The document provides a posttest to assess understanding of thesis statements. It contains 5 true/false questions about thesis statement characteristics. Question 1 assesses understanding that a strong thesis contains an element of uncertainty that can be proven or disproven. Question 2 assesses understanding that a thesis should introduce ideas to challenge readers rather than just state a fact. Question 3 assesses understanding that an effective thesis describes the writer's position rather than just stating a topic. Question 4 assesses understanding that a thesis should not be too general. Question 5 confirms that a thesis statement is part of an essay. The document concludes by asking students to reflect on what they have learned from the lesson.

1. IV. ASSESSMENT (Posttest)
Directions: Write T if the statement is true, otherwise write F if it is false. Write
your answer on a separate answer sheet.
_____1. A strong thesis statement usually contains an element of uncertainty, risk, or
challenge, meaning that it should offer a debatable claim that can be proven or
disproved in the essay.
_____2. A thesis statement should merely announce something or state a fact; it
should give an essay tension by introducing ideas that may challenge the reader’s
views.
_____3. An effective thesis statement is not just a statement of fact or a description
of a topic; instead, it describes for the reader what the particular position of the
writer is on an issue, or his/her interpretation of the significance of a particular idea.
_____4. It is important that a thesis statement is too general because the writer will
not have enough space to cover every possible aspect of the thesis statement.
_____5. Thesis statement is a part of your essay or an academic paper.
Enrichment Activity
Directions: This activity enables you to enrich your knowledge and skills from the
lesson that you have learned. Complete the statement below. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
My journey through this lesson enabled me to learn _______________________
_________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
V. REFERENCE
English for Academic and Professional Purposes - Grade 11 Alternative Delivery
Mode First Semester-Quarter 1 - Stating the Thesis Statement of an Academic Text
First Edition, 2020
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Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division Office of Bulacan
PULONG BUHANGIN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Km. 38 Pulong Buhangin, Santa Maria, Bulacan
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
First Quarter – Week 3 and 4 Modules
Week 3: Using Various Techniques in Summarizing
a Variety of Academic Texts
Week 4: Stating the Thesis Statement of an
Academic Text
ACTIVITY SHEET
NAME: __________________________________________________________
GRADE AND SECTION: ___________________________________________
DATE OF SUBMISSION: ___________________________________________

2. First Quarter: Week 3 – Using Various Techniques
in Summarizing a Variety of Academic Texts
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standards
The learner acquires knowledge of appropriate reading strategies of
academic texts
B. Performance Standards
The learner produces a detailed abstract of information gathered from
various academic texts read.
C. MELCs
Using various techniques in summarizing a variety of academic texts
D. Specific Objectives:
At the end of this module, the learners should be able to:
1. Define summary;
2. Create a summary of various academic texts.
E. PROCEDURES:
A. Preliminary Activities
1. Pre-Test
Directions: Write T if the statement is true, otherwise write F if it is false. Write
your answer on a separate answer sheet.
_____ 1. Summarizing is restating the main idea and supporting it with key
points in as few words as possible.
_____ 2. Use your own opinion when summarizing a text.
_____ 3. Summarizing helps students learn to identify key ideas of a text and
ignore relevant information
_____ 4. Summarizing worsens students’ memory for what they read and by
extension comprehension
_____ 5. Summarizing is an effective tool to evaluate the original author on
what they understood and what they did not.
B. Presenting a New Lesson
A summary is a brief statement or restatement of main points. Summarizing a
text, or distilling its essential concepts into a paragraph or two, is a useful study tool
as well as good writing practice.
A summary has two aims:
(1) to reproduce the main idea and the key points of a text and
(2) to restate these in as few words as possible.
The main idea is what the text is about while key points are arguments or
information that is used to support the main idea. Also, it may be developed or
elaborated with supporting details. However, your summary should only include
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4. Fabric ________________ _________________ __________________
5. Food ________________ _________________ __________________
6. Furniture ________________ _________________ __________________
7. Books ________________ _________________ __________________
8. Shoes ________________ _________________ __________________
9. Movies ________________ _________________ __________________
10. Plants ________________ _________________ __________________
ACTIVITY C (Performance Work/Task)
Directions: Create three (3) paragraphs based on the given topic and underline your
thesis statement. Refer on the rubrics to guide you how your answers will be
evaluated.
Topic: How do Filipinos cope up with COVID 19 pandemic?
RUBRICS
CRITERIA 5 4 3 2 1
Content All sentences
are related to
the topic.
