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English 10 Learning Packets

Quarter 1 Week 5 and 6 Competency:

Evaluate text content, elements, features, and properties using a set of criteria

TOPIC: Evaluating Text Features (Persuasive Text)

WHAT TO EXPECT
To do well, in this exemplar, you are expected to accomplish the following:
1. evaluate text content, elements, features, and properties using a set of criteria
2. identify language features of a persuasive text
3. cite appropriate evidence that will support the thesis statement

LEARNING BY DOING
A. Lesson Proper
Directions: Watch the video-lecture and take note of details to be aware of the features of a
persuasive text. Click the link below.
Transcript
Identifying Language Features of Persuasive Texts
Persuasion is an act or process of convincing another person to do something on your favor.
You will recognize persuasive texts with these language features:
1. Present tense – consider the singular and plural form of the verb. This might change to the
past if historical background to the issue was being given. If predictions are being made the tense
might change to the future.
2. Connectives and conjunctions – to connect ideas; to exemplify and to show results used in
concluding statements; to finalize arguments
3. Powerful verbs – use action words in an active voice
4. Strong adjectives – colorful and imaginative descriptive words
5. Emotive words – words which can touch emotions and appeal to readers feelings
6. Repeated words – for words to emphasize. The writer uses repetition of words, phrases and
concepts deliberately, for effect.
7. Rhetorical questions/ Thought provoking questions – question to be posed as a guide in
discussing ideas
8. Exaggeration – may use hyperbole for an important idea to emphasize
9. Facts and statistics – are pieces of information, data, facts and figures as evidences to
support

B. Reading Activity

Read the example of persuasive text.

Persuasive Text Example:

Despite the technological advances and scientific inventions that make us believe we have
nothing in common with the rest of the animal kingdom, we are still part of the planet’s fauna, whether
we realize it or not. Needless to say, back when humanity’s main achievements were the invention
of a round wheel, or specific tools for farming agriculture, human beings were dependent on nature
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and paid attention to the changes of its course (George 24). Now, with technological revolutions and
discoveries that made up our past history, we seem to pay little attention to nature, getting more and
more disconnected from it every day. However, the links we have with nature cannot disappear.
There are several key reasons in favor of the concept that people should try to connect with nature
more than they do today.
Nature has historically been the home for human beings, just like it remains a home for
animals and plants (except for those that are kept in zoos and greenhouses). Nature can show us
true beauty without modifications, exaggerations, and falseness. After all, is it not ironic how people
go to galleries and exhibitions to look at paintings of colorful flowers, mighty woods, green hills, and
fast clear streams; those simple beauties can easily be observed in real life outside of the urban
environment which looms around them Or the fact people purchase recordings of calming sounds
of nature, like what you would hear at night in the woods—a damped quavering of an owl, a ringing
flare of crickets, and the sonorous rustle of bushes. What we are in fact doing is trying to deceive
our minds and make ourselves believe we are in the woods, next to those owls, crickets, and bushes,
while we are instead trapped inside our tiny, well-furnished, and packed-with-technology apartment.
In the era of absolute informational chaos and noise, it becomes more important than ever to
be able to pause from the crazy pace of life and relax. Finding silence and peace in the global
vacuum of competitiveness, haste, and strain is challenging. We go to doctors for depression,
insomnia, and anxiety. We ask for prescriptions and pills, while what we should be doing instead is
turning to nature for help. What can be more relaxing and stress-free than a cup of warm herbal tea
with fresh honey on the porch of a cozy wooden country house with a view of a small natural lake,
or green forest, or beautiful mountains? It is the cheapest, simplest, and most accessible treatment
one can think of. We laugh at those “freaks” hugging trees in the park, or walking barefoot on grass.
However, these people remember what is essential—what most others have forgotten somewhere
along the race to progress and prosperity: the key to being healthy, emotionally sustained and
resistant to everyday stress is staying connected to nature and allowing ourselves to put all business
on hold and take a break (Swang 54).
Nature is about balance and harmony—what we lack when we live inside the swirling pit of
urbanized cities. Sometimes we escape, but so rarely and so abruptly, that such escapades can
hardly help us reestablish our link with nature. Individuals who live in city areas should consider
changing their routine and getting out into nature more regularly. When was the last time you took
a walk to a nearby pond, or spent a weekend outdoors doing active sports? When was the last
time you went hiking, or fishing, or took your family or friends for a picnic in the nearby park? We
should try to move our weekly entertainment, as well as our holiday celebrations, parties, and
friendly gatherings, from homes, pubs, and restaurants to lake shores, mountains, parks, forests,
ponds, rivers, and groves. The beautiful landscapes of America are incredibly rich and diverse,
and this is our true natural wealth we unfortunately often forget about.

C. Structure of Persuasive Writing.

The persuasive text is composed of three main parts just like a usually text.
A. Introduction
• Hook – interesting first sentence
• Thesis/ Thesis Statement – a clear, concise statement of your main argument; the overall
idea you’ll be arguing. • Definitions – define any terms that the reader might find
usual/unfamiliar
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• Background information – give context to your argument/subject; familiarize the reader

with the content

B. Each Body Paragraph

• Only one point to support your thesis per paragraph
• Topic sentence reflects the main idea of the paragraph and links back to support the
thesis
• Evidence – information from a reliable outside source (not your own opinion) that supports
the main idea of the paragraph
• Analysis – show how your evidence supports your argument; build your argument

C. Conclusion
• Tie up the essay – briefly sum up the main point
• Establish significance
• Bonus: give the reader food for thought

Reference List:

Academic Help. (2012, July 10). https://academichelp. Why People Should Connect More with
Nature. net/samples/academics/essays/persuasive/connect-with-nature.html

Castro, H. (2018). Everyday life in world literature. Phoenix.

English Online. (2015, September 15). Persuasion. https://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-

Online/Planning-for-my-students-needs/Resources-research-and-professional-support/Features-
of-text-forms/Persuasion

Lapid, M.G., & Serrano, J.B. (2018). English communication arts and skills through world literature
(8th ed.). Phoenix.

Yabut, D. (2019). Integrated English for effective communication. Phoenix.

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