Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII, Central Visayas
Division of Lapu-Lapu City
Marigondon National High School
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

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21 CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Name: Score :____________________________

Year : Section:_________ _______________

I. Lesson Title (Quarter No., LAS No., Week No., Semester, School Year)
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The Filipino Canonical Writers (Quarter 1, LAS No. 1, Week 4, 1 Semester, 2020-2021)

II. Learning Competency /ies (LC) and Learning Objectives (LO)

A. Learning Competency:
The learner will be able to understand and appreciate the elements and contexts of 21st century
Philippine literature from the regions.

B. Learning Objectives:
The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of 21st Century Philippine
literature from the regions through:
1. a written close analysis and critical interpretation of a literary text in terms of form
and theme, with a description of its context derived from research; and
2. an adaptation of a text into other creative forms using multimedia.

III. Concept Notes (Content Discussions)

Filipino Canonical Writers and their Works that
Contributed to the Philippine Literature

1. Cirilo F. Bautista (July 9, 1941) is a Filipino poet, fictionist, critic, and writer of nonfiction. He was
conferred with the National Artist of the Philippines award in 2014. Moreover, his poems have appeared in
major literary journals, papers, and magazines in the Philippines and in anthologies published in the United
States, Japan, the Netherlands, China, Romania, Hong Kong, Germany and Malaysia.

A. Career • Taught creative writing and literature at St. Louis University (1963–1968) and the
University of Santo Tomas (1969–1970) before moving to De La Salle University-
Manila in 1970.
• co-founding member of the Philippine Literary Arts Council (PLAC) and a member of
the Manila Critics Circle, Philippine Center of International PEN and the Philippine
Writers Academy.
• Received Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards (for poetry, fiction and essay in English
and Filipino)
• Received the Philippines Free Press Awards for Fiction.
• Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awardee.
• Gawad Balagtas from the Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng Pilipinas Awardee.
• Received the Pablo Roman Prize for the Novel, and the highest accolades from the
City of Manila, Quezon City and Iligan City.
B. Works Poems
• Summer Suns (with Albert Casuga, 1963)
• The Cave and Other Poems (1968)
• The Archipelago (1970)
• Charts (1973)
• Telex Moon (1981)
• Sugat ng Salita (1985)
• Kirot Ng Kataga (1995)
• Sunlight On Broken Stones (2000)
• Tinik Sa Dila: Isang Katipunan Ng Mga Tula (2003)
• The Trilogy Of Saint Lazarus (2001)
• Believe and Betray: New and Collected Poems (2007)
2. Lazaro A. Francisco: developed the social realist tradition in Philippine fiction. His eleven novels, now
acknowledged classics of Philippine literature, embodies the author’s commitment to nationalism.
• Francisco gained prominence as a writer not only for his social conscience but also for his
“masterful handling of the Tagalog language” and “supple prose style”. With his literary output
in Tagalog, he contributed to the enrichment of the Filipino language and literature for which he
is a staunch advocate. He put up an arm to his advocacy of Tagalog as a national language by
establishing the Kapatiran ng mga Alagad ng Wikang Pilipino (KAWIKA) in 1958.
• His reputation as the “Master of the Tagalog Novel” is backed up by numerous awards he received
for his meritorious novels, and for his contribution to Philippine literature and culture in
general.
A. Career • Master of the Tagalog Novel
• he was honored by the University of the Philippines with a special
convocation
• foremost Filipino novelist of his generation” and “champion of the
Filipino writer’s struggle for national identity

B. Works • Binhi at Bunga (1925)

• Cesar (1926)
• Deo (1926)
• Ama (1927)
• Sa Paanan ng Krus (1933)
• Pamana ng Pulubi (1936)
• Bago Lumubog ang Araw (1938)
• Singsing na Pangkasal (1940)

3. Bienvenido Lumbera: is a Filipino poet, critic and dramatist. He is a National Artist of the Philippines
and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communications. He won
numerous literary awards, including the National Book Awards from the National Book Foundation, and the
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards.
• As a poet, he introduced to Tagalog literature what is now known as Bagay poetry, a landmark
aesthetic tendency that has helped to change the vernacular poetic tradition.
• As a librettist for the Tales of the Manuvu and Rama Hari, he pioneered the creative fusion of fine
arts and popular imagination.

