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English
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Appraising the Unity of Plot,
Setting, and Characterization
in a Material Viewed to
Achieve Writer’s Purpose

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Good Day Students!

We are almost done with the Quarter 1! I hope that you are learning so much in our English
Subject! Good Luck and May the Lord Bless you in our New Normal Education.
Love T. Barri
Let`s Begin
What I Know
Let us check your prior knowledge about The Elements of a Story by answering the
questions below.
Reading and Literature:
Directions: Read each of the following short passage carefully and write the letter of your
choice on the blank using BLUE BALLPEN

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____1. The main point of the article is best expressed in the sentence no. ____.
a. 3 c. 10
b. 4 d. 12
______2. Exploring the sea of goodness, means you are practicing ________.
a. conscientiousness c. kindness
b. humility d. sympathy
______ 3. The word subtle is sentence no. 5 means ___________.
a. Clear
b. practicalis
c. refined
d. strained
______ 4. The kind of evidence used by the writer to support her stand is through _.
a. anecdotes c. statistics
b. examples d. video
______ 9. The problem of the story also known as which story element?
a. character c. exposition
b. conflict d. resolution
________10. Which details the solution for the conflict of the story?
a. climax c. resolution
b. falling action d. rising action
______ 11. What type of conflict is best shown here?
a. character vs. character c. character vs. self
b. character vs. nature d. character vs. society

______ 12. Who is the person with which the main character has conflict?
a. antagonist c. principal
b. bad guy d. protagonist
______ 13. What is the time and location in which a story takes place?
a. conflict c. point of view
b. plot d. setting
______14. The central, main character of the story is called____.
a. antagonist c. instigator
b. investigator d. protagonist
______ 15. What is a person or animal which takes part in the action of the story?
a. character c. resolution

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 b. plot d. setting
Personal Characteristics,
Lesson 1
Connotation and Denotation
Remember: Please wash your hands with soap for twenty (20) seconds before and after
handling your module. ALWAYS USE BLUE BALLPEN!
None of us is created perfect. All of us are endowed with strengths. At the same
time, we also have weaknesses. Being positive allows us to be better persons as we
capitalize on our strengths and as we address our weaknesses to improve ourselves.
This lesson allows you to discover how to make the most of your strengths and
improve your weaknesses. How far would you go to know the real you? What risks are you
willing to take to successfully overcome the hurdles of life?
At the end of this lesson you are expected to:
1. provide different positive characteristics of a person in dealing with a conflict
presented; and
2. distinguish the use of denotation and connotation.

What’s In (Answer the question/s intrapersonally)

What are the prejudices that Daedalus experienced and how did he overcome
each?
What’s New (Answer the question/s intrapersonally)
1. What are the positive characteristics that your classmates find in you?
2. What do you think are the things that you have difficulty in doing?
What is It
There are times in which what the characters say are entirely different from the literal
sense. For example: Cardo, act out the role of a Filipino hero. There could be two things that
Cardo would do should he be asked to act it out. He might be inside the classroom and
pretend to be Jose Rizal (as what the teacher expects him to do) or he could be literally
outside the classroom doing the same action. This is the difference between our lesson.
Today, you are going to discover the strengths and weaknesses of characters in a
given situation. On this part of the module we will also discuss connotation and denotation.
Find out the difference and spot them from the story Orpheus.

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 What’s More
Activity 1.1
Directions: Read each activity carefully. Write your answer in the table/box
Joaquin and Cristina are trapped in an abandoned well. They want to be free! Using
the chart below, list down the three individual strengths that Joaquin and Cristina could use
to free themselves from the well.

1. In what way could these qualities help them escape from the well?

2. Do you think we could interchange the qualities of Joaquin and Cristina? What would
happen if they interchange their qualities?

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 What I Have Learned
Activity 1.2
Knowing the following words will help you as you read “Orpheus.” Remember how
these words are defined.
something that brings on
1. inspiration a) creative
activity
b) motivation

a small stringed musical

2. lyre a) instrument
b) similar to harp

3. entranced a) to put somebody into trance

b) charmed

4. condemned a) to express an unfavorable or

adverse judgment
b) doomed

5. summoned a) sent for

b) called forth

Activity 1.3
Answer in 1-2 sentences on the space provided
1. What did you notice in the way these words are defined?
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2. How do you differentiate A from B?
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3. Which is a better way to define a word
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Activity 1.4
Directions: Use the answers from the previous activity to provide solution to the given
situations. Write your answer in the table
Situation Answer
1. Juancho has a stage
fright but he is an
excellent singer.

