SHS

Creative Writing
Module 9: Writing a craft essay demonstrating
awareness of and sensitivity to the different literary
and/or socio-political contexts of creative writing
 Target
Craft essay is an essay that discusses matters of creative
construction that may include reflection on writing strategies, genre, elements and
contextual influences.

In your previous lesson, you are done with the elements, techniques and
literary devices.

After going through the module, you are expected to:

1. Write a craft essay demonstrating awareness of and sensitivity to the

different literary and/or socio-political contexts of creative writing.
(HUMMS_MPIIc-f-23)

Before you proceed to the main lesson gather your thoughts and
bring out the best ideas you have
 In this module, you will learn how to write a craft essay demonstrating
awareness of and sensitivity to the different literary and of sociopolitical
context in creative writing.

Jumpstart

In order to understand the lesson well, relax, brainstorm and do the following
activities.
Have fun and good luck !
Enjoy writing !

Activity 1: Read Me! Reflect on Me!

Directions: Read the song carefully and reflect on the underlying wisdom behind
the words.

Bamboo – Tatsulok lyrics

Totoy bilisan mo, bilisan mo ang takbo

Ilagan ang mga bombang nakatutok sa ulo mo
Totoy tumalon ka, dumapa kung kailangan
At baka tamaan pa ng mga balang ligaw
Totoy makinig ka, wag kang magpa-gabi
Baka mapagkamalan ka't humandusay dyan sa tabi
Totoy alam mo ba kung ano ang puno't dulo
Ng di matapos-tapos na kaguluhang ito

Hindi pula't dilaw tunay na magkalaban

Ang kulay at tatak ay di syang dahilan
Hangga't marami ang lugmok sa kahirapan
At ang hustisya ay para lang sa mayaman

Habang may tatsulok at sila ang nasa tuktok

Di matatapos itong gulo

Iligtas ang hininga ng kay raming mga tao

At ang dating munting bukid, ngayo'y sementeryo
Totoy kumilos ka, baliktarin ang tatsulok
Tulad ng dukha, nailagay mo sa tuktok

Hindi pula't dilaw tunay na magkalaban

Ang kulay at tatak ay di syang dahilan
Hangga't marami ang lugmok sa kahirapan
 At ang hustisya ay para lang sa mayaman

Habang may tatsulok at sila ang nasa tuktok

Di matatapos itong gulo

Hindi pula't dilaw tunay na magkalaban

Ang kulay at tatak ay di syang dahilan
Hangga't marami ang lugmok sa kahirapan
At ang hustisya ay para lang sa mayaman

Habang may tatsulok at sila ang nasa tuktok

Di matatapos itong gulo

Habang may tatsulok at sila ang nasa tuktok

Di matatapos itong gulo.......

Di matatapos itong gulo......

Directions. Use the following questions to express your ideas about the song
TATSULOK.

How can you relate the song Tatsulok to the present situation of our country?

Does the song take sides to present the root of the problem?
Justify your answer.

Does it mean anything special hidden between the lines to you?

Narrate and Reflect: Social Views. Based from your experiences, write a reflective
essay with a minimum of ten ( 10 ) sentences about the petition filed by the
Supreme Court declaring the Anti-Terror Act as unconstitutional. Use separate
sheet of paper to answer.

Source. www.pinterest.com

“.Now, let us continue your journey in creative writing as we “ DISCOVER

“another tidbits of wisdom.
 Discover

Let us proceed to the lesson proper. Read critically and comprehensively

the discussion of today’s lesson. Sit back and relax!

• CREATIVITY is about working in a highly focused way on ideas and projects,

crafting them into their best forms and making critical judgements along the
way.
• LITERARY WORK can be defined as branch of literature dealing with words
as a raw material to create a picture, an idea or a story in a meaningful
pattern.

TWO TYPES OF LITERARY WORKS

• CREATIVE WRITING is a creative work that values man as a creator and
raises his existence above the world of subsistence.
• THE STUDY OF WHAT IS WRITTEN is the way (by which) another literate
person sees and analyses the work in question.
• The literary work is written into two different ways depending on the use of
language.
1. Prose a piece of creative writing. Its language is not a verse form, but has
similar value especially when words are used in a highly levelled
technique.
2. Poetry is a piece of “prose” writing in an elevated style. It is characterized
as written in a verse form to express deep feeling or noble thought in
beautiful language compose with the desire to communicate an
experience.

SOCIOPOLITICAL is something involved both social and political factors.

SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT consists of the overlapping of social and

political arena in their influence over literary text.

