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ENGLISH
Quarter 4 Module 6
ASSERTING ONE’S UNIQUE IDENTITY
AND UNDERSTANDING OTHERS

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English – Grade 7
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Fourth Quarter – Module 6: Asserting One’s Unique Identity and Understanding
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English
Quarter 4 – Module 6
Asserting One’s Unique Identity
and Understanding Others

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Introductory Message

For the learner:

Welcome to the English 7 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Quarter 4 Module

4 on Discovering Literature as a Tool to Assert One’s Unique Identify and to
Better Understand other People!

Every individual is uniquely created, gifted with intelligence and equipped with
skills. Your awareness and thorough understanding of your origins will greatly help
you in appreciating yourselves and building relationship with others. However, to be
globally enlightened to the essence and value of 21 st century Filipino learner, there is
also a need to deepen your knowledge about your own identity and to better
understand other people.
In order for you to grasp fully the world to which you belong, you must be
confident of your identity. You should have established your uniqueness before you
can take a big leap into a wider and more complicated journey.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.
 What is It This section provides a brief discussion of
the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process
what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or skill
into real life situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your

level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given to

you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the
lesson learned. This also tends retention of
learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use your English notebook in answering all exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other
activities included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
 5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. You may keep the CD tape that contains all the listening materials in this
module.
7. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.

If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not
alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

Table of Contents
What I Need to Know ----------------------- 1

What I Know ----------------------- 2

Lesson 1 ----------------------- 3

Asserting One’s Unique Identity and Understanding Others

What’s In ----------------------- 3

Activity 1: Beautiful World - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3

What’s New ----------------------- 4

Activity 2: Let’s Sing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4

Activity 3: My Thoughts ----------- ------ 5

What is It ----------------------- 6

Activity 4: Reading Guide - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6

What’s More - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 11

Activity 5: Review Your Reading Guide - - - - - - - - - 11

Activity 6: My Understanding - - - - - - --------- 11

What I Have Learned ----------------------- 12

Activity 7: Thinking Out Loud - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 12

What I Can Do ----------------------- 12

Activity 8: What Kind of Persons are Filipinos? - - - - 12

Assessment ----------------------- 14

Additional Activities ----------------------- 15

Activity 9: A Symbol of Myself- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15

Answer Key ----------------------- 16

References - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - 17
 What I Need to know

Literature reflects the society. It is a fact that has been widely

acknowledged. It projects the virtues or good values in the society for people to
emulate. It also gives you a detailed preview of human experiences, allowing you to
connect and understand other people.
A person's identity can be determined by your self-conception as well as your
social presentation; how you behave within civilization. It is a strong premise in many
literary texts, possibly because a writer must always construct several identities in order
to achieve interesting characters.
Identity in literature may refer to the author's adoption of a new culture and
language as a means of expression following a migration from his country of origin to
another one.

In this module, you are going to learn how to discover literature as a tool to
assert one’s unique identity and to better understand other people (EN7LT-III-g-5)
Specifically, you should be able to:

1. listen to a song and get its message about individual diversity;

2. give your understanding about individual difference and accepting it;
3. identify the characteristics of Filipinos;
4. create a symbol or describe yourself as a Filipino.

In going through the module, remind yourself to be patient in doing the activities
while discovering one’s unique identity. Make sure that you are guided with the
instructions and directions in each activity. If you are experiencing difficulties, take a
deep breath, relax and look into what you have not understood. Enjoy completing all the
tasks and give your best.

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 What I Know

Before starting your journey in this module on understanding individual’s unique

identity, let us see what you already know about the lesson.

Instructions: Read the statements and identify if they are true or false based on the
picture. Write FACT inside the box if you think the statement is true or BLUFF if the
statement is false.

1. The Spanish soldiers conquered the Philippines.

2. Many Filipinos suffered because of the soldiers who invaded our
country.
3. The English language was widely used in writing during this period.
4. Writers are concerned with the social well-being of the Filipinos.
5. Movies became popular during this period.

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An Emerging Change. These events happened during the Period of Emergence.

What can you say about the lives of the Filipinos during the Period of Emergence? Do
you think it was the right time to set aside difference? Why? Why not?

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Lesso
n Asserting One’s Unique Identity

1 and Understanding Others

What’s In

Activity 1: Beautiful World

Instructions: Draw a large flower with a center and an equal number of petals to the
number of your friends. Fill in the center of the flower with something you all have in
common. Write your unique qualities in the petal. Do not use physical attributes such as
hair color, weight etc.

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 What’s New

Activity 2: Let’s Sing!

Listen to the song “Kaleidoscope World”. You can listen to the song through this
link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClNTn1wtq7E) or using the CD tape/ flashdrive
given to you by your teacher.

Read the matrix below before listening to the song. Do the activity after.

Before you listen, imagine what

is described in the song and

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 PREDICT predict what happens.

As you listen, list down

ASK questions about the ideas

presented in the song.

As you listen, list down unclear

GUESS ideas or vocabulary and guess
what they mean.

As you listen, list down key

FOCUS words that may add value or
meaning to the entire song.

