English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 1
English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 1
English 9 Activity Sheet: Quarter 2 - MELC 1
English 9
Activity Sheet
Quarter 2 – MELC 1
Making Connections Between Texts
to Particular Social Issues
Learning Activity Sheets (LAS)
Reading becomes meaningful when you recognize how ideas in a text connect to
events happening in a larger world. Relating these ideas to particular social issues
allows you to make sense of what you read, retain information better, and engage more
with the text itself.
For this reason, reading texts can provide valuable insights especially on social
issues. This can be done by connecting to the overall message of the text, to the lines
delivered by the speaker or the author or to the situations presented in the story.
In this lesson, you will relate the text content to particular social issues. A social
issue is a problem or concern connected to a larger issue that affects society in general.
Examples of social issues are oppression, political dynasty, extrajudicial killing, poverty,
social injustice, and discrimination.
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4. Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial
resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living.
5. Social injustice is described as a situation in which dominant population is
made known of the inequity that leads for others due to their relative position in
the structure of power (Maus n.p.). Social injustice is also the way unjust actions
are done in the society. Social injustice occurs in a situation where the equals
are treated unequally and the unequal is treated equally. Three common
examples of social injustice include: discrimination, ageism, and homophobia
(Farooq n.p.).
6. Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based
on characteristics such as race, gender, age or sexual orientation (APA, 2020).
1. Directions
Answer and accomplish the activities on pages 3 to 4.
2. Activity/Exercise
Read the sonnet below and answer the questions that follow.
England in 1819
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Vocabulary
dregs – the most useless part
dull race – inactive legacy
public scorn – contempt of the public
leechlike – similar to leech
liberticide – killing liberty, suppressing freedom
prey – a victim of oppression
sanguine – bloody
statute unrepealed – unreformed law passed by an official ruling body
phantom – spirit burst
– emerge
tempestuous – violent
Rulers who neither see nor feel This reminds me of the patriarch of the Ampatuan
nor know political family during the Maguindanao massacre
which claimed the lives of at least 34 journalists.
(Extrajudicial Killing, Social
Injustice) This is similar to the holocaust that killed millions
of Jews and other dissidents in concentration
camps. Behind these killings was Adolf Hitler, one
of the notorious dictators in the 20th century.
3. Guide Questions
1. What does this remind me of in the real world?
2. How is this text similar to things that happen in the real world?
3. How is this different from things that happen in the real world?
Activity 1. Possible Answers