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EnGlISH 10 MoDUle 6
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Lesson 13. LEARNING COMPETENCY: Evaluate and make judgements about a range of
text using a set of criteria e.g. Critiquing a Short Story
In this lesson, you will learn how to evaluate and make judgement on a particular
text. As you evaluate, you will be guided by a set of criteria. Let’s start with the story of
Arachne.
Watch/Read and Think! Watch the video or read the story of Arachne below.

Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvUHcsZOhJ8&list=PLIEts2Sn7lOkWiIlfO123UQe-
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The Story of Arachne and Athena

Arachne was a beautiful young woman and the most wonderful weaver.

People traveled great distances to see her work at her loom. Her skilled fingers
wove detailed multicolored tapestries and rugs. Her skill was truly a work of art, and
people paid large amounts of money for her creations. Eventually, all of the attention
went to her head. Arachne started to brag and become boastful of her talents.

Athena, the great goddess, has given you an amazing gift, Arachne,” the villagers
would often say.

This comment made Arachne angry. “Athena did no such thing. I taught myself to
weave. No one can weave as well as I—not even Athena, who invented weaving!”

Athena, the goddess of wisdom, watched the boastful Arachne from her throne
high on Mount Olympus. One day she decided that she’d had enough of Arachne.
Athena disguised herself as an old woman and went to visit Arachne.
 “I hear that Athena has given you great gift—the skill of weaving,” said the old
woman.

“I am the best weaver, but Athena has nothing to do with how good I am. Her skill is
no match for mine,” stated Arachne.

“You are a talented weaver, Arachne, but you are a foolish girl. You should ask
Athena for forgiveness,” the old lady said becoming angry.

“What? Ask for forgiveness! You are the foolish one! I am telling the truth, and if
Athena is offended by my claims, she is more than welcome to pay me a visit. I would be
more than willing to show her what real weaving looks like. I know that she could learn a
thing or two from me,” Arachne said confidently.

With that, the old woman filled with rage and in the blink of an eye, transformed
back into the magnificent goddess — Athena. All of the village people gathered around
the powerful goddess and fell to their knees to honor her. All of the people except
Arachne, for she seemed unimpressed by Athena’s presence.

“You think you are better than I, Arachne? Well, let the competition begin,”
Athena proclaimed.

Droves gathered to watch the weaving contest. Arachne and Athena both began
to weave. Their fingers moved fluidly across the colorful threads.

Athena wove glorious pictures of the gods and goddesses performing kind and
heroic deeds. They were the most beautiful images the mere mortals had ever seen.

Arachne’s weavings were also gorgeous and perfectly constructed. Her cloths
were also images of the gods, but they portrayed them as angry and foolish.

Athena was enraged when she saw how Arachne had depicted the gods. She was
even more infuriated when she realized that her own skill was only marginally better than
Arachne’s.

“You are too boastful and rude, Arachne. How dare you make fun of the gods!”
Athena, beside herself, ripped Arachne’s weavings to shreds. Then she grabbed a stick
and hit the girl repeatedly with it.

At that moment, Arachne ran from Athena. “Oh, no you won’t run from me,”
Athena shouted. “I will make sure that you, your children, and your children’s children
suffer.”

She magically altered Arachne. Arachne began to shrink until her body was a small
black bead. She sprouted eight legs and grew black hair. Arachne became the world’s
first spider. She scurried to the highest place she could find and began weaving a web.

“Now you will be able to weave all day long,” Athena said proudly. “But from
now on, no one will care about your talents. In fact, your delicate woven webs will be
destroyed when people see them.”
Activity 34

Using a set of criteria below, rate the story based on how it was presented on the
video or in the printed reading material. Use the table below in answering. Write your
answer in the box of each category.

Category Exceptional (5pts) Good (4pts) Fair (3pts) Poor (2pts)

Setting Many vivid, Some vivid, The reader can The reader has
descriptive words descriptive words figure out when trouble figuring
are used to tell when are used to tell and where the out when and
and where the story the audience story took place where and when
took place. when are where but the author the story took
the story took didn’t supply place.
place. much detail.
Characters The main characters The main The main It is hard to tell
are named and characters are characters are who the main
clearly described. named and named. The characters are.
Readers can described. Most reader knows
describe the readers would very little about
characters have some idea the characters.
accurately. of what the
characters looked
like.
Problem/Conflict It is very easy for It is fairly easy It is fairly easy It is not clear
the reader to for the reader to for the reader to what problem the
understand the understand the understand the main characters
problem, the main problem the main problem the face.
characters face and characters face main characters
why it is a problem. and why it is a face but it is not
problem. clear why it is a
problem.
Organization The story is very The story is The story is a Ideas and scenes
well organized. One pretty well little hard to seem to be
idea or scene organized. One follow. The randomly
follows another in a idea or scene transitions are arranged.
logical sequence may seem out of sometimes not
with clear place. Clear clear.
transitions. transitions are
used.
Creativity The story contains The story The story There is little
many creative contains a few contains a few evidence of
details and/ on creative details creative details creativity in the
descriptions that and/or contribute and /or story. The author
contribute to the to the reader’s descriptions, but does not seem to
reader’s enjoyment. enjoyment. The they distract have used much
The author has author has used from the story. imagination.
really used his/her his/her The author has
imaginations. imaginations. tried to use
his/her
imagination.
Total points:
Listen or watch to an interview to a prominent person (like mayor, president, DepEd Secretary,
etc.) and evaluate the said interview according to the given criteria below. Write your rating in
the box, below each criterion.

Criteria 5-Proficient 4-Advanced 3-Fair 1-2-Revised Carefully

Greetings and The interviewer The interviewer The interviewer The interviewer
Introduction greets and greets and greets and addresses the
addresses the addresses the addresses the interviewee without
interviewee in a interviewee interviewee greetings.
very effective naturally and naturally.
way. politely.
Question’s The questions The questions The questions The questions made
Made made perfectly made match the made fairly do not match the
match the various aspects match the various aspects of the
various aspects of the topic of various aspects topic of the interview.
of the topic of the interview. of the topic of
the interview. the interview.
Interviewer’s All along the The interviewer The interviewer The interviewer
Attitude interview, the mostly looks at sometimes look scarcely looks at the
interviewer the camera and at the camera camera or at the
looks at the at the and at the interviewee; he/she
camera and at interviewee; he/ interviewee; does not speaks
the interviewee; she speaks he/she speaks soundly, and/ or is not
he or she speaks soundly, with soundly enough, understood and uses a
soundly, with good but sometimes lot of fillers.
good pronunciation he/she is not
pronunciation and without easy to
and without fillers. understand and
fillers. he/ she uses
fillers.

Total:

Activity 36
What do you think are the qualities of a good text? Name at least 5 qualities and explain
your answers.

Lesson Developed by: LEAH M. GRANADOZIN

Modified by: Maria Cecilia A. Bundalian