Learning Package

Lesson 4
Learning from Our Beginnings
YOUR GOALS
This lesson helps you understand the value of knowing how things came to be in the eyes of
our ancestors. Everything on earth, good or bad, has its beginnings. Be perceptive, and let the stories of
the past inspire your future. For this lesson, these are your goals:
1. Use definitions to guess given words.
2. Create a graphic organizer for a text read.
3. Observe rules on pronoun-antecedent agreement.
4. Listen to shifts in stress and intonation in identifying important information based on a text.
5. Observe correct sentence stress in reading a text.
6. Use colloquial and informal expressions appropriately in conversations.
7. Locate data using library resources.
8. Write a family genesis using the elements and themes of myths.
9. Give different reasons for writing.
YOUR INITIAL TASKS
Task 1. The K-W-L Way
The word, ‗genesis‘ plays a central role in this lesson. Hence, it is important that you identify what
you know about this idea by filling out a K-W-L Table. Copy the table on a half-sheet of paper. Under the
first column, write down all the ideas you have about ‗genesis‘. On the second column, write what you
want to know about it. The third column will be completed at the end of the lesson.
‘GENESIS’
What I Know What I Want to Know What I Learned
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