Eng 13 Module 3 (F)
Eng 13 Module 3 (F)
Semester 1, AY 2020-2021
Weeks 6-10, Module 3: Writing for Inquiry
Introduction
This module is focused on teaching you how to appreciate high-level academic texts and help
you understand how to write them. It contains activities that inquire about gender, and how these
gender issues affect society and the way we live our lives. It contains three texts that explore
gender, and the activities in this module will culminate in an academic paper that will explore
gender and popular culture.
Goals
You should be able to understand and generate writing that inquiries into or explores gender
issues in society. You should be able to formulate questions, seek possible answers, and present
the answers to your queries or investigation in relevant contexts.
Learning Outcomes
Activities
This is the list activities that you will work through in this module:
a. Create a research-based slide presentation in an online exhibit;
b. Read academic texts about gender;
c. Answer worksheets about the academic texts;
d. Participate in an online discussion about the academic texts;
e. Research about the context of certain texts;
f. Watch short videos clips about gender and respond to them;
g. Write short writing assignments based on the texts read or video clips watched;
h. Research on gender issues and popular culture;
i. Write an academic essay about gender and popular culture.
TEXTO1: “Introduction” to The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Motivation
Week 6
Pre-Reading
Week 6
To prepare for the reading, please research in online newspapers and magazines to answer the
question below:
“Is there equality in the sexes between men and women in Philippine society?”
The answer to the question should be seen in a slide presentation with correct documentation (of
both images and text). The minimum number of slides should be five, the maximum number
should be 10. The last slide(s) should be your “Works Cited” Page.
Share your slide presentation in an online “exhibit” in Google Stream. Write a class comment on
everyone else’s slideshow, with the minimum of one word (not an emoticon) and a maximum of
one paragraph.
Deadline:
Your teacher should process this online exhibit with you before you go forward.
While Reading
Week 6
As you read the essay, “Volume I: Facts and Myths Introduction” from Simone de Beauvoir’s
“The Second Sex,” you will come across parts of the text in the worksheet below. In order to
check your reading comprehension and to practice your paraphrasing skills in preparation for
the inquiry paper, answer the worksheet. Please copy and paste the worksheet below, and once
answered fully, submit to your teacher’s email. 3 points each.
Deadline:
Name:
Section:
Instructions: While reading the text, pay attention to the parts of the texts below and restate
them in your own words (this is called a paraphrase). 3 points each.
Post-Reading I
Week 6
The Guide Questions below should help you understand the essay thoroughly. Your teacher may
ask you to answer them (or particular numbers) in an email or in Google Stream. It is also
possible that your teacher will ask for a Zoom meeting in order to discuss this further.
Please clarify with your teacher which questions should be answered and in what platform.
Deadline:
Guide Questions:
The URL below will bring you to a CNN page entitled “A Beginner’s Guide to Philippine
Feminism”:
https://cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2019/4/15/philippine-feminism.html
Read the essay and watch the video clips to contextualize feminism in the Philippines. Write a
one-page reaction paper to what you have read, written, and discussed in this module and submit
in the Assignment part of your Google Classroom.
Have complete citations, including interesting comments or insights from your classmate(s) or
teacher. Strive to have interesting and/or original insights given what you have read.
Deadline:
Key Points
In this module, you have discovered the different issues regarding women and the inequalities
that are found in society. You have appreciated one of the canonical texts about it and have seen
how this can be applied to Philippine society. You have also been able to exercise the skills of
reading comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation when it comes to reading an
academic text and creating short responses to the text. These skills should help you when it
comes to writing your final writing requirement in this module, the Inquiry Paper.
TEXT 02: “Men, Heterosexualities, and Emotional Life” by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Motivation
Week 7
Submit your answers on the “Question” posted in Google Classroom by your teacher. Make sure
that you turn it in, with the button that says, “Turn It In!”
Deadline:
Pre-Reading
Week 7
Watch the TED Talk entitled “Let’s Get Rid of Toxic Masculinity” found in the URL below:
https://www.ted.com/talks/victor_rios_let_s_get_rid_of_toxic_masculinity
“What did you think of the TED talk about toxic masculinity?”
