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ESSAY February 22, 2012 REFLECTIVE ESSAY BASED ON OBSERVATION OR EXPERIENCE IN LIFE

STAGE ONE CONTENT STANDARD: The learner understands that a reflective essay presents, expresses and reveals the writers personal feelings, thoughts, views and insights. PERFORMANCE STANDARD: The learner writes a meaningful reflective essay.

ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING: Personal preferences, feelings and insights are reflectively and meaningfully communicated in a reflective essay by direct observations and vivid account of ones experiences. ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How are preferences, feelings, and insights communicated in a reflective essay?

STAGE TWO PRODUCT OR PERFORMANCE TASK Reflective Essay. EVIDENCE AT THE LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING The learner should be able to demonstrate understanding covering the six (6) facets of understanding: Explanation Explain clear ideas and precise intentions on certain situations and events.

Interpretation Evaluate actual observation and experiences. Application Apply writing practices effectively. Create a single impression by carefully selecting words and details. Perspective Develop Perspective by inferring the intentions/views of the essayist. Exhibit knowledge in using relative clauses. Empathy

Show empathy by assuming the role of the writer in abstracting ideas in a reflective essay. Relate personal experiences.

Self-Knowledge Manifest Self-Knowledge by reflecting on the issues and concern written in ones reflective essay.

EVIDENCE AT THE LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE The learner interprets a poem through a collage based on the following criteria: Focus / Content Unity Coherence Clarity Mechanics Language

STAGE THREE Teaching and Learning Sequence

PHASE I DATE TOPIC

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EXPLORE February 22, 2012 REFLECTIVE ESSAY BASED ON OBSERVATION OR EXPERIENCE IN LIFE

Our goals today are: 1. Make the learners aware of the desired result, that is, for him/her to demonstrate understanding that personal preferences, feelings and insights are effectively and meaningfully communicated in a reflective essay by direct observations and vivid account of ones experiences. 2. Decode the Essential Question (EQ), How are preferences, feelings and insights communicated in a reflective essay? with the learners. Make them answer the question as exhaustively as possible and cue them into the big ideas by activating their prior knowledge or past experience

ACTIVITY 1 : COMPLETION MARATHON Instruct the students to complete the paragraph.

I am________________________________, a freshman student of _____________________________. I think nmy stay in this school is _________________. This is because________________________________________________.

ACTIVITY 2: PHOTO REFELCTION Ask the students to answer it orally what they have remembered the most about the pictures by fillingout the table below.

WHAT IS THE PICTURE ALL ABOUT?

WHAT DOES THE PICTURE REMIND YOU OF?

1. 2 3.

PHASE II DATE TOPIC

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FIRM-UP February 22, 2012 REFLECTIVE ESSAY BASED ON OBSERVATION OR EXPERIENCE IN LIFE

Our goals today are: 1. Make the learners illustrate their knowledge of the subject, structure and parts of a reflective essay. 2. Integrate advance organizers into all aspects of instructional delivery to help students cue what is important for them to retain and understand. 3. Engage the learners in worthwhile activities that will enrich what they have learned.

PARTS OF A REFLECTIVE ESSAY

1. Introduction Identify the main issue(s), explain and justify the method(s) of analysis to be use, and assess the quality of the evidence available. 2. Body It is where the evidence is presented, examined, arguments are put forward and supported or refuted. 3. Conclusion It is where you sum up and draw the ideas together.

LIFE IN THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO STEP INTO THE FUTURE AND SEE YOURSELF IN THE DREAMHOUSE OF TOMORROW? LIFE IN THE HOME OF TOMORROW WILL BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT IS TODAY. IT WILL REFLECT THE ADVANCES OF SCIENCE. ( Introduction ) PERHAPS YOU WILL BE LIVING IN A MULTI STOREY BUILDING. IT WILL HAVE MODULAR UNITS LIKE THAT OF A BEEHIVE. YOU ARE GOING TO FLY UP TO YOUR DOOR-STEP WITH YOUR ANTI-GRAVITY BELT. AL ELECTRONIC DEVICE WILL AUTOMATICALLY PUSH THE DOOR OPEN AS YOU APPROACH. YOUR HOME WILL HAVE A LOT OF PUSH-BUTTONS. YOU PUSH A BUTTON AND THE TV COMES OUT. A CONVEYOR WILL BRING YOUR BOOKS AND OTHER THINGS TO THE BEDROOM OR WHEREVER YOU WANT THEM TO BE. AFTER A WHILE, THE TELEPHONE RINGS AND YOUR BOYFRIEND APPEARS ON A TV SCREEN. HE IS VISITING HIS UNCLE WHO LIVES IN MARS. HE TALKS TO YOU FROM THERE, JUST AS CLEARLY AS IF HE WERE IN THE SAME CITY. YOU ANSWER, HOPING THAT YOU LOOK PRETTY ENOUGH SINCE HE CAN ALSO SEE YOU ON HIS TV SCREEN. YOU PUSH A BUTTON AND THE STEREO BRINGS SOFT MUSIC INTO THE ROOM. PUSH ANOTHER BUTTON AND THE LIGHTS IN YOUR BEDROOM GO OFF. YOU GO INTO THE KITCHEN. HERE YOU JUST PUSH A FEW BUTTONS AND YOUR ELECTRONIC STOVE WILL COOK YOUR MEAL THE WAY YOU WANT IT. YOUR FOOD WILL COME FROM FACTORIES THAT GROW NEW SUPPLIES OF FOOD IN GREAT VATS OF CHEMICALS UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTS. IT IS KEPT FRESH FOR MONTHS BY ATOMIC STERILIZATION. YOU WONT NEED A REFRIGERATOR. ANOTHER PUSH-BUTTONS WILL BRING YOUR FOOD TO THE TABLE; ANOTHER WILL POUR YOUR COFFEE. ULTRASONIC WAVES WILL WASH THE DISHES.

