Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
Division of Ilocos Sur

CREATIVE NONFICTION 12
LESSON TITLE:
Forms and Types of Creative Non fiction

Name of Teacher –Writer: Christian Abella

School: Sinait National High School

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 Having been immersed with the conventions of the different genres
including fiction, poetry and drama, it is complementary that these elements will
guide you in reading and writing creative nonfiction types. Hence, discussed in
this Self Learning Kit are some of the popular forms under creative nonfiction that
undeniably challenge our scheme on how and what to write. However, according
to Moratilla N. et,al (2016), the interesting part is the relative difficulty with
creative nonfiction is that it may be classified or can be divided. Like in some
instance, one may be hard to make distinctions and set between some of the
subgenres.

Generally, this Self Learning Kit aims to help you to distinguish the
different types of creative nonfiction, read some examples of the nonfiction texts
and write pre-activities before writing creative nonfiction compositions with
yourself independently. Moreover, this Self Learning Kit will specifically allow you
to understand the distinction between and among creative nonfiction types and
forms and competently deliver an artistic presentation, summarizing and
analysing the form, theme and techniques of a chosen creative nonfictional text.

You are advised to answer the different activities embedded in this Self
Learning Kit by using another sheet of paper. You are given two weeks to
accomplish the activities. Do not write anything on this learning kit.

Enjoy learning!

At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:

 Understand the distinction between and among creative

nonfiction types and forms.

 Competently deliver an artistic presentation summarizing and

analyzing the form, theme and techniques of a chosen
creative nonfictional text.

 Compare and contrast the different forms and types of creative

nonfictional texts. HUMSS_CNF11/12-IIa-16

 Deliver an artistic presentation summarizing, analyzing, and

commenting on a chosen creative nonfictional text
representing a particular type or form. HUMSS_CNF11/12-IIb-
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 Hi good day! I have here a warm up exercise for you.
Activate your schema on Creative Nonfiction and try to fill out
the KWL chart. Are you ready? Let’s get started!

DIRECTIONS: Complete the first and second columns of the KWL chart below.

What I KNOW about the What I WANT to know What I LEARNED about
types of Creative about the types of the types of Creative
Nonfiction Creative Nonfiction Nonfiction

By now, I know you already have activated your schema

on Creative Nonfiction as manifested on the previous activity.
Nevertheless, let us dig deeper and supplement your scheme
of Nonfiction reading and writing as you go over with this Self
Learning Kit.

. Creative nonfiction is everywhere. You have been living with them since then
but voraciously lived around in effect of the advent of technology. As a result, readers
became confuse in identifying whether a certain literary text is fictitious or not.
Nevertheless, as defined in simple terms, fiction is something imaginary and non-
fiction is something that is true. In non-fiction writing, real people and real places are
involved. On the other hand, in fiction stories, everything is from the writer’s imagination.
Here are some major differences between the two types of writing,
(http://www.catherineshaffer.com/4-major-differences-fiction-non-fiction-writing/)

Further, here are some types of creative nonfiction:

1. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Biography is simply an account of someone’s life written by another
person while Autobiography is a kind of biography that centers on the life of

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the narrator himself/herself is. The short biographies explain a person’s basic
life facts and their importance, but the long biographies would go an extra
mile and include more details to make an interesting read. You may find
yourself in a situation which requires you to write a biography of a famous
person, a close friend or a relative or perhaps you will write your own written
account. For this reason, it pays to know how to come up with a biography
and the important details that you should include in it. That is the very reason
why, when you are writing you should exercise discernment in choosing the
details that a writer wishes to include, particularly details that are not only
memorable but are also worth sharing with the readers.

