TALS Activities

TALS Activities

By LORENE SEVILLA

Activity that applies the concepts of Language Model to the teaching of the short story, "Footnote to Youth".

Criteria

Originality 30 pts

Organization 25 pts

Clarity 25 pts

Gra̲mmar 20 pts

Total           100 pts​

Guide Questions

1. What is the story all about?

2. Was the story interesting?

3. Is it catchy for the readers?

4. Has it changed your mind something after reading the story?

5. Does the material relate to you or in your society? If so, how are you going to deal with it?

After reading the given short story , at the end of the activity, you are expected to write a reflection paper about  “Footnote to Youth'' by Jose Garcia Villa. Consider the following guide questions in completing the parts of your reflection paper: Introduction (3 sen.), Body paragraphs (10 sen.), and Conclusion (3 sen.)

​Learning Task 1 Reflection Paper

Learning task 2  Recitation

• Students will be given a copy of the short story Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa

• They will be given a 30 minutes to read and understand the story

• The students will be given a criteria on how they will be graded on their recitation

• The students will be called one by one to retell and share the story by simply continuing what the recent learners shared about the Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa

• They will be asked a couple of questions during the recitation that they need to answer once the are called

 Language-Based Approach

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Read and understand the literary text "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife" by Manuel E. Arguilla. Encircle the correct answer to the given questions below.

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1. Who is Maria's husband?

2. He was an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr. 

3. Who is the person speaking/ narrating the story?

4. Where is the setting of the story?

5. Leon and Baldo's younger sister.

6. She is from the city and wife of Leon.

7. Who wants to know if Maria can cope up with their ways

   of living, which is why he had some tests.

Pharaprastic Approach

Now that you have read the literary text "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife" by Manuel E. Arguilla, using your own words and understanding paraphrase each of the following passages below as simply as you can. 

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1. “You are Baldo,” she said and placed her hand lightly on my shoulder. Her nails were long, but they were not painted. She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom. And a small dimple appeared high up on her cheek

​4. She was smiling at him, and I stopped in the act of tying the sinta across Labang’s neck to the opposite end of the yoke, because her teeth were very white, her eyes were so full of laughter, and there was a small dimple high up on her right cheek.

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5. I stopped Labang on the road before our house and would have gotten down, but my brother Leon took the rope and told me to stay in the cart. He turned Labang into the gate and we dashed into our yard. I thought we would crash into the bole of the camachile tree, but my brother Leon reined in Labang in time. There was light downstairs in the kitchen, and Mother stood in the doorway, and I could see her smiling shyly. My brother Leon was helping Maria over the wheel.]

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Stylistic Approach

After reading  "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife", based on your own understanding, give your own insights or interpretation on what the story is being told to the readers. In at least 15 sentences analyze and make a critique about the said literary text. Base your critique on the given guide questions.

​Guide questions

1. What do you think is the reason why the author wrote this How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife?

2. Did the title  catched your attention?

3. What have you realized after reading?

4. What are the lessons you have got after reading and understanding the story?

5. If you are given a chance to change the ending of the story what would it be?

Criteria

Originality        15

Organization   15

Clarity             10

Grammar        10

Total        50 pts​