Assessment

Lesson 3: Literary Genres

MELC: Compare and contrast the various 21st-century literary genres and the ones from the earlier
genres/periods citing their elements, structures, and traditions.

I. Comprehension Check: Nick Joaquin “The May Day Eve”

A. Setting: Time/ Place
The time is like in the 19's or 18's and the place is like an old fashion house or mansion and
it's like a very classy place.
B. Characters: Write the traits being portrayed by the characters.
Anastacia
the strict old woman that looks like a maid
Agueda
A beautiful and hard-headed lady she doesn't care about her actions that she did and what
would be might the result of that.
Badoy
A man who has consistency in his affection to the woman he loves but he never gets the
love back to that lady.
C. Plot
When Don Badoy going home and he saw his grandchild facing the mirror saying the
incantation word and he immediately stops his grandson from doing that because it might
he see is the devil and to be like him he never gets the love he wants.

D. Conflict
When Don Badoy and Agueda don't really love each other, they just believe in the told of
others when you look at the mirror and say the incantation you will see your future partner.
E. Theme
It's a love story but the ending is awful.
II. Using a Venn diagram, compare and contrast epic from ballad and vice versa.
 Ballad

 Meant to be sing.
 Shorter stanzas
 Have a single focus

Similarities
- have lessons intact
- both are literature
- comes from the creative mind of a writer
- they can have different genres
Epic
 Narrating the poem
 Have long stanzas
 Narrating the heroic deeds of the characters

III. How literary genres evolved and developed from the traditional literature that we used
to enjoy to 21st-century literature that we are embracing day by day.
 The different genres we use in all of the things like in music or literature. The evolved and
development of our genres is because of the different authors that creating different genres
that fit in their taste and to the readers. Now we have technology like cellphone and
computer the readers can easily read some stories on the internet and the writers they can
easily write their stories, poem, and their songs.

IV. Squeezing your creative mind through writing 500-1000 words of “Flash fiction” in any
theme you may prefer.
When I saw You

Sunday in the morning I wake up and get out of bed. I stand in front of the mirror and I see my reflection
it's a young lady with green eyes, a skinny body, pouty lips, beautiful wavy hair, and has a fair color of
skin. I walk in the window to smell the fresh air and to see the beautiful garden.

" morning" I greeted the bird that always here when it's morning. I walk down the stair to eat breakfast.
The setup is always like this weekdays I'm on my work and when the weekend I'm just always here at my
house or going shopping.

I'm alone in this house. I have no one to be with to live in this house. My mom is already died because of
her cancer and my father I don't know him since birth, I always asking my mom where is my father but
she said he was far away from us and he never comes back. I accept it because I'm happy with my mom
but when she dies all of my contentedness is now crushed. I don't know what is going on with me.

I walk alone in the market to buy some stuff and I see a cafe near here and I went there. I see a very
delicious red velvet, I walk in the counter but there is a man immediately come first in the counter.

"Tsk!" I blow and I roll my eyes. He never cares about what he did and when my turn now I ordered red
velvet cake and frappe.

I went to a table that closes to the window to look outside. When my order came I eat it alone and when
I look in my front I'm shocked because the rude man before is in front of me and he was smiling at me.

"Hi" he greets. I just ignore him and continue to eat but I can't deny that he is a good-looking man I think
he was perfect to be a model.

"Hi," he said again.

"Do I know you?" I ask and raising my left eyebrow.

"No" he replies
"Why are you here?" I ask him again.

"Well this is my favorite spot but you came here first and you are alone so I came here, don't worry I will
not disturb you, enjoy your food," he said.

I instantly finish my food and directly go out to the cafe and went home.

I started to arrange all of the stuff I buy and after that, I relax my body by lying in bed, watching movies,
and eat fruits because tomorrow it's gonna be hell in my work because the CEO is going to the office.
I've never met him before I just know he was the son of the real owner of the firm that I worked. By the
way, I'm a lawyer.

Walking into the office where I'm assigned, I heard some girls giggling and I heard that our boss is here. I
directly go to my table and review all the cases.

There's a present I know standing in my front but I didn't care about it I just continuing what I'm doing.

"Ehem" I heard and look who makes that noise. I'm shocked because this is the man I met in the cafe the
rude one and he was the CEO of this company.

Parker Megalos Furrer, the CEO of the company.

"Good Morning Sir" I greet him and I stand.

"Good Morning" he greeted back and walk away to my table.

. I sighed because all of the people in this world why he was my boss. I just continue what I'm doing and
didn't bother about that.

Now I'm in the elevator and the door is about to close but there's a hand-blocked door to shut and that
hand belongs to the CEO of the company. He entered the elevator. I felt my heart race.

"I didn't know you are working here," he said while looking at me.

"Yeah, me too I didn't know you are the CEO of this company" I reply and didn't look at him.

I remain silent till the door opens and I walk to my car. I restart my car but it seems there's a problem
that didn't go well and it went stops. I heard a knock on the window and it's Mr. Parker.

"Do you need help?" He asked.

I think before I answer him because it's late now I don't know if there's a taxi I can book.

"Yeah" I answered and he walks in front of my car and looks if there's he gonna do to the problem in my
car.

"I think it can't restart, you need to bring it to the repair shop."
"Oh okay," I answered and look at him.

"Need a ride?" He asked.

I nod and we went to his car, I said to him my address. When we are now near my house I already
prepared my things.

"I think it's okay in here," I said and I take out my seatbelt.

"Thank you," I said and he smiles. I go out to his car.

When I entered my house, I directly change my clothes and prepared to sleep. I heard rang the doorbell
and I walk down to open it and I see Parker handing my wallet.

"Your wallet, you left it in my car," he said. I immediately took my wallet to him

"Thanks, do you want to come in?" I asked.

"Yeah sure" he answers and he entered. I walk into my kitchen to give him a drink.

"What do you want to drink?" I asked him while he was looking around.

"Just water, you have a nice house," he said to me and keep looking around.

"Yeah," I said while preparing his drinks and something I felt behind. He was hugging me behind I don't
know what is this feeling but I felt comfortable with that hug.

"I don't know what to do but I felt something when I first saw you at the cafe," he said behind me. I face
him and move a little bit away from him and have questioning look.

"What are you talking about?" I ask him I felt my heart race again this is not the first time I felt it and the
tingling in my body.

"I want to court you Soleil, I want to show you my feelings and I'm deadly serious about it," he said while
his eyes are like begging at me and when I didn't answer him, I was just staring at him he was left in my
house as nothing gonna happens.

Maybe he feels that I don't want him so he left.

In my work, I keep receiving flowers I don't know who is the one keeps on sending these flowers but
there's a person always on my mind, it's Parker.

Day by day I keep all the flowers that he gave, I already know who was the one keep it sending, he texts
me about it and he invited me to date him, so without hesitation, I accept his invitation because I feel
something to him but I just can't confess it.
When it's the night of our date he confesses his feelings to me that he loves me and he wants to be my
man. I confess my feeling too that every time he sends me flowers and letters I feel something to him I
didn't know that I already fall in him.

After that night, he continues to court me by keeping on waiting for me in the parking lot when I'm
going home and he drives me to my house, and we are going date when we are free.

The time comes I officially told him that he was my man now and we were both happy about that. I am
happy now because there's a person always on my side caring, and loving me. The man I want to live
with forever and the father of my child.

I love you, Parker Megalos Furrer.