Detailed Lesson Plan/Self Learning Packet (SIPack)

SUBJECT ENGLISH 7 NAME

S.Y. 2021-2022 QUART 4 WEEK 3
ER
MELC No. 4 and 5
The learner demonstrates understanding of how Anglo-American
literature and other text types serve as means of preserving
CONTENT unchanging values in a changing world; also, how to use the
STANDARD features of a full-length play, tense consistency, modals, active and
passive constructions plus direct and indirect speech to enable
him/her competently performs in a full-length play.
The learner competently performs in a full- length play through
PERFORMANCE applying effective verbal and non-verbal strategies and ICT
STANDARD resources based on the following criteria: Focus, Voice, Delivery
and Dramatic Conventions.
1. Relate text content to particular social issues, concerns and
LEARNING
dispositions in real life. (EN9RC-IVa-2.18)
COMPETENCIES
2. React to lay judgment on critical issues that demand sound
analysis and call for prompt actions. (EN9LC-IVa-13)
a) Identify the social issues affecting the nation in the text.
b) Cite solutions to social problems.
I. OBJECTIVES c) Analyze the stand of the speaker based on explicitly stated
ideas.
d) Express opinions on social issues.
II. CONTENT
Social Issues – are problems that influence many citizens within
A. Concept
a society.
B. References English CG- May 2016, Learner’s Material, Teacher’s Guide
C. Instructional
Paper-pencil test, gadgets, notebook
Materials
III. PROCEDURE
DAY 1

From your point of view, what are the five most important social problems in our
country today? Rank them beginning with the most serious.
Note: You may insert social issues that are not evident in the material.

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A. Reviewing of Previous Lesson or Presenting the New Lesson
Welcome to Q4 Week 3 in English 9! This week, you will be given a lot of
lessons to help you develop your critical thinking skills by analyzing a text
and its relation to various social issues. You will also be practicing your
decision-making skills through forming your opinions about a certain topic.
From the previous lesson, you have established your knowledge on how to
predict an outcome on a given situation. This time your opinion matters!
To begin with, try to express your opinions from the following issues in this
short activity called “Mind the Issue”. Happy learning!

1. Mental Health
2. Racism
(Teacher-Made Activity)
B.Establishing a Purpose for the Lesson

1. _____________________
2. _____________________
3. _____________________
4. _____________________
5. _____________________

Image Source: https://www.dreamstime.com/illustration/social-problems.html

C. Presenting Examples/ Instances of the Lesson

Social issues are considered problems if citizens, policymakers, or other

parties call attention to the condition or behavior. To further understand the
concept, accomplish the activity below.
Reference: https://open.lib.umn.edu/s

PICTURE READING: Analyze the following pictures. Then, identify the social issues
being presented by each picture.

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 Image Source: https://opinion.inquirer.net/137373/editorial-cartoon-january-30-2021

2. Image Source:

Image Source: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images

3.

Image Source: https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images

DAY 2
D. Discussing New Concepts
In the past module you have read about social issues. These are
problems that affect many people in a society.
More so, a social issue or problem is an issue that has been
recognized by society as a problem that is preventing society from
functioning at an optimal level. It is important to understand that not
all things that occur in society are raised to the level of social
problems. 

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FEEL ME: Read the short story and answer the guide questions that follow.

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 The Last Leaf by O. Henry

"The Last Leaf" opens with a description of the winding streets of Greenwich
Village, New York City, where artists flock to find low-cost apartments with north-
facing windows and Dutch-style gables. After they meet at a
restaurant, Sue and Johnsy, the story's protagonists, discover they have similar
tastes in art, food, and fashion.
In May they get a studio apartment together in Greenwich Village. By November, a
pneumonia pandemic has hit New York. Johnsy, being used to California's warmer
weather, falls ill. A doctor assesses her, and informs Sue that Johnsy’s chances of
survival are one in ten, largely because she has lost the will to live.

In Johnsy's room, Sue works on an illustration for a magazine. She hears Johnsy
quietly counting the leaves left on the old and struggling ivy vine that clings to the
brick of the neighboring building. Johnsy says there are only six left, and she has
known now for three days that she will die when the last leaf falls.

Sue asks her not to speak such nonsense and commands her to go to sleep. Sue
goes downstairs to ask old Behrman to pose for her drawing. Sixty-year-old
Behrman is a painter, but he has never found success. He always speaks of
creating a masterpiece, but he never starts it. He drinks heavily and feels he has a
special responsibility to protect the young women who live upstairs. Sue tells him
about Johnsy's superstitious belief that her life is connected to ivy leaves. Behrman
laments and denounces such foolishness.
Johnsy is asleep, so Sue lowers the window shade. In the other room, she and
Behrman look unhappily at the rain and snow and wind threatening the final ivy
leaves. Behrman poses and Sue draws him.

