Department of Education

National Capital Region

Schools Division of Parañaque City
Self-Learning Modules
English 9 Quarter 2 Week 1-2

Name: ___________________________________Grade & Section: _______________

Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: ______________________

Learning Competency (Essential Competency)

Make connections between texts to particular social issues, concerns,

or dispositions in real life.

Objectives

1. Read the literary text and analyze the feeling it conveys.

2. Apply the strategies of making connections to the texts.
3. Write an essay on how one’s family deals with the pandemic.

Let’s Recall (Review)

In the previous lesson, you have learned the types of communicative styles.
Determine the types of communicative style presented in each item below.
Write on your answer sheet.

____________________1. Marriage Ceremonies

____________________2. Job Vacancy

____________________3. Family Reunion

____________________4. Division Hymn

____________________5. Watching YouTube Tutorials

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 Let’s Understand (Study the Concept)

What is a Social Issue?

Social issue – is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a

common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It
is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual’s control. Social
issues are the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as
morally correct or incorrect personal life or interpersonal social life decisions.

Here are some examples of social issues nowadays:

1. Social Stratification- is a kind of social differentiation whereby members of

society are grouped into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation
and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political).

2. Unemployment- include severe financial hardship and poverty, debt,

homelessness and housing stress, family tensions and breakdown.

3. Public Health- widespread health conditions (often characterized as

epidemics or pandemics) are of concern to society as a whole. They can
harm quality of life, the ability of people to contribute (e.g. by working), and
most problematically result in death.

4. Age and the Life Course- throughout the life course, there are social
problems associated with different ages. One such social problem is age
discrimination. An example of age discrimination is when a person is not
allowed to do something or is treated differently based on age.

5. Social Inequality- is the root of several social problems that occur when
factors such as gender, disability, race, and age may affect the way a person
is treated.

6. Bullying – is a repeated aggressive behavior where one person (or group

of people) in a position of power deliberately intimidates, abuses, coerces
an individual with the intention to hurt that person physically or emotionally.
Acts of bullying can be physical or verbal.

7. Graft and corruption in the Government – Graft, as understood in

American English, is a form of political corruption defined as unscrupulous
use of a politician’s authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when
funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected to maximize
the benefits to private interests.

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Guess the Pic Activity. Name each type of social issue presented below. Write
the most appropriate answer on a separate sheet.

A._________________________ B.____________________________

C. ___________________________ D. ____________________________

E. ____________________________

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Let’s Understand the concept of reading texts. It is necessary to learn the
strategies of making connections to texts. Here are the different kinds of texts
connections.
The 3 Different Kinds of Text Connections

1. Text-to-Self – are highly personal connections that a reader makes between a

piece of reading material and the reader’s own experiences or life.
Example:
Through television, movies, magazines, and newspapers. “This story reminds
me of a vacation we took to my grandfather’s farm.”

2. Text-to-Text – this occurs when something in the texts reminds the reader of
a previously read text like books by the same author, stories from a similar
genre, or perhaps on the same topic.
Example:
“This character has the same problem that I read about in the story last year.”

3. Text-to-World – these are connections between events in the story and things
that we have seen or read about occurring in the real world. The larger
connections that a reader brings to a reading situation. We learn about things
through television, movies, magazines, and newspapers.
Example:
“I saw a program on television that talked about things describe in this article.”

Let’s Apply
Identify the type of text connections of the following statement or questions
below. Fill in the blank with the appropriate icon.
Text-to-self Text-to-text Text-to-world

____________1. What does this remind me of in my life?

____________2. What makes this circumstance similar to mine?

____________3. This part reminds me of my mother.

____________4. How is this different from other books I’ve read?

____________5. Have I read about something like this before?

___________6. What does this remind me of in the real world?

___________7. How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?

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____________8. How is this different from things that happen in the real world?

____________9. How did that part relate to the world around me?

____________10. What were my feelings when I read this?

Let’s Analyze

A. Watch the video of “The Man with the Hoe” written by Edwin Markham on
YouTube. Click or search on the provided link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsYD_zUV79Y

B. Read and analyze the poem entitled “The Man with a Hoe” by Edwin Markham.

The Man with the Hoe

BY EDWI N M ARKHAM
Written after seeing Millet’s World-Famous Painting

God made man in His own image,

in the image of God made He him. —Genesis.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans

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 Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave

To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this—
More tongued with censure of the world’s blind greed—
More filled with signs and portents for the soul—
More fraught with danger to the universe.