Answer this in the Question portion of Google Classroom posted by your teacher. Make sure that
you turn it in, with the button that says, “Turn It In!”
Deadline:
While Reading
Week 7
The text you are about to read can be found in the book, “Mapping the Subject: Geographies of
cultural transformation” edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift. It is entitled, “Men,
Heterosexualities, and Emotional Life,” by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler.
As you read the essay, you will come across parts of the text as seen in the worksheet below. In
order to check your reading comprehension and to practice your paraphrasing skills in
preparation for the inquiry paper, answer the worksheet. Please copy and paste the worksheet
below, and once answered fully, submit to your teacher’s email. 3 points for each answer.
Deadline:
Name:
Section:
Instructions: The text you are about to read can be found in the book, “Mapping the Subject:
Geographies of cultural transformation” edited by Steve Pile and Nigel Thrift.
While reading the text, pay attention to the topics in the worksheet and summarize what the text
is trying to say about it using your own words. Remember that a summary is not a paraphrase –
it should significantly shorten what is found in the text in your own words while keeping the
essence of its key ideas. 3 points for each answer.
Post-Reading I
Week 7
The Guide Questions below should help you understand the essay thoroughly. Your teacher may
ask you to answer them (or particular numbers) in an email or in Google Stream. It is also
possible that your teacher will ask for a Zoom meeting in order to discuss this further.
Please clarify with your teacher which questions should be answered and in what platform.
Deadline:
Guide Questions
1. Could you relate to the description of masculinities in the essay? Does it remind you of
anyone? Why?
2. How does the split between reason and the body/emotions affect men? Is this a problem?
Why?
3. What was Freud’s insight about masculinities?
4. Is it fair that men legislate according to the expectations of their gender to the rest of the
world? Explain your answer.
5. Is it fair that men consider women as their possessions? Explain your answer.
6. The essay discusses masculinities and is focused on white heterosexual masculinities.
How is this different from Filipino masculinity?
7. Does patriarchy have negative effects on men as well? Explain your answer.
8. Why are men afraid of being vulnerable or showing weakness? How does this affect
them?
9. Is there anything else that should be added to this reading, given the changes in today’s
society?
10. What would you say are the good points about masculinity?
Post-Reading II
Week 7
Write a short one-page essay about the man/men that you were reminded of when reading the
essay. Discuss the parts that you read in the essay (with correct citations) and how it reminded
you of that man. Write a one-page reaction paper to what you have read, written, and discussed
in this module and submit in the Assignment part of your Google Classroom.
Deadline:
Rubric/10 points:
Key Points
In this module, you have discovered the different issues regarding men and the inequalities that
are found in society. You have watched and read texts about masculinity and toxic masculinity in
particular. You have understood how this affects Philippine society and creates a certain
discourse that can be damaging to everyone involved. You have also been able to exercise the
skills of reading comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation when it comes to reading an
academic text and creating short responses to the text. These skills should help you when it
comes to writing your final writing requirement in this module, the Inquiry Paper.
Motivation
Week 8
Submit your answers on the “Question” posted in Google Classroom by your teacher. Make sure
that you turn it in, with the button that says, “Turn It In!”
Deadline:
Pre-Reading
Week 8
Research about the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Answer the following
questions:
The text you are about to read are “The Homeland, Aztlan” and “Movimientos de rebeldia y las
culturas que traicionan”, from the book “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza” (pages
1-23), by Gloria Anzaldua.
As you read the essay, you will come across parts of the text as seen in the worksheet below. In
order to check your reading comprehension and to practice your paraphrasing skills in
preparation for the inquiry paper, answer the worksheet. Please copy and paste the worksheet
below, and once answered fully, submit to your teacher’s email. 2 points for each answer.
Deadline:
Name:
Section:
Instructions for Students: Read the whole essay before you fill in the blanks. You will be
reading “The Homeland, Aztlan” and “Movimientos de rebeldia y las culturas que traicionan”,
from the book “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza” (pages 1-23), by Gloria Anzaldua.
On the second reading of the essay, figure out what the author is trying to say using figurative
language in this critical academic essay. These can be metaphors, similes, etc. 2 points for each
answer.
