2. ACTIVITY 1: LEARN THESE WORDS
(5 MINUTES)
Directions: Read the following
sentences and choose the letter
of the correct meaning of the
italicized words.
3. Answer Sentence Word List
1. The strap broke with a single tug. a. Allow
2. The guards do not permit them to go inside. b. Delicate
3. I frowned when I saw the man and shook my
head in disbelief.
c. Grimace
4. She felt somehow frail looking girl with dark eyes.
d. Flow or fall
by drops
5. Jack felt a bead of sweat trickle down his
face as he saw the huge figure in front of him.
e. Pull
8. Compare and contrast is a
rhetorical style that
discusses the similarities and
differences of two or more
things: ideas, concepts, items,
places, etc.
9. This is also used to make some
kind of comparison to help
illustrate a point.
10. A Venn diagram is used in making
comparison and contrast to show
differences and similarities of two
subjects.
11. Compare
1 2
tell what is
the same
about two
things.
Orange and
Banana
They are both
fruits.
You have to
peel both of
them.
12. Contrast
1 2
tell what is
the
differences
between two
things.
Orange and
Banana
Oranges are
orange; bananas
are yellow
Orange is round;
banana is long
14. ACTIVITY 2: (5 MINUTES)
Directions: Read the story below and
then fill in the diagram to show the
difference (contrast) and similarities
(comparisons) between the
characters.
15. Liam and Jacob are twin brothers. They
both have brown hair, brown eyes and
are exactly the same height. Because
they are twins, the brothers share a
birthday-July 25th- but they always
receive different presents.
16. Last year Liam received a football
whereas Jacob received new computer
game. Liam prefers to spend his time
playing outside but Jacob prefers to play
inside where it doesn't rain. Despite their
differences, both boys love to watch TV
together.
18. Liam Jacob
Both
Brown hair
Brown eyes
They are exactly
the same height
Have the same
birthday-July25th
He received a
football gift.
He prefer playing
his time outside.
He received a new
computer game present.
He prefer to play inside
where it doesn't rain.
ANSWER:
23. Inferring means that
you go beyond the
surface or go for deeper
understanding of what
you are reading.
24. When the meaning is
not stated clearly, they
may be implied or
suggested.
25. FOR EXAMPLE:
1) If you are at the store and see
an elderly person staring at an
item that is high on a shelf, you
may infer that this person wants
that item.
26. As a result, you may offer to
get it for him or her.
27. 2) Alex had a frown on his face
and was dragging his feet as
he walked, so you can infer
that he is having a bad day.
28. 3) Kim's baby made a
disgusted face after trying a
new food, so you can infer that
the baby does not like the new
food.
29. ACTIVITY 3: FIGURE IT OUT (5
MINUTES)
No matter how detailed a text is,
there are still pieces of information
that are not directly given. In this
case, the reader can infer or draw
conclusions.
30. Directions: Read the paragraph and
answer the following questions by
filling out the table below.
31. THE OCCASION (TOM BALDWIN)
Jane searched for her wardrobe to find
the perfect outfit for the occasion. Too
long? Frumpy. Too short? Tarty. At last,
she settled on a dress she hoped would
be right. It wasn't new but still looked
good on her.
32. Minimal make-up, she decided-
enough to show she had made
an effort, but not so much as
to hide her real face.
33. Arriving at the restaurant a few
carefully - contrived minutes late
she was relieved to the spot his
silver hair as he rose from the
table and smiled at her.
36. Clues
Prior
Knowledge
Answer
Too long? Frumpy.
A young woman is very sensitive to her
clothes, they dislike frumpy styles (too
long).
Therefore, the main character is a young
woman.
Too short? Tarty
Old woman dislikes tarty outfits because
for me, it's not comfortable for them.
She's an old woman
Minimal make-up, she decided-enough to show she had
made an effort, but not so much as to hide her real
face.
Old woman prefer to have a minimal
make-up to keep the natural and simple
beauty.
The main character is an old woman
1. Is the main character old or young?
POSSIBLE ANSWER:
37. ACTIVITY 4: STORY TELLING
ACTIVITY 4: STORY TELLING
Read the inspiring story of Langston
Hughes entitled "Thank you, Ma'am." Be
prepared to pause and answers the
questions posted in between the text.
38. "THANK YOU, MA’AM"
"THANK YOU, MA’AM"
She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but
hammer and nails. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across
her shoulder.