2. Badiday is a cookery
student but she could
not provide for the
ingredients needed
for their cook out. Day
by day she is losing
hope.

Activity 1.5
Direction: Below is a word bank that contains words that describe strengths and
weaknesses. Categorize these words whether they belong to strengths or weaknesses:

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 Observing the Key Events
Lesson 2
of the Story
In the previous lesson, you have learned your strengths and weaknesses as well the
two methods of describing the meanings of words (connotation and denotation).
In this lesson, you will become familiar with the plot parts. A story has parts that keep
it interesting or alive. These are generally named into five elements of the plot.
To prepare you to the next lesson, how do you think stories are usually
structured?
At the end of this lesson, you are expected to:
1. watch a video observing key events of the story;
2. scan the story for specific information; and
3. arrange the order of the parts of the plot from the story Orpheus.
Activity 2.1
Arrange the following parts of the plot in order. On the right side, the meanings of each part
are clues to what comes first. Write your answer on the blank line. (1 as the First and 5 as
the last)

________1. resolution 1. introduces characters and setting

________2. exposition 2. introduces problem of the story

________3. falling action 3. excites the story

_______4. climax 4. provides solution to the problem

_______5. rising action 5. ends the story

What’s In (Note: Answer these questions intrapersonally)

A. Do you remember the vocabularies we have tackled in the previous lesson?
B. These words are found in the following text.

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 C. Find out how these words are used in the selection and what part of the plot does
each belong.
What’s New
Activity 2.2
Directions: Read carefully the story entitled “Orpheus” by Alice Low. Answer
the following processing questions on the space provided.
ORPHEUS
retold by Alice Low

There were nine goddesses called Muses. Born out of Zeus and Titaness named
Mnemosyne, each muse presided over a different art of science.

Calliope, one of these sisters, was the inspiration of poets and musicians. She was the
mother of Orpheus (a mortal because his father was one) and gave to her son a
remarkable talent for music.

Orpheus played his lyre so sweetly that he charmed all things on earth. Men and
women forgot their cares when gathered around him to listen. Wild beasts lay down as they
gathered around him as if they were tame, entranced by his soothing notes. Even rocks
and trees followed him, and the rivers changed their direction to hear him play.

Orpheus loved a young woman named Eurydice, and when they were married, they
looked forward to many years of happiness together. But soon after, Eurydice stepped on a
poisonous snake and died.

Orpheus roamed the earth, singing sad melodies to try to overcome his grief. But it
was no use. He longed for Eurydice so deeply that he decided to follow her to the
underworld. He said to himself, “No mortal has ever been there before, but I must try to
bring back my beloved Eurydice. I will charm Persephone and Hades with my music and
win Eurydice’s release.”

He climbed into a cave and through a dark passage that led to the underworld. When
he reached the river Styx, he plucked his lyre again, and Cerberus, the fierce three-headed
dog who guarded the gates, heard the sweet music and lay still to let him pass.
Orpheus continued to play his lyre tenderly as he made his way through the gloomy
underworld. The ghosts cried when they heard his sad music. Sisyphus, who had been
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condemned to roll a rock uphill forever, stopped his fruitless work to listen. Tantalus, who
had been sentenced to stand in a pool of receding water, stopped trying to quench his thirst.
And even the wheel to which Ixion was tied as punishment stopped turning for one moment.

At last Orpheus came to the palace of Hades and Persephone, King and Queen of the
underworld. Before they could offer him to leave, he began his gentle song, pleading for
Eurydice.

When stern Hades heard Orpheus’ song, he began to weep. Cold Persephone was so
moved that, for the first time in all her months in the underworld, her heart melted.

“Oh, please, my husband,” she said to Hades, “let Eurydice be reunited with Orpheus.”
They summoned Eurydice, and the two lovers clasped each other and turned to leave.

“Wait!” said Hades to Orpheus. “Eurydice is yours to take back to earth on one
condition.”

What is that?” asked Orpheus

“She must follow you, and you must not look back at her until you are on earth again.”

