EAPP WEEK 7

M EL QUI SEDEC M AG C AL I NG
DAY 1
 PRE LESSON
Identify the information contained in the
news articles.

What are your

observation to the Are they
words and sentences
used in the news
difficult to
articles. understand.
Who is narrating the event or the article?
 LESSON PROPER
• Read the news report on
“Local Girl Found Slain by Rejected Lover.” pp 36
• Compare this text with the article that they read from the
newspaper that they had brought.
• What kind of information did you get from the text?
• Did you notice any similarity/difference between the two?
• Are the words and sentences difficult to understand?
• Who is narrating the event? How was the event narrated?
LESSON PROPER

Summarize the class

observations.
 LESSON PROPER Accuracy

Characteristics Attribution

of a Fairness

News Brevity

Article Clarity
 LESSON PROPER Accuracy

• You must get all your facts right, starting from the name
and designation of the subject to the statements made by

Characteristics him or her.

Attribution

of a • All news reports, with a few exceptions, must be sourced

Fairness

News
• As a reporter you must learn to get the other point of
view.

Brevity

Article • You must learn to write short stories without missing

important facts.

Clarity

• You are required to report an event in as few words as

possible but be clear
 LESSON PROPER Headline:

• It catches your eyes and sums up the story. It is

Elements usually in larger font and often bolded. "Shantoya

wins $50 Million!"

Byline:

of A • This tells you who wrote the article and

sometimes gives you the journalist’s specialty, for
example, “Science Reporter”

News Placeline:

• It tells you where the story originated.

Article Lead:

• This gives the most important information very

briefly (usually who, what, when and where)
 LESSON PROPER
Body:

• It supplies additional information. It is divided

into small paragraphs.

Elements Facts:

of A
• Every news article includes simple, true
statements about what happened, such as “The
flooding set the building’s security system off at
5:15 a.m.”

News Quotations:

• These retell, word for word, what someone

Article
actually said. Usually these quotations come from
witnesses at the scene, or experts on a subject.
For example:
• Mrs. Nanavati, principal of Fletcher's, said, "It was
one of the most amazing things I have ever
seen!"
LESSON PROPER
What did you learn about writing a news
article?

For
the Write a news report
final about a recent school
activity,
activity.
DAY 2
PRE LESSON

Have you heard of people

committing crimes because of
love?

Explain if such acts are

justifiable.
LESSON PROPER
Read
“The Sob Sister’s Story.” pg. 37

Be aware of the difference between the language

used in the text and that found in the preceding
texts – “From the Autopsy Surgeon’s Report,”
“Legal indictment” and “Newspaper Account:
Local Girl Found Slain by Rejected Lover.”
 LESSON PROPER
A figure in a literary work (personality, gender,
Character age, etc)
The major events that move the action in a
Plot narrative.
That combination of place, historical time, and
Elements Setting social milieu
of
The vantage point from which a narrative is
Fiction Point-of-View told.

Theme The central and dominating idea

The author’s type of diction (choice of words),

Style syntax
 LESSON PROPER
Give one moral and ethical issue/s in our
society.

How can the youth participate in the

movement against crime in our society?

What role does the family play in the

prevention of crime or other forms of
misconduct?
LESSON PROPER
How did you got to know what
happened in “The Sob Sister’s Story.”
Who is narrating the story? How does the
narrator feel about what happened in the story?

Re-tell the story in your own words.

DAY 3
PRE LESSON
How can one tell if a text is a
poem or not?

Is each feature characteristic of a

poem?
• Are words arranged into lines and stanzas?
• Do the words rhyme at the end of the
lines?
• Is there rhythm in the lines?
PRE LESSON Stanzas: Stanzas are a series of lines grouped together and
separated by an empty line from other stanzas. They are
the equivalent of a paragraph in an essay.

Elements Rhythm:
This is the music made by the statements of the poem,
which includes the syllables in the lines. The best
method of understanding this is to read the poem aloud,
and understand the stressed and unstressed syllables.

of a Poem Rhyme:
A poem may or may not have a rhyme. When you write
poetry that has rhyme, it means that the last words or
sounds of the lines match with each other in some
form.

