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Quarter 1 - English 10
Lesson 2

LESSON DETAILS

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson, you must be able to:
1. identify the point of view: first/third person, limited/omniscient, and subjective/objective;
2. write an expository essay with a clear thesis statement and the body is supported with
some primary and/or secondary data; and
3. paraphrase information to avoid plagiarism and to demonstrate one’s understanding of a
text.

LESSON LENGTH: 4 hours (240 minutes)

MATERIALS NEEDED: Smartphone/Laptop/Computer

INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON

Before you have this activity, your learning facilitator has sent an invite for you to join a session on
Google Meet with your classmates.

What do you think are people’s single story of you?

Have you ever been struck by this question before? Did you ever ask yourself what others think of
you? How do you feel about your single story? Are you doing anything to change this story?
Comment your answer to this question on the post of your learning facilitator on your Google
Classroom.

In this lesson, you will be reading the transcript of ‘The Danger of a Single Story’ by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, learning about point of view, writing an expository essay, and paraphrasing
information to avoid plagiarism.

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 READING ACTIVITIES

In this guide, you will be focusing on what are the different points of view.

In the previous lesson, you have watched the speech of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Now you will
further analyze it by looking into the point of view of the speaker or author of the text.
Before you start with the reading activity, let’s have a quick practice about what point of view is.
Answer this activity on Google Forms.

After answering the activity, join in the discussion posted by your Learning Facilitator on your
Google Classroom and answer these questions:

● What is a point of view?

● What are the types of point of view?

You are familiar with first-person, second-person, and third-person points of view, but have you
heard an objective and subjective point of view?

Read PART ONE of the Lecture Notes below to know more about an objective point of
view and subjective point of view.

Identify whether the following sentences are written in the Subjective Point of
View or Objective Point of View. Comment your answer on the post of your learning
facilitator in Google Classroom.

1. African writers promote Negritude that focuses on Black is Beautiful because they believe
that Africa and its people deserve to write their stories in the voice of its real ancestors.

2. I believe these foreign invaders do not respect our black culture and beliefs for they are
born savages who could not differentiate primitive from advanced settlers. Well, colonizers
have the same blood.

Read this transcript of The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and
complete all the tasks provided in the worksheet. What you will be doing is a guided
reading to help you better comprehend the text.

After reading the transcript, answer this quiz to check for your understanding.

To practice what you have learned about point of view, answer this worksheet.

The author made use of the first-person point of view. Aside from this, the author also

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used a subjective point of view in the text. This is shown by the fact that she described how she felt
and what she was thinking when she was experiencing the effects of a single story.

LECTURE NOTES

PART ONE

Subjective Point of View

- based on personal opinions, interpretations, points of view, emotions, and judgment.
- not applicable for scenarios like news reporting or decision making in business or politics.

Examples:
1. Apple only allows apps that the company has approved to be installed on iOS devices.
The company does not care about the openness of their platform.

2. There is an open secret that says Americans will never accept immigrants as their
own people. I think this stemmed from their president’s belief in life that other
races are lower than the American race.

Objective Point of View

- The objective point of view is fact-based, measurable, and observable.

Examples:
1. More than 26 million Filipinos remain poor with almost half, or a little more than 12
million, living in extreme poverty and lacking the means to feed themselves,
according to official government statistics for the first semester of 2015.

The figures, however, reflect slight improvements from the same period in 2012, two
years after President Benigno Aquino III assumed power, as well as in 2009 and 2006,
under the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presidency.

2. Based on a report made by the United Nations in 2008, most countries in Africa are
now progressing in terms of poverty. The international survey shows that from 50%
of mortality rates due to malnutrition, it now decreased to 10%.

WRITING ACTIVITIES

Last week, you read and listened to the opinions of other people and you shared your own
opinions as well. And up to this point, the single-story that you shared, listened to, and read is all

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about other cultures and people.

In this part, you will be writing an opinion article. Do you know what an opinion article is?

To know more about opinion article and have a quick review of the parts of an essay, read
the PART TWO of Lecture Notes.
Before you write your essay, you have to learn a few things first that will help you in
writing, specifically understanding the difference between a topic sentence and a thesis statement.

A thesis statement is the central and controlling idea of the entire essay while a topic sentence is
the main idea of a paragraph.

The Roof and Pillar Analogy

The thesis statement covers the overall argument/primary point of the paper and is supported
by the topic sentences, which give the main points and evidence of the paper. To have a better
understanding of this, check this illustration below.

