English 2nd Quarter

It is most commonly defined as the ability to read and write.

Literacy

It is the capacity to communicate using inscribed, printed, or electronic signs or symbols for representing language.

Literacy

It is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media.

Media Literacy

Different kinds of media?

Television, radio, internet, newspapers, magazines, books, billboards, video games, music, etc.

It is the ability to understand cultural references to past events, idiomatic expressions, jokes, names, places, etc.

Cultural Literacy

It is how someone manages to earn or make it, how that person manages it, how he/she invests it and how that person donates it to help others.

Financial Literacy

It is the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes.

Scientific Literacy

It encourages readers to actively analyze texts and offers strategies for what proponents describe as uncovering underlying messages.

Critical Literacy

It is the knowledge, skills, and behaviors used in a broad range of digital devices.

Digital Literacy

Who is the author of the excerpt from his book Nature?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What was Emerson’s birth year and death?

1803-1882

He was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Nature is his book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which chapter was the excerpt from his book Nature?

Chapter 1

Who translated the Japanese folktale, “The Tounge-cut Sparrow”?

Yei Theodora Ozaki

What was Ozaki’s birth and death year?

1870-1932

It is a form of human communication by means of a set of visible marks that are related, by convention, to some particular structural level of language.

Writing

These type of essays are a type of writing that explains a certain issue or a topic.

Informative

This type of writing is intended to persuade or convince the readers to believe in or do something.

Persuasive

This type of essay is a type of writing in which the writer tries to convince his audience that his opinion is valid.

Argumentative

What are the three types of writing?

Informative, Persuasive, and Argumentative

What are the features of an argumentative essay?

•Debatable claim that can be supported by empirical data.

•It changes the reader's perception on a specific issue.

It expresses logical and thought-provoking ideas.

What are parts of an Argumentative Essay?

Introduction, Body, and Conclusion

This states the context of your paper.

Introduction

Contains the most important details.

Body

Serves as the generalization statement.

Conclusion

Writing an argumentative essay requires logical and verifiable support. True or False?

True

It is a statement of a writer's point on a particular issue and is usually debatable.

Thesis Statement

The aim of argumentative writing is to convince and prove that the writer's statement warrants a logical and verifiable claim. True or False?

True

It is also called an affirmative or positive statement, expresses the truth or validity of an idea.

Affirmation

Affirming words or phrases?

Truly, accurately, precisely, certainly, surely, definitely

It is also called a negative statement, expresses a denial or falsity of an idea.

Negation

Negating words or phrases?

No, never, I’m sorry, I’m afraid, no longer, not

It is a statement that asserts something to be true and can either be a fact or a judgement.

Claim

Claim comes from the Latin word _______, which means “to cry out, shout.”

Clamare

He stated that a claim is an arguable statement.

Gandio J. (2008)

A claim is an idea that a rhetor asks the audience to accept or an anticipation that they should agree with it. True or False?

True

A claim is the central argument of the text which can work on its own or in conjunction with other claims to form a larger argument. True or False?

True

A claim persuades, argues, convinces, proves or provocatively suggests something to a reader who may or may not initially agree with you. True or False?

True

Characteristics of a good claim?

Argumentative and debatable, specific and focused, interesting and engaging, logical

It is a type of claim that asserts some empirical truth.

Claim of Fact

It is a term referring to originating in or based on observation or experience.

Empirical

It is a type of claim that attempts to prove that some things are more desirable or less desirable?

Claim of Value

It is a type of claim that asserts that an action should be taken. It uses 'should' and 'ought'.

Claim of Policy

We use these to talk about an ability, a duty, a need, a necessity, wanting.

Modal Verbs

Modal verbs behave very differently from normal verbs. True or False?

True

Modal verbs are always followed by a verb in its base form. True or False?

True

Modal verbs do not take "-s" in the third person in the present simple. True or False?

True

You use "not" to make modal verbs negative, even in Simple Present and Simple Past. True or False?

True

We use the helping verb “do” in modal verbs. True or False?

False

Many modal verbs cannot be used in the past tenses or the future tenses. True or False?

True

We use these modals to speak about future actions that we are sure/convinced about.

will, will not, won’t

We use these modals to express general ability/disability, possibility/impossibility, opportunity, permission, request.

can, could, be able to

In past tense, can changes to could. True or False?

True

We use this modal to express future possibility/get permission.

May

We use this modal to express possibility.

Might

We use this modal to express an advice or strong suggestion.

Should

We use this modal to express very strong advice or obligation.

Must

We use this modal to express things you’re not allowed to do.

Mustn’t

We use this semi-modal to express that it is necessary and shows obligation and giving advice.

have to, has to, had to, will have to

In the present or near future.

have to/has to

In the past.

had to

In the future.

will have to

We use this semi-modal to express that it isn’t necessary.

don’t have to, doesn’t have to

It expresses “we expect him/her to”.

ought to be, supposed to

It expresses “permission, someone will let/permit him to do it”.

be allowed to

It expresses and shows an ability.

be able to

It is a form of art usually performed using spoken words to deliver the message to the listeners.

Oral Literature

A long, narrative poem, often written in formal language, that tells about a series of quests undertaken by a great hero.

Epic

A story passed down through many generations that is believed to be based on real people and events.

Legend

A traditional story that was created to explain mysteries of the universe.

Myths

Most common genre of oral literature?

Myths

He was a roman poet best known for the metamorphoses.

Publius Ovidius Naso, “Ovid”

Ovid’s birth and death date?

43 BCE - 17/18 CE

A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; maze.

Labyrinth

Break free from confinement or control.

Escape

Able or likely to cause harm or injury.

Dangerous

The proud father and architect, the one who invented the wings.

Deadalus

The son of Daedalus, the one who went too near to the sun.

Icarus

Half-bull and half-human, son of King Minos.

Minotaur

The one who kept Daedalus and Icarus in prison.

King Minos

An island surrounded by water.

Crete

It is usually the last sentence of the first paragraph of a composition. It states the topic of the paper and the argument the author will make about the topic. Provides the specific approach the author will take.

Thesis Statement

It should support the points made in the Thesis statement.

Body

Shabby display of learning and deceptive reasoning.

Sophists

Who stated; "Even those who just try to establish what is just and true need the help of rhetoric when they are faced with a public audience.”

Aristotle

2,000 years ago, Aristotle gave outlines on how to master persuasion through his book The Rhetoric. True or False?

True

It is used as a means of convincing an audience by offering reliability, honesty, and credibility.

Ethos

It aims to convince viewers by evoking an emotional response.

Pathos

It appeals to logic and reason by using statistics, facts, and figures.

Logos