Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
CARAGA Administrative Region
Division of Surigao del Norte
MODULAR APPROACH: English 10 in the New Normal-Celebrating Diversity through World
Literature

This self-paced module is aimed at students in the ‘new normal’ educational setting as prescribed
by the Department of Education. It addresses a broad range of learning objectives designed to
enrich learners’ knowledge and fun-filled learning experience in English. With its authentic and real
world activities, every learner acquires communicative competence through gaining insights and
understanding of literature and other text types for deeper appreciation of diversity of culture.

The module promotes independent learning of the target themes, concepts, and competencies that
will develop your 21st century real life-based skills. This module provides you with meaningful tasks
to develop your skills for academic success and the world of work. It is anchored on the general
principles, goals, and objectives of the K to 12 Basic Education program for Grade 10 that will enable
you to become self-actualizing, productive and effective participant of the society and the world at
large.

First Quarter-Week 1
MODULE 1
Lesson 1-Discovering Personal Challenges

Echkart Tolle once said, “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of
who you are, is inseparable from stillness. I am that is deeper than your name and form.”

In your previous journeys, you have been provided with a lot of opportunities to explore and improve
yourself. Now that you are in the fnal stage of your junior high school years, what this lesson
promises is to teach you how to increase your effectiveness in responding to problems which
challenge your innermost sense of self, your “I am that is deeper than your name and form.”

In this lesson, you’ll answer one enduring question about life, that is, “How does discovering
personal challenge create a deeper understanding of your innermost sense of self?”

YOUR OBJECTIVES
In this lesson, you are expected to:

 use textual aids in understanding better the text

 get information from various text types that can be used in everyday life
 determine how connected events contribute to the totality of a material viewed
 explain how the elements specific to a selection build their theme
 identify features of persuasive texts
 identify the elements of public speaking needed to effectively engage in
meaningful communication
 use reflexive pronouns to create meaningful discourse
 PRE-TEST

Intensive and Refexive Pronouns Directions: Determine whether each underlined

word is used as an intensive or refexive pronoun.

A. Write In for intensive pronoun and Re for reflexive pronoun.

1. You can see yourself more clearly.
2. Judge how much you know about yourself.
3. Life itself offers you many opportunities.

B. Reading and Literature Directions: Read each of the following short passages carefully and
copy the letter of the word or phrase that best completes each numbered item.

4. The main point of the article is best expressed in sentence no. __.
A. 3 B. 4 C. 10 D. 12
5. Exploring the sea of goodness, means you are practicing ______.
A. conscientiousness B. humility C. kindness D. sympathy
6. The word subtle in Sentence 5 means _________.
A. clear B. practical C. refined D. strained
7. The kind of evidence used by the writer to support her stand is through____.
A. anecdotes B. examples C. statistics D. video
8.The generalization or statement about the passage on life or human experience is to
__________.
A. bring out the best in you C. struggle against the odds B. stand up for one’s belief D. take
strength to bear up the odds

9. The word “fought” is a/an _______ of the word “defed” in sentence no. 4. A. connotation
C. opposite B. denotation D. symbol
10. This passage would most probably interest a/an __________. A. adolescent C. child B.
adult D. old man 11. The passage is most probably a part of a/an __________. A. anecdote
C. letter B. autobiography D. persuasive essay
12. To support his claim, the writer uses ____. A. facts C. reasons B. opinion D. statistics
13. An effective persuasive technique used by the author to emphasize his point is through
appealing to ________. A. emotion C. reason B. moral D. both A and C
 14.The feeling that the writer intends us to have toward life is ________. A. contentment C.
fear B. courage D. hopelessness
15. The word in the poem that gives hint to the mood it evokes is _____. A. aspired C. sink
B. sail D. succeed 16. The fgure of speech used in the poem is ______________. A.
alliteration C. personifcation B. metaphor D. simile
17. The last two lines of the poem express _____________. A. arrogance C. optimism B.
courage D. warning Part

Process Logical Organization.

Directions: Arrange the following sentences logically to form a coherent paragraph.
__18. A. Let’s ask help from other students to repair the existing damage.
__19. B. Finally, encourage all to maintain cleanliness and beauty of our surrounding.
__20. C. We can restore the beauty of this wall.
__21. D. First, let’s raise funds for the repair

ACTIVITIES
Here are some tasks that you have to accomplish in this module.