Almost all of
the sentences
are related to
the topic.
Most of the
sentences are
related to the
topic.
Some of the
sentences are
related to the
topic.
Few of the
sentences are
related to the
topic.
Organization
and ideas
The
organization
of thoughts
and ideas are
well
organized.
The
organization
of thoughts
and ideas
conveyed
good
organization.
Adequate
understanding
demonstrated
but not
critically
discussed and
analyzed
Discussions
with
difficulty and
relevance is
unclear.
Analysis are
omitted and
ideas are not
organized.
Mechanics
of writing
The sentences
are written in
complete
thought,
punctuation
aids
understanding
the word and
spelled
correctly.
There is an
error in
grammar,
spelling and
punctuation.
There are 2- 3
errors in
grammar,
spelling and
punctuation.
There are 4
errors in
grammar,
spelling and
punctuation.
There are
more than 5
errors in
grammar,
spelling and
punctuation.
III. REFLECTION
Directions: Complete the statement below. Write your answer on a separate answer
sheet.
In this module, I have learned _____________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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3.  Thesis statement model # 3: Thesis with reasons
You reveal the reasons behind the writer’s main idea/ opinion using the phrase
“because”.
Example: Parents should regulate the amount of time their children spend on mobile
gaming because it shortens children’s attention span, it inhibits social interaction and
it isn't always intellectually stimulating
 Thesis statement model # 4:Thesis statement with concession and
reason
Here you will state a concession opposing viewpoint and states the
reasons/arguments of the main idea.
Example: Even though television can be educational, parents should regulate the
amount of time their children spend on mobile gaming because it inhibits social
interaction, shortens children’s attention spans, and it isn’t always intellectually
stimulating.
C. Independent Activities
ACTIVITY A (Written Work/Task)
Directions: Read each sentence carefully and identify whether the statement is thesis
statement (TS), topic (T), position (P) or reason (R) by putting a checkmark in its
appropriate column.
Statements TS T P R
1. Blended Learning
2. Eating well balanced diet and good lifestyle can lead to
good nutrition, healthy and long life.
3. Reading develops sound mind by means of increasing
vocabulary, comprehension skills and speaking skills.
4. Global warming is a controversial issue.
5. Intermittent diet
6. Can cause blurred vision, changes in sleeping pattern and
headache
7. Mental Health Law
8. Staying away from junk food is beneficial to our body,
because it maintains normal physiological aspect of our body.
9. Digital Literary Skills
10. Can cause heart disease, kidney problem and diabetes.
ACTIVITY B (Written Work/Task)
Directions: Narrow down the following general topics into narrow topics. Give at
least three ideas in each number.
Example: General idea: Exercise Narrow idea: Intense Cardio-Workout
1. Employee ___________________ __________________ _________________
2. Medicine __________________ __________________ _________________
3. Vegetables __________________ __________________ _________________
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main ideas and key points, not supporting details. Another important thing you must
remember is that summaries are not a place for your opinions, background
knowledge and personal information.
Summaries can range in length from two sentences to several pages. In any case,
use complete sentences to describe an author's general points to your reader. Do not
quote extensively. If you quote, use quotation marks and document the quotation. If
you fail to document the quotation, even one word that the author used, you are
plagiarizing material. Summarizing helps students learn to identify key ideas of a
text and ignore irrelevant information. Summarizing improves students’ memory for
what they read and by extension comprehension. By learning and practicing how to
summarize, one can develop reading comprehension and long-term retention of
information. It is also an effective tool to self-evaluate what they understood and
what they do not.
Here are some techniques on how we summarize.
1. Read the original passage or text very carefully.
2. Highlight or underline what you take to be the main point of the original text, or
make notes in the margins or on another sheet of paper.
3. When summarizing an entire essay, outline the writer’s argument.
4. Now tell your audience what the original source argued.
5. Ask the following framework questions:
a. What is the main idea?
b. What are the crucial details necessary for supporting the ideas?
6. Use key words or phrases to identify the main points from the text.
7. You can also summarize a reading text by getting the main events and arranging
the events in chronological order.
Example paragraph 1:
A typhoon is powerful, twisting hurricane. It begins high in the air, among the winds
of a giant storm cloud. People who have watched a typhoon’s howling winds reach
down from the sky have said it’s the most frightening thing they have ever seen. In
some parts of the Philippines, these tropical storms are called cyclones.
Sentence summary:
Typhoons are frightening, powerful, twisting hurricanes sometimes called cyclones
that start in giant clouds.