2. LITERARY JOURNALISM
Literary journalism is a form of nonfiction that combines factual reporting
with narrative techniques and stylistic strategies traditionally associated with
fiction. This form of writing can also be called narrative journalism or new
journalism. The term literary journalism is sometimes used interchangeably
with creative nonfiction; more often, however, it is regarded as one type of
creative nonfiction. (
Here are the characteristics of a literary journalist:
• Literary journalists immerse themselves in subjects' worlds.
• Literary journalists work out implicit covenants about accuracy.
• Literary journalists write mostly about routine events.
• Literary journalists develop meaning by building upon the readers'
sequential reactions. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-literary-journalism-
1691132)

3. PERSONAL NARRATIVE
Personal narratives are a form of writing in which the writer relates one
event, incident, or experience from his/her life. Personal narratives allow you,
the writer, to share your life with others, vicariously experiencing the things
you describe. Your job as a writer is to put the readers in the midst of the
action, letting them live through an event, incident, or experience. Not like the
autobiography which deals with a chain of events, the personal narrative often
concerns a particularly happy, sad, humorous, or outrageous episode in one’s
life. Personal narratives also incorporate vivid descriptive details, as well as
the thoughts, feelings, and reactions of the writer.

When you write personal narratives use the first-person point of view.
Also, write a Personal Narrative that:
• Engages the reader by introducing the narrator and situation
• Organizes events to unfold naturally; manipulates time and pacing
• Develops details of events with description and action
• Develops characters with physical description and dialogue
• Uses vivid verbs, sensory details, similes, metaphors, alliteration,
onomatopoeia, and personification to set tone and mood
• Uses transitions and varies sentence beginnings
• Closes with a reflection
• Has all no excuse words and conventions correct
• Has exemplary presentation (neat writing that is pleasant to read).

4. THE REFLECTION ESSAY

A reflection or reflective essay is an essay in which you, the writer,
examines your or other’s experiences in life. The writer then writes about
those experiences, exploring how he or she has changed, developed or
grown from those experiences. In other words, it is an essay that expresses
the writer’s insights on given subject matter.

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 The term is quite confusing as to how it differs with other types of essay.
According to Moratilla N.et.al (2016), unlike the argumentative essay where
its main purpose is to convince the reader of the logic and validity of the
author’s argument, the reflection essay concerns itself, above all, with the
author’s introspection with the respect to what he or she had learned from
individual experiences. It should also be noted that in writing the reflection
essay, one might use or apply elements from other types. For instance, one
may tell an anecdote (narrative) or describe a person or a place (descriptive).

5. THE TESTIMONIO
Loosely structured, the Testimonio does not measure up to the standards
of “academic” communication and canonical literature. This is expected because
testimonial writings are more concerned with their purpose – that is, to call public
attention to lived experiences of marginality – than with modernist literary
aesthetics. Moreover, the testimonio may also take different forms (letters, diary
entries, incident reports, poetry, among others) and use different media (print,
radio, tv, among others), thus challenging traditional literary boundaries and even
our very notion of the literary, (Moratilla N. and Teodoro E. (2016).
The following exemplified a Testimonio ,
(https://www.thefreedictionary.com/testimonies )

• A declaration by a witness under oath, as that given before a court or

deliberative body.
• All such declarations, spoken or written, offered in a legal case or
deliberative hearing.
• Evidence in support of a fact or assertion; proof.
• A public declaration regarding a religious experience.

6. THE TRAVELOGUE
A travelogue is a person’s account of a journey to another country or
place. It can either be a written report with many factual details or a narrative
story about personal impressions and experiences supported by images. A
travelogue has to be in the first person and describe the place or places
where one (that is YOU, the narrator) has travelled. Among the popular
examples are adventure literature, travel guide, and the travel journal.

Since a travelogue is written after your trip to another country or place, the
main topic of this type of writing is a description of your experience there.
Moreover, Travelogues may be used for promoting a place, say, as a quality
tourist destination. Though your travelogue can contain may areas of focus,
when writing a travelogue, you can concentrate on local customs and
traditions, cuisine, depictions of places of interest, local history, and culture,
your adventures, prices and transportation, entertainment
(https://academichelp.net/creative-writing/write-travelogue.html).

