Performance Task - English

This documentary profiles a top-performing public elementary school in a poor region of the Philippines. It shows students who walk long distances and work hard to continue their education despite financial difficulties. It highlights an dedicated teacher who also overcame poverty through education. The documentary presents compelling daily scenes of students' lives and research into the challenges they face due to lack of resources and poverty, giving viewers insight into their struggles and determination to succeed through school. It would be recommended for its inspiring message that poverty need not prevent success when there is hard work, commitment to learning, and support from teachers.

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Calauag Central College Inc.

Junior High School Department

Calauag, Quezon

WRITTEN PERFORMANCE TASK

IN ENGLISH 9

Submitted by:
Zedrick Miguel Cabrera

Submitted to:
Lady Vanessa A. Madlang-awa
English Teacher

1. What is the title of the documentary?

The title of the documentary is “Iskul Ko, No. 1!” a documentary by Sandra Aguinaldo.

2. Who is the target audience?

The target audience? We are, teachers, students, parents as well as the government and those
people who are currently struggling due to poverty.

3. Who? What is the subject of the documentary?

Who is the subject? It is a grade 6 pupil named Abegail, despite being young, she is very
dedicated to her studies. She teach every Saturday to the grade 2 pupil, her allowance that she
save weekly are used to buy a candies for the kids. She also walks every day one hour to their
house to school. Abegail Cortina a grade 6 student, one of the outstanding Student of Sindangan
Elementary School. Her dream is to become teacher someday. Sandra asks him what Quality or
basis on how to be outstanding and good student, she has a widely open mind in her age, she said
“Makinig sa teacher at mag-aral ng mabuti para matupad ang pangarap”. Abegail start to teach
a English textbook to the grade 1 students, she translate into tagalong and bisaya to help them to
easy to understand. There are many outstanding students that will never even make to High
school because of poverty. After their Elementary Education many of the boys go straight to
work in the rice field, while the girls go off to manila to apply house maids.

What is the subject of the documentary? When we want to look onto the top public elementary
school in the Philippines, the basic idea that we comes up to our mind is may look upon the City.
But it seems is not the case of this documentary. The Sindangan Elementary School in southern
Leyte, you may shock that it’s located on the mountain top on one of the poorest province. This
school you might seems to wonder many things, unusual, and exciting that are happened. But
also this School was number two on the ranking of NEAT (National Elementary Achievement
test) on 2006 base on the Department of Education. There are some problem in their prospective
class room, library, some facilities, electric supply, and also the only one computer that some of
the student didn’t know how to use it. I wonder how that this school was one of the topped.

4. What are the main events/scenes of the documentary?

The main scenes. It was a Monday morning. Day of beginning of the class, when Sandra
Aguinaldo meets the students and teachers with their little beautiful smile in their lips, beyond of
this after I watched, I found out in every smile that I seen on their face have a covert mysteries.
One of the model for her achieve story of profession namely Teacher Lea Gabriel a math major
teacher. Teacher Lea grew up in Sindangan, she move to manila working as a domestic helper to
send herself to college, and she decided to return to her alma mater school for her to teach.
Teacher Lea make a creative visual aid and also use game to teach a math to her student for them
to exercise not only physical but also mental and their favorite subject is math, that in my part it
seems interested. She also comes with a journey uphill to reach the house of the student and also
encourage their parent to send their children on school but it was cause of poverty and the great
distance of a school to their home that’s why most of the children are not able to go to school.
There are some of the student of Sindangan made contribute or help for teaching their school
mates and sacrificing every day.

5. How does the documentary show evidence of research?

It demonstrated research by demonstrating how students' daily lives are while attending school,
and Sandra provides details on how they navigate living in poverty. She would ask how the
students of Sindangan get through the everyday of their life.

6. What gives the documentary substance?

What gives the documentary substance? Iskul Ko No. 1 was the most striking and aspiring
documentary for me. This case or issue are not focusing, viewpoint, and reflect of one school, it
covers all the public school and Filipino children that seems journey and experience like this.
There are some news that I watched about all the students that cross over the river, sea, uphill,
and mountains, but there’s no mountains, rivers, and even a mile road that can stop and end their
journey to pursuing their ambitions, dreams for their future. Unfortunately I’m so sad that there
are some students don’t give a value for their opportunity to study and to learn, but some Filipino
students their path seems to be endless and worthless because of modernity.
There are some barriers or reason why most of the Filipino youth have no privileges to study,
base on my point of view that I seen in this documentary. The first main cause of our country
that most of the Filipino children’s taken back seat due to wide spread of poverty, even if there
are free education or zero tuition that offer of the government to the poor families still it can
afford to go in school because of lack of essential needs like bags, notebooks, and other
materials. We cannot deny that we are the 3rd country that experience the great poverty, but also
there are some Filipinos that can’t even afford to eat three times a day because of lack of
employment and hunger, that’s way it may become hindrances for them that the most important
is food rather than education for their children, also include the child labor on this problems.

7. Is the documentary presented in an interesting way? Explain why or why not.

It is presentend in an interesting way. Due to how they depicted the daily lives of diligent
students who commute for an hour or more to school each day and how the teacher does her best
to help her kids study, the documentary did convey it in an engaging manner.

8. What did you learn from the documentary?

What did I learn from this documentary? I’ve learned one thing, and that is: Poverty is not
hindrance in pursuing your dreams, but laziness and discouragement are. Determination is the
biggest key to become successful, when you are determined nothing can stop you. Then, poverty
becomes a chance for you to learn how to be patient and overcome all the difficulties on your
own.

9. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the documentary?

The benefit of this documentary, in my opinion, is that it can inform us on issues we might not
otherwise be aware of. This may motivate us to act on important concerns. It can aid in our
understanding of how they live and conduct themselves on a remote school.

10. Would you recommend it for others to watch it?

Yes, I would high recommend it, Because In my part I’m so inspire in this documentary, that I
include in the thousand of the Filipino youth that is hopeful and lucky despite of many
hindrances that I struggle but I continue to reaching my goal. My mother always said “Wala
akong kayamanan material na maibibigay sayo pero ang pag-aaral mo lang ang aking
maipapamana sayo na hindi makukuha ni numan “.
I wish all the students are like them. Believe in saying that “Poverty is not hindrance to
success”.