Example paragraph 2:
Tornadoes are not the only windstorms that move through earth’s air. Dust devils,
hurricanes and typhoons all have twisting winds. But these windstorms differ from
tornadoes in important ways.
Sentences summary:
Dust devils, hurricanes and typhoons also have twisting winds, but they are different
from tornadoes.
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4. C. Independent Activities
ACTIVITY A (Written Work/Task)
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct term to complete the paragraph.
Choose you answer on the box below and write them on a separate answer sheet.
Extension Comprehension Restatement Self-evaluation
Reading Comprehension Key Ideas Irrelevant Information
Long Term Retention Summary Memory Distilling
Summarizing is Essential
(1)______ is an essential learning for every student. This helps students learn to
identify (2)______ of a text and ignore (3)_________. Summarizing, also improves
students’ (4)_______ for what they read and by (5)_________. By learning and
practicing how to summarize, one can develop (6)____________ and
(7)_____________ of information. It is also an effective tool to (8)___________
what they understood and what they do not. Summarizing basically is a brief
statement or a (9) ________ of a main point by (10)_______ its essential concepts
into a paragraph or two. Its main purpose is to reproduce the main idea and the key
points of a text and to restate these in as few words as possible.
ACIVITY B (Written Work/Task)
Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the letter of your choice and
write them on a separate answer sheet.
_____ 1. To retell in few words is to ________ .
a predict b summarize c paraphrase
_____ 2. A summary is a brief, clear restatement of the most important points of a
paragraph or passage.
a. true b. false c. maybe
_____ 3. What are the elements included in a summary?
a. main events and supporting details
b. main idea and key points
c. key points and supporting details
_____ 4. Summaries must be opinionated.
a. true b. false c. maybe
_____ 5. What are key points?
a. They support the main idea. c. They are the opinions of the writer
b. They are the main thought of the text.
_____ 6. What can be developed to a student by the help summarizing?
a. quoting
b. reading and listening skill
c. reading comprehension and long term retention of information
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TOPIC
Example: The typical college student of the twenty-first century utilizes
technology in a variety of ways, to complete academic assignments, to interact
POSITION REASON
socially with peers and family, and to access information.
 Narrative essay is telling a story. This essay is often anecdotal, experiential,
and personal—allowing students to express themselves in a creative and,
quite often, moving ways.
TOPIC POSITION
Example: My positive experiences with reading and writing throughout my
childhood led to an intense interest in literary pursuits throughout my lifetime.
REASON
Steps to Formulate a Thesis Statement
1. State your topic.
Example: Regulating children’s mobile gaming
2. State your opinion/main idea about this topic. This will form the heart of your
thesis. An effective statement will express one major idea.
Example: Parents should regulate the amount of time their children spend on mobile
gaming.
3. Give the strongest reason or assertion that support your opinion.
Example: It is not always intellectually stimulating.
4. Give another strong reason or assertion that support your opinion.
Example: It inhibits social interaction.
5. Give another strong assertion.
Example: It shortens children’s attention span.
6. Include an opposing viewpoint to your opinion / main idea, if applicable. This
should be an argument for the opposing view that ad mist, even if you do not agree
with over all view point.
Example: Mobile gaming can be educational.
Thesis Statement Guide and Models
 Thesis statement model # 1: Sample thesis statement:
Example: Parents should regulate the amount of time their children spend on mobile
gaming.
 Thesis statement model # 2: Thesis with concession
Concession means addressing an argument from the opposing viewpoint. You
can use the phrase “ even though” and “ while”. This states the writer’s opinion/
main idea as rebuttal.
Example: Even though mobile gaming can be educational, parents should regulate
the amount of time their children spend on mobile gaming.
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5. It is a road map that tells the reader what to expect to the rest of the paper.
The other parts of the paper such as body and conclusion gather and organize
evidences that persuade the reader the logic of interpretation. It often reflects an
opinion or judgment that a writer has made about a reading or personal experience.
Characteristics of an Effective Thesis Statement (Rex 2016)
1. A strong thesis statement usually contains an element of uncertainty, risk, or
challenge, meaning that it should offer a debatable claim that can be proven or
disproved in the essay.
2. An effective thesis statement is not just a statement of fact or a description of a
topic. Instead, it describes for the reader what the particular position of the writer is
on an issue, or his/her interpretation of the significance of a particular idea.
3. A thesis statement should not merely announce something or state a fact. Rather, it
should give an essay tension by introducing ideas that may challenge the reader’s
views.
