QUEZON MEMORIAL ACADEMY

Progresso St., Poblacion West, Umingan, Pangasinan

Week 6
English 7
I. Title: Folk speeches-champion’s exploit

II. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:
 Illustrate the characteristics of an epic through the story “Biag ni Lam-Ang”.
 Note the speaker’s junction and rate of speech in the story “Ibalon”.
 Compose an expository writing based on a given topic.
 Define Folk Epics.

III. Lesson Content

Folk Epics – Champions’ Exploits

A Survey on Philippine Folk Epics

Folk Epics are among the outstanding forms of Philippines’ precolonial literature. Anthropologist E. Arsenio Manuel calls them ethno
epics and defines them in relation to their common characteristics:
Epics are long narrative poems, based on oral tradition. They tell about heroic exploits or events of a hero under supernatural control.
Folk epics are described as:
~Poetic narratives of sustained or of certain length
~Based on oral tradition
~Focusing on supernatural events or heroic persons or deeds either sung or chanted
~Serious in purpose
~Projecting and supporting the beliefs, customs, ideals, or life-values of a people or tribe.

Discussion:
Reading involves skimming, scanning, extensive reading/ reading for pleasure / reading longer texts for fluency, intensive reading/
reading for detail and / reading shorter texts for accuracy.
Skimming is a type of reading when one goes through the text in order to get its gist or central idea.

 scanning - looking through a text to find keywords and phrases that are likely to indicate the specific information that you are
seeking, then reading just this piece of the text.
 skimming - reading just those parts of a text that are most likely to indicate what the authors are talking about at different points in
order to gain an overview of the content
 intensive reading - reading through every word of a text from beginning to end.

Reading Skills
(SUMMARY OF BIAG NI LAM-ANG)
Read on page 59-60
(SUMMARY OF IBALON)
Read on page 61-64

CHARACTERS: These may be people, animals, or objects that the writer uses in telling the story. Write the names of the characters
found in the story, as you read.
SETTING: This tells where and when the story is written. Look for clues that the writer gives about the setting.
PLOT: This refers to the series of actions that the characters take to deal with their problems. A story may start with the characters and
the problems they face.

IV. Activity: Choose one epic that you will outline or summarize through a map. Complete the story map below.
STORY MAP:
Character’s Name Details that the writer tells about him or her

Facts that show WHEN this story Facts that tell WHERE this story Other places where the story
happened happened happened
 PLOT
1. What is the first problem that a character faced when this story began?

2. How did the character solved them?

3. Does the character now have a new problem?

CONCLUSION: How had things worked out for the characters?

MAIN IDEA: What is the main idea of the story you have read?

V. Reflection
How are folk narratives and/or epics similar to or different from poetry or drama?

VI. ASSIGNMENT
List at least 20 words that have cluster sounds.
Example: (Blend, Clap, Grammar, Gleam)