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21 CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
(MODULE 1 WEEK 1 QUARTER 2)
What I Need to Know
This lesson explores the significance of structure in understanding themes of ennui and aimlessness in modern life.
Learning Competency:
EN12Lit-IId-25: Identify representative texts and authors from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
LESSON 1: WORLD LITERATURE
Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
 Share prior knowledge about World Literature.
 Recognize the history of the World Literature.
 Write a close analysis on the importance of world literature.

What I know
Instructions: Identify what period is being asked in each item. Write the letter of the correct answer.
1. Which of the following period is considered as the Golden Age of Literature and Arts?
a) The Classical Period b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment Period d) The Romantic Period

2. It referred to as The Age of Reason and also known as neoclassical period.

a) The Modern Period b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment Period d) The Romantic Period

3. It is the Great Age for Novels and it emphasize on Emotion, Imagination and Individualism.
a) The Renaissance Period b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment Period d) The Romantic Period

4. In what period does the First printing press was invented?

a) The Renaissance Period b) The Victorian Period
c) The Enlightenment Period d) The Romantic Period

5. Also known as Anglo-Saxon Period or Old English Period.

a) The Classical Period b) The Medieval Period
c) The Enlightenment Period d) The Romantic Period

What’s New
Activity 1: TOURING THE WORLD
Instructions: Name the following landmarks below and identify in what country it belongs.

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What is it
LITERATURE, HISTORY AND CULTURE
“The relationship is reciprocal. Our culture affects what we write and what we write is used to interpret our history.
However, our history influences culture, which creates a beautiful loop in which these three things work together to define a group
of people, a nation, etc.”
World literature is used to refer to the total of the world's national literature and the circulation of works into the wider world
beyond their country of origin. In the past, it primarily referred to the masterpieces of Western European literature; however, world
literature today is increasingly seen in an international context. Now, readers have access to a wide range of global works in various
translations.
Many scholars assert that what makes a work considered world literature is its circulation beyond its country of origin. For
example, Damrosch states, "A work enters into world literature by a double process: first, by being read as literature; second, by
circulating out into a broader world beyond its linguistic and cultural point of origin”. Likewise, the world literature scholar Venkat
Mani believes that the "worlding" of literature is brought about by "information transfer" largely generated by developments in print
culture. Because of the advent of the library, "Publishers and booksellers who print and sell affordable books, literate citizens who
acquire these books, and public libraries that make these books available to those who cannot afford to buy them collectively play a
very important role in the “making” of world literature".

What’s more
EARLY PERIOD OF WORLD LITERATURE
Early Period Of World Literature Some Significant Literary work in this Greek writer and philosopher during
period: this period:
1. The Classical Period (1200 BCE – 455  The Iliad and The Odyssey by  Gorgias
CE)- A golden age for literature and arts Homer  Aesop
 Works and Days by Hesiod  Plato
 Theogony by Hesiod  Socrates
 Aristotle Euripides
2. The Medieval Period (455 CE – 1485  The Canterbury Tales  Geoffrey Chaucer
CE)- Also known as Anglo-Saxon  Beowulf  Thomas Aquinas
Period  The Dark Ages and the Bards  Martin Luther
 The Dream of the Holy Rood  Caedmon
3. The Renaissance Period (1485-1660  Romeo and Juliet  William Shakespeare
CE) - It is considered to be the division  When I was Fair and Young  Sir Thomas More
between the Middle age and Modern  Utopia  Queen Elizabeth I
era.  The faerie Queen  Edmund Spencer

Later Period Of World Literature Some Significant Literary work in this Greek writer and philosopher during
period: this period:
1. The Enlightenment Period (1660 BCE –  All for love  John Dryden
1790) - Referred to as the Age of  The Rake of the Lock  Alexander Pope
Reason. Era of Logic  Rights of Man  Thomas Paine
 Elegy written in a Churchyard  Thomas Gray
2. The Romantic Period (1790 – 1830)-  I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud  William Wordsworth
Great Age for the Novel --Emphasize on  Kubla Khan  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Emotion, Imagination and Individualism  Song of Innocence and of  William Blake
Experience  Mary Shelley
 Mathilda

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3. The Victorian Period (1832 – 1901) -  The Pickwick Papers  Charles Dicken
The Reign of Queen Victoria. -- The  How do I love Thee  Elizabeth Browning
literature of this Era expressed the  Ulysses  Alfred Lord Tennison
fusion of pure romance to gross realism.
4. The Modern Period (1914 – 1945) -  The Road Not Taken  Robert Frost
Characterized by a self-conscious break  And Death Shall Have No  Dylan Thomas
with traditional ways of writing, in both  Dominion  Wilfred Owen
poetry and prose fiction.  Insensibility

5. The Post Modern Period (1945  Infinite Jest  David Foster Wallace
onward)- Characterized by reliance on  The Love Song Of J. Alfred  T.S Eliot
narrative techniques such as  Prufrock  Samuel Beckett
fragmentation, paradox, and the  Waiting for Godot
unreliable narrator.

What I can do
ACTIVITY 2: TRACE AND RACE
DIRECTIONS: Describe the characteristics of the different periods of the world literature. Make some research
about the significant genres used in the following periods.

The Classical Period The Medieval Period

The Renaissance Period The Enlightenment Period

The Romantic Period The Victorian Period

The Modern Period The Post Modern Period

Assessment
ACTIVITY 3: ESSAY
Write at least 250-word reflection using the given questions as guide.
How does studying “World Literature” help us to better understand “The World"?

What I can show

Which category in 21st Century skills do you think the core of our topic falls in? (Communication, collaboration,
creativity, critical thinking, productivity, leadership and technology literacy). Explain why.

Prepared by:

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Ms. Rochelle May S. Gayacan, LPT
SUBJECT TEACHER

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