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Assessing Creative
Adaptation
of a Literary Text
Module in 21st Century Literature
Quarter 1 . Module 6

MARIA TERESA B. MACASINAG

Developer
Department of Education • Cordillera Administrative Region
 Republic of the Philippines
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Cordillera Administrative Region
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BAGUIO CITY
Military Cut-off, Baguio City

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2020

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 PREFACE

This module is a project of the DepEd Schools Division of Baguio City through
the Curriculum Implementation Division (CID) which is in response to the
implementation of the K to 12 Curriculum.

This Learning Material is a property of the Department of Education, Schools

Division of Baguio City. It aims to improve students’ academic performance specifically
in English.

Date of Development : October 2020

Resource Location : DepEd Schools Division of Baguio City
Learning Area : English
Grade Level : 12
Learning Resource Type : Module
Language : English
Quarter/Week : Q1/W6
Learning Competency/Code : Do self and/or peer assessment of the creative
adaptation of a literary text based on
rationalized criteria before presentation (EN12Lit-Ie-
31.3).

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my profound gratitude to the following for their

contribution to this learning module:
Jopie B. Ferrer, our Learning Resource Coordinator in the Senior High School
in City High, for his guidance and support;
Dialyn, Darielle, Mel, and Josephine, my colleagues and laughmates in the
Senior High School English Department, for their inspiration to keep writing quality
modules and for the group’s collective drive to contribute more for DepEd SDO
Baguio LR One-Stop- Shop; and lastly,
Nabe, Amber, Dionne, and Maven, my family, for their love and
encouragement.

Development Team
Developer: Maria Teresa B. Macasinag
Layout Artist: Alvin A. Sevilla

School Learning Resources Management Committee

Brenda M. Cariño School Principal
Dolores T. Comom Subject/ Learning Area Specialist
Sherwin L. Fernando School LR Coordinator

Quality Assurance Team

Lillian S. Pagulongan EPS – English
Nińo M. Tibangay PSDS – BCNHS District

Learning Resource Management Section Staff

Loida C. Mangangey EPS – LRMDS
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CONSULTANTS

JULIET C. SANNAD, EdD

Chief Education Supervisor – CID

CHRISTOPHER C. BENIGNO, PhD

Asst. Schools Division Superintendent

MARIE CAROLYN B. VERANO, CESO V

Schools Division Superintendent

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

COPYRIGHT NOTICE ................................................................................................ ii

PREFACE .................................................................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................. iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ..............................................................................................v
What I Need to Know ................................................................................................. 1
What I Know ............................................................................................................... 3
What’s In .................................................................................................................... 4
What’s New ................................................................................................................ 5
Activity : My Work Revisited ................................................................................ 5
What’s In It ................................................................................................................. 6
What’s More ............................................................................................................... 8
Activity: Write or Draw! ........................................................................................ 8
What I Have Learned ................................................................................................. 8
Activity: Letters In! ............................................................................................... 8
What I Can Do ............................................................................................................ 9
Activity: From Theory To Practice........................................................................................8

Assessment ................................................................................................................ 9
ANSWER KEY ......................................................................................................... 10
REFERENCES ......................................................................................................... 11

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Assessing Creative
Adaptation
of a Literary Text
Module in 21st Century Literature
Quarter 1 . Module 6

MARIA TERESA B. MACASINAG

Department of Education • Cordillera Administrative Region

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 What I Need to Know

Hello learner! This module was designed and written with you in mind. Primarily,
its scope is to help you get familiar with how to assess your creative adaptation of a
literary text based on rationalized criteria prior to presentation.

While going through this module, you are expected to:

1. review your creative adaptation of a literary text;
2. evaluate your own work using a set of criteria; and
3. do a 3-5 minute presentation describing how the adaptation technique(s) you
employed allowed you to achieve your purpose(s).

By the way, always remember to use a separate sheet of paper for you to write
your answers on the different activities presented in this learning module. DO NOT
ANSWER here directly.
Now, here is an outline of the different parts of your learning module. The
descriptions will guide you on what to expect on each part of the module.

Label Description
What I need This states the learning objectives that you need to achieve as you study this
to know module.

