21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM

THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

WEEK 1 – MODULE 1

Name: Sangueza, Roberto Jr. L.

Grade 12 – Newton

Objectives:
 1. Identify what Philippine Literature is during the Pre – Colonial Period.
- Philippine folk tales, epics, poems, and chants existed in most ethnolinguistic groups
and were passed from generation to generation through word of mouth.

2. Appreciate Philippine Literature during the Pre – Colonial Period.

- Owing to the works of our own archaeologists, ethnologists and anthropologists, we are able
to know more and better judge information about our pre-colonial times set against a bulk of
material about early Filipinos as recorded by Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and other chroniclers
of the past.

3. Illustrate the geographic, linguistic, and ethnic dimension of the Philippine Literary
History from pre – colonial to contemporary.
- Pre-colonial inhabitants of our islands showcase a rich past through their folk
speeches, folk songs, folk narratives and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances that
affirm our ties with our Southeast Asian neighbors.
- The flowering of Philippine literature in the various languages continue especially
with the appearance of new publications after the Martial Law years and the
resurgence of committed literature in the 1960s and the 1970s.
- Filipino writers continue to write poetry, short stories, novellas, novels and essays
whether these are socially committed, gender/ethnic related or are personal in
intention or not.
- Of course the Filipino writer has become more conscious of his art with the
proliferation of writers workshops here and abroad and the bulk of literature available
to him via the mass media including the internet. The various literary awards such as
the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines Free Press,
Philippine Graphic, Home Life and Panorama literary awards encourage him to
compete with his peers and hope that his creative efforts will be rewarded in the long
run.

WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW? (Pre – Test)

1) C. 6. B.
2) B. 7. B.
3) A. 8. C.
4) D. 9. B.
5) C. 10. C.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED!

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

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY #1
Using a graphic organizer below, list words connected to Literature.

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Literature is any collection of written work, But it is also used more narrowly for
writings specifically considered to be an ART form, especially prose fiction,
drama, and poetry. Literature is classified according to whether it is poetry, prose
or drama, and such works are categorized according to historical periods, or their
adherence to certain aesthetic features, or genre.

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY #2
1.) Why is it important for students like you to study literature?
- Literature allows a person to step back in time and learn about life on Earth from
the ones who walked before us. Gathering a better understanding of culture and
have greater appreciation with them. I learn through the ways history was
recorded, in the forms of manuscripts and through speech itself.

2.) How did history affect literature?

- History plays a fundamental role in shaping literature, every novel, play or poem
one reads is influenced by the political context in which it is written, the people
that the author knows and the wider society that frames the entire work.

3.) How can literature help you understand history better?

- The study of Literature, through our history, enhances our understanding of our
modern world. The authors of Literature communicate things personally to us, one
individual, or to the other. This can help to validate our personal experience first
time, it helps to have books written by people who have been there before,

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY #3
1) TRUE 6) FALSE
2) FALSE 7) FALSE
3) TRUE 8) TRUE
4) FALSE 9) TRUE
5) TRUE 10) TRUE