It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a
boy ran up
behind her and tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with the
single tug the boy
gave it from behind.
by Langston Hughes
39. But the boy’s weight and the weight of the purse combined
caused him to lose his balance so, instead of taking off full
blast as he had hoped,
the boy fell on his back on the sidewalk, and his legs flew up.
the large woman simply
turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned
sitter. Then she
reached down, picked the boy up by his shirt front, and shook
him until his teeth
rattled.
40. After that the woman said, “Pick up my pocketbook,
boy, and give it here.”
She still held him. But she bent down enough to
permit him to stoop and pick up
her purse.
Then she said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?”
Firmly gripped by his
shirt front, the boy said, “Yes’m.”
41. The woman said, “What did you want to do it for?”
The boy said, “I didn’t aim to.”
She said, “You a lie!”
By that time two or three people passed, stopped, turned to
look, and some
stood watching.
“If I turn you lose, will you run?” asked the woman.
“Yes’m,” said the boy.
“Then I won’t turn you lose,” said the woman. She did not
release him.
“I’m very sorry, lady, I’m sorry,” whispered the boy.
42. Um-hum! And your face is dirty. I got a great mind to wash your
face for you.
Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you to wash your face?”
“No’m,” said the boy.
“Then it will get washed this evening,” said the large woman
starting up the
street, dragging the frightened boy behind her. He looked as if
he were fourteen or
fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.
The woman said, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you
right from wrong.
Least I can do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?”
44. “No’m,” said the being dragged boy. “I just want you to turn me
loose.”
“Was I bothering you when I turned that corner?” asked the
woman.
“No’m.”
“But you put yourself in contact with me,” said the woman. “If
you think that
that contact is not going to last awhile, you got another thought
coming. When I get
through with you, sir, you are going to remember Mrs. Luella
Bates Washington
Jones.”
45. Sweat popped out on the boy’s face and he began
to struggle. Mrs. Jones
stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a
half-nelson about his neck, and
continued to drag him up the street. When she got
to her door, she dragged the boy
inside, down a hall, and into a large kitchenette
furnished room at the rear of the
house. She switched on the light and left the door
open.
46. The boy could hear other
roomers laughing and talking in the large house.
Some of their doors were open, too,
so he knew he and the woman were not alone. The
woman still had him by the neck
in the middle of her room. She said, “What is your
name?”
“Roger,” answered the boy.
47. “Then, Roger, you go to that sink and
wash your face,” said the woman,
whereupon she turned him loose—at
last. Roger looked at the door—looked
at the
woman—looked at the door—and went
to the sink
48. “Let the water run until it gets warm,” she said. “Here’s a clean
towel.”
“You gonna take me to jail?” asked the boy, bending over the sink.
“Not with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the
woman. “Here I
am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my
pocketbook! Maybe,
you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. Have you?”
“There’s nobody home at my house,” said the boy.
“Then we’ll eat,” said the woman, “I believe you’re hungry—or
been hungry—
to try to snatch my pocketbook.”
49. “I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the boy.
“Well, you didn’t have to snatch my pocketbook to get some
suede shoes,” said
Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. “You could have asked
me.” “M’am?”
The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her.
There was a long
pause. A very long pause. After he had dried his face and not
knowing what else to do dried it again, the boy turned
around, wondering what next. The door was open.
He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run,
run, run, run!
51. The woman was sitting on the day-bed.
After a while she said, “I were young
once and I wanted things I could not
get.” There was another long pause. The
boy’s
mouth opened. Then he frowned, but
not knowing he frowned
52. The woman said, “Um-hum! You thought I was going to say
but, didn’t you?
You thought I was to going to say, but I didn’t snatch
people’s pocketbooks. Well, I
wasn’t going to say that.”
Pause. Silence.
“I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—
neither tell God, if
he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us
something to eat. You might
run that comb through your hair so you will look
presentable.”
54. In another corner of the room behind a screen was a gas plate
and an icebox.
Mrs. Jones got up and went behind the screen. The woman did
not watch the boy to
see if he was going to run now, nor did she watch her purse
which she left behind
her on the day-bed. But the boy took care to sit on the far side
of the room where he
thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye,
if she wanted to. He
did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want
to be mistrusted now.
56. “Do you need somebody to go to the store,”
asked the boy, “maybe to get some
milk or something?”
“Don’t believe I do,” said the woman,
“unless you just want sweet milk
yourself. I was going to make cocoa out of
this canned milk I got here.”