4. It is important that a thesis statement is not too general because the writer will not
have enough space to cover every possible aspect of the thesis statement.
Example:
General idea – gadget Narrow idea - wired headphones
General idea – appliances Narrow idea - microwave oven
Genres and Types of Thesis Statements
 Argumentative essay (Making a claim) states the topic of your paper, your
position on the topic, and the reasons you have for taking that position.
TOPIC POSITION
Example: Death penalty should be implemented in the judicial system in our
country because of increasing rate of heinous crimes in the Philippines.
REASON
 Analytical essay implies the breaking down of something into parts, or the
discussion of something in a way that it becomes a dissection of the whole. It
differs from other types of essays in that its primary goal is to explain
something bit by bit to enhance understanding.
TOPIC POSITION
Example: The company’s advertising campaign for children reveals serious
issues regarding the misrepresentation of the nutritional content of its products.
REASON
 Expository essay is a genre of essay that requires the student to investigate an
idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument
concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished
through comparison and contrast, definition, example, the analysis of cause and
effect, etc.
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_____ 7. Summarizing helps students learn to identify key ideas of a text and ignore
irrelevant information.
a. true b. false c. maybe
_____ 8. We must include background knowledge and personal information in a
summary.
a. true b. false c. maybe
_____ 9. The ________ is what the text is about.
a. key point b. main idea c. main event
_____ 10. This elaborates and develops the key points.
a. main idea b. supporting details c. arguments
ACTIVITY C (Performance Work/Task)
Directions: Think of your favorite movie or book and make a five-sentence
summary of it. Write your answer on a separate answer sheet. Refer to the rubric as
your guide on how your output will be evaluated.
Rubrics
III. REFLECTION
Directions: Complete the statement below. Write your answer on a separate answer
sheet.
In this module, I have learned _____________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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6. IV. ASSESSMENT (Posttest)
Directions: Write T if the statement is true, otherwise write F if it is false. Write
your answer on a separate answer sheet.
_____ 1. Summarizing is restating the main idea and supporting it with key points in
as few words as possible.
_____ 2. Use your own opinion when summarizing a text.
_____ 3. Summarizing helps students learn to identify key ideas of a text and ignore
relevant information
_____ 4. Summarizing worsens students’ memory for what they read and by
extension comprehension
_____ 5. Summarizing is an effective tool to evaluate the original author on what
they understood and what they did not.
Enrichment Activity
Directions: Look back at the most memorable moment in your High School life. Say
the first day you met your best friend, you had an academic achievement, or you won
in a school contest. Those memories are the greatest things to look back. Now, make
a summary of those treasured moments. Write your answer on a separate sheet of
paper.
V. REFERENCE
English for Academic and Professional Purposes – Grade 11 Alternative Delivery
Mode First Semester-Quarter 1- Using Various Techniques in Summarizing a
Variety of Academic Texts First Edition, 2020
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First Quarter: Week 4 – Stating the Thesis
Statement of an Academic Text
I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content Standards
The learner acquires knowledge of appropriate reading strategies of academic
texts
B. Performance Standards
The learner produces a detailed abstract of information gathered from various
academic texts read.
C. MELCs
Stating the thesis statement of an Academic Text
D. Specific Objectives
At the end of this module, the learners should be able to:
1. Define thesis statement
2. Identify the thesis statement in an academic paper.
E. Procedures
A. Preliminary Activities
1. Pretest
Directions: Write T if the statement is true and F if it is false. Put your answer on a
separate answer sheet.
_____1. A strong thesis statement usually contains an element of uncertainty, risk, or
challenge, meaning that it should offer a debatable claim that can be proven or
disproved in the essay.
_____2. A thesis statement should merely announce something or state a fact; it
should give an essay tension by introducing ideas that may challenge the reader’s
views.
_____3. An effective thesis statement is not just a statement of fact or a description
of a topic; instead, it describes for the reader what the particular position of the
writer is on an issue, or his/her interpretation of the significance of a particular idea.
_____4. It is important that a thesis statement is too general because the writer will
not have enough space to cover every possible aspect of the thesis statement.
_____5. Thesis statement is a part of your essay or an academic paper.
B. Presenting a New Lesson
What is a thesis statement?
A thesis statement is a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise
to be maintained or proved. It also tells the reader what will be in the paper. It
identifies and proved the topic being discussed, or it summarizes the main point of
the paper. It is a 1-2 sentence or about 30 to 40 words long. It is found at the end of
the introduction, and it presents an argument to the reader.
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