The song “Kaleidoscope World” tells us that each of us has differences. The
different colors represent the uniqueness of the individuality. It is important for you to be
able to accept that everyone has a unique identity.

Activity 3: My Thoughts!

Instructions: Use the chart to write a brief insight about the previous task.

“I Think”
Differences among people to me means

Our differences should enable us to

Considering our differences

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 What is It

You will be reading a short selection about accepting one’s unique identity so you
can better understand other people. In the previous tasks, you have learned that each
of us has differences and unique identity. Now you will read a story that will talk about
how Filipinos were able to understand other people despite huge differences. Read the
selection carefully. But before you read the selection, answer first the following
questions.

Activity 4: Reading Guide

A. Before Reading
Instructions: Read the statements in the table below and check the column that
corresponds to your response.
After Reading
Instructions: Review your answer and write in the last column whether you are right or
wrong.

Disagre Agre Statement Were you right?

e e

Filipinos are compared to a bamboo tree.

There are a lot of trees presented in the text.

The idea of the text is about resiliency.

There are five characters in the story.

The story is an example of a fable.

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B. Answer the following questions.

1. What does “pliant” mean?

2. How does the bamboo show its pliancy?
3. Can a person be pliant too? How?

Are you now ready to read the selection? Note that there are “reflection time” in
every part of the selection. Use that time to reflect what you have read and try to answer
in mind the questions in the ‘reflection time’.

Pliant Like the Bamboo

by Ismael
If you will become oneV.of Mallari
the trees in the story, who will you choose
Reflection
to in
There is a story
Time
be? Why? folklore
Philippine
about a mango tree and a bamboo tree. Not being
able to agree as to which was strongest of the two, they
called upon the wind to make the decision.
The winds blew its hardest. The mango tree stood fast. It would
not yield. It knew it was strong and sturdy. It would not sway. It was too
proud. It was too sure of itself. But finally, its roots gave way, and it
tumbled down.
The bamboo tree was wiser. It knew it was not as robust as the
mango tree. And so every time the wind blew, it bent its head gracefully.
It made loud protests, but it let the winds have its way. When finally, the wind
got tired of blowing, the bamboo tree still stood in all its beauty and grace.

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 The Filipino is like the bamboo. He knows that he is not strong
enough to withstand the onslaughts of superior forces. And so he
yields. He bends his head gracefully with many loud protests.
And he has survived. The Spaniards came and dominated him
for more than three hundred years. And when the Spaniards left, the
Filipinos still stood—only much richer in experience and culture.
The Americans took the place of the Spaniards. They used more
subtle means of winning over the Filipinos who embraced the American
way of life more readily than the Spaniards’ vague promise of the
hereafter.
Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a plaque of locusts,
like a pestilence rude, relentless and cruel. The Filipino learned to bow
his head low to “cooperate” with the Japanese in their “holy mission of
establishing the Co-Prosperity Sphere.” The Filipino had only hate and
contempt for the Japanese, but they learned to smile sweetly at them
and to thank them graciously for their “benevolence and magnanimity.”

Reflection
Time
As a Filipino, will you consider yourself like a bamboo? Why?
Why not?

For the Filipino would welcome any kind of life that the gods would welcome
any kind of life that the gods would offer him. That is why he is contented and happy
and at peace. The sad plight of other people of the world is not his. To him, as to that
the ancient Oriental poet, the past is already a dream, and tomorrow is a vision; but
today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and tomorrow is a
vision of hope.

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 This may give you the idea that the Filipino is a philosopher. Well he is, He
has not evolved a body of philosophical doctrines. Much less has he put them down
into a book, like Kant for example, or Santayana or Confucius. But he does haves
philosophical outlook on life.
He has a saying that life is like that life is like a wheel. Sometimes it is up,
sometimes it is down. The monsoon season comes, and he has to go undercover.
But then the sun comes out again. The flowers bloom, and the birds sing in the trees.
You cut off the branches of a tree, and, while the marks of the bolo are still upon it, it
begins to shoot forth-new branches – branches that are the promise of new color,
new fragrance, and new life.

Reflection
Time

Do you agree with the writer’s description of the Filipino? Why? Why not?

Everywhere about him is a lesson in patience and forbearance that he does

not have to learn with difficulty. For the Filipino lives in a country on which the gods
lavished their gifts aplenty. He does not have to worry about the morrow. Tomorrow
will be only another day – no winter of discontentment. Of he loses his possessions,
there is the land and there is the sea, with all the riches that one can desire. There is
plenty to spar – for friends, for neighbors and for everyone else.
No wonder that the Filipino can afford to laugh. For the Filipino is endowed
with saving grace of humor. This humor is earthly as befits one who has not indulged
in deep contemplation. But it has enabled the Filipino to shrug his shoulders in times
of adversity and say to himself “Bahala na”.
The Filipino has often accused of being indolent and of lacking initiative. And
he has answered back that no one help being indolent and lacking initiative who lives
under the torrid sun which saps vitality.
This seeming lack of vitality is, however, only means of survival. He does not
allow the world to be too much with him. Like the bamboo tree, he lets the winds of
chance and circumstances blow all about him; and he is unperturbed and serene.
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 The Filipino, in fact, has a way of escaping from rigorous problems of life.
Most of his art is escapist in nature. His forefathers wallowed in the moro-moro, the
awit, and the kurido. They loved to identify themselves as gallant knights battling for
the favors of the fair ladies or the possession of hollowed place. And now he himself
loves to be lost in the throes and modern romance and adventure.