What I know This is to check what you already know about the lesson on this module. If you
answered all the questions here correctly, then you may skip studying this module.

What’s In This connects the current lesson with a topic or concept necessary to your
understanding.
What’s New This introduces the lesson to be tackled through an activity.

What’s In it This contains a brief discussion of the learning module lesson. Think of it as the
lecture section of the lesson.

What’s More These are activities to check your understanding and to apply what you have
learned from the lesson.
What I have This generalizes the essential ideas tackled from this module.
Learned
What I Can This is a real life application of what you have learned.
Do
Post- This is an evaluation of what you have learned from this learning material.
Assessment
Additional This is an activity that will strengthen and fortify your knowledge about the lesson.
Activity

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 What I Know
If you answer all the test items correctly in this pretest, then you may skip
studying this learning material and proceed to the next learning module.
Alternate Response: Read carefully each statement and decide whether it is true or
false. Write your answer on the space before the number.

_______1. A literary adaptation is a composition rewritten into a new form.

_______ 2. Medium in literary adaptation also means adaptation technique.

_______3. Developing an adaptation requires you to closely study the original work
and consider the implications of the new medium and how that will change aspects
of the work.

_______4. An artful adaptation finds the essential elements of the original literary
source and interprets them in ways that are meaningful for the audience.

_______5.A good literary adaptation is faithful to the original source by preserving it

and not altering it in any way.

_______6. A literary adaptation helps to explore and understand the original literary
text in new ways.

_______7. Literary adaptation may also involve adapting the same literary work in
the same genre or medium just for different purposes.

_______8. You can reduce the number of characters in your adaptation.

_______9. In making a literary adaptation, you may alter some aspects of the
original version but not change enough that the traditional roots/influences of
the original text are lost.

_______10. The merging of literature and multimedia adds more life to the literary
piece.

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 What’s In
Hello dear learner! Welcome to our next learning journey!
In this module we will review your literary adaptation and try to do a self or peer
evaluation of your work based on a given criteria.

Before we proceed, let’s do a recall. What do you call taking an existing story and
reworking it into a different genre, medium, or perhaps temporal context?

Answer: _______________________

Very Good! A good example of a literary adaptation is the movie, 10 Things I Hate
About You, which is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the
Shrew, placing the story and characters into modern times and making the
characters high school students.

In module 5 you were asked to choose a text of your liking. It could be a literary work
(in whole or in part) that has moved or captivated you, and to use a medium of your
choice(novel, play, musical or film) to express something original, interesting and
new.

Hence, your adaptation could be a fairytale to comic, comic book series to one-act
play, novel to spoken-word poem, or the more complicated types such as theatre to
screen, novel to videogame, etc. Again, it does not need to be the entire text. You
may opt to just work on an excerpt or a portion of the text, e.g. a crocheted doll
adaptation of a famous literary character, an acrylic painting of the woman described
in a sonnet, or a collage of a literary character’s essential qualities.

In the process of crafting your literary adaptation you were required to use or apply
multi-media and ICT skills. This means that, aside from the visual aspect, there has
to be an integration of sound or audio elements. Remember the definition of multi-
media: “multi” means many.Therefore, there has to be a combination of atleast 2 or
more media in your adaptation.

So for example your chosen project is a collage of a literary character’s essential

qualities, make sure to combine different media in your work; hence, your collage
may be turned into mixed media collage instead. This project would really require
you to squeeze out your creative juices in order to come up with a meaningful
creation.

For learners of the General Academic strand, Animation is included in your

curriculum. That could be an edge on your part. You may have applied what you
learned in your animation subject in this particular project. For learners of other
strands with no animation subject, I am sure you are familiar with other multimedia
and have acquired a few ICT skills which you found helpful in accomplishing your
project.

May I know how did you go about your adaptation? Was it easy doing it or was it
difficult?

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 What’s New
Activity : My Work Revisited
At this point, please complete the table below. Answers to this shall be based on the
work you are supposed to have started, if not completed, in module 5.

Author/artist/creator
(This is you.)
Title of your work
(You may come up with a catchy title that is
appropriate to your adaptation.)
The literary source text you adapted
including the publication year.