THREE KINDS OF SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

a. Social Issues concerning the national aspects of human life have

long been the heart of innumerable works of literature.
b. Politics is a prolific theme on topic in literature.
c. Religion is deeply rooted concept and belief on humanity. It stems
from the facts that humans are naturally helpless, the greatness of
nature whose creation might have been done by far greater entity.
 Elements of Craft
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE: How the writer keeps the story or poem moving;
the strategy that shapes it so it is as interesting to the reader as it is to the
writer.

PERSONA: The distance between the writer and the story or poems narrator;
the personality of the first, second or third person narrator and its narrative
distance from the characters. Also the guise or stance that distance creates;
the intimacy of focus it demands of the writer. Perspective and freedom of
emotion the persona narrator gives both the writer and the reader.

POINT OF VIEW: Who tells the story or poem, and why? Why one persona narrator
is chosen over another (how would The Great Gatsby be different if Gatsby told
his own story?). In third person, should the point of view be limited to one or more
characters, or omniscient? In first person, why is the story or poem most effectively
told from one particular point of view? Has the writer used letters, diary form,
multiple points of view and why? Who is the story ostensibly being told to? What is
the difference between what the persona narrator says or reveals and what is really
being said by the writer (such as with an unreliable narrator)?

DESCRIPTION: How the writer sets the scene and introduces characters: how it is
used to establish tone and mood and suggest the narrators personality; lyrical,
decorative, narrative, metaphorical, imagistic, etc.

MOOD/TONE: The emotional atmosphere of the story or poem: the primary

emotion or purpose of narrative (fear, love, sadness, hate, jealousy, etc.) and the
real subject of the story or poem is the mood. Tone is the tone of voice of the
persona narrator (not the writer). How do description, time and place, action and
dialogue, rhythm and music evoke mood and/or tone?

ACTION: How it is used by the persona narrator to reveal character, define persona,
move the story along, seduce the readers interest, develop narrative flow.

DIALOGUE: How it is used to reveal character and the persona narrator.

SENSE OF TIME/PLACE: How they support narrative flow and reveal character,
etc.; become characters themselves.

LINE & STANZA FORMAT: Line breaks, structure of stanzaic units; how they are
developed and used to convey idea and narrative, image and music; controlling
logic of poem and how it determines length and mood, etc.

MUSIC: Lyrical, litany, formal or natural rhythm of speech.

 Explore

Let us continue today’s lesson through various enrichment activities in order for you
to master the basic concepts you have learned and enhance your writing skills .

Enrichment Activity 1: The Q and A

Activity 1: Question and Answer. Use separate sheet to write your answer.

1. If you were to dine with a politician, who would that be, and what would
you like to talk about?
2. If you could change one thing in Philippine history what would that be?
3. If you could change one thing in Philippine history what would that be?

Assessment 1

Directions. Read and analyse the following sentences and identify what elements
and devices of craft essay best describe the given text. Write your answer in a
separate sheet of paper.

1. What is narrative?
A. a type of fictional story
B. an argument essay
C. a persuasive essay
D. a drama

2. What is the effect of first person POV?

A. We do not share the thoughts telling the story. The main characters are
not revealed.
B. We do share the thoughts and feelings of the character telling the story .
The main characters thoughts are revealed.
C. We are told the story from an outsiders POV
D. We know nothing about the character.

3. Which of the following tone words would describe a passage with a

character who pushed herself to succeed at something, despite barriers that
may cause her to struggle?
A. comical B. hopeful mysterious D. soothing

4. Which of the following organizational structure would most likely be used

to tell a story written in the first person POV?
A. the order in which events happen
B. compare and contrast
C. order of importance
D. cause and effect
 5. Why would a person choose to read a narrative?
A. to get information on a specific topic/task
B. to be entertained by the experience
C. to learn the specific topic
D. to learn to do task

Enrichment Activity 2: Express your Mood – Life Connection

Choose a particular scene to describe a scenario in transporting a Covid19 patient.
Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

Assessment 2

Write a short essay entitled the Government and the Society Today. Write your
answer in the separate sheet of paper.

Great job! You have understood the lesson.

Are you ready for the next activities ?
 Deepen

In this particular phase of the module, let us try to enhance your

writing skills as a novice writer. Brainstorm and organized your thoughts
as you weave your brilliant ideas in the printed page .

Write a narrative essay. Please be guided with the rubrics below. Use
separate sheet of paper.

BE A NOVICE WRITER
Novice Writer Output no. 1 – Narrate and Reflect

To keep the people informed with the pros and cons of not allowing ABS CBN its
franchise renewal write a narrative essay using the prompt below. The scoring
rubric on the next page will be used in assessing your written output.

If you were a member of The House of Representatives, would you allow the
granting of a franchise to ABS CBN to operate?

Goal (G)- To keep the people informed with the pros and cons of this endeavour you
are tasked to give your thoughts as member of the House of Representatives.

