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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION
CATCH-UP FRIDAYS LESSON EXEMPLAR FOR NATIONAL READING PROGRAM
School Grade 11
Learning English
Teacher Area:
April 5, 2024 Fourth
Teaching Quarter:
Teaching Date
Guide Section/ Checked
Time by:
Session The students will be able to:

Objectives A. identify the heroic acts of Philippine heroes in the past and
(Focus on
today.
reading
skills) B. develop awareness of acts of heroism of the Filipinos.
C. demonstrate the simple acts of heroism in the daily lives.
Component No.
of Activities
Mins
Preparation 10 ACTIVITY: How many of our heroes do you know?
and • Check the names of the heroes you are familiar with in
Settling the list below.
In ____ 1. Emilio Aguinaldo ____ 8. Apolinario Mabini
____ 2. Jose Burgos ____ 9. Melchora Aquino
____ 3. Diego Silang ____ 10. Emilio Jacinto
____ 4. Mariano Gomez ____ 11. Jacinto Zamora
____ 5. Lapu-lapu ____ 12. Jose Rizal
____ 6. Benigno Aquino, Jr. ____ 13. Andres Bonifacio
____ 7. Graciano Lopez-Jaena
• Then get a piece of paper and write something about the

heroes that you have checked in the list.
• You may write a phrase or a short sentence about
him/her.
• What character traits of the Philippine heroes have you
observed among the Filipinos today?
Dedicated Reading Material: When God Closes Doors by Casiano
Reading Mayor Jr. (see attachment 1)
Time
Use a graphic organizer- Story Map. (see attachment 2)
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Reading Skill: Making a Thesis Statement

What is a thesis statement?
• It is usually a single sentence at the end of your first
paragraph that presents your argument to the reader.
• The rest of the paper, the body of the essay, gathers and
organizes evidence that will persuade the reader of the logic of
your interpretation.
The thesis statement is the “road map” of your paper, directing
you as you write it and guiding the reader through it.
Do
• Know your essay’s type.
• Make a statement.
• Make a debatable claim.
• Be specific
Don’t
• Announce the thesis, e.g. “This paper will discuss….”
• Announce yourself, e.g. “I am going to prove that….”
• Ask a question.
• Leave your reader asking “How?” or “Why?”
Activity 20 Facilitate the sharing and deepening activities using HOTS-

SOLO through different strategies.
LOTS Comprehension Questions:

1. What makes the narrator think that God closed his doors?
2. How did the narrator and his wife face the difficult situation?
HOTS Comprehension Questions:

1. What makes the narrator a good example of a modern
Filipino hero? Give his character traits or events in his life.
2. What makes OFWs and Call Center Agents are known as the
new heroes of the country?
3. Can ordinary people become a hero? Explain.
4. What are some of the things that you can do to serve your
community or our country?
RESEARCH AND AWARENESS:

Future heroes should have the following traits.
– curiosity
– fairness
– generosity
– humility
– intelligence

– obedience
– persistence
– being principled
– respectfulness
• Identify a Filipino consider as present-day hero in your

community or in our country.
• Write a thesis statement about him or her.
Reinforcem 5 Choose from the activities below:
ent and
Reflection Activity 1
I. Sing the song properly.
Philippine National Anthem

Camilo Osias and A. L. Lang
Land of the morning
Child of the sun returning
With fervor burning
Thee do our souls adore.
Land dear and holy,
Cradle of noble heroes,
Ne’er shall invaders
Trample thy sacred shores.
Ever within thy skies and through thy clouds

And o’er thy hills and seas;
Do we behold thy radiance, feel the throb
Of glorious liberty.
Thy banner dear to all hearts
Its sun and stars alight,
Oh, never shall its shining fields
Be dimmed by tyrants’ might.
Beautiful land of love, O land of light,
In thine embrace ‘tis rapture to lie;
But it is glory ever, when thou art wronged
For us, thy sons to suffer and die.
Singing the national anthem whole-kindheartedly and with

respect is one way of honoring our country. It shows how much
we love the Philippines. You don’t really have to die before you
can become a hero. As long as you love your country and
countrymen with all of your hearts, you can already become a
hero. You don’t have to be as intelligent as Jose Rizal or as brave
as Andres Bonifacio to become a hero. All you have to be is a good
citizen. If you follow the country’s laws without expecting
anything in return, you can surely become a hero in your own
right.

Activity 2
II. Write a short story or an anecdote about the hero that you
admire most.
_______________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
Wrap Up 5 ACTIVITY: Be sure to raise your right hand and stand
straight when reciting this pledge.
Patriotic Pledge
I love the Philippines.
It is the land of my birth.
It is the home of my people.
It protects me and helps me
to be strong, happy and useful.
In return, I will heed the counsel of my parents.
I’ll obey the rules of my school.
I’ll perform the duties of a law-abiding citizen.
I will serve my country without selfishness and with all my
loyalty.
I’ll be a true Filipino in thought, in word and in deed.
Without looking at the copy of our Patriotic Pledge given earlier,

fill in the blanks below. This activity will help you memorize the
pledge faster.
Patriotic Pledge
I __________ the __________.

