Subject Code English 1 Communication Arts I and Philippine Literature in English

Module Code 26.0 Post-War Poems

Lesson Code 26.2 The Fragrance of Summertime
Time Limit 30 minutes

Components Time Allotment Actual Time Allotted

Target 1 minute

Hook 5 minutes

Ignite 17 minutes

Navigate 6 minutes

Knot 1 minute

STUDENT’S COPY

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 TARGET
By the end of this module, the learner should be able to:
ü Use structural, lexical, and contextual devices (denotation and connotation) in deriving
meanings of unknown words.

HOOK

Travel to the Philippines. (n.d.). Kanidugan Festival Honors the Coconut and the Town’s Patron Saint. Retrieved from
https://www.traveltothephilippines.info/2020/01/23/kanidugan-festival-honors-the-coconut-and-the-towns-patron-saint/

It is summertime! The pictures above show few of what one can see in the province of Romblon. To add
more to one’s knowledge, here are interesting facts about the said province.
Romblon lies at 12.5778° N, 122.2691° E. It is a municipality which is one of the three major islands of
the Romblon Province and is the seat of government for the province of Romblon; the other two are
Sibuyan Island and Tablas Island. The PSHS - MRC Campus is found in Odiongan, Romblon in Tablas
Island. Odiongan is the host of “Kanidugan Festival.” The festival honors the coconut industry and the
Patron Saint of the town. The fiesta is celebrated mostly on the first week of April which is a perfect kick
off for a fun-filled summer!
Filipinos are known for having close family ties. Most of the summer is spent with the family. While some
are having graduation or school closing activities, others are gearing up for celebrating festivals or city
foundations, family grand reunions, and vacation to provinces with family. We most of the time go
outdoors; go to pristine beaches, climb mountains, camp out, and visit rivers and falls. Some of us,
especially the head of the families, plan a project to be accomplished during summertime. Mothers and
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their kids do entrepreneurship to earn in summer. The kids meet friends and play a lot. We seem to have
schedules every day during summer. Flowers bloom in summer making the fields and gardens picturesque.
Remember Olaf in the Disney film Frozen? Well, he is a snowman who loves summer!
How do you celebrate summertime? In an instant, recall your most unforgettable summertime activities.
You can even dig up your photos and spend a little moment looking and reminiscing them. Unfortunately,
this time we might skip summer due to the pandemic. That is why we all pray that soon this will be over.
Our lesson is related to summer. Read the poem below written by Oscar De Zuñiga. Make sure to use
your dictionaries to unlock the unfamiliar words. You may ask someone for more insights about the poetic
lines of each stanza.

IGNITE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Oscar De Zuñiga was born in San Roque, Cavite but grew up in Tondo, Manila. After graduating from
Mapa High School, he attended college for seven months only because of financial difficulties.
Fortunately, he got his first taste of newspaper work of literature by working for the Sunday Tribune
Magazine. There, he wrote under the pseudonym of Mariano Huertas. His works include “Love Song and
Other Poems” (1960) and the “Arid Year: Prose and Poems” (1960). Although he has been writing for a
long time, he claims he only really started writing late in 1947. At the time of his death, his collection of
poems, “The Purple Town of Dogs,” was ready for publication.

The Fragrance of Summertime

by Oscar De Zuñiga

Let His wounds heal with the fragrance of The executioners are dead, their acts forgotten
summertime. in the dust
His assassins have fled the countryside that Since that afternoon thunder split the heart of
once have felt darkness in twain:
His loneliness – He who bore a dead tree upon Their spears have been turned into crucifixes
His back which dying men
On His way to the hills beyond the edge of
Clutch from the sliding arches of their breasts.
the ruined city.

The nails have rusted with the centuries, but Leave His scar alone, the split vinegar from
His Name His lips;
Glows above the altars of candle lights and His His broken grave, His garments streaked with
memory dust and tears.
Burns the missal, and hostile mind; from At the edge of the ruined city, the roses have
without been stripped
His parables Of thorns and the fragrance of summertime
Are wind strong rippling across the face of the touches
evening sun. our wounds.