ACTIVITY 1
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND
Fill out the speech balloons with your experiences in life.

Processing Questions:
1. What can you say about the activity?

2. How did you feel when you recalled all those experiences?

3. What did you feel while sharing your experiences with the class? Why?
ACTIVITY 2
GUIDE FOR READING
Answer the question in each box below.
READ THE TEXT: Daedalus and Icarus by Nick Pontikis

ACTIVITY 3
FACTS & DETAILS

1. Who hires Daedalus?

2. What does Daedalus design to hold the Minotaur?

3. What does Daedalus invent to help him and Icarus escape from the Labyrinth?

4. What does he warn Icarus not to do?

5. What happens to Icarus?

ACTIVITY 4
WHAT’S GOING ON

1. Why did Minos imprison Daedalus in the Labyrinth?

2. Why did Minos think that, if Daedalus can’t fnd his way out, “so much the better”?

3. Minos tells Icarus that the plan is dangerous. Why does he want them to take this risk?

4. Why did Daedalus leave his wings on the altar of Apollo? Why wouldn’t he want to fy some
more?

ACTIVITY 5
DIGGING DEEPER

1. In a short paragraph, describe how Daedalus planned to escape from the island prison of
Crete.

2. Do you think Daedalus’s plan is a good one? Explain your answer.

3. Which events in the myth could have happened in real life?

4. If you had access to building resources and materials, how would you design a flying
machine to help you escape from the island prison of Crete?
 ACTIVITY 6
FACT OR NOT
Tell whether the statement is a fact or not. Draw WINGS before each number if the
statement is a fact and SUN if otherwise.

______ Daedalus was an inventor.

_______ King Minos wanted to kill the Minotaur.
_______ It would be easy to fnd your way out of the Labyrinth.
_______ Icarus design his own wings.
_______ The wings were made of chicken feathers.

ACTIVITY 7
AGREE OR DISAGREE
State whether you agree or disagree with the given statements and fnd evidence
from the text to support your claim.

ACTIVITY 8
GRAMMARIAN FOR A DAY
Scan the paragraphs below. Underline all the pronouns used by the author.

He was then tried at the Areiopagus, which was the ancient Greek court, and banished from his
home city of Athens. He fed to the island of Crete, where he began to work at the court of King
Minos and Queen Pasiphae, in the magnificent palace of Knossos.

It is said that Daedalus was the first to conceive masts and sails for ships for the navy of Minos,
helping Crete become a naval power. The statues he carved were so exquisite, they looked as if
they were alive. It is said that they would have escaped were it not for the chain that bound them to
the palace wall.
Daedelus also constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her amorous longings
for a white bull sent by Poseidon.

When the dreadful Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to contain the monstrous half-
man, half-bull. For years, Minos demanded a tribute of youths from Athens to feed the creature as
punishment for the accidental killing of his son while he was visiting Athens.

Eventually, the Athenian hero Theseus came to Crete to attempt to slay the Minotaur. Princess
Ariadne, daughter of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus and asked Daedalus
to help him.
Daedalus gave her a faxen thread for Theseus to tie to the door of the Labyrinth as he entered, and
by which he could fnd his way out after killing the monster. Theseus succeeded, and escaped Crete
with Ariadne.

ACTIVITY 9
REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
Pick at least fve (5) sentences with pronouns. Rewrite the statements and make the
pronouns refexive. Make sure these pronouns refect back to the subject of the
sentence.

Construct your own sentences by using the following pronouns as reflexive pronouns.
READ THE TEXT: Republic Act No. 10627 or the Anti-bullying Act of 2013

ACTIVITY 10
BULL AND BULLY
The text above is lifted from Republic Act No. 10627 or the Anti-Bullying Act of 2013.
Study the text carefully and to accomplish the chart below.
ACTIVITY 11
FINAL TASK
Write a short but persuasive text and record a concise oral presentation on the
causes and effects of cyberbullying. The following rubric will guide you:
 POST-TEST

A. Complete the sentence by filling in the correct reflexive pronoun.

Source: http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/reflexive_pronouns/reflexive_pronouns1.html
B. Read each of the following short passages carefully and copy the letter of the word or
phrase that best completes each numbered item.

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