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MET # 1

Lesson #4 Literary Genres

Prerequisite Content-knowledge: Critical Approaches

Prerequisite Skill: Critical Thinking Skills

Prerequisites Assessment: 5-Item Multiple Choice

1. This approach talks mainly about the elements of form – style, structure, imagery, tone, etc.

A) historical C) structuralist/ formalist

B) Marxist D) feminist
a. Historical
b. Marxist
c. Structuralist
d. Feminist

2. It is a critical approach to literature that seeks to understand the literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.

A) historical C) structuralist/ formalist

B) Marxist D) feminist
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a. Reader-response
b. Marxist
c. Structuralist
d. Feminist

3. This is a type of literary criticism that views literary pieces as a product of one’s work and whose practitioners emphasizes the role of social status and ideologies.

A) historical C) structuralist/ formalist

B) Marxist D) feminist
a. Reader-response
b. Marxist
c. Moralist
d. Feminist

4. It is an approach that seeks to analyze and describe the ways in which literature portrays the narrative of male domination by exploring the economic, social, political, and psychological forces
embedded within the literature.

A) historical C) structuralist/ formalist

B) Marxist D) feminist
a. Reader-response
b. Marxist
c. Historical
d. Feminist

5. This approach takes a fundamental idea that “literature” exist not as an artifact upon a printed page, but as a transaction between the physical text and the mind of the reader.

A) historical C) structuralist/ formalist

B) Marxist D) feminist
a. Reader-response
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b. Marxist
c. Historical
d. Feminist

Pre-lesson Remediation Activity:

1. For Students with an Insufficient Level of Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s):

Identification with Jumbled-Letter Words

2. For Students with a Fairly Sufficient Level of Prerequisite Content-knowledge and/or Skill(s):
Open-ended/ Guide Question Test

Introduction:

1. Time Allotment: This lesson will be allotted for 3 sessions. Each session is equivalent to 60 minutes for synchronous class.
Teacher’s Contact Information: The teacher can be contacted through her FB Messenger Account “Andrea Ibañez”

2. RUA (the student is expected to gain from learning the topic/lesson)

The students will be able to:
- differentiate/ compare and contrast the various 21st-century literary genres and the ones from the earlier genres/periods citing their elements, structures
- identify the different literary genres
- recognize the elements and structure of each genre and tradition.

3. Context where the student is going to apply his/her learning (In what PAA/EFAA and personal use?)
FAA: Comparative Analysis
- The students apply their understanding and appreciation to the different literary genres from the earlier periods and the contemporary times.

4. Overview of the Lesson:

This Lesson:
- compares and contrasts various literary genres from the earlier periods to contemporary times.
- provides examples of literature in each genre.
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Student’s Experiential Learning:

Chunk 1: Motivational Activities

1. The teacher posts a picture for the activity: “I can Scribble”

2. The students will share how they felt after looking at the picture above by doing any of the following tasks.

Tasks:

A. Write a short poem that summarizes the idea of the picture. It must consist of 3 quatrains. Remember to use figurative language and literary devices to convey the appropriate emotion to your
readers.
B. Write a short comical skit about the use of electronic gadget based on the drawing.
C. Share a real-life account or anecdote similar to the picture using less than 100 words. Be specific about the actual setting; use real characters, and tell the factual incidents.
D. Write a legend about the origin of cell phones or laptops. It must be less than 100 words and must teach a moral lesson.

3. The teacher now asks the students formative questions.

Formative Questions:
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A. What genre of literature was used on Task A?

B. On what genre of literature a comical skit be classified?
C. What genre of literature tells and describes a real-life event like an anecdote and a memoir?
D. A fable is a narrative where the characters are inanimate objects like a cell phone. In what genre of literature does fable belong?

Chunk 2: Genres and Sub-genres of Literature: Elements and Structure

4. The teacher presents various genres of literature from earlier periods up to contemporary times. So the following content will be discussed:

Input for the Students:

Genre Sub-genre Elements Structure

Written in lines and
stanzas
Lyric (sonnet, ode, Rhyme, meter, 2 lines- couplet
elegy), dramatic figurative devices, 3 lines –tercet
Poetry
(soliloquy, monologue, symbolism 4 lines – quatrain 5
dialogue), and narrative lines - cinquain
(epic) 6 lines – sestet
7 lines - septet
8 lines - octave
Fiction (stories that fantasy, plot, characters, theme
did not happen in reality folklore, mystery, setting, point-of-view, Written in paragraphs
suspense literary devices
or thriller, historical
fiction,
science fiction, romance

Nonfiction (factual biography, references

stories, with real (encyclopedia, plot, characters, theme Written in paragraphs
characters and setting) dictionary, thesaurus), setting, point-of-view,
autobiography, literary devices
narrative (memoir,
testimonio), and
periodicals
(newspapers,
magazines, journal
that are written
regularly)
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Literary element
(script), The script serves as the
Technical element, text and it is performed
Drama tragedy, comedy (scenery (set), makeup, before an audience
costume, lights,
and sound)
performance element
(acting, character
analysis, character
motivation…)

Teacher Dialogue:

The various genres of literature and their sub-genres change through time.

Formative Question: Why do you think genres of literature evolved over time?

5. The teacher will now transition to the discussion of the New Genres of Literature.

Chunk 3: The New Genres of Literature

1. Hyperpoetry- It is poetry uploaded on the internet. Its medium is the computer screen.
2. Mobile Textula - It is short poetry in a form of tanaga, that is sent through SMS on a mobile phone. It consists of 4 lines with 7 syllables using (/) to end a line and (//) to end the stanza.
3. Flash Fiction – It is telling a story in a few words, usually about 100-1000 words or less. Flash fiction can be as short as Earnest Hemingway’s 6-word memoir, “For sale: baby’s shoes; never
worn.”
4. Chick Lit - It is a heroine-centered fiction narrative; that usually focuses on the trials of the protagonist.

Formative question: Do you think genres of literature will still evolve in the future?
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Synthesis: The teacher will ask the students to write their realizations in the lesson.

1. Already know
Students will write what they already know about the topic before the discussion of the lesson.
2. During Discussion
Students will write about the new facts they have learned from the lesson.

RUA of a Student’s Learning:

Create a Venn diagram to compare and contrasts genres of literature from the earlier periods to the contemporary times.
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Post-lesson Remediation Activity:

The teacher will provide reading material to help students understand more the lesson about literary genres.
Materials website link: 21st-CENTURY-LITERATURE-Q1_Module-2-.pdf