English 7

Quarter 4 – Module 3:
Determine the Worth of Ideas Mentioned in the Text
Listened to

GENERAL INSTRCUCTION: WRITE YOUR ANSER ON A ONE WHOLE SHEET OF PAPER.

Knowing how to determine the importance of ideas that you have listened to is necessary because it would not only
assist you in understanding better the text, but it would also help you master concepts and skills. Such skill is essential
to make sense of the information that you are acquiring.

What is it?
• It simply means focusing on what is significant on the information you have listened to. You decide, from among
everything that you are listening to, what is most important to attend to and remember.
• It is one of the comprehension strategies that you could use to differentiate between what information you are
listening to is most important versus what information is interesting but not necessary for understanding.
-Important information refers to main ideas or key topics that you need to better understand the concept you are
listening to while interesting information is little detail or additional detail, which could be a cool fact, distractor, or less
important concept, that is present in the article (Allen & Reason, 2015).
This means that it helps you filter information and organize your thinking around big ideas. Filtering means selecting
only the information necessary to better understand the selection that you are listening to (“Introduction,” 2020).
See the illustration below to better understand the above definitions.

Why is it important?

✓ It lets you move through a text logically or in an order that will help you make sense of what you are listening
to.
✓ It enables you to distinguish between the most and least important information presented in the selection to
better comprehend it.
✓ It is essential in easily understanding complicated concepts (Allen & Reason, 2015).
✓ Most significantly, determining what is most important is critical in building life-long success. Think of buying a
house or car, choosing a career, investing in stocks, making financial decisions, etc. All these tasks require
separating important from unimportant information. So, learning this strategy is directly linked to success
(Haag, 2017).

How to determine the worth of ideas?

In order to determine the worth of ideas, you need to make decisions as to what parts of a text deserve the most
attention. Not everything presented by an author is of equal importance (Draper, 2011).

Determining worth of ideas includes:

✓ Identifying your purpose for listening

✓ Distinguishing between important and unimportant information to identify key ideas or themes
✓ Determining topic and main idea
✓ Identifying author’s message
✓ Using knowledge of narrative or expository text features/structures
✓ Recognizing relevance

Now, analyze in this part what you will do to know the worth of ideas presented.
ROLE OF LISTENING IN DETERMINING THE WORTH OF IDEAS

How can listening help you determine the worth of ideas?

• Listening enables you to process the information, evaluate it, make sense of it, and respond to it whether it would be
helpful for you or not—essential or not. For instance, while you are attending a group meeting, you need to know what
important details the group needs to decide on a matter. While all members can share what they think and feel, you only
have to gather what matters in making a decision.
• It would help you make sound conclusions and/or generalizations based on given data.

Keep in Mind!

When listening to the text presented, you need to do the following:

1. Concentrate and Pay Attention. Develop the ability to concentrate and ignore distractions. You need to be interested to the
article presented.

2. Listen for meaning. Focus on the central idea being communicated. Then pay close attention to anecdotes, explanations, and
other details meant to clarify meaning.

3. Link Past and Current Learning. As you’re listening to new material, situate what you’re learning in the context of what you’ve
previously learned (Loveless, 2021).

Task 1: Listen Carefully!

Directions: Listen to the story entitled “The Star Child” by Oscar Wilde. Ask your parent/guardian/sibling to read to you the story.

The Star Child

By Oscar Wilde

One winter night, two Woodcutters see a shooting star fall to the ground. They go to the place in the forest where the star
landed, expecting to find a pot of gold. Instead, they find a child wrapped in a gold cloak embroidered with stars and wearing an
amber necklace. Although he is very poor and already has several children of his own, one of the Woodcutters decides to take the
child home with him. He has difficulty persuading his wife to take in the child but he tells her that the boy is a Star-Child. The
Woodcutter and his wife treat the Star-Child as one of their own children for the next ten years.