“I understand,” said Orpheus, and “and I am forever grateful.”

Orpheus and Eurydice left the underworld and made their way through the dark
passage that led to the upper world. At last they reached the cave through which Orpheus
had descended.

“I can see daylight ahead” called Orpheus to Eurydice. “We are almost there.”

But Eurydice had not heard him, and so she did not answer.

Orpheus turned to make sure that she was still following him. He caught one last
glimpse of her arms stretched out to him. And then she disappeared, swallowed by
darkness.

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 “Farewell,” he heard her cry as she was carried back to the underworld. Orpheus tried
to follow her, but this time the gods would not allow it. And so he wandered the earth alone.
He sang his sad songs to the trees and longed for the time when he, too, would die and be
reunited with his beloved Eurydice in the underworld.

Almonte, Liza R., Flandez, Lerma L., Hermosa, Angelina Lourdes A., Lagustan, Nedia, Mangaluz, Liberty A.,
Miranda, Elenita R., Mendoza, Paul Anthony B, et al. “Grade 10 English Learner’s Material: Celebrating Diversity through
World Literature.” 1st ed. Pasig City: Department of Education, 2015. pg. 55

What is It
Activity 2.3
Directions: In two to four sentences answer the following questions on the blank provided
Use the worksheet provided for you:
1. What lesson did you get from the story?
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2. Does the story follow the parts of the plot?

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What’s More
Activity 2.4

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 Directions: Read each question carefully. Choose and answer only 3 questions from
the given questions below. For this task, please write your answer in the space provided
Questions:
1. What was the greatest strength of Orpheus? What was his weakness?
2. What effect did Orpheus’ music have on people and gods? Cite two examples of this.
3. Why did Orpheus decide to rescue his wife from the underworld?
4. Why did Orpheus look back to see if Eurydice was following him?
5. What reasons might the gods have for allowing Orpheus and Eurydice to be reunited?
6. Explain why the gods gave a condition to Orpheus and to his bride to return to earth.
7. What main characteristic of this text makes it a myth?
Question
Number Answer

What I Have Learned

Activity 2.5
Directions: Study the chart below. Supply each corresponding box given the plot of
the story “Orpheus.” Write the letter of the correct answer in the column B. Choices are
found in the Sentence box.

ORPHEUS

Column A Column B

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1. EXPOSITION

2. RISING ACTION

3. CLIMAX

4. FALLING ACTION

5. RESOLUTION
Sentence Box:
A. Orpheus is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and
myth. He has the ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music.
B. Orpheus met and wooed the maiden, Eurydice. They were married. Directly after
their wedding, as the bride walks in the meadow with her bridesmaid, a viper bit her
and caused to death.
C. Orpheus went to the underworld and successfully convinced Hades and Persephone
to give his wife in a condition that he should not turn a glimpse to her until they reach
the world of the living. They pass the great doors of Hades to the path that which
would take them out of the darkness. Climbing up and up. But when they almost
there, and he turned to her. It was too soon in the cavern. He saw her in the dim light
and held out his arms to clasp her, but on the instant, she was gone.
D. Desperately, he tried to rush after her and follow her down, but he is not allowed.
The Gods did not allow him to go down to land of the dead the second time, while he
is alive.
E. He wandered through the wild solitude of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre,
playing, always playing, the rocks and the rivers and the trees him gladly, his only
companions.

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What I Can Do
Activity 2.6
1. How can you relate to Orpheus’s experiences? Answer in two to five sentences on your
worksheet.

Activity 2.7
This activity further tests your familiarity of the parts of the plot.
Directions: Match parts of the plot in column A with their appropriate meanings in column B.
Write the letter of your answer before each number.

Column A (Parts of the Column B (Meanings/Descriptions)

Plot)

____1.EXPOSITION a. This is the most exciting part of the

story.

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 ____2.RISING ACTION b. This part of the story introduces the
conflict.

____3.CLIMAX c. This answers when and where the

story takes place.

____4.FALLING ACTION d. This is when the problem starts to

have a solution.

____5.RESOLUTION e. This is also known as the ending of

the story.

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YOU MADE IT! May you enjoy your week end and I am hoping for
more learnings to be acquired by you for this Subject on the next Modules.
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