University of Northeastern Philippines

Ortega Street, San Roque

City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
PACUCOA ACCREDITED PROGRAM LEVEL II

Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Directions: Read the given selection. Be able to organize the ideas

presented in the text by using an outline. You may use either traditional
or modern outline.

KEEP IT GREEN AND SIMPLE

An Excerpt
By Nestor Cuartero

Environmentalists advocate: keep it green and simple this

Christmas season.
The wasteful pending that usually characterizes the celebration of
Christmas in the country, considered the longest in the world, can be
bad for the environment.
The Eco Waste Coalition, a network of community, church, school,
environmental and health groups, has expressed fear that Metro
Manila’s trash collection of 8,000 cubic meters daily will rise by at least
one third of the last eat-all-you-can office party or clan reunion that has
been celebrated.
Alas, most of these wastes will come in the form of plastic and
other non-biodegradable.
This Christmas season, and for any other season, the Eco Waste
Coalition offers the following reminders to celebrate the season with
just the right amount of caring for Mother Earth, without robbing
Christmas of the merriment that we have come to love and associate
with it.
The following list will not in any way cramp our style or affect our
happiness index. In fact, it can even bolster it, if you look at it for a long
run.
When Mother Nature is happy, we may no longer have to be
known as the happiest people in Asia as revealed in the study released
recently by AXA Asia Life, a division of Asia Pacific Holdings. We may
become the happiest people in the world, Christmas or no Christmas.
 University of Northeastern Philippines
Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
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Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
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PACUCOA ACCREDITED PROGRAM LEVEL II

Activity no.___________
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Directions: Critique the sample narratives below. Be able to identify the

transitions and phrases used in retelling the event. Improve this using
transitions and phrases.

THE CLIMB
I have this fear. It causes my legs to shake. I break out in a cold
sweat. I start jabbering to anyone who is nearby. As thoughts of certain
death run through my mind, the world appears a precious, treasured
place. I imagine my own funeral, then shrink back at the implications of
where my thoughts are taking me. My stomach feels strange. My palms
are clammy.
I am terrified of heights.
Of course, it’s no really a fear of being in a high place. Rather, it is the
view of a long way to fall, of rocks far below me and no firm wall
between me and the edge. My sense of security is screamingly absent.
There are no guardrails, flimsy though I picture them, or other safety
devices. I can rely only on my own surefootedness or lack thereof.
Despite my fear, two summers ago I somehow found myself
climbing to a high place, while quaking inside and out. Most of our high
school had come along on a day trip to the Bpqueron, a gorgeous, lush
spot in the foothills of Peru. Its prime attraction is the main waterfall,
about 100 feet high, that thunders into a crystal clear pool feeding the
Aguayia River. All around the pool and on down to the rushing river are
boulders large and small. The beach is strewn with rocks. On both sides
of the fall, the jungle stretches to meet it, rising parallel to it on a
gentler slope.
After eating our snack lunches within sight and sound of the fall,
many of us wanted to make the climb to an area above it. A few guys
went first to make sure they were on the right path. But after they left,
my group of seven decided to go ahead without waiting for them to
return. I suspected we were going the wrong way, but I kept silent,
figuring that the others knew better. We went along the base of the hill
until we reached the climb. It stopped me in my tracks.
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Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Directions: Recall a past event you personally experienced or heard. Be

able to use dialogues in the narratives.
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Activity no.___________
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Directions: Develop a definition paragraph on any of the topics given

below. Use the proper format. Be able to critique your work by
answering the following questions:

Topics
Peer pressure commitment leisure
Friendship romantic relationship focus
Speed dating time management aspiration

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1. Does you paragraph precisely define the topic or only describe it?
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2. What methods do you use to define your topic? Would other

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3. Do you state what your topic is not to prevent confusion?

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4. If you were to explain your definition to someone, what changes

would you make?
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Direction: Read “To Unteach Greed,” by Carol Bly and analyze how the
writer used the extended definition.

