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21st Century Literature 11-Mercury Date:

Compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and the EN12Lit-Id-25
ones from the earliest genres/ period citing their elements, structures and
traditions
I. MELC Discuss how different contexts enhance the text’s meaning and enrich the
reader’s understanding
Produce a creative representation of a literary text by applying
multimedia and ICT skills.

I1. Objectives
Compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and the ones from the earliest
Knowledge
genres/ period citing their elements, structures and traditions
Skills Produce a creative representation of a literary text by applying multimedia and ICT skills.
Discuss how different contexts enhance the text’s meaning and enrich the reader’s
Attitudes
understanding
Values Makabayan
III. Subject Matter Comparing and Contrasting 21st Century Literary Genres and the Ones from Earlier Genres/
Periods
IV. References MELCs for 21st Century Literature
The Literatures of the Philippines Book
V. Procedures
A. Readings Study the following comparisons and contrasts of the literary forms based on the Philippine
Historical Period. (see attached handouts)
B. Exercises for skill subjects/ Exercise 1
Analysis questions using HOTS Directions: Below are myths from two different places in the Philippines. Read the poems and
for content subjects answer the questions that follow.
Tagbanua Myth
(Palawan)
The creator made the first man, Adan. But he was like a stone for he could not speak.
Then the creator made earth and the man could speak. The creator felt a deep pity for Adan, as
he had no companion, Iba. Now the couple had three children.
One Afternoon Adan went to sleep. As he was only wearing his loincloth, his scrotum
and penis were exposed. The first child laughed hard at this sight and was exceedingly impolite.
He became the father of the Tagbanua. The second child also laughed but not so hard. He
became the father of the Moros. The third child took a blanket and carefully covered his fathers
exposed parts. He became the father of the Spaniards. This was the origin of the Tagbanua.

Suggested Study Guide

1. How are the attitudes depicted by the three children in the myth compared to those of the
Tagbanuas, Moros, and Spaniards? Do they display the same character traits?
2. Give your comment on the beliefs of the Tagbanuas.

Suggested Activities
1. Have you ever created something? What did you feel when it did not turn out as perfect as
you planned? Write a short narration of this experience.
2. Research on the Tagbanuas’s way of life. What are their characteristics, traditions, and
culture?

The Creation
(An Igorot Myth)
Translated by Juan S.P. Hidalgo
In the beginning there were no people on the earth. Lumawig, the Great Spirit, came
down from the sky and cut many reeds. He divided these into pairs which he placed in different
parts of the world, and then he said to them, “You must speak.”
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 Immediately the reeds became people, and in each place was a man and a woman who
could talk, but the language of each couple different from that of the others.
Then Lumawig commanded each man and woman to marry, which they did. By and by
there were many children, all speaking the same language as their parents. These, in turn,
married and had many children. In this way, there came to be many people on the earth.
Now Lumawig saw that there were several things which the people on the earth needed
to use so he set to work to supply them. He created salt, and told the inhabitants of one place to
boil it down and sell it to their neighbours. But these people could not understand the directions
of the great spirit, and the next time he visited them, they had not touched the salt.
Then he took it away from them and gave it to the people of a place called Mayinit.
These did as he directed, and because of this he told them that they should always be owners of
the salt, and that the other people must buy them.
Then Lumawig went to the people of Bontoc and told them to get clay and mae pots.
They got the clay, but they did not understand the molding, and the jars were not well shaped.
Because of their failure, Lumawig told them that they would always have to buy their jars, and
he removed the clay to Samoki.
When he told the people there what to do, they did just as he said, and their jars were
well shaped and beautiful. Then the Great Spirit saw that they were fit owners of the pottery,
and he told them that they should make many jars to sell.
In this way, Lumawig taught the people and brought to them all the things which they
now have.

Suggested Study Guide

1. What resources did the Great Spirit Lumawig give the first inhabitants of the earth?
2. What character traits of today’s Filipinos are similar to those depicted in the story?

Exercise 2
Directions: Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.

Man of Earth
Amador T. Daguio

Pliant is the bamboo

I am a man of earth
They say that from the bamboo
We had our first birth.

Am I of the body
Or of the green leaf?
Do I have to whisper
My every sin and grief?

If the wind passes by

Must I stoop and try
To measure fully
My flexibility?

I may have been of the bamboo

But I will be a man
Bend me then, O Lord,
Bend me if you can!

Suggested Study Guide

1. Identify the tree which is talked about. What quality of the tree is talked about in stanza 1?
2. What origin of man is cited? Which two words tell you that it is an origin? To whom does
“they” in stanza 1, line 3 refer to?
3. What two parts of the tree man could have come from?
4. What would cause this part to whisper? What would the whispering show?
5. If a man came from the leaves of the bamboo, what kind of a man would he be like? Would

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6. To which part of the tree would the man described in stanza 3 come from?
7. Considering what the wind stands for in stanza 2,what quality would a man exhibit from this
part of tree?
8. Would you say that the bamboo as possible source of man is a good one? Why?
9. From the author’s use of “must” and “have to” in the questions he raised in stanzas 2 and 3,
would you say he is in favour of tracing his origin to this tree? Why?
10. Determine what the author would resolve to be in stanza 4. Where else in the poem is this
indicated?
11. From the use of the connective “but” in the last stanza, what is the author’s opinion of the
man from the bamboo?
12. What challenge does he hurl? To whom does he address this challenge?
13. Why does he choose to hurl this challenge to such a person? What quality is brought out in
this challenge?
14. Is this your idea of a man? Do you agree with the author’s idea?
15. The first stanza ends with a period; the second and third stanzas with question mark; and the
fourth ends with an exclamation. What is shown in this arrangement?

Directions:
Create a 5-minute vlog about the similarities and the differences of the 21 st century
literature to the earliest literary genres. State the comparisons based on how culture, traditions
C. Assessment/ Application
and contexts influence the literary genres in these periods.

Teacher- made Learner’s Home Task

Prepared by:

SHARON O. CUER Verified by:

Teacher 2
MARILYN G. FERNANDEZ
School Head