21st Century

Literature from the

Philippines and the
World
Lesson 8

What’s More:

Battle On the Threshing Floor, I

Chu’ü Yüan Chase Chickens Away
Similarities Yu Xiuhua
Subject matter: a battle of two
sides that ended up a bloody
Subject matter: a battle
battle field.
of survival in a small village.
Imagery: Kinesthetic imagery Imager: Kinesthetic
Imagery.
Style: free verse Style: free verse

What I Have Learned:

1. What emotions do you feel after reading the poem? Why did you feel that way?
- I felt mesmerized on the feelings that were inside the poem. And on how the author
emphasize the situation.
2. How would you compare the two poems? Which elements do they share, and what
differences do they have?
- I would compare the two poems base on their structure, elements, style and the
subject. Both of them share the same elements of symbolism, structure and etc.
 3. What message does each poem convey?
- For me the , message in the poem says that each of us has its own problems wherever
you are or what might your status be.

What I can Do

Lesson 9
Post- Test
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. C

What’s More:
1. Who are the characters presented in the story? Can you describe them?
- Father- a very hardworking father.
- Madam- a successful women and a teacher.
- Sons- diligent workers
- Daughters- shy but obedient
- Lay Choo- intelligent but have a hidden character
2. What is the irony in the story?
-the irony of the story is that the father works very hard knowing that one of her
daughters wanted to go to university and later on he found out that all his hard work was
that she can have fun and spend some money.
3. What themes are discussed in the story?
- The theme is about a father love for their family that they will work very hard in
order to supply their needs.

What I Have Learned:

1. How do you like “The Taximan’s Story?”
 - I like the story very much because it gave me a moral lesson as a student that we,
should be diligent and hardworking in school because our parents work hard just to
make sure that we can go to school.
2. Do you think the characteristics and personality of the taxi driver is true for all taxi
drivers? Explain your answer.
- No, because some taxi drivers can entertain you like him and also, he works for his
family while others became taxi drivers because of their own wrong doing.
3. How realistic is this story?
- It is very realistic especially today, even I as a student I can tell that it is happening
today, students doing cutting classes while their parents are making money, students
spending money as if it’s nothing and etc.
4. What do you think of the taximan? Do you feel sympathy for him?
- I think that the taxi man deserve a better job because he is so hard working and
committed to his job, and I also feel sympathy for him because it feels like his hard
work is for nothing.

What I can Do:

Lesson 10

Post- Test
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. B

What’s More:
A.
a. What does the boy feel toward Crow? Give textual evidence to prove your point.
 The boy’s feeling toward Crow is something greater than his family, “as always,
-
we’re sitting beside each other on the old sofa in my father’s study. Crow loves the
study and all the little objects scattered around there. Now he’s toying with a bee-
shaped glass paperweight. If my father was at home, you can bet Crow would never
go anywhere near it.”
b. How would you describe the boy named Crow?
- I can say that the boy named Crow has a lot of experience in the outside world.
c. What does the sandstorm represent? Give textual evidence to prove this.
- The sandstorm represent your problems in life that you have to overcome or your fate
that you have to follow that keep on changing direction, “Sometimes fate is like a
small sandstorm that keeps changing direction. You change direction, but the
sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play
this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this
storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do
with you. This storm is you Something inside you. So all you can do is give in to it,
step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and walk through it, step by step.
There’s no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand
swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That’s the kind of sandstorm you need
to imagine.”
d. Why does the boy in the story have to be the toughest 15-year-old in the world?
- Crow said that he had to be the toughest 15 year old in the world in order to survive.
B.
1. Sentence- You’ve already decided what you’re going to do, and all that’s left is to set
the wheels in motion.
Figure of speech used- allegory
Meaning- that all is prepared and all you’ve got to do is to start.
2. Sentence- As if he were carving the words in a deep blue tattoo on my heart.
Figure of speech used- metaphor
Meaning- as if he was making sure that the boy will never forget what he said.
3. Sentence- I imagine a white funnel stretching vertically up like a thick rope.
Figure of speech used- analogy
Meaning- it means that even in a middle of a sandstorm there is a way out.
4. Sentence- Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.
Figure of speech used - simile
Meaning- It means that fate has no original track it keeps changing direction so all
you have to do is follow that direction.
5. Sentence- “You’re going to be the world’s toughest 15-year old,”
Figure of speech used - metaphor
Meaning- he has to be the toughest in order to survive