A. Career Awards

• National Artist, April, 2006

• Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative
Communication Arts, 1993
• Pambansang Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas, Unyon ng mga Manunulat ng
Pilipinas (UMPIL)
• National Book Awards from the Manila Critics' Circle
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature
• Visiting Professorship, Osaka University of Foreign Studies
• Professor Emeritus, University of the Philippines
• Philippine Centennial Literary Prize for Drama
• Cultural Center of the Philippines Centennial Honors for the Arts
• 1st Asian scholar-in-residence at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

B. Works Poetry

• Likhang Dila, Likhang Diwa (poetry collection, 1994)

• "Ka Bel"
• "The Yaya’s Lullaby"
• "Servant"
• "Sadness"
• "Eulogy of Roaches"
• "Jamborzkie Light"
•
4. Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a
National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1961 to 1965,
during the term of Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal.

A. Career Awards:
• Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan Awardee
• Diwa ng Lahi Awardee
• Tanging Parangal of the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining
• Rizal Pro Patria Awardee
• He was finally bestowed the honor as National Artist of Literature on 25 June
2003.
• won literary contest at the State University of Arizona for the piece
"We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers"
• won second prize in a nationwide short story writing contest sponsored by the
Writer's Digest
• best writer of humor stories because of his funny short story collection

B. Works • Of Cocks and Kites" (1959)

• Fiesta" (1980)
• Something to Crow About" (2005).

5. Virgilio S. Almario, (born March 9, 1944) better known by his pen name, RIO ALMA, is a Filipino artist,
poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager.He is a National Artist of the Philippines
and currently serves as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government agency
mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. On January 5, 2017, Almario was also
elected as the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

A. Career Awards:
• he spearheaded the second successful modernist movement in Filipino poetry together
with Mangahas and Antonio.
• Almario campaigned against the usage and proliferation of siyokoy words in the
Filipino language, which according to him were improperly derived from English and
Spanish.
• He also advocated the use of Filipinas as the Philippines official name in both
Filipino and English languages.
• Almario has been a recipient of numerous awards such as several Palanca Awards,
two grand prizes from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, the Makata ng Taon of
the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, the TOYM for literature, and the Southeast Asia
Write Award of Bangkok.
B. Works Poems
• Palipad-Hangin. (1985)
• Katon Para sa Limang Pandama. (1987)
• Sentimental. (2004)
• Estremelenggoles. (2004)
• Memo Mulang Gimokudan. (2005)
• Dust Devils. (2005)
• Sonetos Postumos, book of poems with translation by Marne Kilates and paintings
by National Artist Ang Kiukok. (2006)
• Tatlong Pasyon sa Ating Panahon, poems for children with illustrations by Mark
Justiniani, Neil Doloricon, Ferdinand Doctolero. (2006)
• Buwan, Buwang, Bulawan. (2009)
• UP Diksyunaryong Filipino
• Kulo at Kolorum
• Baklang Kolorum
6. Francisco Sionil José (born 3 December 1924) is one of the most widely read Filipino writers in the English
language. His novels and short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism
in Filipino society.José's works— written in English—have been translated into 28 languages, including
Korean, Indonesian, Czech, Russian, Latvian, Ukrainian and Dutch.
A. Career Awards:
• 1980 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Literature
• the 2001 National Artist Award for Literature
• 2004 Pablo Neruda Centennial Award from Chile
B. Works Five of José's works have won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature:
• The God Stealer in 1959
• Waywaya in 1979
• Arbol de Fuego (Firetree) in 1980
• his novel Mass in 1981
• A Scenario for Philippine Resistance in 1979.

7. Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011),[1] poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic
was a Filipino writer in the English language.
A. Career Awards:
• National Artist Award for Literature (1999)
• Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature
• Cultural Center of the Philippines (1979, First Prize in Novel)
• Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (1988)
B. Works Novels
• A Blade of Fern (1978)
• His Native Coast (1979)
• The Alien Corn (1992)
• One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
• The Builder (2004)
• The Jumong (2006)
Poem
• The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
• The Charmer's Box and Other Poet (1993)

8. Néstor Vicente Madali González (September 8, 1915 – November 28, 1999) was a Filipino novelist, short
story writer, essayist and poet. Conferred as the National Artist of the Philippines for Literature in
1997.
A. Career • Philippines Centennial Award for Literature, 1998
• National Artist Award for Literature, 1997
• City of Manila Diwa ng Lahi award "for his service and contribution to Philippine
national Literature," 1996
• The Asian Catholic Publishers Award, 1993
• Writers Union of the Philippines award, Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtás, 1989

B. Works Novels:

• The Winds of April (1941)

• A Season of Grace (1956)
• The Bamboo Dancers (1988)
• The Land And The Rain
• The Happiest Boy in The World

9. Francisco "Franz" Arcellana (September 6, 1916 – August 1, 2002) was a Filipino writer, poet, essayist,
critic, journalist and teacher. He was born on September 6, 1916.
• Arcellana already had ambitions of becoming a writer during his years in the elementary. His actual
writing, however, started when he became a member of The Torres Torch Organization during his high
school years.
• Arcellana Grande continued writing in various school papers at the University of the Philippines
Diliman. He later on received a Rocketfeller Granted and became a follower in creative writing the
University of Iowa and Breadloaf's writers conference from 1956– 1957.
 A. Works
• The mats
• Selected Stories (1962)
• Poetry and Politics: The State of Original Writing in English in the Philippines
Today (1977)
• The Francisco Arcellana Sampler(1990)

10. Carlos P. Romulo multifaceted career spanned 50 years of public service as an educator, soldier, university
president, journalist, and diplomat. It is common knowledge that he was the first Asian president of the
United Nations General Assembly, then Philippine Ambassador to Washington, D.C., and later minister of
foreign affairs. Essentially though, Romulo was very much into writing: he was a reporter at 16, a newspaper
editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was the only Asian to win America’s coveted Pulitzer
Prize in Journalism for a series of articles predicting the outbreak of World War II. Romulo, in all, wrote
and published 18 books, a range of literary works which included The United (novel), I Walked with
Heroes (autobiography), I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, Mother America, I See the Philippines Rise (war-
time memoirs).

IV. Activity- Post Test

Directions: Read and analyse each item. Encircle the letter that best corresponds to the question in
each item.

1. Who was the one of the most important progenitors of the modern Filipino short story in
English?
A. Carlos P. Romulo
B. Cirilio P. Bautista
C. Francisco Arcillana
D. Virgilia S. Amarillo

2. Who was a poet, literary historian, critic, who revised and reinvented the traditional Filipino
poetic forms?
A. Zoilo Galang
B. Francisco Baltazar
C. Lualhati Bautista
D. Carlos Sampayan Bulosan

3. Who was the Filipino writer, historian, and journalist best known for his short stories and
novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano de Manila
A. Zoilo Galang
B. Nick Joaquin
C. Carlos P. Romulo
D. Francisco Arcillana

4. Who was awarded as one of the greatest Filipino literary laureates for his impart on Filipino
literature?
A. Zoilo Galang
B. Francisco Baltazar
C. Lualhati T. Bautista
D. Carlos Sampayan Bulosan

5. Who was one of the most widely read Filipino writers in the English language? His novels and
short stories depict the social underpinnings of class struggles and colonialism in Filipino
society.
A. F. Sionil jose
B. N.V.M Gonzales
C. Virgilio Amarillo
D. Francisco Arcillana
 V. Practical Application: Reflection Paper
Directions: In a short bond paper, you are to write a appreciation letter to a one of the
canonical filipino writers. You are tasked to make this creatively as possible. Your work will
be graded objectively using the following rubric:

VI. References

Prepared by:

Tristan Genesis N. Amistad, T-I

Subject Teacher

Noted by:

Mr. Jonathan Barazona

Master Teacher II