This is what the poem is all about. The theme of the

Theme: poem is the central idea that the poet wants to convey.
Sometimes called a “Narrative”

Imagery is also one of the important elements of a

Imagery: poem. This device is used by the poet for readers to
create an image in their imagination. Imagery appeals to
all the five senses.
PRE LESSON
Trees by Joyce Kilmer

• I think that I shall never see

• A poem lovely as a tree.

• A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

• Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

• A tree that looks at God all day,

• And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

• A tree that may in summer wear

• A nest of robins in her hair

• Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

• Who intimately lives with rain.

• Poems are made by fools like me,

• But only God can make a tree.
PRE LESSON How many stanzas
are there in the
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
poem?
• I think that I shall never see
• A poem lovely as a tree. How many lines
make up each
• A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
• Against the earth's sweet flowing stanza?
breast;

• A tree that looks at God all day, What is the rhyme

• And lifts her leafy arms to pray; scheme/pattern of
• A tree that may in summer wear each stanza?
• A nest of robins in her hair

• Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Is there a dominant

• Who intimately lives with rain. rhythm in the entire
• Poems are made by fools like me, poem?
• But only God can make a tree.
PRE LESSON Figurative
Trees by Joyce Kilmer
language
• I think that I shall never see
• A poem lovely as a tree.
• personification
and simile.
• A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
• Against the earth's sweet flowing
breast;
• A tree whose
hungry
• A tree that looks at God all day,
• And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
mouth is
prest.
• A tree that may in summer wear
• A nest of robins in her hair • Against the
• Upon whose bosom snow has lain; earth’s sweet
• Who intimately lives with rain. flowing
• Poems are made by fools like me, breast.
• But only God can make a tree.
PRE LESSON
Trees by Joyce Kilmer

• I think that I shall never see

• A poem lovely as a tree.

Paraphrase
• A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
• Against the earth's sweet flowing
breast;

• A tree that looks at God all day,

• And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
the poem.
• A tree that may in summer wear
• A nest of robins in her hair

• Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

• Who intimately lives with rain.

• Poems are made by fools like me,

• But only God can make a tree.
LESSON PROPER

Read aloud
“Porphyria’s Lover.”
pg. 38 – 39
 LESSON PROPER
What are the different elements of poetry found in this
literary text.

From whose point of view is the story

The poem being told?
contains a Theme. How does this point of view affect the
telling of the story?

Compare “Porphyria’s Lover” with the form of other

renditions of the same story that have been discussed.

How does this poem differ from the earlier texts?

 POST LESSON
What do you know about the annual celebration of the
Feast of the Black Nazarene in the district of Quiapo.

Gather information from newspaper and from books.

Is there a difference in the style of presentation of

information between these two sources.

How do the newspaper accounts differ from the book

sources?
DAY 4
LESSON PROPER

Read the poem “Quiapo:

The Procession of the
Black Nazarene” pg 41 –
32, aloud.
LESSON PROPER
Paraphrase the poem.

• “The sober days that follow the intoxicated season.”

• How does the poem describe the atmosphere on the feast
day of the black Nazarene?
• Who are being described in the second stanza?
• Notice the shift in the object of description in the third stanza.
• As the procession moves, more description is given in the
fourth stanza.
• The fifth stanza, through a series of parallel phrases, mentions
the manifestations of the devotion to the Black Nazarene.
• The sixth stanza, through another series of parallel phrases,
emphasizes what the devotees’ experience.
 LESSON PROPER
“The sober days that follow the intoxicated season.”

How does the poem describe the atmosphere on the feast day of the black
Nazarene?

Who are being described in the second stanza?

Notice the shift in the object of description in the third stanza.

As the procession moves, more description is given in the fourth stanza.

The fifth stanza, through a series of parallel phrases, mentions the

manifestations of the devotion to the Black Nazarene.
The sixth stanza, through another series of parallel phrases, emphasizes
what the devotees’ experience.
LESSON PROPER

Prepare a list of new words you’ve

learned from the poem. (5 – 10)
Use these words in sentences.