In the morning, Johnsy asks Sue to raise the shade. Miraculously, a single leaf
remains attached to the vine, having withstood the night's storms. Johnsy says it
will surely fall by night, and then she too will die. But the leaf doesn't fall. In the
morning, Sue raises the shade to reveal that the leaf is still attached. Johnsy stares
at the leaf for some time. She then asks Sue for some broth; she now believes the
leaf is there to remind her that it is sin to wish to die.

The doctor visits and says Johnsy's chance are now fifty-fifty. He tells Sue he must
now visit Behrman, who has a critical case of pneumonia and needs to be taken to
hospital.

The next day the doctor says that Johnsy is beyond any danger. Behrman,
however, passed away after
having been ill for only two days.

That afternoon, Sue goes to

Johnsy and puts an arm around
her. Sue explains that Behrman
died; two days earlier the building
janitor found Behrman in his room
helpless with pain. He was soaked
through with rain, and the janitor
wondered why he would have
been out in the miserable night. He
then found a lantern still lit, a
ladder, and a palette with green
and yellow paints on it.

Sue asks Johnsy if she ever wondered why the last leaf never moved with the wind.

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 It's because Behrman painted it the night the actual last leaf fell, and he contracted
pneumonia in the process. It was Behrman’s greatest masterpiece, Sue says.

Source: https://www.gradesaver.com/the-last-leaf/study-guide/summary

Note: For an entire copy of the short story, you may read it on this site:
https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-last-leaf.pdf

E. Continuation of the Discussion of New Concepts

Get that Issue! Read the article provided for you here. Find out
what the article is all about.

What should make up a strong family that possesses good family values? It is the
family that sustains its members, that supports and nourishes each other throughout
the span of that family. A strong family unit has to create a safe, positive, and
supportive place for all members to thrive. They are able to utilize resources and to
live together in a fairly healthy manner.

The adults in a strong family set the tone. They are good role models that lead by
example. They reach out to friends and community and teach their children. They
work together to solve problems, and they pass their skills on to the next generation.
Some important elements of a strong family system are family cohesion, family
flexibility, and family communication.

Cohesion-In families, cohesion would be defined as the feeling of being loved, of

belonging to the group and being nurtured by it. Although closeness is good in a
family unit, there must be a balance between being together and being separate. A
person must be able to develop their individuality, while being supported and
confident within the family. A few things that bring a family together are the
commitment of other family members, and the spending of time together.

Flexibility – There must be a structure in a family or it will become chaotic and will
not be a peaceful setting for a family. Conversely, there must be flexibility or the
family becomes rigid and authority figures are resented. We could compare a
successful family to a democracy. There are leaders, but the whole group is involved
in the decision-making process. Although the leaders are in charge all members
develop the ability to cope with stress, and at times lead. While the family works to
avoid stressful situations, they work together to solve problems, without blaming,
criticizing, and finding fault with each other. Fam-ilies that tend to have a strong
spiritual base seem to have a sense of well-being that facilitates this working
together in times of stress.

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 Communication – Ever heard the saying, “What we have here is a failure to
communicate?” A lack of communication can rip a family apart and destroy them.
Things that facilitate communication are the things mentioned so far – family
closeness, flexibility, time spent together, spirituality. All members must feel a
freedom within the group to express themselves freely.

Another very important factor is the relationship between the “head” couple. In a
family that is parented by a happily married couple, people are able to express
themselves more freely. What they might say isn’t filtered through the problems of
the “guardians.” A happy marriage seems to set the tone in the house. It spills over
from the family to the community and a healthy family will be reaching out to help
others. They do not tend to isolate themselves from the rest of the world.

A very important thing for families to teach their children is how to make good
decisions. If they have watched their parents making well thought out decisions over
the years, they will tend to be good decision makers themselves.

A healthy, happy family benefits our whole society. Among the children of strong
families, there is less crime, less divorce and less emotional problems. They tend to
go on and have strong, healthy families of their own, having learned from their folk’s
example.

Source:http://www.essortment.com/family-values-39982.html

Note: The source can’t be opened anymore, yet the material is found on pp. 495-496 of
the English 9 LMs A Journey Through Anglo-American Literature

3 Things You Found 2 Interesting 1 Question You 1 Issue You Have

Out Things You Still Want to Ask Discovered from
Discovered the Text

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 DAY 3

F. Developing Mastery
Let us practice your learning in this simple activity. Read the
article given below and accomplish the table shown by figuring out
the ISSUE, SPEAKER’S STAND, PROBLEM, and SOLUTION.