Role (R)- Member of the House of Representatives

Situation(S)- To keep the people informed with the pros and cons of this endeavour
you are tasked to give your thoughts as one of the member of the House of
Representatives

Product (P)-a craft essay

Standards (S)- content, impact, and appropriateness of the views presented .

 RUBRIC FOR NARRATIVE ESSAY

Area/Point 5-Very Good 4-good 3-fair 2-poor 1-very 0-no Score

poor answer =15
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Presentation very legibly very legibly can be read hard to read essay is
and neatly and neatly but is has because it unfinis
written as written as few erasures has many hed
seen by the seen by very and forms of erasures
absence of few erasures tampering and forms of
any erasure and/or that do not tampering
and /or forms of affect the
tampering tampering readability
Rationale The essay is The essay is The essay is The essay is The
clearly and adequately developed as somewhat essay is
appropriately developed as seen by the Developed unfinis
developed as seen by the justifications as seen by hed
seen by the many and some
numerous justifications citations justifications
and and supporting and
vicarious citations the rationale citations
justifications supporting supporting
and citations the rationale the rationale
supporting
the rationale
Content The essay The essay The essay The essay The
provides an provides a provides a provides a essay is
in-depth and thorough discussion limited unfinis
thorough discussions of the topic discussion hed
discussions of the topic at hand with of the topic
of the topic at hand with some of the at hand with
at hand with most of the elements few of the
an elements statements and features elements
and features and features of a craft and features
of a craft of a craft essay of a craft
essay essay elements essay
elements elements elements

Novice Writer Output no. 2- Memoirs Rewind

Write a descriptive paragraph which consists of ten sentences that revolve

around the topic “The effect of Corona Virus to Us”.
 Gauge

Directions : Read and analyze the following statements . Write your answer in a
separate sheet of paper.

1. It is about working in highly focused way on ideas and projects crafting them
into their best forms and making critical judgements along the way.
A. creativity B. genre C. stanza D. simile
2. Something involved both social and political factors.
A. tone B. metaphor C. narrator D. sociopolitical
3. Reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels, or
behaves in a certain way.
A. persuasion B. speaker C. motivation D. audience
4. Which of the four genres of literature “presents a story that is invented and not
literally ‘true.’ It is written to be read rather than to be acted or performed, and the
events depicted are told to us by a narrator, not enacted or dramatized.”?
A. Prose Fiction B. Poetry C. Drama D. Non-fiction Prose
5. Which of the four genres of literature is “a piece of art written by a poet in meter
or verse expressing various emotions which are expressed by the use of variety of
techniques including metaphors, similes, and onomatopoeia. The emphasis is the
use of aesthetics of language and the use of techniques such as repetition, meter
and rhyme. It heavily uses imagery and word association to quickly convey
emotions.”?
A. Prose Fiction B. Poetry C. Drama D. Non-fiction
Prose
6. Which of the following is NOT included in the five key elements that go into great
short story?
A. Character B. Plot C. Point of View D. Audience
7. Which of the following is a series of events and character actions that relate to
the central conflict?
A. Character B. Plot C. Point of View D. Setting
8. Many would think that this only refers to the place where the story takes place,
but in reality, it actually encompasses both the physical locale that frames the
action and the specific time including the date and years, the climatic actions, and
even the historical period during the story took place.
A. Character B. Plot C. Point of View D. Setting
9. When we speak of a narrator, what is needed?
A. Character B. Plot C. Point of View D. Setting
10. It is the central idea or belief in a short story.
A. Character B. Plot C. Point of View D. Setting
Directions. Answer the following questions briefly but substantially.5 points each.

1. Why is sociopolitical involved the national aspect of human life ? Cite realistic
example/ s based from the social milieu.

Good job!

You are done with this module.

Answer Key
Gauge
Jumpstart
1. A
Activity 1 and 2
2. D
Answers may vary
3. C
Explore
4. A
Enrichment Activity 1
5. B
Answers may vary
6. D
Assessment 1
7. B
1. A
8. D
2. B
9. C
3. B
10. B
4. A
B. Answers may vary
5. A

Enrichment Activity 2

Answers may vary

Assessment 2

Answers may vary

Deepen

Novice writer 1-2

Answers may vary

References
Printed Materials

Solmerano,E.T., et. al.,(2017) Creative Writing, First Edition, Fastbooks

Educational Supply,INC., June 2017

Websites:

Definition of Craft Essay.(n.d) Retrieved July 23,2020 from

https://eduzaurus.com/free-essay-samples/meaning-and-characteristics-of-craft

Definition of Sociopolitical Context.(n.d) Retrieved July 23 from

https://www.slideshare.net/Casamejc/creative-literary-works-and sociopolitical
context

Elements of the Craft (n.d) Retrieved July 24 from https://global mysteries

blog.com/2015/elements-of-writing-craft