In this module, you will learn more about persuasive text and its features. You will also learn about persuasive techniques and devices, factual claim, opinion, and commonplace assertion. This module will help you formulate specific reasons for your opinions and will provide you an opportunity to research facts related to your opinions. As you develop an understanding of how writing can influence or change another thoughts or actions, you can begin to understand the persuasive nature of the marketing you are exposed to through televisions, the internet and the other media.

This learning material is especially crafted to provide you with independent and self-directed learning experiences and to have more autonomy and control over your learning. This will help you improve your academic performance, increase motivation and confidence, make choices and decisions about how to meet your learning needs, take responsibility for constructing and carrying out your own learning.

The competencies included in this module are considered as the most essential competencies which need to be mastered by a Grade 10 student like you. These competencies are anchored on the general principles, goals, and objectives of the K to 12 Basic Education program for Grade 10 student like you to become productive and effective participant in the society you are in.

There are two learning competencies that mean four lessons in this module.  Each lesson builds around a particular text for you to explore meaningfully through a variety of integrated, challenging, and interesting tasks.

Module I is consist of four lessons, wherein each lesson is developed through the following phases:

• What I Need to Know-This part contains learning objectives that are set for you

to learn as you go along the Module each day/lesson.

• What I know- This is a pre-test assessment as to your level of knowledge to the

subject matter at hand, meant specifically to gauge prior related knowledge.

• What’s In- This part connects previous lesson with that of the current one.
• What’s New- An introduction of the new lesson through various activities,

before it will be presented to you.

• What is It- These are discussions of the activities to deepen your discovery

and understanding of the concept.

• What’s More- These are follow-up activities that are intended for you to practice

further in order to master the competencies.

• What I Have Learned- Activities designed to process what you have learned from the lesson.
• What I can do- These are tasks that are designed to showcase your skills and

knowledge gained, and applied into real-life concerns and situations.