It is the __________ of my __________ .
It is the __________ of my __________ .
It __________ me and __________ me
to be __________, __________ and __________.
In return, I will __________ the __________ of my __________.
I’ll __________ the __________ of my ____________.
I’ll ___________ the ___________ of a __________ citizen.
I will serve my ___________ without ___________ and with all my
___________.
I’ll be a ____________ Filipino in ____________, in
____________ and in _____________.
Prepared by:
Sarah Christine Barros

Teacher II
Checked by:
MA. CARMEN D. SOLAYAO PhD. ARNOLD C. GATUS, EdD.

Division Learning Area EPS Regional Learning Area EPS
Approved by:
MADELINE ANN L. DIAZ MICAH PACHECO

CLMD Chief CID Chief

Attachment 1:
WHEN GOD CLOSES DOORS …

By: Casiano Mayor Jr. @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer | 06:34 AM May 04, 2011
https://globalnation.inquirer.net/763/when-god-closes-doors-%E2%80%A6
MANILA, Philippines—I went home from work that night with a heavy heart. I had just
lost my job as a subeditor with the Saudi Gazette in Jeddah where I had worked for
the past six years. I was 62.
Losing my job at the twilight years of my life with an eight-year-old daughter and a wife
to look after was surreal. With only a little savings in the bank, we were not prepared
to go home.
It was one of the most trying times in my life. How do I fend for my family? We came to
Saudi Arabia to escape a harsh life in Manila and the prospect of going home
unprepared was a nightmare.
At that time, we were planning to migrate to New Zealand. My wife, a nurse, 14 years
younger than I, had barely started to scout for a job there. When I got my termination
notice in January 2005, I saw that dream collapse. We had to use the money we had
saved for that purpose for more immediate needs.
Tragic news
Though shattered, I told my wife about the tragic news as calmly as I could. “Don’t be
alarmed,” I opened up as she settled next to me on our sofa in the living room to watch
TV, “I got fired from my job and we have to go home by the end of the month.”
I saw shock in her eyes. Instinctively, I assured her that I could still work as a subeditor
in Manila and, with our modest savings, she could open a bigger store than what we
used to have back home before I went to work in Saudi Arabia.
My wife, who quit her job to take care of our daughter when the child was born in
1997, wasn’t convinced and pleaded with me to look for another job, any job, as a
lifeline until we could move to New Zealand or any other western country.
Grace period
As I always do in my trying times, I prayed for divine guidance and later asked my
editor-in-chief to allow me to look for another job instead of sending me home. I was
buoyed when the company gave me a six-month grace period to look for a new job. But
it marked only the beginning of a new travail.
After failing to get a job with the Arab News, the only other English newspaper in Saudi
Arabia, I discovered that I could hardly find even an ordinary office job. My wife, who
also started scouting for work, did not fare any better either. My problem was my age;
hers was an eight-year gap in her employment record.
Since my family joined me in Jeddah in 2000, we have been holding our own private
prayer sessions. Through our trial, my wife would occasionally feel a muted anger
against God for “abandoning” us.

I told my wife that probably God was just testing our faith. We held on to faith. From
my experiences, I learned to practice the counsel in Proverbs: “Trust in the Lord with
all your heart; never lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him and He will show you the right path.”
Growing desperation
In June, as I grew more desperate after my applications for published job vacancies
got no responses and the referrals of friends turned out fruitless, I got an unexpected
call from a Filipino, a friend of our next-door neighbor, working in a construction
company. He advised me to see another Filipino in a sister company, another
construction company involved in power plants and related projects.
I got interviewed and was asked to report for work as soon as I could wind up my job
at the Gazette. God has endowed me with genes that make me look 10 years younger
than my age and I got lucky that the personnel manager who interviewed me did not
bother to look into my curriculum vitae.
I was offered a clerical job that would pay a third less than my previous salary. I decided
not to report for work at once on the pretext that the Gazette had asked me to stay for
a while. I was still hoping to find another job with better pay. I did not find any.
By August, a month after my grace-period to look for a new job had lapsed, the Gazette
cut my pay by half. It was time to go. I rang up Francis, my Filipino contact at the
construction company but he told me that his boss had accepted a new applicant who
was expected to report to work in the first week of August. My heart sunk.
Strange coincidences
What happened next was a series of strange coincidences I will never forget ever. In
mid-August, I got an intuitive urge to give Francis another call, hoping for an
unforeseen turn of event. The improbable happened. Francis told me his boss had a
change of mind and was reconsidering hiring me if I would accept a lower pay. I bit the
bullet.
I was happy but the euphoria did not last long. The day before I was to report for work,
I called up Francis for a reconfirmation before I went home from the Gazette at five in
the afternoon. I was dumbstruck to hear that his boss did not want to sign my contract
anymore—for no reason at all.
My wife cried uncontrollably when I told her about it as soon as I got home. It turned
out that she also failed to get a job she had applied for on the same day. We prayed for
divine succor. I prayed to Jesus to touch the heart of Francis’ boss who was still at his
office with Francis at that time. About 30 minutes after we said our prayers, my cell
phone rang. It was Francis, telling me his boss signed my work contract at last.
My wife and I wept. We embraced and shed tears of joy. The next day, my wife called
up a hospital where she applied for a job the previous week. She was told to go there
to sign her contract. We got our jobs a few days apart in August.