7. BLOG
A blog is an online diary or journal located on a website. The content of a
blog typically includes text, pictures, videos, animated GIFs and even scans
from old physical offline diaries or journals and other hard copy documents.
Since a blog can exist merely for personal use, sharing information with an
exclusive group or to engage the public, a blog owner can set their blog for
private or public access (https://makeawebsitehub.com/what-is-a-blog/ )
Further, Moratilla N. et,al (2016) agrees that Blog is a shortened term of
“web blog” generally defined a frequently updated journal found on the
internet. However, to them, a Blog is not a genre but it is more likely to be a
way through in which information is shared, opinions are expressed and

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 stories are told. An entry may be in almost any form including fiction,
nonfiction and poetry.
Now, at the risk of any point, you might say that the other types of fiction
may be presented through blog.

For further understanding of what has been discussed,

study the following examples and answer some questions for
analysis and comprehension.

A. BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Read the biography of Senator Imee Marcos.

Imee Marcos

Imee Marcos was born on 12th November 1955 as María Imelda Josefa
Romualdez Marcos in Metro Manila, Philippines. Her parents are Ferdinand Marcos
(father) and Imelda Marcos (mother). Both parents exercised autocratic governance in
the Philippines between December 1965 and February 1986.
She has three siblings, two blood related; namely, Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos
Jr. and Irene Marcos-Araneta, and one adopted called Aimee Marcos. She was brought
up in the Malacanan Palace, the official presidential residence, together with her
siblings. She attended Saint Pedro Poveda College, formerly known as the Institution
Teresiana, from kindergarten to Grade IV. She later on, joined Assumption Covent at
Herran Street in Manila from Grade V to First Year High School. In both schools, she
earned first honors. She joined International School Manila in Makati, formerly referred
to as American School. In 1973, she enrolled in Princeton University and undertook
various courses in Religion and Politics. Imee Marcos Princeton's school life was
brought to a halt due to the controversies with the black and Asian students (Asian-
American Students Association - AASA) protests on her admission.
Who is Imee Marcos? She is the firstborn daughter of the retired dictator and President
Ferdinand Marcos. She has been the governor of Ilocos Norte from 2010 to 2019 and
the former representative of the 2nd District between 1998 and 2007. She is also the
former chairperson of the Kabataang Barangay, a predecessor to the Sangguniang
Kabataan under the governance of President Marcos. Currently, she is serving as the
Senator of the Philippines
Imee and Tommy Manotoc have three sons. The first son is called Fernando
Martin (Borgy) and serves as a commercial model and a club DJ. The second is
Ferdinand Richard Michael, who works as a lawyer. Lastly is Mathew Joseph, who is a
sports agent and senior provincial board member of Ilocos Norte, now governor.
Mathew Joseph is the only Imee Marcos son who has engaged in politics. She has two
other stepchildren from Manotoc’s first marriage to Aurora Pijuan.

SOURCE: https://kami.com.ph/109479-imee-marcos-bio-husband-net-worth-children-
age-instagram.html

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What life of Sen. Imee Marcos is being highlighted on the biography?
2. If you were to add some details on the above biography, what other facts will you
wish to include?

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Here is also an example of an Autobiography.