To Unteach Greed
Carol Bly
Technique is the enemy of philosophy and goodness. The
“technique or form creates content” attitude of the 1940s New
Criticism makes for cold treatment of stories, deliberate mental
superiority over literature-as if literature were something to be seen
through. You see it in the frosty way English Departments of
universities and colleges, still stuck with that interest in technique,
handle their freshman curricula. Tolstoy has a terrific passage in Anna
Karenina against technique. Some art “appreciators” are in a painter’s
studio, looking at a picture he has just passionately finished in which
Christ is one of the figures.
“Yes—there’s a wonderful mastery!” said Vronsky… “There you
have technique”… The sentence about technique had sent a pang
through Mihailov’s (the painter’s) heart, and looking angrily at Vronsky
he suddenly scowled. He had often heard this word technique, and was
utterly unable to understand… a mechanical facility for painting or
drawing, entirely apart from its subject.
Here is a tentative format for an Ag Lit Course:
Akenfield, especially the chapters about Muck Hill Farm and the
Young farmer’s League, and the one about the old Scot who couldn’t
adjust to the new gardening ways.
“How Much Land Does a Man Need?” from Tolstoy’s Russian
Stories and Legends
Growing up in Minnesota, especially Robert Bly’s strange chapter
about the sheriff railroading a farmhand to jail in Madison, Minnesota.
All Things Bright And Beautiful And All Creatures Great And
Small.
“To a Mouse” by Burns
“Home Burial”and “The Hill Wife” by Frost
Furrow’s End, edited by D>B> Greenberg, especially the story of
the young sheepherder and his girl from squatter background –one of
the most terrific young-love stories with a farming scene.
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Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
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Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Direction: Write a paragraph using comparison and contrast to explain

the similarities and differences on any of the given topics below. You
may also think of you own topic.
a. Two cars d. two friends
b. Two sitcoms e. two chocolates
c. Two teachers f. two boys

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Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
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Telephone Number: 299-1800
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Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Directions: Infer the main idea for each paragraph and indicate whether
it is implicit or explicit. Be able to apply the needed reading skills.

One Step Higher to IQ

By Jose Antonio Cangco

1. With so many busy lives, we are not concerned with

experiments and hypothesis, how, when. Where, and who
conducted them. We want results, and quick. How will this
knowledge increase my IQ and make me better a student, a loving
husband, or a caring wife, and a host of other wonderful and good
things a higher IQ will bring?

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2. So what is the pure essence of mind? Its name implies it is

clean, unspoiled, and virginal. It is the basic nature of the mind
that is good and it is attracted to what is right. Like the essence of
vanilla, which makes vanilla what it is, the essence of mind is what
makes the person who he is.
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3. One way of doing summer cleaning in our homes is to start

with the clutter in the attic. We throw things that are no longer
needed. This also makes the house not a fire hazard. Similarly, the
one step to a higher IQ is to clean our thinking processes by
throwing away the mental rubbish that had accumulated in us.
The essence of mind is not a garbage bin where we throw away
our mental garbage and other thoughts which no longer appeal to
us, but is more like a sounding board where we examine our
values and ideas if they are worthy of us.
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Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Direction: Synthesize the given selection by summarizing and

paraphrasing.

Enjoying Life Up to the The Sweet Healthy C

An Excerpt
By Noel F. de Jesus

1. The selling population of people who age 100 ad over has

given researchers an opportunity to answer some of the most
fundamental questions about human health and longevity: What
does it take to live a long life? How much do diet, exercise, and
other lifestyle factors mater compared with “good” genes? And
most significant, what is the quality of life among the “old” old?
Does getting older invariably mean getting sticker, or can people
remain productive, social, and independent on their 100th
birthday and beyond?
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2. There are a dozen or so centenarian studies. A health advice

book has been published based on findings from the centenarian
study in Okinawa, where the average life expectancy 81.2 is the
highest in the world.
There, active centenarian studies in Italy, Sweden and
Denmark. For most parts results from these studies belie the myth
that the oldest old are doddering and dependent. Some harsh
demographic selection may come into play. Frail individuals die
sooner, leaving only relatively robust group still alive. In fact, one
of the rewards of living a long life is that, for the most part, the
“extra years” are healthy years.
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Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
PACUCOA ACCREDITED PROGRAM LEVEL II

Activity no.___________
Activity title:
__________________________________________________

Directions: Read the given selection. Be able to organize the ideas

presented in the text by using an outline. You may use either traditional
or modern outline.

