Curriculum Area: English Teacher: Mr.

Benzon Barrientos

Grade Level: 8 Instructional Groupings

Unit 4: Changing Perspective Whole Partners Homogenous

Lesson 3: Academic Communication Group/Individual /

Time Required: February 29, 2016

Small Group / Quads Heterogeneous /

Standards:
 Content Standard – The learner demonstrates understanding of how Afro – Asian Literature and
other text types equip him/her with communication skills that lead to embracing diverse cultural
heritage.

 Performance Standard – The learner performs an interactive human exhibit of Afro- Asian Literary
characters.

Materials:
 Visual Aids: (Jigsaw Puzzle)
 Technology Aids: (Laptop, projector, PowerPoint, and speaker)

Objectives:
At the end of this lesson/unit, the learners will be able to:
 Distinguish the traits and characters of the Filipino and the Korean youth;
 Arrive at the meaning of the word through context clues;
 Comprehend the entire message of the reading text through segmental reading; and
 Differentiate the Korean youth from Filipino youth in terms of practices, religion, belief, and traditions.

Strategies and Activities:

A. Preliminary Activities
Daily Routines
1. Prayer
2. Greetings
3. Checking of Attendance
4. Checking of Assignment

B. Initial Tasks
Task 1-Arrange me ………………………………………………………………..….……. LM Page 526
 Task 2- Filipino Youth ……………………………………….………….………. LM page 525

How about you?

What kind of
relationship do
you have with
your parents?

C. Your Text

Task 3- YOU BUILD ME UP! ……………….……………………….………….. LM page 525

Find the correct word from the word puzzle by using the clues given.

F P Z D R A S T I C
I A B C D X K Q A A
L H F G E Z E E S D
I Q W R T Y P F D S
A B R O G A T I O N
L M N C T R I R O P
X N Q G O D C T L K
A A E R A S A Y U J
W C D B C F L I O P
P E C U L I A R S L
A B D F A A I B C A

a. Meaning: Severe or serious effect

Sample sentence: It has undergone drastic changes.
b. Meaning: Relationship of son or daughter to his or her parents.
Sample sentence: Taking care of your parents up to their old age is part of a filial duty.
c. Meaning: Not usual or normal
Sample sentence: There are many peculiar animals in the Philippines.
d. Meaning: Expressing doubt about something
Sample sentence: They are very skeptical about the platforms of the presidential candidates.
e. Meaning: To put an end
Sample sentence: The Korean students call want a total abrogation of some Korean rituals.
 Task 4- Reading of Text …………………………………………………… LM page 527-229

“The Changing Morals of Korean Students”

By Kim Gil

It is well known that Korea’s traditional morality has been strongly influenced by Confucianism centered
around the family. On the other hand, today’s Korean student has the preconceived notion that Confucian moral
philosophy is “obsolete” and that the family-first trend should also be drastically revised. However our survey
on the students’ moral views unexpectedly shows that they are conservative and that they are actually not dare
deny parental merits of his duty to support his parents in their old age.

It is difficult, based on man’s behavior, to conclude that he takes more care of his parents than he does
of his wife and children. Thirty years ago the young Korean man not only thought he did but actually he did care
for his parents more than his wife and his children. But the actual behavior of today’s young man shows he is
not so strictly bound by his moral obligations even though he continues to think he is.

a. According to the modern Korean students, what should be drastically revised?

b. Why do you think Korean students want to revise such ritual?

The Korean college student agrees in principle with filial duty on the one hand but on the other hand,
he is not blindly devoted to his parents as Confucian morals would dictate. Instead, he believes that impractical
elements should be eliminated from the traditional notion of “Filial duty.”

For instance, the average Korean does not think it is right to sacrifice the freedom of his children for the
sake of filial duty or to abandon an opportunity to study abroad in order to take care for his parents, and he
does not agree with the unscientific notion that failure to produce male children is contrary to filial duty. In the
matter of marriage, today’s Korean youth trespass the original notion of Confucian filial duty in that they believe
that the final decision concerning marriage should be made by the couple involved.

c. What are the ideas of the Korean students about filial duties?
d. What is the attitude of the Korean students towards the concept of Marriage?
Funeral and memorial services for one’s parents and grandparents are extensions of the Confucian
concept of filial duty. However, few students call for the total abrogation of such ritual but many favor shortening
the traditional three-year period of mourning and abandoning the custom that prescribed “circumspection in
penance for sins” (the death of parents was traditionally attributed to the sins of sons and daughters). This is
interpreted as meaning that students reflect common sense that ritual should always befit the social, and
particularly the economic realities of society.

e. For Korean students, what ritual should be totally abrogate or stop?

f. Why do you think so?

