ESSAY
Module 2: REFLECTIVE ESSAY
BASED ON OBSERVATIONS AND
EXPERIENCES IN LIFE
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January 5, 2015
English I | Johnna Mae Y. Erno
In this part of the module, you are to demonstrate understanding that a reflective essay presents, expresses, and reveals the writer’s personal feelings, thoughts, views, insights.
You will also answer a diagnostic test to find out if you are familiar with any concepts related to Philippine reflective and personal essays and to check your reading and competence on the prerequisite skills to the tasks at hand.
At the end of this module, you are expected to write a reflective essay which will be graded based on criteria presented at the latter part of the module.
As you do the following tasks, you will be guided by the essential question.
“How are preferences, feelings, and insights communicated in a reflective essay?
Welcome to Module 2!
Johnna Mae Y. Erno
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Activity 1: What lies beneath the Ink?
Below are questions you have to answer. Each question represents a concept or idea which is about to be discussed in this module. Don’t leave any item unanswered!
From “Once More Ermita” by Vicitacion de la Torre
1. Before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conference, which “sprouted” other live-star hotels. Manila Hilton was the place to be seen at.
2. Noted journalist Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, who is a native of Ermita, points out that Ermita was then a Tagalog Village peopled by free, energetic and handsome Malays who drank whine, wore gold bangles and treated each other and the Spanish newcomers with exquisite courtesy. 3. Those, whose beliefs in religion, in life, in just anything are unorthodox, air their views in
Ermita’s Coffee Shops.
1-9 For items 1-9, do the following:
1. Underline the antecedent used in the statement.
2. Circle the relative pronoun; and
3. Underline the relative clause twice.
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Before the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conference, which “sprouted” other
five-star hotels, Manila