bike to the grocery store. Fine. Straight up sentence, pretty
ordinary. Uh, if we want to refer to Jillian again, we want to use a pronoun. Well, we'd refer to
Jillian as ‘she.’ That's a woman's name. So, ‘she’ bought some garlic and a spoon like you
normally would when you go to the grocery store. So, when we talk about this pronoun, ‘she’
in relation to this word, this proper noun, Jillian, Jillian is the antecedent as the thing that goes
before the pronoun ‘she’.” (Pronoun-antecedent agreement/Syntax/Khan Academy. August 24, 2016.
Video, 4.06).
1. What are David and Beth talking about?
A. nouns-pronouns agreement C. pronoun-antecedent agreement
B. subject-pronouns agreement D. subject-verb agreement
2. What social media platform is used in showcasing David and Beth’s conversations?
A. Facebook B. Youtube C. Zoom D. Instagram
3. Which of David’s sentences supports the grammatical aspect of this week’s lesson?
A. That’s a woman’s name. C. Hello, visiting cousin, Beth.
B. Hello Grammarians. D. Jillian rode her bike to the grocery store.
4. Study the sentence: So, ‘she’ bought some garlic and a spoon like you normally would when you
go to the grocery store. What is the implied antecedent of this sentence?
A. Jillian B. Garlic C. Beth D. Spoon
5. What is the basic pronoun-antecedent agreement rule mentioned in this conversation?
A. When referring to a group as a whole, or as a single unit, consider the noun as singular and
this will also have singular referent pronoun.
B. Indefinite pronoun antecedents may also be either singular or plural.
C. The antecedent comes before the pronoun that refers to it.
D. A referent pronoun agrees with its personal pronoun antecedent.
REMEMBER
Key Points Try to imagine yourself, living in this
world without pronouns and antecedents. Communication will surely be chaotic without knowing
the basic principle of Pronoun-antecedent agreement. To logically remember Pronoun-
antecedent agreement learning concept, remember the following:
▪ It is far more common for a pronoun to refer to an antecedent.
▪ The antecedent plays an important role in identifying the correct pronoun in a sentence.
▪ Knowing the rules of pronoun-antecedent agreement can improve one’s English
language facility and communication process.
TRY
Let us see how much you have learned today!
Directions: Apply the rules of pronoun-antecedent agreement in each sentence that follows.
(Write your answers on the separate sheets provided.)
A. Study each item. Identify its correct pronoun and B. Write CORRECT if the item supports any of
antecedent. the pronoun-antecedent agreement rules, and
INCORRECT if it does not.
1. Nathan submits his requirements on time. 1. Monette prefers to donate their used clothes.
2. He saw his teacher at a Supermarket. 2. The students review their lessons diligently.
3. Carol enjoys her dinner with Sherill. 3. Neither of the men looked as if he needed help.
4. Jonah donated her painting to Centro Pastoral. 4. All of the sugar are already stored in its jar.
5. Each of the students submits his proposal. 5. One of the speakers delivers his speech well.
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C. Complete each sentence by matching it with the correct pronoun and antecedent. Use the pool of
pronouns and antecedents for the expected answers.
4. ___ of the participants has prepared ___ speech. its each mine me
For further readings and exercises, you may access the following links:
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