Genre
(play, novel, poem, song, etc.)
Medium/Adaptation technique
(e.g. written text, painting, sculpture, fashion
ensemble, digital gaming interface, film-
audio/video, interactive picture books-pop-up, audio
books, theatre-play/musical)
Reason(s) you selected this specific
text for adaptation.

Your target audience

The purpose(s) you intend your

adaptation to achieve

(eliminate overly complex language, improve

readability, make explicit connections, increase
comprehension, limit ambiguity, give new meaning,
introduce new theme, suit it to a new audience,
offer a new experience, etc.)

PURPOSE OF ADAPTATION
Now, let’s discuss the last item in the table above which is purpose of adaptation.
Why would a writer do an adaptation? According to William D. Richards, Author of
"Aggadeh Chronicles", writers do an adaptation because they might love the story
enough that they want to play with it in a different context.

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Additionally, “Filmmakers love to use novels as source material for films, and writers
love to have their work adapted for the big screen. Why not? For filmmakers, literary
adaptations come with a built-in fan base, along with (usually) a well-crafted story
populated by ready-made, compelling characters. For writers, film adaptations come
with money, prestige, and—hopefully—with more attention for the book, which often
translates into more copies sold. Plus, sometimes you get to meet famous people.
(That said, not every book should actually be made into a movie.) Source:
https://lithub.com/20-literary-adaptations-disavowed-by-their-original-authors/

Bear in mind the purpose you would want your adaptation to achieve before you
embark on the task. Aside from what is mentioned earler, few possible reasons for
doing adaptations can be:
A. a dislike for some parts of the original version hence, the wanting to do a
refashioning to give it new meaning
B. a desire to introduce a different theme and pique the interest of younger
readers/audience
C. an urge to make a “new” art or derivative work out of an inspiring work and
by applying multimedia (e.g. audio, video, graphics, image, animation, etc.), you
offer your audience a different experience
Again, as discussed in module 5, when you do literary adaptation, you take into
consideration the original. You start by picking out a pivotal idea from the
original text such as certain themes and produce them in a new and original
way, but not changed enough that the traditional roots/influences of the original
text are lost. Source: http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2015-media1-projects-
onestepfurther/2015/05/31/the-adaptation-process/

Always remember to keep a balance between being true to your source material,
and creating an adaptation that can stand on its own as a work of art. Rather than
preserving every detail like a museum, find the essential elements of the book and
interpret them in ways that are meaningful for the audience.

What’s In It
One more important thing to remember about literary adaptation is that it should be
able to stand alone as an important creative work. Autorities in the field say, while
literary adaptation is reworking something familiar, it accomplishes something new.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What is the author trying to convey with his or her work? Do you want to try to
emulate that in our adaptation, or emphasize something else?
2. What do you like about the work? What do you dislike? Can you change those
things? Why should or shouldn’t you? How would changing the setting change this
work? What about changing one or more characters (i.e. change a character from a
boy to a girl)?

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 Here are a few more guides to help you polish or improve your project.

SETTING When and where does your story take place, and why have you
chosen this location and time period? How does your setting amplify
or re-envision the major conflicts or issues raised by the original work?

CHARACTERS Are there similarities or differences between the characters we read

about and the one you have created? If yes, what’s your reason for
such choice?
SCENE Will you change a few or some of the scenes? Why or why not? What
elements of character, theme or plot development will you preserve,
and what will you modify to better serve your setting, characters and
story?
CENTRAL What is your adaptation trying to explore? In what ways are you
QUESTION or commenting on contemporary politics, society or culture? What
MESSAGE philosophical questions or ideas propel your creation? What do you
hope your audience will wonder or think about?

As mentioned in module 5, your creative literary adaptation will be evaluated using

the following criteria:
Literary Adaptation
Adaptation helps to explore and understand the original literary text in 10 9 8 7 6 5
new ways.

Adaptation works closely with the original text and plays with its 10 9 8 7 6 5
possibilities.

