Name: Shane Andrei L.

Mene
Strand & Block: STEM 12-B

Activity 1: Knowledge Check!

1. S 6. A

2. S 7. S
3. S 8. S
4. A 9. A
5. A 10. S

Activity 2: Write It!

A. Figures of Speech
• Simile

The Filipino is like the bamboo.

• Metaphor
The bamboo tree was wiser.

• Personification
The mango tree stood fast.

B. Patterns of Development
• Exemplification
The Filipino is like the bamboo. He knows that he is not strong enough to withstand the
onslaughts of superior forces. And so he yields. He bends his head gracefully with many loud

protests; the Filipino is like the bamboo tree. In its grace, in its ability to adjust itself to the
peculiar and inexplicable whims to fate, the bamboo tree is his expressive and symbolic
national tree. It will have to be, not the molave nor the narra, but the bamboo.

• Comparison & contrast

The bamboo tree was wiser. It knew it was not as robust as the mango tree; Then the Japanese
came like a storm, like a plaque of locusts, like a pestilence rude, relentless and cruel.
• Cause & effect
The winds blew its hardest. The mango tree stood fast. It would not yield. It knew it was strong
and sturdy. It would not sway. It was too proud. It was too sure of itself. But finally its roots
gave way, and it tumbled down; And when the Spaniards left, the Filipinos still stood—only
much richer in experience and culture; Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a plaque of
locusts, like a pestilence rude, relentless and cruel. The Filipino learned to bow his head low to
“cooperate” with the Japanese in their “holy mission of establishing the Co-Prosperity Sphere.”

• Reason-and-Result

It knew it was not as robust as the mango tree. And so every time the wind blew, it bent its
head gracefully.

Activity 3: Explore It!

His idea of the man of earth I personally think are open for challenges stated in the last line, “I
might have been the bamboo, But I will be a man. Bend me then, O Lord, Bend me if you can.”
While the bamboo on the other hand can be the man that is only full of doubts and just goes
with the flow and not trying to be what a man can be.