Finding My Inner Ilocano

Paulynn Paredes Sicam

My bloodline is as Ilocano as can be. I am a Paredes from Bangued, Abra, where

my grandparents were born and where my father spent a lot of time in his youth.
Ilocano was spoken in my grandmother’s house, and at home all the help were from
Bangued. My mother, who was born in Zamboanga, said she learned to speak Ilocano
as a matter of survival, being married to the favorite son of an all-Ilocano household.
My grandparents’ house in Manila was a favored stop of Abra relatives with
things to do in the big city. That was where I first heard names such as Tata Memoy,
Nana Anang, Tata Quintin, Don Getulio and others. But I was a Manila girl, and Abra
might as well have been the moon. It was, to me, distant, alien and uninteresting. As far
as I was concerned, my ancestral home was my grandparents’ place on Alfredo Street
in Sampaloc.
My father, Jess Paredes, died early in the plane crash that took the life of
President Magsaysay, and I grew up alienated from my Ilocano roots. Abra was a
faraway place that the help went home to during the summer. Our beloved
housekeeper, Fausta Baje, whom we called Inay, told us that how difficult life was in
Abra and what she brought back from her annual vacation was proof of it: small pieces
of local root crops like kamote (sweet potato) and tugue, dried up eggplants, tiny
bananas in a milk box. Piman (pitiful) was an Ilocano word I learned early in life.
And there were scary stories about Abra that my cousins liked to tell. In the
Paredes house, we were told, were many ghosts. According to my mom, on her
wedding night, after a long day trip from Manila to Bangued, as she and my dad entered
the house, a monkey, which was a house pet, grabbed her leg. The incident made her
want to run back to Manila. The honeymooners were on the early bus to Baguio the
following day. My relatives who visited the Paredes house in Bangued swore that a
well-dressed gentleman appeared to visitors, tickled their feet or tugged at their
blankets when they were asleep. A niece swore that a portrait of an ancestor hanging in
the living room followed her with its eyes.
I learned that there were other reasons to be proud to be Ilocano. Quintin
Paredes had quite a lot of accomplishments as senator. An entire colony of Jews who
settled in the Philippines in the late Thirties owes their freedom to him who worked on
the Philippine government to open its doors to those who were persecuted by Adolf
Hitler. My grandfather, Jesus Paredes Sr., was the first signatory of the 1936
Constitution. One elder, a Royal Air Force pilot, was a war hero. My great grandfather,
Lucas, wrote zarzuelas. And Gabriela Silang is an ancestor of a cousin by marriage.
Close enough. In Vigan is a monument to Leona Florentino, a poet, satirist and
playwright, who was the most outstanding Filipino woman writer during the Spanish
period.
It took me only a weekend to get in touch with my inner Ilocano. But I know there
is much more I need to discover before I can claim to be a child of Bangued.

SOURCE: http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/2013/7/finding-my-inner-ilocano

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. From the autobiography presented, what made the narrator find her inner Ilocano
blood?
2. For her, what makes her a proud Ilocano?
3. What Ilocano traits are being reflected in the autobiography?
4. Being an Ilocano, what traits are you proud of?

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 B. LITERARY JOURNALISM
The following excerpt from George Orwell is a good example of literary
journalism. Orwell wrote about the colonial regime in Marrakech. His father was a
colonial officer, so Orwell was confronted with the reality of empire from an early age,
and that experience is reflected in his literary journalism piece, Marrakech:
“It is only because of this that the starved countries of Asia and Africa are
accepted as tourist resorts. No one would think of running cheap trips to the Distressed
Areas. But where the human beings have brown skins their poverty is simply not
noticed. What does Morocco mean to a Frenchman? An orange-grove or a job in
Government service.”

SOURCE:https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/teacher_and_tutor_resources/writing_instructors/c
reative_nonfiction_in_writing_courses/literary_journalism.html

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the excerpt all about?
2. Based from the excerpt, how did Orwell write the text?
3. Does the excerpt illustrate the fusion of journalism and literature? Explain your
answer.
4. Scanning the excerpt, what other type of Creative Nonfiction does the text
similar?

C. PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Read this personal narrative of a teacher as he put his gratefulness in a form of
writing in which he relates one event or experience from his life. The writer himself
shared his life with others and vicariously experiencing the things he described.

THINGS DIDN’T HAPPEN AS PLANNED

Christian Abella
When I was in elementary, I dreamt of becoming a nurse without any hope of
pursuing because even those times, I already knew my family cannot afford to send me
in college…
When I was in High School, all I wanted is to graduate and find a job for myself
that will suffice the needs of my family …
Luckily, after graduating from high school, I have given the very favorable
opportunity to pursue a college degree through a private scholarship…
Getting a degree, all I prayed was to pass the Licensure Examination for
Teachers in order to have a career and realize one of my untamed dreams – to
lengthen my name by appending a professional title…
After realizing that (LPT) and fortunately had landed a job with a minimum
compensation. My plan was to work and to earn for my family. Yet, I felt lost until I
found myself pursuing graduate studies.
After three years of uncertainties and troubles – again, I MADE IT.
The moment they draped the stole across my heart after my final defense, I
thought how it was started; from making mixtures of efforts and blowing hope to form a
fascinating and precise bubble of dreams. But undeniably it still an incredibly fragile
spherical substance that pops and wafts in the air .It is really impossible to form a
flexible bubble of dream because of our own uncertainties and incognizance making us
hopeless and impatient sometimes. We thought of some possibilities and planned
some know-how’s but ended up the same way. However, as the process recurs, we
learn to be more patient and find a new hope of making and realizing a sturdy self and a
visible dream of bubble. To encapsulate, sometimes it is not only cleverness that
brought and determined us to where we are and how much successes we have
achieved. It is how much patience and hope we have instilled ourselves. Reaching a

