OUR LADY OF FATIMA SCHOOL OF VILLAVERDE

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Modular Lessons and Activities Intended for English 9
Name: _______________________________ Date to be accomplished: April 13-30, 2020
Grade & Section: __________________________ Score: ___________________

Chapter 2: Other Works from the Renaissance Period

I. Choosing an Interesting Introduction to a Composition

a. Interesting beginnings (page 98-99)
1. Read page 98
2. Answer exercise 15
b. Writing a conclusion to a composition (page 105- 106)
1. Read page 105 -106
2. Answer exercise 20
II. 4th Formal Theme (It was already distributed)
a. Evaluate how interesting your beginning and conclusion in the constructed paragraph.
III.Identifying and Formulating Topic Sentence (Page 101-105)
a. Answer exercise 17 and 19
IV. Distinguishing among Informative, Journalistic, and Literary Writing (Page 107)
a. Read all the pieces of information about the distinction of the three types of writing.
V. Drawing Similarities and differences of the Featured Selections in Relation to the Theme
a. Read William Blake’s, “The Lamb” and “The Tiger” on page 127-128
b. Answer all the questions beside it including the Values Life Connection.
c. Answer Exercise 17
d. Make a jazz chant of any of the two poems.
VI. Mastering Roots, Prefixes, and suffixes
a. Read page 130
b. Answer exercise 9 and 10.
Chapter 3: Parts of Speech
I. Pretest
Directions: Write the letter of the term that correctly identifies the underlined word/s in each sentence.
Example: C. 1. Many people learn to cook at the Culinary Institute of America.
A. abstract noun B. common noun C. proper noun D. collective noun
1. At the CIA, chefs teach the classes.
A. common noun B. collective noun C. abstract noun D. proper noun
2. Each class learns a different kind of cooking.
A. proper noun B. abstract noun C. compound noun D. collective noun
3. The classrooms are equipped with stoves and refrigerators.
A. abstract noun B. collective noun C. compound noun D. proper noun
4. The students are responsible for cleaning their workstations.
A. personal pronoun B. reflexive pronoun C. intensive pronoun D. indefinite pronoun
5. Each must pass an intensive cooking examination to graduate.
A. intensive pronoun B. indefinite pronoun C. personal pronoun D . reflexive pronoun
6. The students get great satisfaction from learning cooking skills.
A. compound noun B. compound noun C. abstract noun D. collective noun
7. Those are the skills they will use all their lives.
A. interrogative pronoun B. proper noun C. reflexive pronoun D. demonstrative pronoun
8. Who will go on to cook professionally?
A. demonstrative pronoun B. intensive pronoun C. interrogative pronoun D. personal pronoun
9. They themselves do not know the answer until after graduation.
A. intensive pronoun B. interrogative pronoun C. indefinite pronoun D. reflexive pronoun
10. They must prepare themselves for a difficult job search.
A. indefinite pronoun B. reflexive pronoun C. demonstrative pronoun D. intensive pronoun.
Lesson 1: Noun and Its Types
 Noun – name of a person, place, thing, or idea.
 Person – classmate, boy, lady, girl, wife, woman, husband, Krizelle, Rodeen
 Place –forest, mountains, park, Manila, Baguio, Tagaytay, market, rooms, beach
  Things – flower, t-shirt, cellphone, plant, bag, notebook, pen,
 Ideas and Qualities –freedom, love, fun, anger, faith, honesty, thought, hunger, sickness
Exercise 1: Finding Nouns
Directions: Underline the nouns in each sentence.
1. During spring time, flowers bloom.
2. The fragrance of the buds fills the air.
3. Bees are attracted to the perfume of flowers.
4. These insects see color, pattern, and movement.
5. Bees taste blooms with their front legs and antennae.
6. These creatures have short bodies covered with hair.
7. Pollen clings to the hair on the body of the insect.
8. Bees make honey from the nectar of flowers.
9. Humans have harvested honey for many centuries.
10. Our appreciation of this golden liquid continues today.
Types of Noun
 Concrete Noun – names an object that occupies space or that can be recognized by any of the senses.
Example: taxi, planets, music, tv, colors tablet, charger, fan, bag, etc.

 Abstract Noun – names an idea, a quality, or a characteristic.

Example: happiness, trouble, loyalty, intelligence, equality, freedom, love, etc.

 Common Noun – the general –not the particular –name of a person, place, thing or idea. Usually not
capitalized.
Example: pencil, ball, flower, bag, stone, hat, cup, fan, etc.

