Q1 MODULE 4 EMPHASIS MARKERS Compressed
Q1 MODULE 4 EMPHASIS MARKERS Compressed
Q1 MODULE 4 EMPHASIS MARKERS Compressed
Hello, Grade 8 Learner! Welcome to Module 4! Cause and Effect - a function/category of emphasis marker which
This is the second to the last two modules of your journey in shows relationship between the reason and outcome.
understanding
Sequence - a function/category of emphasis marker used to
African literature as a means of capturing the nuances of arrange ideas in chronological manner
the human experience that well from the vast wealth of
wisdom and culture in these countries.
IV. Pre - Test
Read and comprehend the following quotes from the
Through this module, you will be able to develop your
speeches of different African leaders then decide which
skill in using emphasis markers for persuasive purposes.
emphasis marker should be used to complete the sentence.
There will be a series of reading and writing activities
which will enable you to write your own persuasive essay. Like Choose from the emphasis markers in the box. Write
the previous ones, this module is also packed with a lot of fun the syllable that corresponds to the correct answer in the
activities, and we encourage you to continue working through space provided.
each one of them.
(zi) despite (kub) therefore
(ka) because (wa) however
II. Objective
In charting the course of your journey in this module,
you are expected to: 1. “All this I know and know to be true _________ I am
Use emphasis markers for persuasive purposes. an African! Becuase of that, I am also able
to state this fundamental truth that I am
III. Vocabulary List born of a people who are heroes and
To serve as your guidepost, the following key words and heroines, of a people who would not
phrases that you will encounter as you wander through this tolerate oppression. “
module are defined: (Taken from Thabo Mbeki’s “I am anAfrican”,1996)
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A. Study the infographics about emphasis markers and do the
following activities.
4. A lot has been done to promote
inclusion and a non-racial society.
__________, the journey to a non-
racial society has not yet been
completed.
E POWER OF
V. Learning Concepts
In the previous modules, you have learned about the
struggles of the Africans to gain freedom, equality and
democracy.
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There are different categories of emphasis markers and
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each one of them has different function and usage.
Now, It’s time for you create your own mind map about
emphasis markers! Using a mind map, list down the key
concepts you understood from the infographics. What are B. Emphasis markers can be used for persuasive purposes.
emphasis markers and its different functions?
The table shows how you can use different emphasis
You are free to be creative in doing your personal mind markers in your persuasive writing.
map - add colors, drawings and symbols.
EMPHASIS EXAMPLES Teacher says…
MARKERS
contrary, however,
notwithstanding When you use emphasis
When you are hanging markers to highlight
To show out with your friends and contrasting ideas in your
contrast it becomes so silent, you persuasive essay, you
between may feel awkward. can easily help your
bias However, there is no readers compare things.
need to feel uneasy Thus, it becomes easier
during a period of silence for you to convince them.
in Africa because in their
culture, when there is
nothing to be said,
silence is perfectly fine.
Furthermore, besides, To make an essay or
moreover speech more persuasive,
To add With future-time a little you need to provide
previous less important, current evidences that would
point time is of extremevalue. support your stand. You
in the Moreover, meeting can use words like
essay people and spending furthermore and moreover
(Generated using https://app.wisemapping.com ) time with others top to emphasize as previous
develop lasting statement.
(You can do this in a separate sheet of paper. You may relationships is an aspect
also use mind mapping tools like wisemapping.) of African culture that is
truly cherished.
You did it! You were already able to see the inter Likewise, similarly, Consider various ways to
connectedness of knowledge bits about the different categories To show in like fashion make your argument, you
Similarity Pointing at something or can always use contrast
of emphasis markers.
or someone with the index or provide examples and
compariso finger is usually illuatration and
This will help you achieve your goal and recall better as
n between considered rude or comparison
we continue our journey together! offensive. Likewise, is
ideas
not something you want
to do.
To For instance, You can never go wrong
Did you know? illustrate a for example, with emphasizing a
point or to illustrate particular point to
provide persuade your readers.
