ACTIVITY 2: USING CORRECT AND APPROPRIATE MULTIMEDIA RESOURCES IN WRITING RECOUNTS

A. Read the excerpt from the text entitled There is a Teenager in the House by Kerima Polotan-Tuvera.

There is a teenager in the house. Until a few years ago, he was my son. But when he turned thirteen, he also
became this tall stranger with pimples around his nose.

For nearly two years now, there’s been an undeclared war between him and me. He wins the skirmishes, but he loses
the battles. He may get his way every now and then, but he knows that I make the big decisions. I am always tempted
to punish him, and I am sure he has always thought of fighting back. We are, suddenly to each other, two people who
don’t like such other very much. He has ideas that shocked me, and I have standards that appall him.

Once or twice, we manage to rediscover each other. After a heated argument over why he should roll up his beddings
and pick up his soiled clothes and study his lessons, this teenager and I looked into each other’s eyes. I searched for the
baby I woke up for each dawn, thirteen years ago. I do not know what he looks for in my face, but he finds it there
because he smiles. The anger vanishes between us although the issue is not solved. Strewn on the floor each morning
will be his bedding. Close by, like the molting of the snake, are the algebra lessons undone, the comic books well-
thumbed, the messy bathroom.

Post Reading Activity

Answer the following questions by writing the letter of your choice in a separate sheet of pad paper.

For numbers 1-2, look for your answers inside the box below.

a. daughter b. father c. mother d. son

1. Who is the speaker in the narrative? ___

2. Who was the other character cited in the narrative? ____
3. How would you describe the relationship between the two central characters in the narrative?
a. authoritative b. difficult c. easy d. permissive

4. What type of recount was presented above?

a. factual b. imaginative c. literary d. personal

5. Should the speaker document this part of the narrative into multimedia, which document would candidly
explain her point?

a. childhood photos b. digital scrapbook

c. illustration of untidy room d. wordy Facebook post

Read the following items carefully. Select the letters of the correct answer and write
them on a separate sheet of pad paper.

For numbers 1-5, read the text below to answer the following items. Look closely at the
words printed in italics.
 One balmy July evening as I sat writing, insects whirled and hummed around me.
Suddenly, a butterfly glided to a landing on a paper before me. I continued writing,
but my pen detoured around the tiny creature so as not to disturb its fascinated
contemplation of the brilliantly lit paper.
When I came to the end of the page, I hesitated. Brush the butterfly away? No, I
decided to look more closely at this living jewel with a magnifying glass.
How, I wondered, can a creature be so tiny and yet so complicated? How did
the chrysalis gather the basic materials necessary for its own evolution and then
transform them into eyes, legs, feelers, and wings? Those wings, especially, made me
think. Their pastel colors, arranged with such geometric perfection – where do they
come from? On this tiny body, scarcely as big as a grain of rice, are colors that equal
or surpass those of the works of our greatest painters. (Fr. Marcel-Marie Dumarais,
OP, God or Chance)

1. Which creature did the writer encounter in this excerpt of the recount?
a. baboon b. bee c. bird d. butterfly
2. What type of recount is illustrated in the excerpt?
a. autobiography b. diary c. memoir d. reflective essay
3. If transformed into a social media post, what type of recount would this passage
be?
a. biography b. blog
c. eyewitness account d. personal narrative
4. Which multimedia resource would fail to aid in conveying the message of the
recount?
a. audio b. graphics c. photos d. videos
5. Which verb should consistently be used in recounts?
a. future b. linking c. past d. present
Directions: Using the concept map, write key ideas about the concept of multimedia.

Multimedia
 ACTIVITY 3:
IN A 1 WHOLE SHEET OF PAPER, LIST DOWN 10 WORDS THAT IS
UNFAMILIAR TO YOU AND GIVE THE DEFINITION OF IT. THEN, CREATE ONE
SENTENCE USING THE WORD THAT YOU CHOOSE.
NOTE: FOLLOW THE FORMAT OF THE GIVEN EXAMPLE

EXAMPLE:
MALIGNANT
Meaning: tending to produce death or deadly
Sentence: My mother died because of a malignant cancer.