CHRISTIAN SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL, INC.

15th de Septembre St. Barangay 1, Balingasag Misamis Oriental

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Subject: 21st Century Literature
Topic: Module 1: Reading and Revolution
Content Standard: The learners understand and appreciate the elements and contexts of 21 st century Philippine
literature from the regions.
Performance Standards: The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of 21 st Century
Philippine literature from the regions close analysis and an adaptation of a text into other creative forms using
multimedia.
Learning Competency:
1. Identify the geographic, linguistic and ethnic dimensions of Philippine literary history from precolonial to the
contemporary. (EN12Lit-Ia-21)
2. Appreciate the contributions of the colonial Filipino development of national literature (EN12Lit-Ic-24)
3. Produce a creative representation of a literary text by applying multi-media skills. (EN12Lit-Ie-31.1)
References: 21st CENTURY LITERATURE from the Philippines and The World Activity No. 1

DISCUSSION:

The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata

Excerpt by Gina Apostol

It was a bolt – thunder bolt. A rain of bricks, a lightning zap. A pummeling of mountains, a heaving,
violent storm at sea – a whisplash. A typhoon, an earthquake. The end of the world. And I was in ruins. It
struck me dumb. It changed my life and the world was new when I was done. And when I raised myself
from bed two days later, I thought: it’s only a novel. If I ever met him, what would my life be? I lay back
in bed. But what a novel! And I cursed him, the writer – what was his name – for doing what I hadn’t
done, for putting my world into words before I even had the sense to know what the world was. That was
his triumph – he’d laid out a trail, and all we had to do was follow in his wake. Even then, I already felt
the bitter envy, the acid retch of the latecomer artist, the one will always be under the influence, by
mere chronology always slightly suspect, a borrower never lender be. After him, all Filipinos are tardy
ingrates. What is the definition of art? Art is reproach to those who receive it. That was his curse upon
all of us. I was weak, as if drugged I realized: I hadn’t eaten in two days. Then I got out of bed and
boiled barako for me.
Later it was all the rage in the coffee shops, in the bazaars of Binondo. People did not even hide
it – crowds of men, and not just students, not just boys, some women even, with their violent fans –
gesticulating in public, throwing up their hands, putting up fists in debate. Put your knuckles where your
mouth is. We were loud, obstreperous, heedless. We were literary critics. We were cantankerous: rude
and raving. And no matter on which side you were, with the crown or with the infidels, Spain or
Spolarium, all of us, each one, seemed revitalized by spleen, hatched from the wombs of long, venomous
silence. And yes, suddenly a world opened up to me, after the novel, to which before I had been blind.
Still I rushed into other debates, for instance with Benigno and Agapito, who had now moved into
my rooms. Remembering Father Gaspar’s cryptic injunction – “throw it away to someone else,” so that in
this manner the book traveled rapidly in those dark days of its printing, now so nostalgically glorious,
though then I had no clue that these were historic acts, the act of reading, or that the book would
become such a collector’s item or otherwise I would have wrapped it in parchment and sealed it for the
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highest bidder, what the hell, I only knew holding the book could very likely constitute a glorious crime –
in short, I lent it to Benigno.

PROCESSING QUESTIONS: (5 pts)

1. Why did the Noli Me Tangere have such a big impression on the narrator? Could you relate to the
narrator’s experience of reading? Why or why not?
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ASSIGNMENT:

Family Tree
In a long sized bond paper, map your family tree. Try to find out who your relatives are as far
back as your great-great-grandfather, if possible. Draw your family tree, and beside the names of your
relatives, make a sketch of the historical events that happened in their lifetime. Is it possible to trace
your ancestors from the times of Rizal before 1898? Attach your family tree on the back page of your
module.
Essay
In a short one-page essay, imagine what the life of your ancestor would have been like during the
Philippine Revolution. Judging from your family tree, create an educated guess. Do you think he/she
would have been a Spaniard, a Chinese, or a Filipino? Would he/she have been from the upper class or
the lower class? Imagine what his/her life would have been like during that time.
 15% Content
 10% Language, Grammar and Spelling
 5% Organization
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 CHRISTIAN SAMARITAN HEALTH SERVICES AND TECHNICAL SCHOOL, INC.
15th de Septiembre St., Brgy 1, Balingsag, Misamis Oriental
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Name: Date: Score:

Subject: 21st Century Literature
Topic: Module 1: The Death of A Hero
Content Standard: The learners understand and appreciate the elements and contexts of 21 st century Philippine
literature from the regions.
Performance Standards: The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of 21 st Century
Philippine literature from the regions close analysis and an adaptation of a text into other creative forms using
multimedia.
Learning Competency:
1. Identify the geographic, linguistic and ethnic dimensions of Philippine literary history from precolonial to the
contemporary. (EN12Lit-Ia-21)
2. Appreciate the contributions of the colonial Filipino development of national literature (EN12Lit-Ic-24)
3. Produce a creative representation of a literary text by applying multi-media skills. (EN12Lit-Ie-31.1)
References: 21st CENTURY LITERATURE from the Philippines and The World Activity No. 2

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE:
Did you know that Jose Rizal is not the Philippines’s national hero? According to the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCAA 2011), there has been no official proclamation of any Filipino
historical figure as our national hero. The NCAA states, “Even Jose Rizal, considered as the greatest
among the Filipino heroes, was not explicit proclaimed as a national hero. The position he now holds in
Philippine history is a tribute to the continued veneration or acclamation of the people in recognition of
his contribution to the significant social transformations that took place in our country.”
DISCUSSION:
The poem you are about to read is an imagined narrative by a priest of the Ateneo, Padre Faura,
on how he feels about his old student, Jose Rizal.

Padre Faura Witnesses the Execution of Rizal

By Danton Remoto

1 I stand on the roof

2 Of the Ateneo Municipal,
3 Shivering
4 On this December morning.

5 Months ago,
6 Pepe came to me
7 In this Observatory.
8 I thought we would talk

9 About the stars

10 That do not collide
11 In the sky:
12 Instead, he asked me about purgatory
13 (His cheeks still ruddy

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14 From the sudden sun
15 After the bitter winters
16 In Europe)

17 And on this day

18 With the year beginning to turn,
19 Salt stings my eyes.
20 I see Pepe,
21 A blur
22 Between the soldiers
23 With their Mausers raised
24 And the early morning’s

25 Star:
26 Still shimmering
27 Even if millions of miles away,
28 The star itself

29 Is already dead.

PROCESSING QUESTIONS: (5 pts)

1. If you were in Rizal’s place, would you have supported the Katipunan? Why or why not?
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2. Who do you consider as our national hero? Jose Rizal or Andres Bonifacio?

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ASSIGNMENT:
Semantic Mapping
Create a semantic map about everything you know about Rizal, and all of his achievements and
contributions to Philippine society. Your teacher should be able to show what a semantic map looks like.

RUBRICS:
• 15% Content
• 10% Organization
• 5% Neatness
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