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dream doesn’t start from chasing it; it begins when you believed and trusted yourself
that you have achieved that dream.
Looking back, I realized how blessed and lucky I am to have those who have
helped and prayed for me from the beginning. Today, as I commence another journey,
let me dedicate this humble achievement for those who believed and still believing and
for those who stood and never left since the journey has started, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH! Above all, THANK YOU LORD! You really are Great, You are Powerful and
You are Almighty! I will always remember the times when I am about to lose all my
hopes and courage but Philippians 3:14 strengthened me. Reaching this humble
achievement seems so impossible but Mark 10:27 said and made it possible. Every
journey has been sudden, troublesome, challenging and uncertain but Jeremiah 29:11
taught me to trust.

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the tone and mode of the text?
2. What specific moment is the author tried to share?
3. Why do you think that the author titled the text that way?

D. REFLECTIVE ESSAY
This essay example is written at a middle or high school level, reflecting on the
arrival of a younger sibling.
My Little Brother
Anonymous
In my short life, there are many experiences that could qualify as life-changing.
Every new experience was, at one time or another, the first experience. For good or
bad, each instance changed the course that my life has taken. But, the most
transformative experience was the birth of my youngest brother.
Joel is someone my parents often call a happy accident. At the time that my
mother became pregnant, I was 13, and my other brother, Jake, was 10. We were what
you would call a well-rounded, perfect family of four. We neatly fit into the perfect
classification in nearly every way. We didn't realize what we were missing until the
moment that my youngest brother first opened his striking blue eyes.
In truth, I resented the fact that I would be having another sibling. Nothing
needed to be added to our family, and my mother, already 38 at the time, was
considered high risk because of her age. The pregnancy itself was full of complications
that sent the straight course of my life into rollercoaster-like loops that my 13-year-old
mind had a hard time comprehending. But now, I can see how forging through those
loops helped me to roll with the punches that life inevitably brings
The day Joel was born, my mother took me with her to the hospital rather than
my father. It wasn't a planned move, but Jake and my father were both feverish; I was
the next best alternative. Sitting with her through every contraction, I gained a new
respect for just how powerful and strong a woman could be in what might be considered
their weakest moment. Holding her hand and feeding her ice chips, I gained a
connection with my mother that I didn't realize we were lacking.
The moment my new baby brother came into this world, I realized two things
nearly simultaneously. First, you don't realize how much you need something until it's
sitting in your lap. Second, my life after this moment would never be the same. The
moment he curled his chubby little finger around mine, I understood the words "happy
accident" completely.
There are many different experiences in life that have changed a part of me as a
person. But, nothing so profoundly changed my views and outlook on life like the birth
of my youngest brother. Joel's arrival was a life-altering event that caused me to see the
world through new eyes.
SOURCE: https://examples.yourdictionary.com/reflective-essay-examples.html

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. How will you describe the author as a brother? As a son?

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 2. What feeling does the author is trying to evoke in the text?
3. What realizations have you reflected as a brother or a sister after reading the
selection?

E. THE TESTIMONIO
This example is all about the testimony of the Provincial Government of Ilocos
Sur made by Governor Ryan Luis V. Singson about the first case of COVID-19 in the
Province.

Ilocos Sur now COVID-free -Gov Singson

ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
4/16/2020

In a statement, Singson said the confirmed COVID-19 case at Barangay

Magsaysay in Tagudin has already tested negative for the disease after another swab
test. He said the barangay would now be opened after it was placed under lockdown.
"The residents will join the general public in the observance of strict home
quarantine with privilege to go out for basic necessities," Singson said.
The governor also bore that 17 swab tests yielded negative results. Of the
number, 11 belong to patients presently confined at various hospitals while six were
already dead.
“Each of the six PUI deaths is now cleared from COVID-19. Be assured,
however, that their remains were properly handled for precautionary measures," he
said.
Despite being COVID-free, Singson urged residents to stay home and follow the
guidelines of the government.

