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GRADE 12- ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Quarter 1
Module No. 5
Week 5
In This Module:
Content Standard: Performance Standard:

The learner understands the principles and
uses of a reaction paper/ review/ critique
Most Essential Learning Competency:
The learner produces an objective
assessment of an event, a person, a place or a
thing.
writes a comprehensive review /reaction
paper
▪ Performance Arts, Play, Dance,
Sports, etc.
▪ Film
▪ Participation in a religious
▪ or community Festival
▪ Art Exhibit critiques designs such as
industrial design objects or craft
objects, furniture, fashion designs
based on a set criteria critiques
graphic design communication
materials such as posters, billboards,
▪ commercials, digital and other media

Uses appropriate critical writing a critique such as formalism, feminism, etc

 Writing is hard, simply because one hopes to write using the best possible words to articulate the best
possible thoughts in the most creative way imaginable. Despite this fact, writing a reaction paper seems no
different from a status message in Facebook. In practice, the reaction paper is an informed and insightful
perspective on art, popular culture, and the world. Think about the millions of voices clamoring to be heard
and read on the internet, and you come to know now how to deal with the challenge of sounding original and
insightful. In the end, the reaction paper is a reasoned and reasonable response to the world, and the best
response can either be intelligent, humorous, wise or all of the above.

At the end of this lesson, students should be able to:

• Appreciate the craftsmanship of writing a review; and

INTRODUCTION
III- PROCEDURES

ACTIVITY 1

Motivation:

1) Why do you think people fond of reading reviews when they are about to buy on online store?
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2) What are you going to do if the reviews on that store are negatives?
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3) Why are reviews important?

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4) How do reviews change the way you look at movie, product, or place?
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 ACTIVITY 2

Before-Reading Activity
The review found below is a reaction to the short stories of O. Henry. O. Henry is considered to be a
master of short story; however, many critics were slow to appreciate his literary genius. In order to fully
appreciate the review, one should read at least one short story by O. Henry. An old favorite is “The Gift of
the Magi”, where a newlywed couple is short on funds and tries to buy each other gifts and reveal the folly
and wisdom of love. This is readily accessible in the internet, and should be read before you read and
discuss the review on O. Henry’s stories below.

DEVELOPMENT

Reading Text

O. Henry
Picturesque

1) There are two opinions concerning O. Henry. The middle class views him as the impersonation of
vigor and brilliancy; part of the higher criticism sees in him little but sensation and persiflage.
Between these views there is a natural relation; the gods of the heathens are ipso facto the demons of
Christianity. Unmixed assertions, however, are commonly mixtures of truth and falsehood; there is
room today for an estimate which shall respect both opinions and adopt neither.
2) There is one literary trait in which I am unable to name any writer of tales in any literature who
surpasses O. Henry. It is not primary or even secondary among literary merits; it is less a value per
se than the condition or foundation of values. But its utility is manifest, and it is rare among men:
Chaucer and Shakespeare prove the possibility of its absence in masters of that very branch of art in
which its presence would seem to be imperative. I refer to the designing of stories—not to the
primary intuition or to skill in development, in both of which finer phases of invention O. Henry has
been largely and frequently surpassed, but to the disposition of masses, to the blocking-out of plots.
That a half-educated American provincial should have been original in a field in which original men
have been copyists is enough of itself to make his personality observable.
3) Illustration, even of conceded truths, is rarely superfluous. I supply two instances. Two lads, parting
in New York, agree to meet After Twenty Years at a specified hour, date, and corner. Both are
faithful; but the years in which their relation has slept in mutual silence and ignorance have turned
the one into a dashing criminal, the other into a sober officer of the law. Behind the picturesque and
captivating rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation and a moral problem of arresting gravity.
This is dealt with in a six pages of the Four Million. The Furnished Room, two stories further on,
occupies twelve pages. Through the wilderness of apartments on the lower West Side a man trails a
woman. Chance leads him to the very room in which the woman ended her life the week before.
Between him and the truth the avarice of a sordid landlady interposes the curtain of a lie. In the bed
in which the girl slept and died, the man sleeps and dies, and the entrance of the deadly fumes into
 his nostrils shuts sinister and mournful coincidence forever from the knowledge of mankind. O.
Henry

ACTIVITY 3

Comprehension Questions

1. Do you like O. Henry’s stories? Why or why not?

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2. Why do you think some reviewers did not like O. Henry’s work?
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3. What do you think of the way the text reviewed O. Henry’s stories?
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4. What is the text’s point about O. Henry and New York?
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5. Was it important to summarize the short stories? Why or why not?
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6. Does the text explain the craftsmanship behind O. Henry’s work? Is this necessary?
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7. What do you think of the language used in the text?

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8. What does the text conclude regarding O. Henry?
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9. Did this review satisfy you? Why or Why not?
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10. What do you look for in reviews?
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ENGAGEMENT
ACTIVITY 4

After-Reading Activity

Below are the lists of the things that you can make a review.
▪ Book
▪ Skin care
▪ Gadget
▪ Church
▪ Resort
▪ Food
▪ Park
▪ Movie
Things to do: Restaurant Review

Think of a certain restaurant or fast food chain that you and your classmates or friends usually go
when everything is in normal state. Choose your favorites and included your taken pictures of the food and
the restaurant (if there’s any) or Search for it. Send a message to the manager in charge, and explain that you
are doing this for the purpose of writing a restaurant review.

ASSIMILATION
Afterwards, write a restaurant review. Make sure to describe the food and the restaurant, as well as
the dining experience, which include the service of the restaurant and the kind of dishes served to you and
your friends. If possible, include the history of the restaurant and what they are known for. By the end of the
review, conclude by either recommending or not recommending the restaurant, and why. Discuss who you
think would enjoy the restaurant the most, considering one’s budget, lifestyle, and taste in food. Include a
few good photographs to showcase the restaurant and their dishes.

ASSESSMENT

Publish your review in your class Facebook page. Tag someone the related to your review (author,
manager, owner etc.,) on the page. Make sure to include photographs that were taken. Tag your friends
whom you think will enjoy going to the restaurant, encourage others who have gone to the restaurant to add
their own reviews.
 Prepared by:
FRECIL P. PEPITO
Teacher
Noted:
CHRISTOPHER C. DE LEON
Principal