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Quarter 3 – Module 1:
Differentiate Biases from Prejudices

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English – Grade 9
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Quarter 3– Module 1: Differentiate Biases from Prejudices
Second Edition, 2021

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
CONTENT PAGES

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW --------------------------------- 1

Learning Competency --------------------------------- 1
Learning Objectives --------------------------------- 1

WHAT I KNOW 2

WHAT’S IN 2

WHAT’S NEW 3

WHAT IS IT 4

WHAT’S MORE 6

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED --------------------------------- 6

WHAT I CAN DO ---------------------------------------- 7

ASSESSMENT 7

REFERENCES 10

ANSWER KEYS 11

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 WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

How do we feel when our family or a friend is verbally or physically hurt

because he or she is a gay? Do you think we have the right to harm
someone because he or she is a Muslim, a Christian, a Hindu or a
Buddhist? Where is humanity when we disrespect prostitutes, alcoholics,
drug addicts, and criminals? Do you know the reason why black people
suffer from discrimination and violence? When we put negative labels on
certain people, to groups, and their philosophies, we lose our intelligence
and open-mindedness. We take away hopes from them to change to be
responsible and helpful and chances to contribute to the progress of our
families, organizations, and countries.

Judging people, groups, and ideas without any valid reasons and truths
is utterly immoral and inhumane. Adequate learning of these persons,
factions, and thinking can give us right perceptions and appropriate
responses. We must be smart and sensitive to feelings of others, so we can
have healthy and harmonious relationships.

However, our realities are unfair, cruel, and sad. A lot of people destroy
one another because of their negative attitudes and behaviors towards
others. These can be caused by history, upbringing, lack of education,
stereotyping, media, and absence of respect and care. On a positive note,
we can turn these things around by educating people and by opposing
biases and prejudices and by supporting persons and communities, so
they will enjoy their rights and freedoms they own and deserve.

Learning Competency: -

 Differentiate Biases from Prejudices (EN9LC-IVf-13.3)

Learning Objectives:

1. Distinguish bias from prejudice through examples;

2. Analyze the given situations to identify biases and
prejudices ;
3. React or respond to a situation eliminating biases or
prejudices; and
4. Appreciate the value of empathy by using appropriate
words and praises and by being sensitive to the feelings of
others.

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 Pre-assessment:

Determine whether the given scenario shows bias or prejudice.

1. A teacher separating male from female students

2. Bullying and discriminating someone with disability

3. Not hiring someone because of their age or gender

4. Thinking women as weak and men as strong

5. Assuming someone is gay because of the way he acts

6. Dormitories accepting lady borders only

7. Gatherings that won’t allow women wearing pants to get

inside

8. The idea that men working in a beauty parlor are gays.

WHAT’S IN

Directions: Write Agree if you agree with the statement and Disagree if
otherwise.
1. Boys were given heavy tasks than girls in school because boys are
stronger.
2. Women should only wear dress.
3. In our class, everybody is given the chance to express his\her ideas
freely.
4. Churches welcome anyone who comes to fellowship.
5. I find girls wearing makeup sophisticated than girls who don’t.
6. I knew Catriona Gray will become Miss Universe because she’s
intelligent.

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 In your previous module, you learned the different social issues,
concerns, or dispositions of our society. In connection, we will be tackling
about the difference between bias and prejudice which were viewed as
problems/issues that we need to address in order to create a harmonious
environment.

Analyze the given illustrations for you to easily understand about bias
and prejudice. Then, answer the questions below.

Picture #1

And Sally…Your work was just as

good as Tom’s,but I’m going to give
Excellent job on your chores!
you 20 pesos, because you need to
Here’s your allowance of 100. get used to doing chores for free
for your husband someday…

1. How much was given to the little boy for doing an excellent job? How
about Sally, did she receive as much as her brother? (bias)
2. What was the reason of the father for doing so? (prejudice)

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 Picture # 2

1. Why was the man angry with the beggar?

2. What did he tell the beggar to do?
3. Why did the manager tell the applicant to get lost? (bias)
4. Why do you think the manager dislike him? (prejudice)
Picture number 1 shows the difference between bias and prejudice.
The man gives a bigger amount to the boy than the girl. That’s an example
of bias because the amount given is not fair between the two of them.
Prejudice comes in when the man tells Sally the reason why she only
receives a smaller amount. The man has this preconceived idea that the girl
needs not earn more because her job is just to do chores for free for her
husband someday.

Picture number 2 shows a man yelling to a beggar to get a job instead

of begging for money. However, when he applied for a job, the man told him
to get lost and did not get the job because he’s a gay. Bias was when the
man denied the application of a gay applicant. Prejudice is when gays are
not qualified to take a position in a company. Do you get the difference
now?

This time let us deepen your understanding of the lesson. Let us define
prejudice first. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that you have based on
no reason or actual experience or a multitude of experiences for the specific
group or individual. It simply means to pre-judge others. You have

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developed some sort of thought about these people or this person on the way
he or she performed without any reason or fact behind it.

An individual may be prejudiced against others based on factors such as

race, age, gender, social orientation, class status, religion, nationality, and
amongst other things.

For examples:

1. Some women think one who wears a two-piece swimsuit indecent.

2. Some people believe that Muslims are dangerous.
3. A woman has a fear for a man with lots of tattoos.
4. According to some people a child who came from a broken family is a
troublemaker.

Prejudices are thoughts, opinions, or feelings toward a person or a

group especially if they are negative. Merriam Webster and Cambridge
Dictionary share similar definition of prejudice that it is an opinion without bases.

Bias, on the other hand, means a tendency to favor one person, group,
thing or point of view over another, often in an unfair way. A person
becomes biased because of unfair favors.

