Week 6- Day 2 Appendices

Appendix C- The Rice Myth

Appendix D

Definition of Juncture
Appendix E

Sample Sentences

A. Therefore, saying, Sapia vanished from Earth.

B. The life-giving grain, which was her gift to the famine-stricken people of Bohol, is what we know as rice.
C. Only the hardiest weeds survived the long rainless months, and already, people were dying of hunger.

Appendix F

Passages for Reading

My First "Golden" Harvest: A Rice Farmer in the Philippines Tells His Story
EDWIN PARALUMAN
April 13, 2011

Group 1:

I am a farmer in the Philippines, in the southern province of Mindanao. Children in my community, like my
grandson, receive important health check-ups that sometimes include regular vitamin A supplements.

Group 2:

These are important programs for everybody. But I look forward to the day when a Golden Rice harvest
from my own fields can help keep these precious kids healthy and happy.
I grow corn and rice—and also produce rice seed for other farmers in my area. I do a lot of work with other
farmers. Our national, regional, and provincial farmers groups in the Philippines involve associations of all
kinds and the cooperatives that help us help each other.

Group 3:

We ask tough questions of our rice scientists and the seed companies to make sure we have safe,
healthy, and profitable crops to grow. In the Philippines we are very fortunate to have a government that
supports new technology and many good scientists that are helping to solve our problems with pests and
diseases. From what I know about Golden Rice, it should meet our needs very well since it is being
developed by our own Philippines Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) using the number one variety: PSB
Rc-82.

Group 4:

Some of the farmers I meet with grow corn and rice, others grow vegetables. Some follow organic
agriculture while others like to use a combination of traditional and new agriculture techniques. I’ve even
had the honor of meeting farmers from other countries around Asia and even Africa. What all of us farmers
have in common is a dream to see our crops feed our families, communities, and our country—with
healthy food.

Group 5:

We Filipinos depend on rice as our staple food—as we say, “Rice is life!” So Golden Rice will be of great
help for us, and we will be assured of vitamin A in our diet. I am proud to know that we in the Philippines
may have the privilege of growing the first Golden Rice—and then to share it with the rest of the world.

Note: This is Edwin Paraluman’s story, as told to IRRI.

Appendix G

Assignment

1. Are you leaving my child?

2. Are you leaving, my child?
3. The president, said the secretary, is busy.
4. The president said, the secretary is busy.
5. Who are you calling, Jinky?

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