English Language Arts
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GRADE NINE-QUARTER ONE
1. Express permission, obligation, and prohibition using modals
a. Worksheet 1: Modals Verbs
b. Worksheet 2: Modals that express Permission
c. Worksheet 3: Modals that express Prohibition
d. Worksheet 4: Modals that express Obligation
e. Worksheet 5: Modals that express Permission, Obligation, and Prohibition
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2. Use conditionals in expressing arguments
a. Worksheet 1: Conditionals and Arguments
b. Worksheet 2: Hasty Generalization vs Missing the Point
c. Worksheet 3: Post Hoc vs Slippery Slope
d. Worksheet 4: Weak Analogy vs Appeal to Authority
3. Employ the appropriate communicative styles for various situations (intimate, formal, conversational, consultative, frozen)
a. Worksheet 1: Formal Communicative Style
b. Worksheet 2: Informal Communicative Style
c. Worksheet 3: Intimate Communicative Style
d. Worksheet 4: Consultative Communicative Style
e. Worksheet 5: Frozen Communicative Style
f. Worksheet 6: Five Types of Communicative Style
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GRADE NINE - QUARTER TWO
1. Make connections between texts to particular social issues, concerns, or dispositions in real life
Worksheet 1: Analyzing Editorial Cartoons
Worksheet 2: Interpreting Non-linear Texts
Worksheet 3: Getting Information from Print Media
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2. Analyze literature as a means of understanding unchanging values in the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
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GRADE NINE - QUARTER THREE
1. Differentiate biases from prejudices
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2. Determine the relevance and the truthfulness of the ideas presented in the material viewed
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3. Judge the validity of the evidence listened to
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GRADE NINE - QUARTER FOUR
1. Judge the relevance and worth of ideas, soundness of author's reasoning, and the effectiveness of the presentation
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2. React to lay value judgment on critical issues that demand sound analysis and call for prompt actions
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