Post-Reading I:
Week 8
The Guide Questions below should help you understand the essay thoroughly. Your teacher may
ask you to answer them (or particular numbers) in an email or in Google Stream. It is also
possible that your teacher will ask for a Zoom meeting in order to discuss this further.
Please clarify with your teacher which questions should be answered and in what platform.
Deadline:
Guide Questions:
1. Why do you think there were parts of the text that were in Spanish? Why didn’t the
author translate it to English for the reader?
2. Why does the text use figurative language (usually used in fiction or poetry), instead of
the straightforward language that is usually used for academic essays?
3. What metaphor did you think was effective in the essay? Explain your answer.
4. Are the stylistic decisions done in #1 and #2 acceptable in academic essays? Why or why
not?
5. According to the essay, who lives in the actual borderlands?
6. According to the essay, who lives in the figurative borderlands?
7. What does this mean, “The US-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third
World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again,
the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country – a border culture”. Given
this, what is the border culture – physically and figuratively?
8. What does the author explain about her culture and deviance? Why do you think it’s such
a problem in their culture to accept any kind of deviance?
9. Do you think that the author’s Mexican experience is similar to the Philippine
experience? Explain your answer.
10. What part of the essay did you feel had resonance for you? Why?
Post-Reading II
Week 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFbhkJNWnhU
Key Points
In this module, you have discovered the different issues regarding lesbianism, and how their
issues are similar to those who have ever felt alienated from the mainstream groups of society.
You have read about how these issues intersect gender, class, and race, and have seen how these
issues oppress people, not only those under the label of lesbianism, but anyone who would defy
the gender stereotypes that are found in society. You have also been able to exercise the skills of
reading comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation when it comes to reading an
academic text and creating short responses to the text. These skills should help you when it
comes to writing your final writing requirement in this module, the Inquiry Paper.
Final Short Assignment for Inquiry into Gender
Week 8
Write about it in a short one-page essay, describing your metaphor and the relationship between
your gender identity and society.
Deadline:
Rubric/10 points:
Instructions
1. Prepare three topics that are related to the texts you have read (in this case, gender) and a
popular culture text (for example, a magazine article, a speech, a movie, television
show, advertisement, etc.) that you would like to write about. If your teacher asks you to,
prepare a thesis statement for each topic.
2. Consult with your teacher about your topic and wait for your teacher to approve one.
3. With the approved topic, research on the internet. Please make sure of the following:
Sources come from credible resources. The following is a list of resources from
the most credible resource to the least credible resource; (1) academic journals;
(2) books and textbooks; (2) magazines and newspaper articles based on well-
established publications such as the Philippine Daily Inquirer; (3) official
websites; (4) Wikipedia and others like it; (5) blogs.
Unless your pop culture text happens to be Facebook pages, please do not cite
FB pages (such as the Mocha Uson FB page), etc., since these are based on
opinions rather than facts.
You have read at least 15 resources for your paper.
4. Write your paper with accreditation. Remember, you must cite a text every time you
summarize, paraphrase, and quote.
5. Write your paper with the correct accreditation format. Ensure that you have (1)
parenthetical documentation AND (2) List of Works Cited/List of Resources Page. Your
teacher should discuss this lengthily, since not having either one can be considered as an
act of plagiarism.
6. Your paper should have your name, course number, course section, and title.
7. Your paper should be at least 2000 words, double-spaced, font Calibri 12 (unless
otherwise specified by your teacher). It should not go beyond 2500 words.
8. Submit your paper to your teacher on the deadline via email. Please ask for
confirmation from your teacher, as there are times when emails can go to the SPAM
folder or might not have been sent for one strange reason or another.
9. Your teacher should be able to do one of the following:
Have an online consultation with you discussing your paper via Zoom meeting or
Meets in Google Classroom
Send comments and feedback on your document to help you revise your paper
through Google Classroom
Both options above
10. After receiving feedback, write the final draft of the paper. Send this to your teacher on
the deadline. The teacher may ask for the final draft at the end of the semester, to give
you more time to revise.
The rubrics below are what we would call a global measurement of assessment, that looks at
papers from a more holistic perspective, instead of the point system we have been using so far.
This helps in understanding that all the elements of a paper should go together, in order for it to
be an excellent academic paper.
Rubrics with Grade Equivalents