The document outlines an activity for students to engage in debates regarding critical issues, focusing on taking a stand and supporting their viewpoints with evidence. It emphasizes the importance of examining both sides of an issue before forming an opinion, and provides guidelines on how to effectively express this opinion. Additionally, it includes questions and assignments related to critical thinking and articulation of personal stances on various topics.

1. GOOD
MORNING!!!

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3. 2.Create tea call
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4. 3.Open onion
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5. 4.Pro being
proving

6. Activity 2. Stand Your Answer!!
Directions: By pair. On a 1/4 sheet
of paper, choose between the "K-
12 Curriculum and the Matatag
Curriculum”, then defend your
choice. I will chose at least 2-3
pairs to present their answers.

7. Analysis (Processing of Activities)
1. What can you say about the activities
that we have performed?
2. What considerations have you
considered in forming your own point of
view?
3. Have you encountered, read, watched,
or heard about any critical issues?

8. 4. How do you support someone in
times of critical conditions in any
matter?
5. Have you ever had an
experience where you need to
choose something and then defend
why you chose it?

9. Taking a stand on Critical
Issues

10. Taking a stand is to express one’s
opinion and tell people that things
need to change. It’s like joining in a
debate and sharing your
arguments in a proper and formal
way possible especially when
critical issues are presented.

11. Before making a stand once prompted with one
especially from a social media, you must:
• Examine the issue
• Make your own investigation of both sides.
• Weigh evidence of each side.
• Take your stand.
• Establish ways to be heard

12. 1. Examine the issue - More
than anything else, study the
issue carefully and this will tell
you where you will need to do
some pre-work and damage
control after the fact.

13. Make your own investigation of
both sides. - It's important to look
at information from both sides.
Understanding the other side will
help you see where they're coming
from, which can lead to discussion
rather than argumentation.

14. Weigh evidence of each side. - We
are trying to avoid biases here. Always
keep an open mind by welcoming and
recognizing the strength of both sides.
So, make sure that you check the
information of each side and from
there, you can proceed with number 4.

15. Take your stand. - Once you
studied the issue presented and
the evidence of each side, this
is the time you’ll take your
stand. This is when you choose
your side and prove your

16. Establish ways to be heard. - Taking a
stand does not end with deciding or
determining your position in an issue. If
you want to make your message
stronger, deeper, and more impact,
find a way to save it so that people can
always find it while you continue to
work on something new.

17. Description: Divide the students into 2
groups and assign each group a
critical issue to debate. Provide them
with research materials and resources
to gather evidence supporting their
stance on the issue. (Each group will
be given 3 minutes to defend their
answer)

18. 1. Original songs
2. Parody songs

19. Read and answer the following questions. Write the
letter of the correct answer on the space before the
number.
1. This refers to making your message stronger, deeper,
and more impactful, also a way to save it so that people
can always find it while you continue to work on
something new.
A. taking a stand
B. weighing evidences
C. establishing ways to be heard

20. 2. Alyssa collected a lot of data about the
topic given to her. She made an assurance
that she studied the other side of the story
too. What process did Alyssa make?
A. taking a stand
B. establishing ways to be heard
C. examining the issue presented
D. making one's own investigation

21. 3. This is when you choose your stand
and prove your points with all data you
gathered.
A. taking a stand
B. establishing ways to be heard
C. making your own investigation
D. examining the issue presented

22. 4. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Taking a stand should also be avoiding
biases.
B. Start a blog or podcast so your voice will be
heard anytime.
C. There is no need to understand the other
side of the issue.
D. Your stand may be expressed through a
claim, proposal and evaluation.

23. 5. One key to have an effective and
impactful blog or podcast is to
A. update regularly
B. post a lot of comments
C. share attractive pictures
D. remove the relevant information

24. Assignment:
Directions: on a 1/2 crosswise, write
a 10 sentence paragraph stating your
stand regarding this statement.
Make sure to make use of the signal
words.
“Same Sex Marriage”

25. Criteria:
Correct usage of signal words - 4
Relevance - 8
Content - 8
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26. Expressing our opinion on a
certain issue is one of the
toughest things to do for
there are times that our
ideas are in conflict with the
others.

27. THANK YOU!!!
Prepared by: Jee Cairyll A. Olasiman