Name: ________ __________________________Date: __________

Grade/ Section: ______________________ ____Score: _________

21ST CENTURY LITERATURES FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND

THE WORLD,
QUARTER 2, WEEK 1

Learning Competency (MELCs): Identify representative texts and authors from

Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Africa
Subject Matter: Literary genres, traditions and forms from different national literature

POINTS TO REMEMBER
Sample Texts from the Different Continents
1. Asian Literature
a. The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran)
b. The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (China)
c. The Rubaiyat (Omar Khayyam)
d. The Izu Dancer (Yasunari Kawabata-Japan)
e. The Lady Aoi (Yukio Mishima – Japan)
f. My Lord, the Baby (Rabindranath Tagore – India)
2. North American Literature
a. The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost)
b. Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
c. Poem (e. e. cummings)
d. This is My Letter to the World (Emily Dickinson)
e. Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
f. Mask of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe)
g. The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe
3. European Literature
a. Greek and Roman Mythologies
b. The Sick Rose (William Blake)
c. Shakespearean Sonnets
d. The Eagle (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
e. God Sees the Truth but Waits (Leo Tolstoy)
f. In the Moonlight (Guy de Maupassant)
g. The Fly (Katherine Mansfield)
h. Araby (James Joyce)
i. A Piece of String (Guy de Maupassant)
j. Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare)
4. Latin American Literature
a. Ode to a Dead Millionaire (Pablo Neruda)
b. Redondillas (Juana de Asbaje – Mexico)
c. The Handsomest Drowned in the World (Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Colombia)
d. Three Letters and a Footnote (Horacio Quiroga)
e. Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
5. African Literature
a. Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
b. The Swamp Dwellers (Wole Soyinka)
c. Tribal Scars (Ousmane Sembene)
I. Directions/Instructions
After learning the different genres and examples of literary pieces written by
Filipino authors in the first quarter, you are now about to explore the literature of
the world. Knowing the literature from each continent will give you idea about their
culture and history. With this, the activities below will help you achieve this goal.

II. Activity 1: Enriching Vocabulary

A. Objective: To be familiarized with the words to be encountered in some of the

literary pieces.

Vocabulary Bank
 eddy - a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind
“You went into far Ku-to-Yen, by the river of swirling eddies”
 stilt - a pole used for walking high above the ground
“You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse;”
 remuneration - the act of paying for goods or services or to recompense for
losses
“They work in excess of their contracted hours for no additional
remuneration.”

Procedure: Use the words in the vocabulary bank in your own sentence.
Write one sentence for each word.
1. ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________

Activity 2: Catch and Match!

Procedure: Match the literary pieces in Column A with the corresponding continent
they belong to in Column B by writing the letter of the correct answer on the space
provided. Options under Column B can be repeated. Write using capital letters.

Column A Column B
_____ 1. Things Fall Apart A. African Literature
_____ 2. The Lady Aoi B. Asian Literature
_____ 3. God Sees the Truth but Waits C. European Literature
_____ 4. Ode to a Dead Millionaire D. Latin American Literature
_____ 5. The Sick Rose E. North American Literature
_____ 6. The Cask of Amontillado
_____ 7. The Izu Dancer
_____ 8. Tribal Scars
_____ 9. In the Moonlight
_____ 10. The Road Not Taken