The Star-Child grows up to be a handsome boy but he is also very vain. As the son of a star, he believes himself to be
superior to everyone else in the village. He cannot bear people from the lowest levels of society and throws stones at beggars
whenever he sees them. He also tortures and kills small animals. A gang of similarly-minded children gather around the Star-Child
and accept him as their leader.

One day, the Star-Child and his friends throw stones at an ugly beggar woman. The Woodcutter, who is nearby, chastises
the Star-Child, saying that he cannot understand why the boy behaves that way, given that he treated the Star-Child kindly ever
since he found him in the forest. At these words, the beggar woman faints. When the beggar woman comes around in the
Woodcutter's house, she says that her child, who was wrapped in a gold cloak embroidered with stars and wearing an amber
necklace, was stolen from her by robbers in the forest ten years ago. The Star-Child is told that the woman is his mother but he
wants nothing to do with her. When she asks for a kiss before she leaves, he says, "rather would I kiss the adder or the toad than
thee".

The Star-Child goes to rejoin his friends but they shun him and call him ugly. He finds that he now has a face like a toad
and skin like an adder. He realizes that he is being punished for his mistreatment of his mother. In the hope that he might regain his
former appearance if his mother forgave him, he goes off in search of her.

After three years, the Star-Child arrives at a city. The soldiers who guard the city gates sell him as a slave to a Magician.
The Magician tells the Star-Child that in a forest near the city there are three pieces of gold. They are a piece of white gold, a piece
of yellow gold and a piece of red gold. He tells the Star-Child to fetch the piece of white gold the next day, telling him that he will be
punished if he does not bring it back. The Star-Child spends all day looking for the piece of white gold but cannot find it. As he is
about to leave the forest empty-handed, he notices a Hare which is caught in a trap and frees the animal. Out of gratitude, the Hare
leads the boy to the piece of white gold. Outside the city gates, a leper begs a coin from the Star-Child. The boy gives him the piece
of white gold. When he returns to the Magician's house empty-handed, he is beaten.
The following day, the Star-Child is sent to find the piece of yellow gold. Again, the Hare leads the Star-Child to the golden
piece, again he gives the piece of gold to the begging leper and the Magician gives him a worse beating when he returns empty-
handed once more. The Magician tells the Star-Child that he will kill him if he does not return with the piece of red gold the following
day. However, after having been led to it by the Hare, the Star-Child gives the piece of red gold to the leper, whom he believes
needs it more than he does.

As soon as the Star-Child gives the piece of red gold to the beggar, the same soldiers who had sold him into slavery call
him their lord and compliment him on his good looks. When the Star-Child protests that he is ugly, one of the soldiers shows him
his reflection in a shield. The boy finds that he has become handsome once again. A crowd of people proclaim the Star-Child to be
the king who, according to a prophecy, was to come to them that day. The Star-Child says that he cannot become king until he has
earned his mother's forgiveness. He sees the beggar woman seated next to the leper. The Star-Child cries at the beggar woman's
feet, washing them with his tears. As a result of the kindness the Star-Child has shown them, the beggar woman and the leper
magically take on the appearance of a King and Queen. The leper is revealed to be the Star-Child's father.

For a short while, the people of the city live happily under the rule of the Star-Child. Unfortunately, he dies after only three
years and a cruel king succeeds him (“Star-Child,” n.d.).

Questions:

1. What does the story mean to you?

2. Why is it important to establish good relationship between child and mother?
3. How would you relate your personal experience to the story?

Task 2: Tell Me!

Directions: Summarize the story, “The Star Child” by Oscar Wilde using the graphic organizer below. The summary involves 6
important ideas in the text. Write your answers on the appropriate rows/columns.

The Star Child: A SUMMARY

Now that you know how to evaluate texts listened to, you are going to determine the worth of ideas from the story, “The Star
Child” that you have listened to using the PMI-PLUS-MINUS-INTERESTING Strategies.

Task 3: Worth It!

Directions: Fill in the table below. Write your answers on the appropriate column.