For examples:

1. A judge in a competition prefers one contestant to another to win

because both of them belong to same place.
2. A white teenager plays with his white classmates not with those of
different color.
3. A manager does not hire a more qualified female applicant because for
him men are smarter and stronger than women.
4. Boys are asked to do heavy tasks in school because they are stronger
than girls.
These biases occur because one identifies himself with another individual,
group, or ideology.

Moreover, bias is “the action of supporting or opposing a particular

person or thing in an unfair way because of allowing personal opinions
(prejudices) to influence your judgment” according to Cambridge
Dictionary.

Bias is a result of a prejudice. It is the action that is actually happened

to one group or a person because of the way that you feel about them.
Bias is the action and prejudice is the thought the reason why you
have unfair treatment toward a person or towards something.

Note: Those who agree with numbers 1 and 2 in the “What’s in” part is
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being biased. While those who agree with numbers 5 and 6 are showing
prejudice. Numbers 3 and 4 are situations showing with fair and just
treatment.

Optional: (Watch Bias Vs. Prejudice [Link]

Directions: Identify each situation as a bias or a prejudice. Write bias or

prejudice as an answer for each item in your notebook.

1. A mayor gave a job to a less qualified resident who is his relative.

2. A man hates gays.
3. Teachers of a private school add points to scores of students whose parents
donate cash and or equipment.
4. A Filipino nurse in a clinic assists Filipino patients first.
5. Some Asians think Western products are better.
6. White people are more intelligent than black people.
7. An old woman is denied a job because a young one is hired even if the
former has better qualities.
8. Some people consider Muslims dangerous.
9. A teenager finds people who still wear traditional clothes crazy and
backward.
10. A person avoids those who do not belong to his religion.

From what you have learned, in what ways are prejudice and bias different?

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 This time let us read and understand the lyrics of the song. How would
you feel if you are the one being misjudged? Misjudge means to form an
opinion or idea about someone or something thatis unfair or wrong.

COLOR Her skin might be ivory

(excerpt) And he might be from Japan
Artist: Nicole C. Mullen But that don't make a better woman
Just because my skin is brown That don't make a lesser man
It don't define who I am
I could be a porcupine Please don't try to judge 'em
Or I could be a little lamb Only by the colors you have seen
To love 'em is to know 'em
Please don't try and judge me Whether red, yellow, white, or green
Only by the colors you have seen
To love me is to know me 'Cause color is skin deep
Whether red, yellow, black or green But true beauty lives on and on
Color is skin deep
'Cause color is skin deep But true beauty lives on and on
But true beauty lives on and on
Color is skin deep
But true beauty lives on and on

Answer the following questions:

1. Why was the persona being misjudged?

2. Is it good to judge a person unfairly? Why?
3. If you are on the shoes of that person being mistreated or misjudged,
how would you probably feel?
4. What is the message expressed in the lyrics of the song?

A. Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE if otherwise.

Write your answer on your notebook.

1. Bias and discrimination are alike.

2. Prejudices leads to discrimination.
3. Labelling people negatively is an example of bias.
4. Bias is the action while prejudice is the thought.
5. The tendency to favor one person, group, thing or point of view over
another, often in an unfair way is called bias.

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 B. Study and evaluate whether the given scenarios contain biases and
prejudices. Write bias, prejudice, or none on your notebook.
1. Tom Cruise’s affiliation with Scientology prompts all kinds of
negative press.
2. A married couple living in a new country where they are free to
attend to any of their church services enjoys tranquility.
3. A teacher gives good rating to his/her student who shares the
same religious belief with him/her.
4. Jews during the period of Hitler were sentenced to death because
Hitler himself despised Jewish people.
5. Some Muslims are assumed to be terrorist.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY

It is said that we live in the world full of biases and prejudices. All
human beings have biases which affect someone else’s lives. We need to
be cautious and sensitive enough especially in using our words and praises
which tend to sometimes discourage, misjudge, and hurt the feelings of
other people.

Task 1. Directions: Carefully read the transcript below.

“Shame that there is still double standard. Sayang daw ako, because I’m a
single mother. If a guy gets a girl pregnant, he’s right and it’s natural. But
if a girl gets pregnant, malandi [Link] the news spread of my
pregnancy, people say, she’s on top of her game. People make stories like
she’s malandi or a woman of the world. Was I unfairly judged? Yes! Label
is a challenge I accepted. I want to show you people that no matter what
happens to you, it should never stop you from being successful. As an
actress, I’ve never been happiest. And being a single mom and parent give
me purpose. Sayang? I don’t think so. Can you whip it? Don’t let labels
hold you back.”(Dinese Laurel ,Shampoo TV Commercial)

1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the transcript?

2. Do you agree with what the woman said? Why?
3. What positive outlook in life is being mentioned in the commercial?

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Task II. Answer the table below.

How would you respond or react to the following situations without being
biased or prejudiced? (Give a one-sentence response to each of the
situations presented below.)

Situations Responses
1. In your class activity, you
need one more member to
complete your group, how
would you choose? Why?
2. Your teacher prefers your
best friend because he/she
belongs to the honor list.
What can you say?
3. You heard the speaker
mispronounced a word. What
would you say?

Task III. List down suggestions or ways you believe would be effective in
eliminating biases in our judgements or choices.

1.
2.
3.

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Gunner, Jennifer. “Difference between Prejudice and Discrimination Defined.” Grammar.
Accessed December 14, 2021. [Link]
[Link]

Hasa. “Difference between Bias and Prejudice.” [Link], April 29, 2016.
[Link]

Morillo, Red. “Grade 9- Biases and Prejudices - Youtube.” DepEd Pasig, March 2, 2021.
[Link]

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ANSWER KEY

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