Read this sample paragraph:

I think the single story is very dangerous because it makes people and cultures one dimensional.
The single-story that various media platforms have continued to spread has made that one story
the defining story of that people or culture. I think if people had seen diversity in the movies they
have watched or books they have read, the single-story would not have existed. I think in order for
people to see the rich and diverse culture of the world, the publishers and moviemakers should be

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more conscious of the stories they produce.

After reading the sample paragraph, answer these questions posted on your Google Classroom:

1. What is the author’s opinion about the single story?

2. According to the author, how can we solve the problem of a single story?
3. Why do you think publishers and movie producers have a great responsibility in
destroying the single story?

The underlined words from the sample paragraph are transition words that indicate
condition, to know more about this read PART THREE of Lecture Notes.

You will use the PEEL Writing Planner to organize your thoughts and ideas for your essay.

Writing Task. The main topic of your opinion article is ‘What is the Filipino Single Story?’.

You may use these questions as your sub-topic:

● What do you think are the perceptions of other people from different countries about
Filipinos?
● How can Filipinos change or address this single story?

Create a new Google Docs and rename it using this format: SOT2_Opinion Article_Last Name_First
Name (example: SOT2_Opinion Article_Dela Cruz_Juan). Submit your work on the assignment
posted by your learning facilitator.

Follow these guidelines in writing your opinion article, your opinion article must have:
● at least five (5) paragraphs with a minimum of 300 words;
● a strong introduction that has the thesis statement;
● clear and strong supporting body using PEEL structure;
● a conclusion that summarizes the whole article; and
● appropriate transition words of the condition and perfect tenses, you should underline it.

Your opinion article will be evaluated using this Opinion Article Rubric.

After writing the opinion article, your learning facilitator will assign you a partner to have peer-
evaluation. To know who your partner is, visit your Google Classroom and check the list of pairs
posted by your learning facilitator. You need to share your work with your assigned partner and
you will be using the mechanics and rubric to evaluate your partner’s article. You are allowed to
make constructive comments to help your partner improve their article. Take note that all
comments are monitored by your learning facilitator.

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 LECTURE NOTES

PART TWO

Opinion Article
- An opinion article sometimes referred to as an op-ed article, is a commentary on a specific
topic and reflects that author’s opinion about it. It is one of the most common examples of
a persuasive essay.
- It is commonly found in newspapers and magazines, but a variety of other media also
contain opinion articles, such as blogs.

The Five-Paragraph Approach

● An introductory paragraph
● Three (3) body paragraphs discussing pieces of evidence and supporting details
● A conclusion

PART THREE

Transition Words of Condition

- It connects and relates to ideas, sentences, and paragraphs.
- It assists in the logical flow of ideas as they signal the relationship between sentences and
paragraphs.

Example of Transition Words of Condition:

● in case…
● in case of…
● provided that…
● due to…
● in case that…
● granted that…
● under these conditions…
● in order that…
● as a result…
● as a result of…
● if...

RESEARCH WRITING ACTIVITIES

What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘plagiarism’?

Share your answer to this question by commenting on the post of your learning facilitator on
Google Classroom.

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Copying a direct quotation into your paper, placing quotation marks around it, and crediting the
source. Is this plagiarism? No, this is not plagiarism.

Taking someone’s ideas or words, putting them into your own words, and crediting the source. Is
this plagiarism? No, this is not plagiarism. This is paraphrasing.

Read PART FOUR of Lecture Notes to know more about plagiarism and paraphrasing.
In order to avoid plagiarism, a person must always cite the references used. The most
commonly used citation style is called APA.

To know more about the 6th Edition APA, read PART FIVE of Lecture Notes.

To practice what you have learned in reading the guidelines of the 6th edition of APA
and paraphrasing, answer this worksheet.

REFLECTION

Join the Google Meet session with your learning facilitator to reflect on these questions:

What do you think is the single story of an APEC student?

How will you change this story?

LECTURE NOTES

PART FOUR

Plagiarism
According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to “plagiarize” means:
- to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own;
- to use (another’s production) without crediting the source;
- to commit literary theft; and
- to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.

Paraphrasing
- A paraphrase uses an author’s idea, but expresses it in your own words, without the use of
quotation marks.
- Just changing a few words from the original is plagiarism.

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 - Paraphrasing is permitted as long as you credit the source.