SOURCE: https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/national/ilocos-sur-now-covid-free-gov-
singson/ar-BB12I8EI

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What declaration was made by the Governor of the Province?
2. What type of testimonio or declaration was done by the Governor?

F. BLOG
Below is a screenshot of an Instagram post shared by a student as a requirement
for Creative Writing subject. The writer herself narrates her most unforgettable
experience as a HUMSS student.

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SOURCE:Chiara Duran Reyes’ Instagram Post @ Kharabright.

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What made the Barangay Officials a true Filipino according to the author?
2. The use of figures of speech are evident on the text, copy two lines and identify
what figurative language were employed.
3. What was the realization of the author in the activity?
4. What does the author means when she said “Let us unite so we could make a
difference”?
5. How the author did shared her most unforgettable moment as a HUMSS
student?

G. THE TRAVELOGUE

A Travelogue: Ilocos Sur

Max Calibuso
November 18, 2017
Ilocos Sur, known to be a Heritage Province, is a province in the Philippines
located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. Vigan City, located on the mouth of the Mestizo
River is the provincial capital. Ilocos Sur is bordered by Ilocos Norte and Abra to the
north, Mountain Province to the east, La Union and Benguet to the south and the South
China Sea to the west. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilocos_Sur) Here are the places
known and famous in the Province of Ilocos Sur.
City of Vigan, is a 4th class component city and capital of the province of Ilocos
Sur, Philippines and was recognized as one of the New7Wonders Cities of the World on
May 2015.
Tips and Trivia: The Dancing Lights of Vigan is located at Plaza Salcedo, where
they hold it every night. There’s no entrance fee, so better go early as the place is jam
packed before the show starts at around 7pm. We were a bit late but still lucky to find a
place right at the edge of the fountain area. Scout a higher spot for best viewing
experience.
Metropolitan Cathedral of the Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle is a Roman
Catholic cathedral in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
declaration for the Historic Town of Vigan in 1999.

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Church of Our Lady of the Assumption (Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion), commonly
known as Santa Maria Church was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on
December 11, 1993 as part of the Baroque Churches of the Philippines, a collection of
four Baroque Spanish-era churches.
Pinsal Falls has a height of approximately 85 feet, and is known for being the
largest waterfall in the Ilocos Region.
Suso Beach It was named Suso Beach because it is situated at Brgy. Suso of the
municipality of Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur; Nothing malicious about it, by the way!
Come and experience the culture of the heritage province of Ilocos Sur!

Sure Ilocos Sur!

Source:@https://medium.com/@calibusomaricris/a-travelogue-ilocos-sur-2910c8ae500

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. How did the author describe the places included in the travelogue?
2. If you were to add details on the places, what other details would you include?
3. Being a resident of Ilocos Sur, what other places or spots would you wish to include
on the travelogue?

Now it’s your time to have your practice

exercises. Answer the succeeding activities based on
how you understand the topic. Always use another clean
sheet of pad paper in each activity.

ACTIVITY 1. FACTS ABOUT ME

DIRECTIONS: Interview someone who is close to your heart and ask him/her to recall
episodes of childhood and teenage life that are worth sharing in which you may include
in a possible biography. Include dates places and other details. The table below will
serve as an example and guide.

EVENT PLACE DATE

Birth Sinait, Ilocos Sur November 4, 1994
First year in Senior high Sinait National High June 8, 2012
school and opted to take School
HUMSS.

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Activity 4.AN OPEN LETTER
DIRECTIONS: Write a short letter addressed to those who are infected of N-COV 2019
especially our province mates who are affected. Articulate your thoughts and feelings
about the pandemic including words of advice and encouragement.

