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VISION STATEMENT

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life of its learners and the communities they serve.

MISSION

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values oriented and committed to serve with love and dedication to the local community, the country, and the world.

I COURSE NUMBER : English 9

II COURSE TITTLE : Literary Criticism

III COURSE DESCRIPTION : This course aims to study, evaluate and interpret literature. And achieve philosophical discussion of literature by the influence of literary theory,
and how to evaluate and interpret art.

IV COURSE PREREQUISITE : None

V COURSE CREDIT : Three (3) units

VI GENERAL OBJECTIVES : At the end of the course, the learners are expected to:

 discuss the importance of Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

 evaluate works of literature
 acquire interpretation skills in appreciating literature
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 appreciate the value of arts and literature

 create literary works such as; poems and short stories

VII COURSE OUTLINE

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENTS TIME ALLOTMENT STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

PRELIM PERIOD

At the end of the prelim term, the
learners are expected to:
1. discuss the course contents,
teacher’s and student’s
expectations, attendance, and
grading system;
2. name and explain the different
types of criticism
3. explain and name the different
types of literary theory
4. evaluate the importance of
literary criticism
5. research and report the history
of literary criticism through
timeline method
6. identify Plato, Aristotle, and
Horace’s works
Part I.- The different types of
Literary Theory and Criticism
 Of the importance of
understanding literary theory
 Origin of the literary criticism
 Discussing the different types of
literary theory
- Humanist Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Marxist Theory
- Idolism Theory
13.5 hours Lecture/Discussion LGMC Manual/Student’s Manual
Teaching/Learning
Group Work and Activity Chalk and Board/Marker and
The teacher will discuss about Whiteboard
Literary Theory and Literary
Criticism
Film Showing and Reflection Books from library
Students can:
1. explain the importance of Workbook Exercises Textbooks
learning Literary Theory
2. differentiate the types of
Literary Theory
3. provide examples of Literary Quiz Films of Literary Arts
Arts with different genres
4. create a short story
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SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENTS TIME ALLOTMENT STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

At the end of the midterm, the
learners are expected to;
1. research people who adheres:
-Humanist Literary Theory
-Feminist Literary Theory
-Marxist Literary Theory
-Idolism Literary Theory
2. evaluate the work of the people
who adheres:
-Humanist Literary Theory
-Feminist Literary Theory
-Marxist Literary Theory
-Idolism Literary Theory
3. recognize the works of arts and
lilteratures of famous writers and
creators
4. experience to perform a poem in
front of the class
5. discuss the literary genres
MIDTERM PERIOD
Part I.- Humanist Literary Theory
13.5 hours Lecture/Discussion Students Manual
A.
 Plato
 Aristotle Teaching/Learning
 Horace Exercises using the instructional Workbook
 Sir Philip Sidney The teacher will discuss the different materials
 Sir Francis Bacon types of literary theory
 Joseph Addison Chalk and black board/marker and
 Edmund Burke whiteboard
 Samuel Johnson The students can: Workbook Exercises
 Sir Joshua Reynolds 1. explain the Humanist Literary
 William Wordsworth Theory
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. recall the works of Plato, Printed materials (poems)
 John Keats Aristotle, Horace; Group Report
 Edgar Allan Poe 3. And how they influence the later
 Mathew Arnold humanist
4. criticize and evaluate the Pre- Quiz/assignment
Part II.- Feminist Literary Theory postructuralist
5. conduct a review the Basics of
 Helene Cixous Marxist Literary Theory
* The Laugh Of Medusa 6. define ideology to discourse
 Luce Isigaray
* This Sex Which Is Not One
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Part III.- Marxist Literary Theory

 Karl Marx
Part IV.- Idolism Literary Theory
 Louis Althusier
 Mikhail Bakhton
 Michel Foucalt
Part V.- Literary Genres
 Fiction
 Non-fiction
 Poetry
 Essay
 Drama

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENTS TIME ALLOTMENT STRATEGIES/ACTIVITIES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

At the end of semi-final period, the Part I.-Structuralism 13.5hours Lecture/Discussion Students manual
learners are expected to :
 Structural analysis
1. carry out a report about
structuralism and poststructuralism -Ferdinand de Saussure Teaching/Learning

2. evaluate humanism , -The interpretation of Claude Workbook Exercises Chalk and black board/ marker and
structuralism, and poststructuralism Levi-Strauss “The Structural Study whiteboard
to one another of Myth”

3. familiarize themselves Ferdinand
de Saussure and works
Part II.- Deconstruction
4. comprehend Deconstruction
 Binary opposition
5. familiarize the binary opposition
 Jacques Derrida
6. Create a short story
 The Role of the
structuralism
 Short story analysis
 Short story writing
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES CONTENTS
At the end of the final period , the Part I.- Psychoanalysis
learners are expected to:
 Sigmund Freud
1. comprehend psychoanalysis
 Jacques Lacan
2. discuss Race and Postcolonialism
Part II.- Postcolonialism
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The teacher will tackle/discuss the Group report Worktext
structuralism and it’s essence
The learners can:
Teaching/learning Printed materials
1. valuate the importance of (poems/short stories)
Center- structuralism on modern literary
theory Poem analyzing
2. find sets of strategies or ways of
reading that is useful for future Power point report
reference (deconstruction theory) Story writing
3. express their learnings by
applying it in short story writing
TIME ALLOTMENT STRATEGIES ACTIVITIES INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
13.5 hours
Lecture/Discussions Book

3. explain Postmodernism
4. differentiate Psychoanalysis,
Postcolonialism, and and
Postmodernism and;
5. argue it’s importance
6. analyze arts critically
 Colonialism - a history
 Henry Louis Gates
-”The Signifying Monkey”
 Orientalism
 Homi Bhaba
- “The Location of Culture”
 Gloria Anzaldua
- “Borderlands”
Part III.- Postmodernism
 Modernity
 Jean Baudrillard
 Jean- Francois Lyotard
 Gilles Deleuze and Felix
Guattari
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The teacher will discuss the Analyzing literary arts Chalk and board
psychoanalysis, Postcolonialism,
and postmodernism
Workbook Exercises Worktext
The learners are expected to:
Printed materials (poem,
stories,etc.)
1.valuate the importance of Research and report
psychoanalysis in understanding performance
dreams and it’s usefullnes in literary
criticism
2.judge the ideological exportations
in Postcolonialism
3.relate postmodernism to
“modernism”
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VIII. EVALUATIVE MEASURES: quizzes, performance based assessments-literary criticism through interpretation of poem by singing, dancing , acting or dramatization , and etc. Worksheet
exercises, and major examinations

IX. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: research works , report works, group works, original story/ self written story, a dramatization of “Romeo and Juliet”

Prepared by:

Heidi M. Reyes

Course Instructor

Approved by:

Miss Kristyl Canillas

Dean