What I Can Do Now, let us try to apply your learnings on formulating evaluative statements. A. Directions: Form an evaluative statement for every given text and label it whether positive or negative depending on the focus of the evaluation. See the sample below. Text: If you are not so smart, you should try to be a teacher. Evaluative Statement: The statement is very discriminatory against those with average intelligence and teachers in general. Example: Negative 1. In this time of pandemic, people should give all the blames to the government for the insufficient assistance given to them. 10 2. Every person has something to contribute to win the battle against CoViD 19. 3. If you got infected by the Corona Virus, you should not lose hope but be positive about it. 4. If you are a student with no internet connection at home, you better not enroll for this school year while we are in these trying times. 5. When you go out of your house to buy essential things, you must follow the minimum health protocols like social distancing, wearing mask, using alcohol or sanitizer, and washing hands. B. Read the poem written by Meigma, a senior high school student. Make your own evaluation about its content and properties. Please be guided by the sample evaluation given in the discussion part and the scoring rubric that follows after the poem below. I hate my life And I won't say I'm good in my own way I'm the worst And you can't tell me I did my best Because I knew I'm a failure It's not true that I'm awesome But I know People hated me I'm a disaster A distress They call me Fool Stupid Unworthy All these insults I keep to myself For a long time Is this really me? Are all of these true? Believing in myself It seems so hard To be what they demand How I wish What does it feel? To be myself (Read from the bottom to the top) 11 17 5 3 1 The evaluation has no evaluative statement. The evaluation has an The evaluation has an evaluative statement evaluative statement that used an evaluative but did not use an language. evaluative language. The evaluation The evaluation contains positive and contains positive and negative feedbacks as negative feedbacks but well as suggestions to there were no improve the poem. suggestions provided. The evaluation has positive feedbacks but there are no negatives and suggestions for the improvement of the written work. The evaluation is clear, concise and precise. The evaluation is clear and concise but not precise. The evaluation is clear but not concise and precise. The evaluation has no error when it comes to mechanics (grammar, capitalization and punctuation) The evaluation has 1 to 3 errors when it comes to mechanics. The evaluation has 4 or more errors when it comes to mechanics