 Proper Noun – name of a particular person, place, thing, or idea. Usually capitalized.
 Person – Jose Rizal, Confucius, Lao Tzu, Einstein, Leeuwenhoek, Cristian, Florence
 Place – Ibung, Manila, Tagaytay, Baguio, Palawan, U.S.A, Hong Kong, Singapore
 Things – Mercedes-Benz, Mongol 2, Pilot, Panda, Huawei, Toyota, Krispy Kreme,
 Ideas and Qualities – Christmas, Passover Meal, New Year, Independence, Ice Age, World War
Exercise 1: Finding Common and Proper Nouns
Directions: Make two columns. Label the first column Common Nouns and the second column, Proper
Nouns. Then, in the appropriate column, write the nouns from the following sentences.
1. In Colombia, ants are sold as snacks by vendors on the street.
2. Fried worms are eaten in Mexico.
3. People in Uganda crush flies and shape them into pancakes.
4. In other parts of Africa, termites are munched like pretzels.
5. Certain spiders are roasted in New Guinea.
6. Some insects taste like nuts.
7. Restaurants in New York City serve ants dipped in chocolate.
8. In recent year, the North American Bait Farms have held a cooking contest using worms.
9. In some cookbooks you can find a recipe for peppers stuffed with earthworms.
10. Actually, insects give people necessary protein and vitamins.

Common Nouns Proper Nouns.

 Compound Noun – a noun that includes more than one word.

Compound Nouns
 Separate words living room, home run, peanut butter, ice cream
Hyphenated words break-in, attorney-at-law, bird-watcher, great-
grandmother
Combined words birdhouse, headband, flashlight, crosswalk,
brainpower
 Collective Noun – names of a group of people or things.

COMMON COLLECTIVE NOUNS

committee crew flock nation
colony crowd herd orchestra
band family league swarm
Exercise 2: Finding Compound and Collective Nouns

Directions: Make two columns. Label the first column Compound Nouns and the second column, Collective
Nouns. Then, in the appropriate column, write each noun.
1. My classmates and I listened to presentations by members of an environmental group.
2. One speaker discussed water pollution and how it affects a species of wild ducks.
3. Another pair of presenters warned of the decline in the population of the grasshopper.
4. According to the organization, a number of animals have recently been declared endangered.
5. Because the group was so interesting, the entire faculty of the high school came to hear them.

Compound Nouns Collective Nouns

Lesson 2: Pronoun and Its Type

 Pronoun – a word that takes the place of one or more nouns.

 Antecedents- the noun a pronoun refers to or replaces it. A pronoun must agree with the number and gender
with its antecedent.

Anteceden

Example: Aeron said that he couldn’t go to the zoo.

Pronoun

Pronoun

Lian asked Jasmine, “Did we miss the assignment?”

Anteceden

Exercise 1: Finding Antecedents

Directions: Underline the antecedent for each underlined pronoun.
1. Sheri brought her cell phone on the trip to the zoo.
2. Kevin asked Sheri to take a picture of him.
3. John said, “I enjoy the reptiles.”
4. Marlie and Marilyn said they were looking for the penguins.
5. Ms. Tria told Justin that she liked to watch the monkeys.
6. The monkey cage had a tire swing in it.
7. Jeff asked Ms. Tria, “Did you bring the monkeys a banana?”
8. Sherwin and Chocky asked the teacher, “Are we leaving now?”
 9. Sheri said that she wanted one more picture of the peacocks.
10. Ms. Tria’s students enjoyed their trip to the zoo.
 Personal Pronouns – refers to the specific person or thing by indicating the person speaking (the first person),
the person being addressed (the second person), or any other person or thing being discussed about (the third
person). These pronouns can be divided into the following three groups.
Personal Pronouns
First Person (the person Singular I, me
speaking) Plural We, us
Second Person (the person Singular You,
spoken to) Plural You
Third Person (the person or Singular He, him, she,
thing spoken about) Plural They, them
Exercise 1: Finding Personal Pronouns

Directions: Underline the personal pronouns in each sentence.