PhilHealth: 94% of P15 billion ’stolen’ funds liquidated

By: Daphne Galvez - Reporter / @DYGalvezINQ

MANILA, Philippines — Ninety-four percent of the P15 billion alleged to have

been lost to corruption has already been liquidated, Philippine Health Insurance
Corporation (PhilHealth) president Dante Gierran said Tuesday.
During a House hearing, Gierran said P14.09 billion that was released to health
care institutions (HCIs) under the Interim Reimbursement Mechanism (IRM) has
been liquidated as of Feb. 1.
Officials of Philhealth have been accused of pocketing off billions of pesos in a
massive corruption scandal, amounting to about P15 billion.
Gierran claimed that there are no missing funds in respect of the IRM since the
funds have been distributed to over 700 HCIs.

“With respect to the IRM of almost P15 billion, I would say, there were no missing
funds. Right now, these hospitals have already made liquidation of these
advances we made consisting of 94%,” he said during the hearing.

“Ang gusto kong malaman ng buong bayan, with respect doon sa IRM, walang
nawalang pera. Nasa mga hospitals po ito. Accounted yan. Other cases, I do not
know. Spare me,” Gierran added.

(What I want the nation to know, with respect to the IRM, there was no lost funds.
The funds are in hospitals. That’s accounted for. Other cases, I do not know.
Spare me.)

Resigned PhilHealth anti-fraud legal officer Thorsson Montes Keith claimed all
members of PhilHealth’s executive committee composed the “mafia,” which had
been allegedly defrauding the corporation for the past several years.
He referred to the “syndicate-like” implementation of interim reimbursement
mechanism, the procurement of “overpriced” information and communication
technology equipment.

Source: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1391075/philhealth-94-of-p15-billion-stolen-
funds-liquidated

Issue Speaker’s Stand Problem Solution

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G. Finding Practical Applications of Concepts and Skills in Daily Living

Let us practice even more. This time, study the material below and
then decide whether you will be in favor or against a particular issue
being raised. Answer the questions that follow.

particular issue being raised. Answer the questions that follow.

Image Source: https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1883402/Cebu/Opinion/Editorial-

Carnival-of-disruptions

1. What is the social issue presented on the picture?

2. What is your stand? Do you agree or disagree? Why?
3. If you would be given the opportunity to talk to someone regarding the issue,
whom would you talk to? Why?
4. What would you tell him/her?

H. Making Generalizations and Abstractions about the Lesson

Social Issues are essential in expressing non-biased opinions, learning

how to take a stand and could be helpful in learning positive dispositions in
real life.

DAY 5

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I. Evaluating Learning

How well did you understand the lesson? Let us test your
knowledge in these activities.

ACTIVITY #7: ANALYZING AN ARTICLE. Read the following news article. Take note
of the details for you to be able to fill out the table of the facts written in the text.

SWS: Adult joblessness dropped in Q4 2020

By CNN Philippines Staff

Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 1) — A survey released Monday by

the Social Weather Stations said joblessness in the adult labor force fell in the last
quarter of 2020.

"The national Social Weather Survey of Nov. 21-25, 2020, found adult joblessness
at 27.3% of the adult labor force. This is down by 12 points from the 39.5% in
September 2020," said the pollster.

It added that there were around 12.7 million jobless adults in November, compared
to 23.7 million in September of the same year.

The SWS defines the labor force as adults 18 years old and above presently with a
job, plus those looking for a job. The Labor Force Participation Rate is the
proportion of adults in the labor force. Meanwhile, jobless adults are those who (a)
voluntarily left their old jobs, (b) are seeking jobs for the first time, or (c) lost their
jobs due to economic circumstances beyond their control.

The SWS said that in November 2020, there were around 46.3 million adults in the
labor force (66.7% Labor Force Participation Rate). In September of the same
year, there were 60.1 million (86.5%).

There was a record-high joblessness in July 2020 at 45.5%, or equivalent to

around 27.3 million adults.

"The resulting average joblessness rate for 2020 is a record-high 37.4%. The
previous record was a 28.8% average in 2012. The average in 2019 was 19.8%,"
said the SWS.

The same poll said the joblessness rate fell sharply in the Visayas: 19.1% in
November from a whopping 52% in September. There was also a marked decline
in Mindanao which was at 40% in September to 17% in November.

There was only a slight decrease in Metro Manila and Balance Luzon: 39.9% to
37.8% and 33.5% to 32.7%, respectively.

The SWS noted that 63% of adults in the workforce said their lives worsened
compared to 14% who said it improved. Meanwhile, 23% said it stayed the same.