What I Have Learned:

1. Could you relate to the main character of the story? Why or why Not?
 - No, because I haven’t experienced it yet.
2. Do you think all of us have experienced the storm that the text is talking about?
Support your answer.
- Yes and No, some of us might have experience some small sandstorm but others have
yet to face it.

What I can Do:

Lesson 11

Post-Test
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. C
9. D
10. C

What’ More:
The Clever Young Man and Things Fall Apart
the Monster & Rawera (the
Comforter) and the
Monster
Structure
Exposition
Rising action
 Climax
Falling action
Denouement
Plot
Purpose

What I Have Learned

Answer the questions. Write your answers in your LITERATURE
ACTIVITY NOTEBOOK.
1. What is unique about African culture as shown in the myths you’ve read?
______________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
2. How can you show heroism today? ______________________________
______________________________________________________________

What I can Do:

Post Assessment:
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. B
8. C
9. A
10. D

What’s More:
The Miracle of the Sword Call of Destiny
and Stone
Characters:
Protagonist Arthur Arthur
Antagonist Madam Mim Merlin
Scenes The scene focuses on England The scenes are the same of the
during the time of king Arthur. legend of king Arthur but as the
story goes on it has its own plot
twists.
Imagery King Arthur

What I Have Learned:

1. What is the moral of the story The Miracle of the Sword and Stone?
- It’s about growing up wee to become a greater and good person. And to recognize things that
are greater than you.
2. What is the theme of The Miracle of the Sword and the Stone?
- The theme of the story is that conflict is never the solution.it also tells us that the power of the
mind is not enough, in the end the power of the body decides.

What I Have Learned:

Post- Assessment:
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. C
10. D

What’s More:
Eight male Archetypes
Chief Dumbledore
Bad boy Voldemort
The best friend Ron Weasley
Charmer Mr. Dursley
The lost soul Snape
The professor Mcgonagall
The swashbuckler Harry potter
The warrior Gryffindor

Eight Female Archetypes

Boss Hermione
The survivor
The Spunky kid
The free spirit
The waif
The librarian
The crusader
The nurturer

What I Have learned:

1. What is the main message of Harry Potter?
- For me its main message tells about humility. Despite the hardship, Harry shows an
extraordinary humility in which is an Important part of his success
2. What life’s lessons does Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone teach?

- The main lesson in the story is that you should not judge people based on appearances.

What I Can Do:

Post- Assessment:
1. D
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. D
8. A
9. A
10. D

What’s More:

1. Who are the protagonist and the antagonist in the story? Describe them.
- Sherlock Holmes, a very complex and moody character who, although of strict habit, is
considerably untidy.
- Sherry Vernet, A tall, languid man
 2. Where was the story set? How do the details in the setting build-up the tension?
- London
3. What is the conflict? Did the protagonist solve it at the end of the story?
- a murder set into a world where Lovecraftian Old Gods has risen and taken over all of
humanity. No/Yes

What I Have Learned:

1. What is the main idea of the story?
- Neil Gaiman's A Study in Emerald is a short mystery that tells a story about a Holmesian
investigation of a murder set into a world where Lovecraftian Old Gods has risen and taken
over all of humanity.
2. Does this story have any social significance? Why or why not?
- Yes, because it can help other people who loves mysteries by giving them idea.

