Topic: How A Selection May Be Influenced by Culture, History, Environment and Other Factors

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English
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TOPIC

How a Selection may be Influenced by Culture, History,


Environment and Other Factors

LEARNING TARGETS
 Explain how a selection may be influenced by culture, history, environment or
other factors.EN7LT-IV-h-3

 Supply other words or expressions that complete an analogy. EN7V-IV-c-23.1

MOTIVATION
INTRODUCTION
Directions: Look closely at the given pictures below. Study the details and identify the
ideas that each picture shows or conveys. Write your answers on a separate sheet.

Direction: Answer the following questions based on the ideas conveyed by the pictures
above. Write your answers on a separate sheet.
1. Which picture shows the spirit of communal unity and cooperation of the Filipino people?
A. Picture A
B. Picture B
C. Picture C
2. Which picture shows that the life of Filipino people is simple and peaceful?
A. Picture A
B. Picture B
C. Picture C
3. Which picture shows that the Philippines has a great history about the death of a hero who
brought change and reformation in the country?
A. Picture A
B. Picture B
C. Picture C

You learn many things through reading, listening, and watching. The information you
gained, at least or at most, may influence your perception in life as well as your everyday
activities. This information, which can be a theme or a topic of a text, maybe about
culture, history, environment, and other factors that affect people's lives.
Moreover, what you have learned from what you have read, heard, and watched
will help you understand cultural values, historical perspectives, environmental impact,
and other significant contexts that are part of your experiences every day. After evaluating
the material, you will realize that what is in the content is real.
For you to grasp a clear view of the lesson, important terms or words are defined
profoundly below.
Culture is a complex of features held by a social group, which may be as small as a
family or a tribe or as large as a racial or ethnic group, a nation, or in the age of
globalization, by people all over the world. Culture has been called "the way of life for an
entire society." It includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of
behavior such as law and morality, and belief systems. However, culture is not fixed or
static; rather, it involves a dynamic process as people respond to changing conditions and
challenges.

EXAMPLE:
History is the study of the past. History also includes the academic discipline that uses
a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze a sequence of past events and
investigate the patterns of cause and effect related to them. History provides us with a
sense of identity. By understanding where we have come from, we can better understand
who we are. History provides a sense of context for our lives and our existence. It helps us
understand the way things are and how we might approach the future.
EXAMPLE:

An environment is a place where different things, living (biotic) or non-living


(abiotic), constantly interact with and adapt to conditions in their environment. A person's
environment is the event and culture that the person lived in. The environment is
everything around us. A person's beliefs and actions depend on his environment.

EXAMPLE:

Importance of Knowing the Filipino Culture,


History, and Environment
1. We get to understand the people and the world better.
2. It helps us understand ourselves.
3. Knowledge of own culture is increased.
4. It helps us overcome and prevent racial and ethnic divisions.
5. We get exposure to new experiences.
6. We become more prepared to cope with the ever-changing world.
7. It helps us develop a new level of appreciation for just about everything.

Reading Time!
Directions: Read thoroughly the passage written by Nick Joaquin. Then, answer the
questions that follow by choosing the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers on a
separate sheet.

A Heritage of Smallness
Nick Joaquin
Society for the Filipino is a small rowboat: the barangay. Geography for the Filipino is
a small locality: the barrio. History for the Filipino is a small vague saying: matanda pa kay
mahoma; noong peacetime. Enterprise for the Filipino is a small stall: the sari-sari. Industry
and production for the Filipino are the small immediate scratching of each day: isang kahig,
isang tuka. And commerce for the Filipino is the smallest degree of retail: the tingi.
What most astonishes foreigners in the Philippines is that this is a country, perhaps
the only one in the world, where people buy and sell one stick of cigarette, half a head of
garlic, a dab of pomade, part of the contents of a can or bottle, one single egg, one single
banana. To foreigners used to buying things by the carton or the dozen or pound and in the
large economy sizes, the exquisite transactions of Philippine tingis cannot but seem
Lilliputian. So much effort by so many for so little. Like all those children risking neck and
limb in the traffic to sell one stick of cigarette at a time. Or those grown-up men hunting the
sidewalks all day to sell a puppy or a lantern or a pair of socks. The amount of effort they
spend seems out of all proportion to the returns. Such folk are, obviously, not enough.
Laboriousness just can never be the equal of labor as skill, labor as audacity, labor as
enterprise.

The Filipino who travels abroad gets to thinking that his is the hardest working country in the
world. By six or seven in the morning we are already up on our way to work, shops and markets
are open; the wheels of industry are already agrind. Abroad, especially in the West, if you go out at
seven in the morning you’re in a dead-town. Everybody’s still in bed; everything’s still closed up.
Activity doesn’t begin till nine or ten– and ceases promptly at five p.m. By six, the business
sections are dead towns again. The entire cities go to sleep on weekends. They have a shorter
working day, a shorter working week. Yet they pile up more mileage than we who work all day
and all week.

Source: An excerpt from Montage: An Anthology in Philippine Literature in English

Types of Relationships in Analogy


 spoon: eat :: pen: write

Spoons
function is to
eat while pens
function is to
write.

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