LESSON PLAN

I. OBJECTIVE

At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:

Identify Claims of Fact, Value, and Policy made in a text.

II. SUBJECT MATTER

A. Topic: Types of Claims (Fact, Value and Policy)

B. References: Textbook: Reading and Writing (page 91)

Filomena T. Dayagbil, Ed. D., Ethel L. Abao, Ed. D.,

Remedios C. Bacus, Ed. D.

Internet: SlideShare

Vanessa P. Ramones, Jeny Sonio, Tine Lachica

C. Materials: PowerPoint presentation, Printed materials

III. PROCEDURE

A. Preliminary Activities

1. Classroom Arrangement

2. Prayer

3. Checking of Attendance

4. Review of Previous Lesson

A. What is claim? How can we tell if a text is a claim?

 B. Presentation

1. Activity

The students will be grouped into 3 and each group will answer the
following:

The teacher will present statements and the students will identify if it is true or false.

The students, with their group will FACT if the statement is true and BLUFF if it is false.

The students will be given only 20 seconds to answer.

2. Analysis

Questions:

A. What do this information gives us?

B. Do you believe those facts and information?

C. What do you call a statement that persuades, and convinces the readers?
(The students will then guess letters from the given letter puzzle on the
slides.)

3. Abstraction

CLAIM

According to del Gandio J. (2008), is an arguable statement—an idea that a rhetor (that is, a
speaker) asks an audience to accept.

A claim is an idea, opinion or assertion.

A claim persuades, argues, convinces, proves or provocatively suggests something to a reader

who may or may not initially agree with you.

TYPES OF CLAIMS
 1. Claim of Fact – A claim asserts some empirical truth.

- Asserts that the condition has existed, exists or will exist.

To support, use – factual evidence that is sufficient, reliable and appropriate.

Example: Philippines is part of Southeast Asia.

2. Claim of Judgment or Value – A claim asserts a judgment of some sort.

- Makes a judgment: expresses approval or disapproval about

something; attempts to show that something is wrong or right,
moral/immoral, beautiful or ugly.

To support – you must establish standards that you are using to measure the beauty or morality of
your topic.

Example: Musical comedy is the best form of entertainment.

3. Claim of Action or Policy – A claim asserts that an action should be taken.

- Argues that something should or should not be done, believed,

banned; argues for a course of action.

To support – you must first convince the audience that a problem exists and then prove that your
policy will fix it.

Example: The death penalty should be abolished because it does

nothing to prevent murder.

4. Application

With the same group, the students will read the sentence and identify if it
is claim of fact, value or policy.

Global warming is a threat to people living here on Earth. (Fact)

The age at which people can get a driver’s license must be raised to 21. (Policy)
Increasing population threatens the environment. (Fact)

Birds are more lovable pets. (Value)

Swimmers are more attractive than volleyball players. (Value)

IV. EVALUATION

Analyze each statement and identify whether it claims a FACT, VALUE or POLICY.

1. Death is evitable.

2. Albert Einstein is the greatest scientist ever.

3. Schools should adopt a recycling program.

4. Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon.

5. The Philippines has the best human capital.

6. Stress causes health problems.

7. Technology should be used in all office transactions.

8. Students should be trained to have savings accounts.

9. Stories on super heroes teach the young the value of courage and brevity.

10. Science subject is better than Values Education.

V. ASSIGNMENT

Watch the video clip entitled: “If I Can Change the World” then take down notes for you
reference to some of the social issues.

Write five claim of fact, value, and policy on your paper that are presented in the video.