ENGLISH 3RD QUARTER

• Recount - journal, diary, newspaper article, historical recount, letter, log, timeline Purpose: to retell a series of events
• Procedure:

  • Instruction, recipe, directions
  • Purpose: to instruct someone on how to do something
• Explanation:

  • Scientific writing, spoken presentation
  • Purpose: to explain how or why something occurs
• Description:

  • Observation, speech, analysis
  • Purpose: to describe the characteristics or features of a thing or a phenomenon
• Multimedia:

  • Computer information represented through audio, video, and animation
  • Sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media formats
  • Multimedia comes from Latin roots "multi" meaning several or many, and "media" meaning in the middle
  • Multimedia involves several forms of communication to connect sender and receiver
  • Multimedia can be recorded for playback on electronic devices
• Basic Types of Multimedia:

  1. Text Materials:

  • Characters used to create words, sentences, and paragraphs
  • Example: Hypertext, Paper Document, Newspaper
• 2. Graphics/Photographs:

  • Digital representations of non-text information like drawings, charts, or photographs
  • Example: JPEG, PNG, Painting, 2D and 3D, Diagrams
• 3. Sound/Audio:

  • Spoken explanation that stimulates imagination and can be added to all types of media
  • Example: MP4, Songs, Podcast or Audio Recording
• 4. Video Presentations:

  • Clips or full videos showing information
  • Collection of moving pictures combined with audio files
  • Example: MP4, MOV, AVI files, Movie or Film
• Forms of Animation:

  • Flipping through a series of still images to make them appear as if they are moving
  • Example: Graphic Image File (GIF), PowerPoint Presentation or Slideshow
• Communication:

  • Art of exchanging messages between people
  • Interpersonal communication involves verbal and non-verbal messages
  • Verbal communication: spoken language, voice tone, speed, and volume
  • Non-verbal communication: facial expressions, touch, body movement, eye contact, gestures
• Conversation/Dialogue:

  • Natural part of life for exchanging information and maintaining social relationships
  • Strategies for effective conversation/dialogue
• Interview Strategies:

  • Start easy, ask the right questions, have a conversation, find an anecdote, pay attention to details
• Effective Interview Questions:

  • Open-ended questions encourage sharing experiences, emotions, attitudes, or opinions
  • Begin with the 5 Ws (What, when, where, why, how)
• Ineffective/Avoid Questions:

  • Closed-ended questions like Yes/No questions
  • Leading questions, nosy questions, obvious questions
• During the Interview:

  • Introduce yourself and state the purpose, ask permission to record, listen carefully, take notes, be courteous, end appropriately
• Speaker Behaviors:

  • Maintain eye contact, speak in an appropriate tone, exert good energy level, think before speaking
• Effective Oral Communication:

  • Necessary for building relationships and sharing ideas
  • Non-verbal and gestural support verbal communication
  • Effective communicator speaks with clarity and precision in formal and informal contexts
• Thought-Provoking Questions:

  • What life lessons has the COVID-19 pandemic taught you?
  • Aside from personal happiness, what other reasons should one have to get...?
• Forms of Literature:

  • Poetry: uses imaginative language to express ideas, evoke emotions, or tell a story
  • Prose: uses ordinary language with a natural flow of speech, categorized by fiction and nonfiction
• Heritage:

  • Legacy from the past that we live with and pass on to future generations
• Basic Elements of a Story:

  • Settings: where/when the story takes place, including people and culture
  • Characters: person, animal, or personified entity that acts in the plot
  • Conflict: challenge a character faces in a narrative, types include Man vs. Society, Man vs. Man, Man vs. Self, Man vs. Nature
• Expressing beliefs/convictions based on viewed material:

  • Visual media materials help concretize thoughts and beliefs through pictures, videos, and graphics
  • Belief: shaped by individual experiences, based on cultural or personal faith, morality, or values
  • Conviction: firm belief based on statistical, observational, causal, and experiential data
• Basic Signal Phrases in Expressing Beliefs or Convictions:

  • General Statement: main idea supported by specific statements or details
  • Specific Statements: details that reinforce the main idea, answering who, what, where, when, and why about the topic
• Listening processes:

  • Listening: accurately receiving and interpreting instructions
  • Hearing: passively receiving information
  • Active listening: concentrating on the speaker's message actively
  • Metacognition: using processes to memorize keywords
  • Summarizing: discerning important ideas and integrating central ideas in a meaningful way
• Purposes of summarizing:

  • Helps students determine essential ideas and consolidate important details
  • Enables students to focus on keywords and phrases for better understanding
  • Teaches students to reduce a large text to main points for concise understanding
  • Determining importance: strategy to distinguish between important and interesting but not necessary information