His gallantry towards women – especially comely women – is a manifestation

of his romantic turn of mind. Consequently, in no other place in Orient are women so
respected, so adulated, and so pampered. For his women have enabled Filipinos to
look upon the vicissitudes of fortune as the bamboo tree regards the angry blasts of
blustering winds.

The Filipino is eminently suited to his romantic role. He is slender and wiry. He
is nimble and graceful in his movements. His voice is soft, and he has the gift of
languages. In what other place in the world can you find people who can carry on a
fluent conversation in at least three languages?

This gift is another means by which the Filipino has managed to survive.
There is no insurmountable barrier between him and any of the people who have
come to live with him—Spanish, Americans, Japanese. The foreigners do not have to
learn his language. He easily manages to master theirs.

Verily, the Filipino is like the bamboo tree. In its grace, in its ability to adjust
itself to the peculiar and inexplicable whims to fate, the bamboo tree is his expressive
and symbolic national tree. It will have to be, not the molave nor the narra, but the
bamboo.

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 What’s More

Activity 5: Review Your Reading Guide

Instructions: Review your answers in the previous activity. Write in the last column
whether you are right or wrong.

Disagre Agre Statement Were you right?

e e
Filipinos are compared to a bamboo tree.
There are a lot of trees presented in the text.
The idea of the text is about resiliency.
There are five characters in the story.
The story is an example of a fable.

Activity 6: My Understanding

You have learned in the selection that Filipino is compared to a bamboo tree. It
was able adjust from all the superior forces that invaded in the country. Filipinos are
resilient and like a bamboo tree, after a storm it stood still. This attitude of Filipinos of
being pliant made him

Instructions: Answer the question inside the callout.

How does one’s

uniqueness become a key
to understanding diversity?

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What Have I Learned

Activity 7: Thinking Out Loud!

Instructions: Read the questions in the first column. Write your answers in the next
column.

1. What characteristics of the

Filipinos do you know?

2. What other characteristics of

Filipinos are mentioned in the text?

3. What did you learn after reading

the text?

What I Can Do

Activity 8: What Kind of Persons are Filipinos?

Infer what character traits of a Filipino is exemplified by each sentence taken

from the text. Choose your answer from the word pool.

proud flexible humble

friendly good communicators strong

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 Excerpts from the Text Character Trait

1. The mango tree stood fast.

It would not yield.

2. When finally, the wind got tired of

blowing, the bamboo tree still
stood in all its beauty and grace.

3. For the Filipino will welcome any

kind of life that the gods offer him
that is why he is contented, happy
and at peace.

4. His voice is soft and he has the gift

of languages.

5. The Filipino learned to bow his

head low to cooperate with the
Japanese.

Assessment

Congratulations for accomplishing the previous tasks! Now, you will face
your final test to check how much you understood from this module.

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 In order to restrain its fury, the Sky showered a multitude of massive
boulders down upon the Sea, which became the islands that formed the
Philippines. These islands prevented the waters from rising any more - instead
causing them to flow back and forth, and thereby creating the tides. Afterwards,
Instructions: Read the excerpt from the story “Malakas and Maganda” of Philippine
the Sky then ordered the Kite to light on one of the newly-formed islands to build
Literature. Answer the questions that follow.
her nest, and to leave the Sea and the Sky in peace. Now at this same time the
Land Breeze and the Sea Breeze were married, and they had a child which they
named Bamboo.
1. How does the character assert his unique identity?
Onedoes
2. How day,this
when Bamboo
story was
help you floating
better against other
understand the sea, it struck the feet of
people?
the Kite. Shocked, hurt, and angered that anything should strike it, the bird
furiously pecked at the bamboo until it split in half. Out of one section came a
golden-bronze colored man, named Malakas (Strong One) and from the other
half came a similarly hued woman, named Maganda (Beautiful One). The
earthquake then called on all the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea to see
what should be done with these two, and the animals decided that they should
Additional Activities
marry each other. Together, Malakas and Maganda had many children, and from
them eventually came all the different races of people.
Activity 9: A Symbol of Myself

Instructions: Perform the activity below.

1. Write a poem/song/rap describing yourself using your name as an acronym,

highlighting your uniqueness.

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 References

BOOKS

English Learner’s Material 7. Department of Education – Bureau of Learning Resources

(DEPED-BLR), 1st Edition, 2017.

ELECTRONIC SOURCES

Frederick Docdocil,”Ancient Philippine Creation Myth: Malakas and Maganda”,

accessed July 29, 2020. http://www.bakitwhy.com/articles/ancient-philippine-

creation-myth-malakas-and-maganda

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