MET # 9: Position paper Lesson #5: Writing a Position paper

Prerequisite Content-knowledge: Thesis Statement, Summarizing, Outlining

Prerequisite Skill: Communication skill, Critical Thinking, Writing Skill
Prerequisites Assessment:

Pre-lesson Remediation Activity:

1. For Students with Insufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Students will
answer book activity 2-3 page 63
2. For Students with Fairly Sufficient Level on Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s): Recitation
Introduction:

1. You will orient your students of the following:

Time frame: 3 days
Means of communication: face to face class

2. Present to the students the Knowledge (RUA) they are expected to gain from learning the
topic/lesson: The students will be able to…

Remembering: Define what a position paper is

Understanding: Apply the guidelines in writing in a position paper
Applying: Write a position paper

3. Inform the students with the context where they can apply their learning:

The learners will identify the process of wiring a position paper

After discussing the points of a position paper, the students will be asked to write a position paper.

4. Provide the overview of the lesson by summarizing the lesson in a nutshell.

The lesson is about writing a position paper. The students will be taught of the processes in writing a position
paper. This will provide them knowledge on taking a stand.
Student’s Experiential Learning: (Note: Use the Flexible Learning Activity Identified for the topic/lesson relative
to the General Enabling Teaching Strategy)

Introduce the lesson by chunks (essential knowledge). Each chunk ends with a formative question that the students
should answer. If the students fail to answer the formative question satisfactorily, an immediate intervention should
be made readily available for students to access. This clarifies any misconceptions and would establish a solid
foundation of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes he/she should attain.

Chunk 1:
Formative question: Define what a position paper is

Chunk 2:
Formative question: Identify the parts of a position paper

Synthesis
Provide the lesson’s synthesis by answering the formative questions in all of the lesson chunks.

A kind of academic writing in which the writer researches a controversial issue and writes a paper explaining
his/her stand.

- Purpose is to generate support on an issue.

- Based on facts that provide a solid foundation for an argument

RUA of a Student’s Learning: This is the part where the students express their learning in their own unique ways.
They will manifest learning of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes they achieve in this lesson through their
individual learning style (visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic).

The learners can now uniquely…

Remembering: Define what a position paper is

Understanding: Apply the guidelines in writing in a position paper
Applying: Write a position paper

Post-lesson Remediation Activity:

Based on your individual assessment of the student’s RUA of Learning, you will design remediation activity in the
form of inputs (reading texts, prompts, cloze completion, question and answer, etc.) that will address the identified
difficulties in the assessment.

 Write a position paper on certain issue.