THE MORNING NEWSPAPER WILL ROLL OFF A FACSIMILE MACHINE RIGHT IN YOUR LIVING ROOM. YOU ARE GOING TO WEAR PAPER CLOTHES. THEY WILL BE DESIRABLE AND ATTRACTIVE AND SO CHEAP THAT YOU CAN THROW THEM AWAY AFTER A FEW WASHINGS. STUDYING WILL BE A LOT EASIER. YOU WONT EVEN HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL. IF YOU WANT TO STUDY ALGEBRA, YOU GO TO THE LIBRARY AND BORROW A TAPE ON THE SUBJECT YOU TURN THE TAPE ON, AND A MEMORY MACHINE FEEDS ALL THE INFORMATION INTO YOUR HEAD WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING. YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING REFRESHED. WHATS MORE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND ALGEBRA. YOU WILL HAVE A LOT OF LEISURE TIME BECAUSE YOU DONT HAVE TO WORK TOO HARD. MACHINES WILL DO THE WORK FOR YOU. MAYBE YOU WILL TRAVEL TO THE MOON OR VISIT A STAR IN ANOTHER GALAXY. THAT WILL BE NO PROBLEM. YOUR SPACE CAR WILL RUN ON ATOMIC ENERGY AND WILL TAKE YOU THERE IN A SHORT TIME. IN FACT, ATOMIC AND SOLAR ENERGY WILL REPLACE OIL, GAS, AND PETROLEUM AS SOURCES OF ENERGY. ADVANCES IN SCIENCE WILL PRODUCE NEW AND BETTER MEDICINES. TODAY, SCIENTISTS ARE ABOUT TO FIND A CURE FOR CANCER, THE COMMON COLD, AND MOST OTHER DISEASES. TOMORROW THESE DISEASES WONT EVEN EXIST. YOURE GREAT, GREAT GRANDMOTHER WILL BE LIVING ON THE MOON. SHE WILL BE STRONG AND HEALTHY AND WONT LOOK A YEAR OLDER THAN 30. BUT SHE WILL BE 300 YEARS OLD BY THEN. SHE WILL HAVE A MECHANICAL HEART, AN ARTIFICIAL LEG AND ARTIFICIAL EYES, NOSE, AND MOUTH. BT NO ONE WILL KNOW TE DIFFERENCE. FOR SCIENCE WILL BY THIS TIME HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO MAKE LIFE LONGER AND HOW TO REPLACE YOUR WORN-OUT BODY ORGANS WITH MECHANICAL PARTS. ( Body ) ARE ALL THESE THINGS POSSIBLE OR ARE THESE JUST FANTASTIC, IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS? SCIENTISTS ARE SLOWLY BUT SURELY DISCOVERING AND UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF OUR UNIVERSE. FOR NOW THEY HAVE THE TOOLS THAT CAN EXTEND OUR SENSES FAR BEYOND THEIR NATURAL POWER. MAN WILL CONTINUE TO MAKE BETTER DEVICES. WITH THESE DEVICES, HE WILL BE ABLE TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE. ( Conclusion )

ACTIVITY 3 GROUP TASKS Ask Groups 1, 2 & 3 to read the essay, Siesta, by Leopoldo R. Serrano and the Groups 4 & 5 to read the essay, Tarlac Dike, by Kerima Polotan.

GROUP ONE Have the group members draw out the significant ideas in the essay by supplying appropriate information in each column below:

Parts ( Main Idea )

Ideas
(Ideas Presented in each part)

Perception
( What did the author try to say about the main idea )

My Point of View
( What can you say about the essay )

1. 2. 3.

GROUP TWO Ask the members of Group 2 to focus on the values presented in the essay. Have members complete the concept web by writing eight observations/descriptions they may get from the selection. Let the members evaluate each value by writing if it aims to affect them socially, morally, religiously, physically, emotionally or intellectually.

DESCRIPTIONS / OBSERVATONS

GROUP THREE Have the members answer the different customary practices listed below. Ask the members the following questions: A. Have you ever practice those before? B. What significant values it had brings to you and your family?

Different Kinds of Customs & Traditions / Cultures

1. 2. 3.

Answer to A

Answer to B

Simbang Gabi

Saying po & opo Refraining from eating any kind of meat during Holy Week 4. Three (3) high jumps on the eve of New Years Day 5. Visiting the grave of our loved ones every Nov. 1

GROUP FOUR Let the group members supply the necessary information in each column. Have them conduct a brainstorming activity to produce the desired answers.

Things discovered by the essayist about himself

Things you are beginning to discover about yourself

1. 2. 3 4. 5.

GROUP FIVE Ask the members of the group to describe how the Tarlac Dike looks like before and how it looks like now.

BEFORE

Tarlac

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Prepared by: Maria Esperanza Mitante