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English 8 Q3 Week 3
English 8 Q3 Week 3
English 8 Q3 Week 3
English 8
Determining Social, Moral and
Economic Issues in Text (Week 3)
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QUARTER 3: LESSON 3
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Introductory Message
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Grade 8 Quarter 3
MELC/
Curriculum Code Determining various social, moral, and economic issues
discussed in the text
LESSON 3.1
SET UP
Describe each picture below in three words. Put your answers in the box
provided.
1. 1. 1.
2. 2. 2.
3. 3. 3.
WARM UP
Read the conversation of Lina and Marry while they are answering their
modules then answer the guided questions that follow.
Guided Questions:
1. Who is having trouble while answering the modules?
a. Lina
b. Marry
c. none of them
2. What is the main reason why they are having difficulties while learning?
a. Laziness
b. social pressure
c. Covid- 19 pandemic
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b. environmental concern
c. public health situation
PADDLE AWAY
Social issues refer to problems that affect society as whole. Majority of the people
strive to address the certain issue. Words related to social issues are poverty, racial
discrimination, public health situation, climate change and overpopulation.
Literature is an effective way to present and address social issues. Through poems,
stories and plays we can express our societal concerns and provide possible solutions that
would make a way for our readers to open their minds and be one of the solutions.
Social issue in text often displays as a theme or the central idea of stories and poem
that affects the overall outcome of the literary text.
A. First Paddle
Read the poem by Edwin Markham entitled “The Man with the Hoe” and
answer the graphic organizer.
What I think about social issues… My understanding of social issues in the poem…
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My opinions about social issues are… The social issues present in the poem are…
B. Second Paddle
In a society where one dreams of democracy, the main issue is that the majority rules
but minority rights are protected. Everyone has the right to speak and be heard. Everyone has
equal rights and responsibilities in exercising one’s beliefs and in asserting one’s identity. All
citizens then are entitled to negotiate in the "marketplace of ideas".
Read the passage carefully, then answer the following questions. Encircle the letter of
the correct answer.
A HERITAGE OF SMALLNESS
Nick Joaquin
(1) Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: barangay. Geography for the Filipino
is a small vague saying: Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: the barangay. Geography
for the Filipino is a small locality: the barrio. History for the Filipino is a small vague
saying:matanda pa kay mahoma; noong peacetime. Enterprise for the Filipino is a small stall:
the sari-sari. Industry and production for the Filipino are the small immediate searchings of
each day: isang kahig, isang tuka. And commerce for the Filipino is the smallest degree of
retail: the tingi.
(2) What most astonishes foreigners in the Philippines is that this is a country, perhaps
the only one in the world, where people buy and sell one stick of cigarette, half a head of
garlic, a dab of pomade, part of the contents of a can or bottle, one single egg, one single
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banana. To foreigners used to buying things by the carton or the dozen or pound and in the
large economy sizes, the exquisite transactions of Philippine tingis cannot but seem
Lilliputian. So much effort by so many for so little. Like all those children risking neck and
limb in the traffic to sell one stick of cigarette at a time. Or those grown-up men hunting the
sidewalks all day to sell a puppy or a lantern or a pair of socks. The amount of effort they
spend seems out of all proportion to the returns. Such folk are, obviously, not enough.
Laboriousness just can never be the equal of labor as skill, labor as audacity, labor as
enterprise.
(3) The Filipino who travels abroad gets to thinking that his is the hardest working
country in the world. By six or seven in the morning we are already up on our way to work,
shops and markets are open; the wheels of industry are already agrind. Abroad, especially in
the West, if you go out at seven in the morning you’re in a dead-town. Everybody’s still in
bed; everything’s still closed up. Activity doesn’t begin till nine or ten– and ceases promptly
at five p.m. By six, the business sections are dead towns again. The entire cities go to sleep
on weekends. They have a shorter working day, a shorter working week. Yet they pile up
more mileage than we who work all day and all week.
9. What idea about the Filipinos can be drawn/extracted after reading the text? Filipinos are
A. hardworking and are compensated accordingly
B. hardworking but not compensated with their efforts
C. belittled by foreigners working so hard yet getting too little from their hard work
D. not indolent but not being one isn’t enough; so there is a need to balance hard work
and productivity.
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10. The text tells the reader that life in the Philippines is .
A. easy B. informal C. challenging D. stress-free
How did you read? Tick the box which descriptor matches your reading time.
Speed Reader I read the text between 30- 50 seconds.
Average Reader I read the text between one to two minutes.
Developing Reader I read the text for two or more minutes.
C. Third Paddle
Most of us are active in social media, which of the following social issues would you share or
hide? And explain why.
share or hide?
________________________
explanation
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Consider the challenges you’re facing as a student and how it may be related to the social
issues in our society.
Broken family
ANSWER KEY
WORKS CITED
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Almonte, Liza R., et al.
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Sarip, Sittie Nabela (January 11, 2015) Top 4 Issues in the Philippines
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