Activity 5. LET YOUR BLOG BE READ

DIRECTIONS: Imagine you are a freelance writer and blogger who wishes to join an
international blogging contest. The contest requires a creative nonfiction piece on one’s
experience during the pandemic with not less than five paragraphs. It should revolve
around the theme, “The World will heal of NCov – 2019: We will heal as one”
The explicit instruction is for one to give not just the negative characteristics and
experiences, but also the good and pleasant side of the place (including the writer’s
painful or great experiences), as well as his/her personal reflections. Pictures may also
be added. Your blog is for netizens who will choose the winning blog among the entries
of the basis of creativity, clarity, and accuracy

ACTIVITY 2. SOMEWHERE DOWN THE ROAD

DIRECTIONS: Describe Vigan being the capital of Ilocos Sur. You may include the food,
parks, transportation and other experiences you had as you visit the city. Accomplish
the organizer as guide which can be utilized in writing a travelogue.

Vigan

Activity 3. THROUGH THE MAGNIFYING GLASS

DIRECTIONS: Look for a short news article from your school paper or any local
newspaper. Rewrite the article into a literary journalism piece. Do not forget to include
your observations and feelings as you engage and use creative and dramatic
descriptions in order to make your piece more vivid.
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 Reading and writing Creative Nonfiction will take
a mastery of the different elements of other genre like
fiction, drama and poetry. However, in reading and
writing Creative Nonfiction, always remember to
evaluate and start from facts then pigment it with
creative elements to make a piece more vivid and
interesting. To be a successful Nonfiction writer and a
reader, one must embrace the art and the language of
the two. Always remember, that one complements the

You’ve gone so far of this Learning Kit. It is time

for application and reflection. Let’s see how far you
have understood the discussion. Now, go back to the
KWL chart you were asked to accomplish at the
beginning of the lesson and complete the last column.

ASSESMENT 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE

DIRECTIONS: Read and analyse the following questions and write the letter of the
correct answer on your paper.
1. What best describe an autobiography?
a. Writing things which are is not true
b. Gives description of someone
c. A writer tells someone else’s story
d. A writer tells his own story
2. Before you write nonfiction, what do you need to do?
a. Read a book
b. Eat a good lunch
c. Research your topic
d. Take a test
3. Nonfiction means _____________.
a. Humorous b. Fake c. True d. False
4. In writing nonfiction, what supports the writer’s idea?
a. Persuasion to prove their point
b. Facts and details to prove their points
c. Opinions and details to help prove their points
d. Summaries and details to prove their points.
5. Which of the following is an example of a work classified as Creative Nonfiction?
a. Biography b. Personal Narratives c. Blog d. All of the foregoing
6. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about biography?
a. An account or a story of a real person’s life that is written by another person.
b. A written story of a person’s life.
c. It tells a story of a life of a person narrated by himself or herself.
d. None of the above

7. A website containing articles called posts that are changed regularly.

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 a. Blog b. Vlog c. Facebook d. Reportage
8. Which of the following characteristics best describe a literary journalist?
a. Literary journalists immerse themselves in subjects' worlds.
b. Literary journalists work out implicit covenants about accuracy.
c. Literary journalists write mostly about routine events.
d. All of the above
9. Which of the following title best exemplified a reflective essay?
a. Still Worth Living: How I Survived Life’s Uncertainties by Atilla Roma

b. My French Village by Criselda Yabes

c. Forever “Baguio-ed” on my Mind
d. Braving Storms by Noel Christian A. Moratilla
10. Sir Christian wrote a report with factual details and a narrative story about
personal impressions and experiences after visiting Ilocos Sur supported by
images. Specifically, he wrote what type of Nonfiction?
a. Blog b. Travelogue c. Biography d. Reflective Essay

ASSESMENT II.COMPARE AND CONTRAST

DIRECTIONS: Using the Venn Diagram, compare and contrast the following.

a. Fiction and Non-Fiction

b. Blog and Travelogue
c. Personal Narratives and Reflective Essay
d. Biography and Autobiography
e. Argumentative Essay and Reflective Essay

_____ _____

ASSESSMENT III. GETTING DEEPER

DIRECTIONS: Read and analyse the text and answer the following questions below.