What I can Do:

Post-Assessment:
1. D
2. D
3. C
4. C
5. C
6. D
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. B

What’s More:
occurs when Katniss learns that only
one tribute can be declared the winner.
This means that either Peeta or Katniss
must die. ... Katniss announces that she
and Peeta will eat the poisonous berries
and commit suicide.

when the game starts, and Katniss now
has to learn to survive on her own. The
Capitol controls the game, so they can
make anything happen. Katniss learns
to sleep in trees, and tie herself onto it.
That way she won't fall out.
Katniss and her family live in
the poor District 12 in the
futuristic world of Panem, and
Katniss must break the law by
hunting for food in the woods to
feed her family lest they starve.
Climax
Katniss and Peeta are on the only two
tributes left. They made an
announcement before saying that there
Falling can be two victors, but only if they
originate from the same district.
Action
Rising
action
Denouement
Katniss returns to reunite with Peeta,
Exposition who is starting to recover from his
Capitol torture. Peeta has been asking
Katniss what is real and what is not to
uncloud his head from the manipulation
he faced at the hands of Snow
What I Have Learned:
1. What did you like best about the movie?
- I like the part where the antagonist learned how to survive on her own through her
experiences.
2. What do you think is the message of the movie?
- Survival to the fittest.
3. What is the theme of The Hunger Games?
- Survival
4. How do you relate it to the issues that are happening in the world today?
- I can relate it to the world today on how the society is acting, some people doesn’t care
about others all they care is about themselves and of course there are others who are
opposite.

What I can Do:

Post-Assessment:
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. C
8. D
9. C
10. B

What’s More:
1. What do you think the word “drive” symbolize and why do you think it is repeated in the third
and the fourth stanzas?
- In the poem drive symbolizes your way to death.
2. What have you observed in the final stanza? Do you think the language and the description
changed from concrete to abstract?
- Yes the final stanza did change from concrete to abstract.
 3. In line 2, stanza 6, the verb feels is in the present tense. Why do you think it is in the present
tense as compared to the other verbs in the poem? What does it show about the poet’s
perception of death?
- I think that the reason why stanzas 2 and 6 are present tense because he wanted to tell that
death is not the end same for the next question.

What I Have Learned:

1. How was death described in the poem? Identify the words used by the author to describe death.
- The author describe that death is always near, and for me he used the word immortality to
describe death.
2. What is the role of immortality in the poem?
- The role of immortality symbolizes that there is a next life.
3. How is death personified in the poem?
- In the first stanza death describe nothingness.

What I can Do:

Post-Assessment:
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. A

What’s More:
1. Who is the main character in the story?
- Eva
2. What is the most important part of the story?
- The most important part is that Beautiful people also only rarely look beyond attractiveness
to what’s really important in a relationship. And so their beauty causes them a lot of trouble,
and is actually a burden.
3. What are the symbolic words in the story and what do they stand for?
 - "Eva Is Inside her Cat" is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez in which metaphors
communicate action, subtext, style, and tone. ... Later, García Márquez writes that "Her
beauty collapsed on her." Beauty is something that typically fades or wanes due to the
passage of time and factors of aging.

What I can Do:

Post-Assessment:
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. B

What’s More:
Questions Answer/Explanation
1. Who is the persona talking to in the The persona is talking about a person explaining
poem? his love to another person.
2. What do rose of salt, topaz, and Rose of salt ,topaz and carnation symbolizes
carnation symbolize? beauty so he says that he doesn’t love her if they
are this thing.
3. What do you think is the meaning of the It says that he doesn’t care the origin of a person
3rd stanza? he loves her because that’s how he loves a
person.
4. To what sense does the second stanza To the person he loves.
appeal to?
5. What is the central idea of the poem? Love a person not based on appearance.

What I Have Learned:

1. What is the most striking part of Sonnet XVII? Why?
- The most striking part is about love, because it is what most emphasized.
2. Which line appeals to you? Why
 - I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where I love you directly without
problems or pride: I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love. This line
appeals to me because it has a lot of meaning.

Post-Assessment:
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. D
10. C
11. B
12. B
13. B
14. A
15. B
16. B
17. D
18. D
19. B
20. A
21. A
22. B
23. B
24. B
25. B
26. B
27. B
28. C
29. C
30. C
31. B
32. B
33. A
34. C
35. A
36. B
37. A
38. C
39. D
40. D
41. A
42. D
43. D
44. D
45. D
46. D
47. D
48. D
49. D
50. A