A long hardship trail

End of our travail? No.
Seven months after I started working at the construction company, I almost lost my
job in a new trial that would further strengthen my faith afterwards. That was in
February 2006, shortly after we moved to a new office. I had a falling out with my boss,
a man with fiery mood swings.
As early as two months into my job, I started telling my wife how unhappy I was, and
that I wanted to quit owing to my boss’ temper. She pleaded with me to hang on until
I could find another job. Her pay was not enough for us to live by. I took patience but
it did not take long for my fuse to snap.
It happened one morning while he was ranting about my work without giving me a
chance to explain. “I can’t take this anymore and I don’t care if you fire me,” I told him
and turned away. As I went back to my desk, he called out to Francis, who was our
payroll officer, to close my account.
“I’m sorry I can’t help you this time. You shouldn’t have talked back,” Francis
whispered when he went over to my desk. Another Filipino, Gilbert, our IT engineer,
offered his sympathy. I put up a bold front. “Don’t worry,” I told him. “God will take
care of me.”
Deep inside I was devastated. How would my wife take this? I prayed silently, “Lord, I
don’t understand all of this, but I trust you. Please don’t leave us in the midst of this
crisis.”
Another coincidence?
While I was packing my things, Francis told me our boss wanted me to stay. I learned
later that our Filipino secretary, who was left at the old office to take telephone calls
and monitor the fax messages while the communication lines at the new office were
being set up, did not report for work that morning. I was to take his place in the
meantime. He never showed up after that.
Francis made it clear to me that it was a holdover job that may last only three months.
I must start looking for a new job. When the telecommunication lines in the new office
were put in place, I had to go. It was a week before March, the start of summer break
for the Philippine schools in Saudi Arabia. I thanked God for the lifeline, hoping to get
a teaching job in any Philippine school when classes opened in June, no matter if the
pay would be smaller.
By May, Francis brought me good tidings. I was to be reassigned to the new office
because the new secretary, an Indian, was not allowed by his previous employer to
transfer. I moved to the new office within a week and worked as secretary to the newly
hired executive manager, Ralph Lorenzo, a Filipino who proved to be an epitome of
civility.
Answered prayers
I had been working with the construction company for exactly two years last August
30. My wife had moved to one of Jeddah’s two biggest hospitals. Although we do not
see any silver lining to our dream of moving to New Zealand, we take the Biblical advice

in Proverbs “Be still and know that I am Lord.”

I have had my own share of answered prayers since I returned to the Faith after losing
God when I was a journalism student in Manila and I have come to believe that when
God closes doors, He opens new ones. I believe in God’s mysterious ways.
***
In 2008, Saudi Gazette rehired me to help launch the Kabayan, a Filipino page, with a
bigger financial package than my previous pay. The page was later abolished but the
Gazette has retained me.
We have abandoned our plan to immigrate to New Zealand after my wife’s visa was
turned down by its immigration office in Dubai in 2009 when recession hit the world.
My wife is also 54 now, a year short of the age cap for immigration to New Zealand.
We are preparing for our homecoming in three years time when our daughter finishes
high school here, but have not closed the door for other possibilities, knowing from
experience that God oftentimes does things His own way.

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CATCH-UP FRIDAYS LESSON EXEMPLAR FOR NATIONAL READING PROGRAM

Session The students will be able to:

• Then get a piece of paper and write something about the

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

Reading Skill: Making a Thesis Statement

Activity 20 Facilitate the sharing and deepening activities using HOTS-

LOTS Comprehension Questions:

HOTS Comprehension Questions:

RESEARCH AND AWARENESS:

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

• Identify a Filipino consider as present-day hero in your

Philippine National Anthem

Ever within thy skies and through thy clouds

Singing the national anthem whole-kindheartedly and with

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

Without looking at the copy of our Patriotic Pledge given earlier,

I __________ the __________.

Sarah Christine Barros

MA. CARMEN D. SOLAYAO PhD. ARNOLD C. GATUS, EdD.

MADELINE ANN L. DIAZ MICAH PACHECO

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

WHEN GOD CLOSES DOORS …

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

A long hardship trail

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

in Proverbs “Be still and know that I am Lord.”

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

© 2024 Department of Education National Capital Region. All rights reserved.

Doc. Ref. Code RO-CLMD-F070 Rev 00

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