ACTIVITIES

A. Directions: Complete the table below.

21ST Century Writers Literary Works Region

1. Virgilio Almario Stonehenge by Rio Alma Region III

Region VIII
2. Daryll Delgado Preludes
Banana Heart Summer
3. Merlinda Bobis Region V
Region X
4. Ralph Semino Galan Justice

5. Ariel S. Tabag Voice Tape Region I

B. Directions: Name 21st-century writers who weren't mentioned on the list

above.

21ST Century Writers Literary Works Region

story “Undercurrents” won the NVM Grand NCR
Prize in 2003. Her second published story
1. Janet B. Villa
“Closopen” won the NVM Grand Prize
Special Prize in 2005.
Painting (ways of bruah stroke, mixing Region II
colors, creating compositions) painting large
2. Jun Magne Lisondra murals
Jose Rizal: iba’t ibang Pananaw (2005) Region IV-A
3. Frank G. Rivera
Iconography Of The New Empire Region IX
4. Servando D. Halili Jr.
Kung Linggo Ng Umaga Sa Lezo region VI
5. Melchor Cichon

REMEMBER
✓The presence of writers from the different regions results to production of literary
text all over the Philippines.
✓Literary text produced by regional writers reflect Philippine local color.
✓It also reflects the rich and diverse culture and tradition of the Filipinos.
 CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
Directions: Choose one literary work written of one of the 21st Century Writers and write
your summary of it.

MY SUMMARY

Justice by: Ralph Semino Galan

Justice is a poem that states that Justice should have
no prejudices and weigh the facts regardless of whether it is pro
or against. It is this proof that will remove any lies and figure
out whether or not the defendant is guilty. However, the same
is true in the Philippines. It's close to a card game where money
is involved, and even the Chief Magistrate is not immune to the
system's faults.
 POST TEST
Directions: Using your chosen literary text/ works write a close analysis and critical
interpretation. Discuss the author, region of association, language, genre, period,
tradition, and theme/ structure used in the text.

MY ANALYSIS

The poem Justice is written by Ralph Semino Galan

from Region X. In this poem justice symbolizes first the
“painting” It was mentioned there the Roman goddess Justitia
that slowly fades into thin air and that means that the justice is
already gone. Just like today’s justice, remember those other
politicians that were in prison they were givaen a chance to
bond with their family without bodyguards, but when the
normal person came to the funeral of her 3 month old baby, she
was already being dragged by the jail police, they don’t want to
gice her time to mourn for her baby. That’s how our justice
works.
 REFLECTIVE LEARNING
SHEET
Reflect on what you have learned after taking up this lesson by completing the chart below.

I thought…

What were your thoughts or ideas

st I thought that they were
about the 21 Century Filipino
just getting ideas from
authors prior to the discussion of other authors but I’m
wrong.
this lesson?

I learned that…
What new or additional ideas did
you learn after taking up this
I learned that every
lesson? literary works has a deep
meaning and from what I
read our justice today
sucks. It doesn’t have any
equality.