1. In the United States, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony devoted their lives to women’s
suffrage.
2. If you are a woman in the United States, you owe many of your legal and political rights to these
courageous suffragists.
3. At the time when Anthony began her work, women had few legal rights.
4. When African American men were given the right to vote in 1869, she began a movement to secure the
same rights for women.
5. In 1869, the territory of Wyoming was the first area in the U.S. to allow its female citizens to vote.
6. Anthony was president of the American Woman Suffrage Association until she was eighty.
7. Anthony voted in the election of 1872, but she was fined $100 for breaking the aw.
8. She refused to pay it.
9. We can see that few people are as devoted to a cause as she.
10. American women did not gain their right to vote until 1920.
11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton studied law in her father’s office when he was a Supreme Court Justice.
12. In 1848, she helped lead the first convention that demanded women’s suffrage.
13. Stanton also wrote articles for newspaper that she and Anthony ran together.
 Possessive Pronouns – this is a personal pronoun that indicate possession or ownership and take the place of
possessive forms of nouns.
Possessive Pronouns
First Person (the person Singular my, mine
speaking) Plural our, ours
Second Person (the person Singular your, yours
spoken to) Plural your, yours
Third Person (the person or Singular his, her, hers, it, its.
thing spoken about) Plural their, theirs.
*Some possessive pronouns must be used before nouns; others can stand alone.
Example:
USED BEFORE A NOUN: This is your ticket.
USED ALONE: This ticket is yours.
Exercise 1: Using Personal and Possessive Pronouns
Directions: Improve the following paragraph by replacing the underlined word or words with personal or
possessive pronouns. Write your answer inside the parenthesis provided for you.
Animated Cartoons
Animated cartoons can reproduce anything that the reader of this passage (_______) can imagine in
the reader’s (_________) mind. An animated cartoon achieves the cartoon’s (___________) effects through a
simple technique. Cartoon artists draw the artists’ (_______) pictures on a large board. In each picture, the figure
changes the figure’s (________) position slightly. If Bugs Bunny winks Bugs Bunny’s (_______) eye, Bugs
Bunny (_________) would be drawn in the first picture with Bugs Bunny’s (_______) eye open. In the next
picture Bugs Bunny’s (__________) eye would be half closed. In the following picture Bugs Bunny’s
(________) eye would be completely closed. The camera operator films these individual pictures in the
pictures’U (________) proper sequence. When the individual frames are run through a projector, (______) rapid
projection creates the illusion of movement. As the reader of this passage (______) view the animated cartoon,
the reader’s (______) eyes seem to see Bugs Bunny’s eye wink.
 Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns – are formed when –self or –selves is added to certain persona and
possessive pronoun.
Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns
Singular Plural
First Person Myself ourselves
Second Person Yourself yourselves
Third Person himself, herself, itself themselves
- Relfexive Pronoun – refers, or reflects back, to a noun or pronoun earlier in the sentence.
Examples:

I promised myself that I would practice more. She taught herself to play the guitar.

The band members organized the parade by themselves.

- Intensive Pronoun –adds emphasis to another noun or pronoun.
Examples:

You yourself can’t answer the question. Allen himself painted his room.

I wrote that poem myself. We ourselves are quite well.

Exercise 1: Finding Pronouns

Directions: Underline the pronoun in each sentence. Then, write the type of pronoun being identified. Just write P
for personal, R for reflexive, and I for intensive.
1. In the early 1840’s, adventurous settlers readied themselves for the overland trip to the west.
2. Life in the Oregon country held new promise for them.
3. The settlers themselves could never have anticipated all the hardships they encountered on the two-
thousand-mile Oregon Trail.
4. When it was loaded, a covered wagon often weighed thousands of pounds.
5. It was pulled across various types of terrain by teams of horses, mules, or oxen.
6. The wagons were uncomfortable for the passengers themselves.
7. On many occasions, settlers might walk beside them rather than ride.
8. The journey was hard for the travellers, but many nights they sang by their campfires.
9. The route was mapped in 1804 by Lewis and Clark themselves.
10. Today, we can drive our cars along modern roads beside the historic trail.
Exercise 2: Identifying antecedents of Reflexive and Intensive Pronouns

Directions: Write the noun or pronoun to which the reflexive or intensive pronoun in each sentence refers.
Building Homes for the Homeless
1. Maria herself constructed the two bedrooms in the rear of the Habitat for Humanity house.
2. You can paint the room yourself, or you can work on another project.
3. I gave myself a pat on the back for installing the kitchen plumbing without any help.
4. The oldest worker in the group pulled himself up the ladder and attached the gutters.
5. We ourselves completed the two-bedroom dwelling in less than three days.
Exercise 3: Using Intensive Pronouns

Directions: Add intensive pronouns to the following sentences to make the statements stronger.
6. On many days, a woman road alone in the covered wagon.
7. She often drove the long miles and cared for her children at the same time.
8. Sometimes on the trail, disputes arose among the settlers.
9. The wagon master often served as the mediator of these disputes.
10. He knew how dangerous fights among the settlers could be.
 Demonstrative Pronoun – points out specific persons, places, things, or ideas.
Demonstrative Pronouns
Singular This That
Plural These Those
Examples:
This is the record.
Play that again.
These were left here after last night’s party.
 My new records are newer than those.
 Interrogative Pronoun – is used to form questions.
Interrogative Pronoun
what which who whom whose
Examples:
Who are the captains? Whom should I ask to help? Whose did you use?
What did you find? Which of these models did you build?
Exercise 4: Finding Demonstrative and Interrogative Pronouns