Source: De Zuñiga, O. (n.d.) The fragrance of summertime. Retrieved from https://vdocuments.site/oscar-de-zuniga-the-

fragrance-of-summertime.html

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 NAVIGATE
GRADED FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT: Writing Test
Instructions: Referring to “wound” as sins, pains, or suffering and to “the fragrance of summertime” as
medicine that heals the wound, write an essay about this “wound” and the ways to remedy them. Another
option is to think of a part of our world that needs the fragrance of summertime. Submit your output to
your teacher through email or the Khub. (20 points)

RUBRIC FOR SCORING

Feature 4 3 2 1 Score

Strong Developing Emerging Beginning

Ideas Establishes a clear focus Develops a focus Attempts focus Lacks focus and
Uses descriptive language Uses some descriptive Ideas not fully development
Provides relevant language developed
information Details support idea
Communicates creative Communicates original
ideas ideas
Organization Establishes a strong topic Attempts an adequate Some evidence Little or no
sentence and supporting topic sentence and of a topic organization
details supporting details sentence and Relies on single
Demonstrates an orderly Evidence of logical supporting idea
flow of ideas sequencing details
Sequencing is
attempted
Expression Uses effective language Diverse word choice Limited word No sense of
Uses high-level Uses descriptive words choice sentence
vocabulary Sentence variety Basic sentence structure
Use of sentence variety structure
Conventions Few or no errors in Some errors in grammar, Has some Little or no
grammar, spelling, spelling, capitalization, difficulty in evidence of
capitalization, punctuation punctuation grammar, correct
spelling, grammar,
capitalization, spelling,
punctuation capitalization,
or punctuation
Legibility Easy to read Readable with some Difficult to read No evidence of
Properly spaced spacing/forming errors due to spacing/forming
Proper letter formation spacing/forming letters
letter
Source: Cox, Janelle. (2020, August 27). Writing Rubrics. Retrieved from
https://www.thoughtco.com/writing-rubric-2081370

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 KNOT
In the Bible, Romans 5:8, (NIV) states “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were
still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Fragrance brings pleasant smell or aroma. There are times that by merely a scent, someone may recall
memorable things in life. Just like when one is used to his/her old perfume. At times he/ she smells that
old perfume, it brings memories from the past.

Christians observe the commemoration of the passion of Jesus Christ during Holy Week. This happens
between Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday which is March 28, 2021 and April 3, 2021 of this year.

As mentioned in the Bible, Jesus Christ died on the cross to redeem the sins of the world. His wounds are
a symbol of man’s sins. In the first stanza, Oscar says that Christ’s wounds (man’s sins) will heal with the
fragrance of summertime, not with enjoyment of summer but for a time of meditation and prayer.
Believing in Christ, man is expected to humble himself and acknowledge God through Christ, and that
he/she cannot live without Him.

The poem mentioned some of these symbolisms. The Holy Week in summer reminds man that Jesus Christ
later after His arrest at the Garden of Gethsemane in the mount of Olive where he had prayed was dragged
in the streets of Jerusalem (On His way to the hills beyond the edge of the ruined city), savagely whipped
on the order of Pontius Pilate (The executioners), carried His cross (He who bore a dead tree upon His
back), and was crucified in the mountain of Golgotha or Calvary. The termed ruined city is not what it
literally suggests but the hearts and souls of people who turned to sin for God’s temple lives in one’s body.
That even the nails have rusted with the centuries, but His name continuous to glow echoing Christianity
around the globe. This reminds Christians in summer that he has removed the thorns (pains or sufferings)
that every summer, man who believes in Him shall bow down in contemplation of his own sins.

References:
1. Abad, G. H. (2015) The Likhaan Anthology of the Philippine Literature in English from 1900 to
the Present. (de Ungria, R. M., Dalisay Jr., J. Y., Hidalgo, C. p., Bonifacio, A. L.). Eighth printing.
Printon Press
2. Abad, Gemino H. (1998). Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English. UP
Press.Viray, Manuel. A. (Ed.). (1950). Philippine Poetry Annual: 1947 – 1949.
Barangay Press.
3. Cox, Janelle. (2020, August 27). Writing Rubrics. Retrieved from
https://www.thoughtco.com/writing-rubric-2081370
4. Travel to the Philippines. (n.d.). Kanidugan Festival Honors the Coconut and the Town’s
Patron Saint. Retrieved from https://www.traveltothephilippines.info/2020/01/23/kanidugan-
festival-honors-the-coconut-and-the-towns-patron-saint/

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Prepared by: Reviewed by:

SANDY F. MORENO FLORALIE L. INAYAN

Special Science Teacher III Special Science Teacher II
MIMAROPA Region Campus Western Visayas Campus

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