What gulfs between him and the seraphim!

Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
A protest that is also prophecy.

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 O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands,
is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,

How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings—
With those who shaped him to the thing he is—

When this dumb Terror shall reply to God

After the silence of the centuries?

Comprehension Questions: Write your answers on a separate sheet.

1. What is the image of the man with the hoe?

___________________________________________________________________

2. How does the poet describe him?

___________________________________________________________________

3. What does the bent body of the man with the hoe signify?
___________________________________________________________________

4. According to the poet, who is responsible for the conditions or the state of the man with
the hoe? ___________________________________________________________

5. Who are the modern “man with the hoe?

___________________________________________________________________

6. How does the society treat them?

___________________________________________________________________

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 7. What circumstance is the persona faced with?
___________________________________________________________________
Using context clues, give the meaning of the highlighted words. Write the letter
of the best answer.

8. In the extent and importance of her colonial dominion France is second only to Great
Britain.
A. submission B. subordination C. authority D. surrender

9. The funeral-banquet descended to the Christian church from pagan times and
was too often profaned by heathen license.
A. abused B. sanctified C. consecrated D. sacred
10. I have yet to learn that police courts are such dens of infamy that a child's morals
or character are injured by going into them.
A. honor
B. anonymity
C. virtue
D. the state of being well-known for some bad quality or deed.

Let’s Try (Evaluation)

Supply the chart with 5 lines each from the poem entitled “The
Man with the Hoe” by Edwin Markham. Place the selected 5 lines on the
left column of the chart. Then, write your explanation on the right column.

Text-to-self Connection/Explanation
(It reminds me of something in my
life…)

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 Text-to-text Connection/Explanation
(It reminds me of a book, story etc…)

Text-to-world Connection/Explanation
(It reminds me of something in the
world.)

CATEGORY 4 3 2 1

Content Situations were Situations Situations Situations

imaginative and were relevant. were of were not
relevant. questionable relevant.
relevance.

Mechanics The required There are 4 There are 3 There is

number of lines lines lines only one
is complete. presented. presented. line.

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 Explanation The text The text The text The text
connection is connection is connection is connection
thoroughly explained. somewhat is not
explained. explained. explained.

Grammar There are no There is 1 There are 2 There are

grammatical grammatical grammatical more than 2
mistakes on the mistake on the mistakes on grammatical
explanation. explanation. the mistakes on
explanation. the
explanation.

Let’s Create

Goal – Your task is to write an Essay on “How My Family Deals With the Covid-19

Pandemic”.

Role – You are a journalist/writer on your school paper.

Audience – Your target audience are your teachers, classmates, parents,

guardians, siblings, and friends.

Situation –The COVID-19 is uncontrollable, and it worsens the burden of the people.

To lessen the negative effect brought by this pandemic, we need to read

articles of other people’s experiences on how they positively handle the

situation. You are assigned by your school paper adviser to write an article

on this.

Product/Performance – On a short bond paper, you will write an essay on “How My

Family Deals With Covid-19 Pandemic”.

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Standards – Your output will be graded according to given the rubric.

Exemplary Accomplished Emerging Beginning

Focus The essay The essay The essay The essay
presents a presents a attempts to tell lacks a clear
clear cohesive clear, cohesive a coherent story or
story that is story. story but lacks direction.
also some focus
imaginative and clarity.
and creative.

Organization The The The There is no

introduction is introduction introduction clear
inviting, states the main touches on introduction,
presents an topic and the main topic. structure, or
overview of provides an A conclusion conclusion.
the paper. overview of the is attempted.
Information is essay. A
relevant and conclusion is
presented in a included.
logical order.
The
conclusion is
strong.

Grammar The writer The writer The writer The writer

makes no makes a few makes several makes
obvious errors in errors in numerous
errors. grammar grammar errors in
and/or spelling and/or grammar
but they do not spelling. and/or spelling
interfere with that interfere
understanding. understanding.

Word Choice The writer The writer uses The writer The uses a
uses vivid vivid words uses words limited
words and and phrases. and phrases vocabulary.
phrases. The The choice that
placement of and placement communicate
words seems of words is not ideas clearly
accurate, always but lack
natural and accurate variety.
not forced. and/or seems
overdone at
times.

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