Example of Paraphrasing:
Original:
Students frequently overuse direct quotation [when] taking notes, and as a result they
overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final
manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the
amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes.
Lester, James D. Writing Research Papers. 2nd ed. (1976): 46-47

A legitimate paraphrase:
In research papers students often quote excessively, failing to keep quoted material down to
a desirable level. Since the problem usually originates during note-taking, it is essential to
minimize the material recorded verbatim (Lester 46-47).

A plagiarized version:
Students often use too many direct quotations when they take notes, resulting in too many
of them in the final research paper. In fact, probably only about 10% of the final copy should
consist of directly quoted material. So it is important to limit the amount of source material
copied while taking notes.

PART FIVE

American Psychological Association (APA)

- APA Style is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal
articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and
social sciences.

In-text Citation
● The in-text citation, a brief reference to a work, enables the reader to identify the source of
an idea quickly and easily. Knowing the author’s last name (or the title) from the in-text
citation, a reader can locate the complete publication information for that work in the
alphabetically arranged References list.
● An in-text citation must point clearly to a specific source in References.

6th Edition of APA

● References in the body of the essay
- The APA in-text reference is in the format (author, date).
- When directly quoting from a text, include a page number in the citation.
- Including page numbers in all other circumstances is not required however, it is best
practice to do so when referring to a part of a work (e.g. a paragraph or chapter in a
book).
- When referring to an entire work that covers a single topic (e.g. a journal article) it is

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 not required.

● Referencing an idea
Examples:
- Anxiety and depression have been identified as more commonly in children and
adolescents with long-term physical conditions (Dantzer, 2003; Pinquart & Shen,
2011).
- Dantzer (2003), Pinquart, and Shen (2011) all state that anxiety and depression have
been identified as more commonly in children and adolescents with long-term
physical conditions.

● Referencing a quotation
Example:
- Indeed, one researcher commented that “technological innovations have saved or
extended the lives of many patients” (Lumby, 2001, p. 44).

● Citing a source within a source

Example:
- (Halliday, as cited in Unsworth, 2004, p. 15)

References List
● The reference list should be ordered alphabetically by the author and then chronologically
by year of publication.
● The APA 6th style requires the references to be indented.

Examples:

● Book
De Vaus, D.A. (2014). Surveys in social research. Sydney, Australia: Allen &
Unwin.

● Book Chapter
McKenzie, H., Boughton, M., Hayes, L., & Forsyth, S. (2008). Explaining the
complexities and value of nursing practice and knowledge. In I. Morley & M. Crouch
(Eds.), Knowledge as value: Illumination through critical prisms (pp. 209-224).
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

● Journal Article
Cheung, J. M. Y., Bartlett, D. J., Armour, C. L., Laba, T. L., & Saini, B. (2018). To drug or
not to drug: A qualitative study of patients’ decision-making processes for managing
insomnia. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 16(1), 1-26.
DOI:10.1080/15402002.2016.1163702.

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 ● Webpage with an author
HealthTimes. (2015). The future of aged care nursing in Australia. Retrieved from
https://healthtimes.com.au/hub/aged-care/2/news/nc1/the-future-of-aged-care-
nursing-in-australia/495/.

● Webpage with no author

$250m funding boost for a malaria vaccine. (2003). Retrieved from
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2003-09-22/250m-funding-boost-for-malaria-
vaccine/1482220.

● Newspaper article
Fellner, C. (2019, April 7). Time bomb: Two new cases as NSW faces worst measles
outbreak in years. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from
https://www.smh.com.au.

● Government publication
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2018). Physical activity across the life
stages. Retrieved from https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/physical-activity/physical-
activity-across-the-life-stages/contents/table-of-contents.

● Company and Industry Report

Vuong, B. (2018, November). IBISWorld industry report OD5381. Coffee shops in
Australia. Retrieved from IBISWorld database.

Things to remember in referencing:

1. List only the resources to which you have specifically referred, not those merely consulted.
2. Place the page of references at the end of your paper titled References.
3. Use authors’ names in the order they appear on the title page; do not alphabetize multiple
authors of a source
4. Invert authors’ names and include only initials of first and middle names (i.e. Adam Smith
becomes Smith, A.) Use an ampersand (&) to connect two authors’ names (e.g. Spacey, K., &
Butler, G.)
5. Use commas to separate authors and an ampersand for the last author if there are three to
six authors.
6. Things that are considered “common knowledge” do not need to be cited.
Examples:
- The Canadian Confederation began in 1867.
- John A. Macdonald was Canada’s first Prime Minister.
- William Shakespeare was born in England in the 16th Century.

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