It adapts the text creatively. 10 9 8 7 6 5

Adaptation is entertaining and intellectually stimulating. 10 9 8 7 6 5

Use of Multimedia and ICT

Project runs perfectly with no technical problems. It achieves mininmum 10 9 8 7 6 5
standards for technical requirements, i.e. there are no error messages,
other sound, video, or other files found.

The combination of multimedia elements with words and ideas takes 10 9 8 7 6 5

communication and persuation to a high level, superior to what could
be accomplished with either alone. The mixture brings about synergy
and dramatic effects which reach the intended audience with stlye and
elegance.

Appropriate amounts of video, audio, or 3-D enhancements are used 10 9 8 7 6 5

effectively to entice users to learn and enrich the experience.

Impression/Overall Impact 30 28 26 24 22 20

Total Score: _______

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 What’s More
Activity: Write or Draw!
In view of the fact that live presentation of your project is not a very comfortable option
at this time considering that many lack resources for online presentation, we will forgo
with the conduct of the 3-5 minute presentation of your adaptation. Instead, simply
write a one or two-paragraph description on how the adaptation technique(s) you
employed allowed you to achieve your purpose(s).

What I Have Learned

Activity: Letters In!
Your teachers believe that teaching literary adaptations and helping you to create
new versions of older stories provides a productive platform for better understanding
the value of now-classic texts and their cultural relevance, both in the past and in the
present.

The underlined phrase in the sentence above can help you figure out what exactly is
being drived at in the sentence below.
Supply the empty boxes with the correct missing letters to complete the sentence.
Doing adapations teaches us to be _______________________________________.

O E T W D S

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 What I Can Do

Activity: From Theory To Practice

Being open to changes and being able to adjust is one critical quality that employers
seek in 21st -century employees. Sooner or later you will be joining the world of work.
To prepare yourself for it, you need to learn to be flexible enough to work through
challenging issues and generally able to cope when things don’t go as planned.
Demonstating adaptability through actions can gain you favor with co-workers and
supervisors.
The Covid-19 pandemic has nudged us to shift from the traditional face-to-face mode
of learning to remote learning in order to mitigate the impact of the health crisis.
In our current educational context, kindly share what you are doing to cope with
remote or distance learning which has become the norm in almost all schools
across the globe. Two-or three sentences will do. If you are a not so verbal, you
may show us through simple drawing the strategies you are doing to manage
yourself in distance learning.

Assessment
Taking into consideration the given rubric on page 6, kindly do a self-evaluation of your
literary adaptation. You may also coordinate with a peer/classmate to do the
evaluation for you based on the given rubric/criteria.
Submit your evaluation sheet along with your literary adaptation project.
You’re done! Congratulations for having patiently read your module and completing
your project on literary adaptation. On top of this however, it is your teacher’s hope
that you have acquired a deeper appreciation of literature and that you have enhanced
your artistic skill while integrating your knowledge in multimedia and ICT.

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What I Know
1. True
2. True
3. True
In all the other activities :
4. True
Answers may vary 5. False
6. True
7. True
8. True
What’s In 9. True
Literary Adaptation
10. True
ANSWER KEY
 REFERENCES

DBI Control. Adapting Literary Texts: Themes, Images, and Performance. Accessed
September 12, 2020. https://dbp.theatredance.utexas.edu/content/adapting-
literary-texts-themes-images-and-performance-part-23

Embracing Popular Literary Adaptations as Educational Tools:

Accessed October 12, 2020. https://ncte.org/blog/2018/01/embracing-popular-
literary-adaptations-educational-tools/
Kriswanda Krishnapatria, S.S., M. Hum. The Adaptation of a Literary Source.
Accessed September 12, 2020.
https://www.slideshare.net/ranimurnikusmarlia/adaptation-approach-literature

Literary Adaptations: Comparing Versions of a Text. Accessed September 12, 2020.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/literary-adaptations-comparing-versions-of-
a-text.html

20 Literary Adaptations Disavowed by Their Original Authors. Accessed October 5,

2020. https://lithub.com/20-literary-adaptations-disavowed-by-their-original-
authors/

The Adaptation Process. Accessed October 10, 2020.

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/2015-media1-projects
onestepfurther/2015/05/31/the-adaptation-process/

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