It is probably in sex that Korean students have managed to free themselves completely from the
traditional moral code: As the old saying: “Boys and girls cannot sit in the same place after they turn seven”
indicates. Confucianists were most strict concerning sexual morals. Such a conservative opinion has been
maintained according to the letter but it has undergone such drastic changes that in actual practice few take
feudalistic sexual morals with question. Some thirty years ago, It was commonly considered “bad” for a student
to befriend a girl, but few retain such an attitude nowadays…
Although the opinions on sexual morals are said to be quite free from tradition they are still conservative
in comparison to their Western counterparts. For instance, Korean students do not think it is good to have
premarital sexual relations.

g. What was the idea of the Korean students about sexual morals?
h. Are they still the same today?

We can draw the conclusion that Today’s Korean college students don’t desire to adhere blindly to the
Confucian tradition concerning morals nor does he want to abandon traditional entirely…

As for political matters, Korean students appear to have inherited, at least partially the Confucian ideal of
rule by virtue and favor, a form of democracy based on the teachings of Mencius… It is thought that the reasons
why students still pay respect to the political ideas of Confucius and Mencius is, more often than not, that they
believe man’s inherent noble spirit is in conformity to rule by virtue and democracy.
 Due to that fact that Confucian political ideology is founded upon feudal society. It is something different
from modern democratic ideas, for it allowed good intentioned dictatorship… They are very skeptical about
formal democracy or sham democracy which brings only hardship.

i. In terms of political matters, to whom the Koreans align their philosophies? Why?

It may be common to all people of all ages that there is a gap between what one thinks and what he
actually does, but such gap appears to be unusually wide in the Korea of today. It is indeed, one of the most
important tasks people in a new age face to endeavor to narrow the gap between ideas and actions; in some
cases the idea must be changed and in others the action must be geared in another direction; herein lies the
urgent need to establish a new morality with which our actions can be accord.

j. What is the essay about?

k. Why do you think it is entitled “The Changing morals of Korean students”?
l. Compare the Korean’s opinions with the opinions of the Filipinos in terms of old belief?

D. Discovery Task

Task 5- P-I-N ……..……………………………………………………….…………………. LM Page 529

Fill in the grid with the Positive Interesting Negative aspects of the Korean morale practices.
Be able to share your answer with the class

E. Final Task
Task 6 - I SUPPORT……………………………………….…………………….………… LM Page 531

With your group, use the given Venn diagram and write a comparative analysis of the Korean
youth and the Filipino youth towards the following aspects:

Group 1: Family Practices

Group 2: Beliefs about marriage
Group 3: Beliefs about religion
Group 4: Politics
Group 5: Traditions

E. Wrap Up
F. Assignment

My Treasure

Journal Entry

Make a reflection paper by means of filling in the blank spaces below.

I have learned _______________________________________________________________

I realized ___________________________________________________________________

I want to ___________________________________________________________________

Prepared by:

__________________________
Mr. Benzon E. Barrientos
 Group Presentation Rubric

Excellent Good Fair Poor

Organization Presentation Presentation was Presentation Presentation

was very fairly organized was not clearly lacked
organized and and pretty organized. organization.
was easy to followed.
follow. Transitions Poor transitions
Transitions might between between group
Transitions have been slightly members were members and
between group discontinuous but jumpy or individual parts.
members were did not take away awkward. Presentation
well planned greatly from the lacked order and
and executed overall very difficult to
clearly. presentation. follow.
Teamwork
The group The group worked Group Group did not
worked very well with each communicated work well
well with each other and relatively well together. There
other and the communicated with a few were obvious
presentation well. Some lapses in the miscommunication
was shared members presentation; and lapses in the
equally among participated some students presentation.
the group slightly more than dominated the
members. others. presentation
and others did
not participate
much.

Content Group Most of the group Group members Group members

members had a members has a had only a had little to no
stronghold on solid superficial understanding of
the content and understanding of understanding the content
content was the content. of content. addressed in the
thoroughly presentation.
addressed. No Content missing Several
mistakes were minor elements or mistakes were
made with contained minor made during the
regard to errors. presentation.
content
knowledge.

Visual Aid(s) Visual aids Visual aids used Visual aids used Visual aids were
used were used were somewhat did not support not used at all.
effectively effective, but verbal
throughout. weren’t used presentation.
Group consistently They lacked
members used throughout information, or
visual aids as presentation. group members
supplement, not read from them.
as crutch.

*Changing Perspective: Learning Module for English – Grade 8, Page 532