“That will be fine,” said the boy.
57. She heated some lima beans and ham she had in the
icebox, made the cocoa,
and set the table. The woman did not ask the boy
anything about where he lived, or
his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him.
Instead, as they ate, she told
him about her job in a hotel beauty-shop that stayed
open late, what the work was
like, and how all kinds of women came in and out,
blondes, red-heads, and Spanish.
Then she cut him a half of her ten-cent cake.
58. “Eat some more, son,” she said.
When they were finished eating she got up and
said, “Now, here, take these
ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede
shoes. And next time, do not make the
mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor
nobody else’s—because shoes come by
devilish like that will burn your feet. I got to get my
rest now. But I wish you would
behave yourself, son, from here on in.”
59. QUESTION
QUESTION
Think of someone that did an act
of kindness to you. Have you
ever wondered why
he did it? What about you? Can
you think of an act of kindness
you did to someone?
Why did you do it?
60. She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it.
“Good-night! Behave yourself, boy!” she said, looking out
into the street. The
boy wanted to say something else other than “Thank you,
m’am” to Mrs. Luella Bates
Washington Jones, but he couldn’t do so as he turned at
the barren stoop and looked
back at the large woman in the door. He barely managed
to say
“ Thank you” before she shut the door. And he never saw
her again.
61. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTIONS:
QUESTIONS:
1. Do you think Mrs. Jones is wise or
foolish to trust Roger? Why?
2. What can you tell about her character
from this action?
3. How are her actions connected to her
past experiences?
62. 4. What does Roger do when Mrs.
Jones leaves him alone with her
purse?
5. Why does he do this?
6. What do Mrs. Jones and Roger talk
about during their meal?
63. ACTIVITY 5: COMPARE AND
ACTIVITY 5: COMPARE AND
CONTRAST
CONTRAST (10 MINUTES)
(10 MINUTES)
A) Direction: In one whole sheet of
paper draw a venn diagram, compare
and contrast the characters of Mrs.
Jones and Roger. Answer the question
that follows.
64. 1. How have Rogers behavior
and attitude changed?
QUESTION:
QUESTION:
65. B. At the back of your paper,
draw conclusions by answering
the questions.
66. QUESTIONS:
QUESTIONS:
1. Why doesn't Mrs. Jones ask Roger any
personal questions?
2.What made you arrive at your
answer?
3. What are the hints or clues that
helped you draw your conclusion?
67. ACTIVITY 6: CHOOSE AND JUSTIFY
ACTIVITY 6: CHOOSE AND JUSTIFY
(5MINUTES)
(5MINUTES)
In the selection, "Thank You, Ma'am," the
characters made choices and decisions and
we can only infer the reasons for doing so.
There are also some factors that affect the
decisions made.
68. DIRECTIONS:
DIRECTIONS:
A) Choose your groupmates, three to five members
per group. Choose your leader.
B) Copy and accomplish the table and identify which
of the factors given affected or influenced the
decision made.
C) Write your answers on the manila paper and
present your work to the class.
D) You will be graded based on the rubric below.
71. T/F Sentence
1. Contrast tell the likeness or similarities of two things.
2. Comparison tells the similarities of two things.
3. Comparison and contrast is a rhetorical style that
discusses the similarities and differences of two or more
things.
4. Drawing Conclusions means that you go beyond the surface or go
for deeper understanding of what you are reading.
5. A Venn diagram is used in making comparison and contrast to show
differences and similarities of two subjects.
72. B. MATCH THE
B. MATCH THE
COLUMN A TO
COLUMN A TO
COLUMN B
COLUMN B
73. A B
1. She wrote the story "Thank You, Ma'am"
a. Drawing
Conclusions
2. It uses overlapping circles or other shapes to illustrate
the logical relationship between two or more sets of items.
b. Venn Diagram
3. It refers to information that is implied or inferred. c. Langston Hughes
4. It. means that you go beyond the surface or go for deeper
understanding of what you are reading.
e. Comparison
5. Mrs. Jones and Roger both want suede shoes. f. Inferring
75. ANSWER KEY
ANSWER KEY
Activity 4: Answer may
vary
Activity 5: Answer may
vary
Activity 6: Answer may
vary
Evaluation
Evaluation
A.
1) F 2) F 3) T 4)F 5) T
B.
1) C 2) B 3) A 4) F 5) E