Telling the story of Yolanda

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 BEA CUPIN
FEBRUARY 16, 2014

These are the stories I wasn't able to tell because – maybe there was no time, or
maybe I wasn't able to find the time, or maybe at that time, other stories needed to be
told first. I tell them now because 100 days later, so many other stories wait to be told.
Journalists immerse themselves in calamities – the Zamboanga siege, the Bohol
earthquake, Typhoon Yolanda – because we need to. It's our job. It's what we're
(hopefully) good at doing, and it's what we have and want to do.
The word is immerse. Not wade, but jump in. Head first, if needed – safety
precautions be dammed.
In many cases, it's the best way to tell the story of how Joy lost her daughter,
how Nieves waits for her son, how Michael hopes when there is no hope, or how Maria
spent her birthday searching for her niece. You feel, you empathize, you journey with
them.
In a land where the destruction, desperation, and political feuds did not make any
sense, only the stories of the victims and survivors did. It was a story that you were part
of, whether you liked it or not. So when the words would not flow, alarm bells went off.
This is the biggest nightmare of any writer, reporter, journalist, or storyteller: not
being able to write, narrate, or recount things. At least, not in the way you want to. Or
not when you want to.
It was a nightmare because of many reasons: deadlines to finish, bosses to
appease, and egos (sometimes, your own) to stroke. It became infuriating because for
most of the people you interviewed, for many of the people whose lives you disrupted
just so you could talk to them, you were a ray of hope because finally, someone else
would hear their story. Maybe, someone somewhere out there could give them the help
they so desperately need.
So 100 days after, once the adrenaline rush from being on the field is all but a
memory, when you're back "home" doing the stories you've always been doing before
their world turned upside down, you think more and more about the stories that weren't
told.
LIVING IN TENTS. 100 days after, much-needed improvements. But the
government needs to accommodate hundreds more in bunkhouses. LIVING IN TENTS.
100 days after, much-needed improvements. But the government needs to
accommodate hundreds more in bunkhouses.
We tell stories because we hope people learn from them. How squabbling
politicians aren't making life any easier for survivors, how help took so long to come,
how the living co-existed with the dead weeks after the storm, and how people were
picking themselves up and telling their community: no, all is not lost. Yes, we still have
the capacity to hope.
Yolanda is not just about the 300 km/h winds, the 6 meter storm surges, the P39
billion damage in infrastructure and agriculture, or even the 6,201 dead. It's not about
the numbers but the stories: how the 300 km/h winds made survivors feel like they were
inside a washing machine, how the 6-meter storm surge took away one of Joy's little
girls, how each the damaged crops belong to a family now unsure of how to start again,
or how each of the 6,201 dead should not have died.
It doesn't make sense for someone who lives and breathes writing to run out of
words. But in Tacloban, nothing made sense. The senselessness was something many
of us accidentally brought back to Manila. It was enough to leave even the more
"hardened" ones in the team without words.
Now that 100 days have passed since Yolanda, this is a reminder to me, to every
story teller, and every story reader: there are so many more stories out there – of
heartbreak, of survival, and hope, and (I know many of you are sick and tired of reading
this) resilience.
And you need to keep on writing, reporting, telling, even if sometimes it doesn't
quite make sense because hopefully, one day it will. – Rappler.com

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SOURCE: https://rappler.com/voices/ispeak/telling-story-yolanda

PROCESS QUESTIONS:
1. What is the biggest nightmare of the writer?
2. Based from the text, what images do you remember from the disaster?
3. What feeling is the author trying to evoke?
4. How does this story make you feel?
5. What is the attitude of the narrator towards the victims of Yolanda?
6. What is the attitude of the narrator towards the victims of Yolanda?
7. After reading, what type of Nonfiction best exemplified the text above? Justify
your answer.

Bridges, L. 1997. Writing as a Way of Knowing. York, ME: Stenhouse.

Graves, D. 1989. Investigate Nonfiction. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Moratilla. N. C. et.al.2016.Claiming Spaces: Understanding , Reading and

Writing Creative Nonfiction. Phoenix Building , 927 Quezon Avenue, Quezon
City. The Phoenix Publishing House Inc.

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

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