"However, the same survey found half among the jobless saying their lives will
improve in the next 12 months (Optimists), higher than the 42% among those with

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 a job/livelihood. Moreover, less among the jobless are saying their lives will worsen
(Pessimists)," it said.

The Fourth Quarter 2020 Social Weather Survey, the first in 2020 due to the
Covid-19 pandemic, was conducted from Nov. 21-25, 2020, using face-to-face
interviews of 1,500 adults nationwide.

Source: https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2021/2/1/sws-survey-adult-joblessness-work-
force.html

Fill out the table using one to two sentences.

Social Issue Problem Proposed Solution

J. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR APPLICATION OR REMEDIATION

ACTIVITY #8: NEWS CLIPPINGS. Search for the latest article in ONE of the following
social issues. You may use online articles or cut-out from newspapers. Make sure to
note your sources (newspaper name, author of the article, date it was published). After
reading the article, accomplish the table shown below.

War on Drugs
Duterte’s Administration
COVID ’19 Vaccine

Issue You have Discovered

from the Text
Question You Still Want to
Ask
Your Proposed Solution

(Teacher-Made Activity)

J+. ADDITIONAL TASK FOR SSC STUDENTS

Congratulations for almost finishing Quarter 4 Week 3! But you are

still in for one last activity.

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Activity #9. Read the article from ABS-CBN News. Then, answer the questions that follow.

10-year-old mothers recorded in Luzon, as gov’t sounds alarm on girl

pregnancies
MANILA—A government agency that tackles population management on Tuesday said
more has to be done to deal with preteen and adolescent pregnancies, following a
Philippine Statistics Authority report about two 10-year-old mothers.

According to the PSA, the girls were from Metro Manila and Southern Luzon, but no
further details were given.

The Commission on Population and Development said such cases were concerning,
even though the number of mothers between 10 to 19 years old went down in 2019.

Popcom National Capital Region director Lydio Espanol Jr. said pregnancies involving
minors were worrying, because cases posed "extra health risks" for the mother and the
infant, "including pre-term delivery and severe neonatal conditions."
"As reported by the World Health Organization, complications during pregnancy and
childbirth are still the leading causes of death for 15-19 years old globally," the
statement read. 

Espanol added that local government units should "harmonize efforts" in boosting
reproductive health education. 

Citing PSA data, Popcom said cases of infants being born to mothers aged between 10
and 14 dropped slightly by 6.5 percent in 2019, after recording 345 cases compared to
369 in 2018. 

Births by women aged 15 to 19 dipped by 4.8 percent in 2019 after logging 19,614
births from 20,613 in 2018, the same data showed. 

Among LGUs, Quezon City logged the highest number of births (4,246) by mothers
aged 10 to 19 in 2019, followed by Manila (3,782), Caloocan City (2,429), San Juan
(100), and Pateros (95). 

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Philippines' status as a developing country, Popcom
added, were considered a threat to girl pregnancies, due to difficulties on prenatal and
maternal services access. 

On top of these, the pandemic also "worsened" the difficulty to avail of family planning
services "that is very crucial in mitigating cases of early pregnancies," the commission
pointed out. 

ABS-CBN News-Posted at Feb 09 2021 09:39 PM | Updated as of Feb 11 2021 09:44 AM
Source: https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/02/09/21/10-year-old-mothers-recorded-in-luzon-as-govt-sounds-
alarm-on-girl-pregnancies?fbclid=IwAR3bEbZ3JsNR4hOCbAUXVhtPM1wJWAdjxt3wI8QGx4AUL-
3MkBE1P8ZXSIg

I.  Answer the questions that follow: (5 points)

1.What social issue is evident in the article? ____________________
2. Cite facts or evidence from the article as to why the social issue should be addressed.
2.1.____________________
2.2 ____________________

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 2.3. ____________________

3. In your opinion, what may be the cause/s of this social issue? ____________________

4. Why should everyone be aware of this social concern/issue? ____________________

II. Poster Making. In your own way as a student, how could you help solve the
problem? This time, you will create a simple poster based on your answers on this
question.

Refer to the rubric below:

5 4-3 2 1

Relevance All All graphics are All graphics Graphics do not

graphics/texts
related to the relate to the relate to the
are related to
the topic. All topic and most topic. Most topic OR several
borrowed
graphics have make it easier to borrowed borrowed
citations. understand. All graphics have a graphics do not
borrowed source citation. have a source
graphics have a citation.
source citation.

Creativity It contains It contains It contains few There is a little

creative and attractive and acceptable evidence of
related details related details details. creativity.
which attract the which somehow
readers/viewers. catch the
viewers’
attention.

Conventions There are no There is/are 1-2 There are three There are
grammatical and grammatical and or more errors. several errors.
spelling errors. spelling errors.

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