Directions: Underline the demonstrative pronoun or the interrogative pronoun in the sentence. Then, before
each number, identify the type of pronoun being underlined. Just write D for demonstrative and I for
interrogative.
1. Who is going to the dance on Saturday? 6. That is the most important question on our minds?
2. This is my outfit for the dance. 7. Of all my shoes, these will match my dress best.
3. What is the first song going to be? 8. Those are the great tunes for dancing?
4. Which is your favourite? 9. That is a good example of rap.
5. Are those the latest style? 10. Whom did you meet at the last school dance you attended?
 Relative Pronoun – is used to begin a special subject-verb word group called a subordinate clause.
Relative Pronoun
who whose whomever that what whom whoever which whichever whatever
Examples:
 Dolley Payne, the woman who married James Madison, was born in North Carolina. (The relative pronoun
who begins the subordinate clause, “who married James Madison”.)
 Dolley Madison rescued a portrait of George Washington from the White House, which the British burned
in 1814. (The relative pronoun which begins the subordinate clause, “which the British burned in 1814.”)
 The first personal message that was sent over Morse’s telegraph was from Dolley Madison. (The relative
pronoun that begins the subordinate clause, “that was sent over Morse’s telegraph was from Dolley
Madison”.)
Exercise 4: Finding Interrogative and Relative Pronouns

Directions: Underline the relative or interrogative pronoun that appears in the following sentences, and label each
of them as interrogative or relative.
Yo-Yo Ma, Celebrated Cellist
1. Yo-Yo Ma is the name of a cellist whose performances have won critical acclaim ad prestigious awards.
2. What other cellist of this generation has so delighted lovers of chamber music?
3. Born in France in 1955, Yo-Yo Ma is an international celebrity whose father was also a musician.
4. Who among us can claim to have made a musical debut at Carnegie Hall at age nine?
5. Leonard Rose was the teacher who instructed Ma at the Juilliard School in New York City.
 Indefinite Pronoun – refers to persons, places, or things in a more general way than a noun does.

Some Indefinite Pronouns

Singular Plural Both
another everyone nothing both all
anybody everything one few any
anyone little other many more
anything much somebody others most
each neither someone several none
either nobody something some
everybody no one
Exercise 4: Identifying Indefinite Pronouns

Directions: Write before each number the indefinite pronouns in each of the following sentences.
Native American Music
1. Few might have thought they would understand and enjoy Native American music.
2. No one had tried to combine the old music new styles.
3. Peter Buffett and Shawnee Chief Hawk Pope were determined to show what could be done; both
understood the potential for combining tradition and contemporary styles.
4. Neither of these musicians was sure that their experiment would be successful.
5. In 1997 everyone interested in new trends discovered Spirit Dance.
6. Of course, not everybody appreciated the resulting albums.
7. Most, however, were amazed at the success of the combined styles.
8. The album developed into a video program for PBS that one might enjoy at home.
 9. A stage production suggested that many in America were ready for this sensational music.
10. Performances were a success, and each convinced the musicians that their collaboration had been
effective.
Exercise 5: Final Assessment on Pronouns

Directions: The following questions and statements are missing twenty pronouns. Add them according to the
directions in parentheses. Write your answer on the blank/s provided in each sentence.
In the News
1. ____________ will it take to the end the strike ____________ has crippled two major airlines? ( Use an
interrogative pronoun; use a relative pronoun)
2. ____________ has decided to play basketball for the University of North Carolina Tarheels. (Use a personal
pronoun.)
3. Nearly, _______________ will be glued to their television sets tonight as the movie stars ______________ made us
laugh, weep, and sit on the edge of our seats last year line up for their Oscars. (Use an indefinite pronoun; use a
relative pronoun.)
4. Do ____________ think ______________ will oversees the merger, or does she plan to allow her business manager
to handle it all ____________________? (Use a personal pronoun; Use a personal pronoun; Use a reflexive
pronoun.)
5. ________________, folks, is exactly what police say happened to _____________ the minute he stepped off the
plane. (Use a demonstrative pronoun; Use a personal pronoun)
6. _______________ craves chocolate as much as ___________ does. (Use an indefinite pronoun; Use a personal
pronoun.)
7. ______________ do_________________ think was elected? (Use an interrogative pronoun; Use a personal
pronoun.)
8. ____________, ______________ will make the reservation. (Use a personal pronoun, use a reflexive pronoun.
9. The club welcomes ______________, ______________ who have an interest in cycling. (Use an indefinite pronoun;
use a demonstrative pronoun)
10. Make sure to send ______________ to _______________. (Use an indefinite pronoun, use a personal pronoun.)
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