KEEP IT GREEN AND SIMPLE

An Excerpt
By Nestor Cuartero

Environmentalists advocate: keep it green and simple this

Christmas season.
The wasteful pending that usually characterizes the celebration of
Christmas in the country, considered the longest in the world, can be
bad for the environment.
The Eco Waste Coalition, a network of community, church, school,
environmental and health groups, has expressed fear that Metro
Manila’s trash collection of 8,000 cubic meters daily will rise by at least
one third of the last eat-all-you-can office party or clan reunion that has
been celebrated.
Alas, most of these wastes will come in the form of plastic and
other non-biodegradable.
This Christmas season, and for any other season, the Eco Waste
Coalition offers the following reminders to celebrate the season with
just the right amount of caring for Mother Earth, without robbing
Christmas of the merriment that we have come to love and associate
with it.
The following list will not in any way cramp our style or affect our
happiness index. In fact, it can even bolster it, if you look at it for a long
run.
When Mother Nature is happy, we may no longer have to be
known as the happiest people in Asia as revealed in the study released
recently by AXA Asia Life, a division of Asia Pacific Holdings. We may
become the happiest people in the world, Christmas or no Christmas.
 University of Northeastern Philippines
Ortega Street, San Roque
City of Iriga
Website: www.unep.edu.ph
Telephone Number: 299-1800
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
PACUCOA ACCREDITED PROGRAM LEVEL II

Modern Outline
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Activity no.___________
Activity title:
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Direction: read the selection below. Be able to apply critical reading

skills by answering the questions that follow.

Don’t Blame Texters

By Julie Yap Daza

SMS (Short messaging Service) or text, they say, is killing English

and doing it faster, I say don’t worry. English has been dead a long time;
we just didn’t give it a proper burial.
It’s only a theory, but I dare stand by it because in the absence of
real, solid data based on empirical knowledge, I can’t argue, without
being a linguist that text is a language all its own- a language
independent of English, thereof text can’t be responsible for its demise.
The language of text on call phone is the language of
abbreviations, a language so personal, yet so casual, that it is easily
shared with another person who belongs to the same ethnic or social
class as the sender of the message.
The abbreviated words are subjective inventions done without
consideration of rules of grammar or syntax, only of phonetics and
spur-of-the-moment convenience, that they defy being classified as
English.
From a friend, I learned the short cut for “I am” as “M.” From
another person, Il earned to spell “someone” as “som1” and “U”
stands for “You”. As everyone who has ever texted knows, there are
more than five ways to text “Thank you”. Every word in the English
Language leads itself to abbreviation, from “apple” to “zebra” so you
can imagine what texting in Tagalog with its repetitive prefixes and
suffixes sounds like!
The people who murdered English before the invention of the cell
phone have already done a good job; so don’t blame the deterioration
of English as a second language to them.
Which brings me to the second point of my theory. Those of us
parents and teachers who fret over the death of English at the hands of
murderers lose sight of the fact that the texters, who are not
comfortable in English, are not likely to spend their precious pesos
communicating in an unfamiliar language, when they could so gladly
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text in Filipino or Ilongo or Kapampangan. In other words, the

continuing killing of English will not be carried out by today’s
generation of non-English-speaking youths or adults. If English is in
danger, it will not be because of them.
And while it may be true that word in the national language tend
to be long and kilometric, certain words make a point more effectively
and hit directly when texted in Tagalog, words like “cgue” (short for
sige) and “na” as in “tmw na” ( to mean “tomorrow might be a better
time”) and “sana” ( to mean “hopefully” or “I wish”). Who says we
cannot be bilingual in texting? English and Tagalog, and now a third
language, SMS.
When I texted y theory on an instructor handling a collegiate
course in Scriptwriting, he provided the good news that his students,
writing in English or Tagalog as the spirit moves them, “are card-
carrying members of the text generation,” but believe it or not, they
write so well in English or Tagalog.

Source: Philippine Panorama, Jan 27,2008,p. 10

Questions
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4. Do you share the same views with the author on the topic?
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