Mind mapping converts a long list of examples Use words
information into a colorful, memorable and To Indeed, Above all, truly absolutely,
highly organized diagram that works in line emphasize positive communication definitely and exactly to
with your brain's natural way of doing things. a point is a key African cultural highlight important points
It is a creative and logical means of note value in your writing
taking that "maps out" your ideas in free-
form.
comparison with white people in our own country, and that we
are prevented by legislation from altering this imbalance.
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PRACTICE TASKS The lack of human dignity experienced by Africans is the
direct result of the policy of white supremacy. White supremacy
TASK 1 implies black inferiority.
Directions: Read the following excerpt from Nelson
Mandela’s Speech, “I am Prepared to Die.” Look for the We want a just share in the whole of South Africa; we want
different emphasis markers used in the text and identify the security and a stake in society. Above all, My Lord, we want equal
category/use of the emphasis markers. The first one is done for political rights, because without them our disabilities will be
you! permanent. I know this sounds revolutionary to the whites in this
I am Prepared to Die country, because the majority of voters will be Africans. This
An Excerpt makes the white man fear democracy.
Firstly, we believed that as a result of During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle
Government policy, violence by the African of the African people. I have fought against white domination,
people had become inevitable, and that and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the
unless responsible leadership was given to ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live
canalise and control the feelings of our Nelson Mandela in together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal
people, there would be outbreaks of Johannesburg, on for which I hope to live for and to see realised. But, My Lord, if it
June 2, 2009.
terrorism which would produce an intensity needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
of bitterness and hostility between the various races of the
country which is not produced even by war. Nelson Mandela’s “I am Prepared to Die”
Emphasis markers Categories/Functions
Secondly, we felt that without sabotage there would be Firstly Sequence
no way open to the African people to succeed in their struggle
against the principle of whitesupremacy. All lawful modes of
expressing opposition to this principle had been closed by
legislation, and we were placed in a position in which we had
either to accept a permanent state of inferiority, or to defy the
Government. We chose to defy the Government.
Emp
My Lord, I would like now to deal with the immediate hasis Markers
causes. In 1960 the government held a referendum which led TASK 2
to the establishment of the Republic. Africans, who constituted As you continue your journey through the African
approximately 70 per cent of the population of South Africa, literature, you continue to learn and get rooted even better in
were not entitled to vote, and were not even consulted about your quest as an individual. As Caroline Paul said, “Every quest is a
the proposed constitutional change. All of us were journey, every journey a story. Every story, in turn, has a moral.”
apprehensive of our future under the proposed white republic.
Your next task gives you an opportunity to understand
We had no doubt that we had to continue the fight. better why Nelson Mandela was compared to Mahatma Gandhi
Anything else would have been abject surrender. Our problem, by Ginwali.
My Lord, was not whether to fight, but was how to continue
the fight. We of the ANC had always stood for a non-racial Read another excerpt from Mandela’s speech, “The
democracy, and we shrank from any action which might drive Rainbow Nation” and underline the emphasis markers used. An
the races further apart than they already were. But the hard example is provided for you!
facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the
African people nothing but more and more repressive Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is
legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. The Government often especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority
answers its critics by saying that Africans in South Africa are have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time,
economically better off than the inhabitants of the other democracy also requires that the rights of political and other
countries in Africa. minorities be safeguarded.
Our complaint is not that we are poor by comparison The task at hand on will not be easy. But you have
with people in other countries, but that we are poor by mandated us to change South Africa from a country in which the
majority lived with little hope, to one in which they can live and
work with dignity, with a sense of self-esteem and confidence capitalization/usage/punctuation/spelling (CUPS) (15%), and
in creativity (20%). this task.
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TASK 3
This time, you will be given a chance to create your own
comics to convince your friends to believe your realizations
about Mandela’s life. In the dialogue boxes, write the things
that you will say to your friend to convince him/her to believe
what you learned by studying Mandela. You must use at least
10 emphasis markers.
America. He was the youngest person ever to receive You may even want to post it on your social media
the award as the Georgia-born minister when he was 35 years account.
old. With the uncertainties that we face amidst this COVID-19
pandemic, it is noteworthy to share with you this quotation
from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:
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Were you able to understand this wonderful message?
Pay it forward!
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VIII. Assignment
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