21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

Second Quarter – Weeks 1-2

 Identifying Representative Texts and Authors from the World

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

1. discover the nature and aesthetic diversity of world literature in the 21st century;
2. identify representative texts and authors from Asia, North America,

Europe, Latin America, and Africa (EN12Lit-IIa-22); and

 1. write a feature article discussing the notable contributions of these authors and texts to the
world.

Activity 1: WORLD LITERA-TOUR!

Directions: Hello! Like travelling to any places, let’s go exploring the world by identifying in which
continent the countries below are located. Write the continent’s name on your answer sheet.

1. Brazil7. Italy

2. Canada8. Madagascar

3. Congo9. Saudi Arabia

4. Egypt10. Thailand

5. Luxembourg11. United Kingdom

6. Indonesia12. United States of America

Activity 2: MODERN-DAY BOOKWORM

Directions: Before you get to know some awesome authors from the different parts of the world, let’s
first test your knowledge through this multiple choice trivia game. Write the COMPLETE ANSWER on
your answer sheet. Be sure to not ask Mr. Google while doing this activity.

1. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” (2016) is the _________ story in the bestselling British
series written by J. K. Rowling and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on theater
stage.

•sixth•seventh• eighth•ninth

1. Stephen King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, and crime novels.
Which of the following film adaptations was based on King’s horror novel about children who are
terrorized by an evil entity?

• “Bird Box” (2018)• “Get Out” (2017)• “It” (2017) • “Us” (2019)

1. “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” by American author Rick Riordan is a pentalogy of fantasy
adventure novels. The term pentalogy means _______.

•a literary work divided into five parts

•a combined work of five writers

•a five-sided hardbound book

•a novel that is five times longer than usual

1. “The Return” is the latest of the 21 romance books written by __________, a famous American
novelist who was the No. 1 New York Times bestseller author who also wrote “The Notebook’ and
“A Walk to Remember.”

• C. S. Lewis• Nicholas Sparks

• James Patterson• Pittacus Lore

1. Paulo Coelho is a/an __________ novelist best known for his contemporary novels “The
Alchemist” and “Eleven Minutes.”

• American• Brazilian• Italian•Mexican

 1. The bestselling author alive and American writer of romance novels such as “His Bright Light” is
__________.

• Danielle Steel• Stephenie Meyer

• J. K. Rowling• Suzanne Collins

1. The last novel by bestselling thriller writer Sidney Sheldon published in 2004 was entitled
__________.

• “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”• “Five Feet Apart”

• “Breaking Dawn”• “I am Number Four”

1. American author Suzanne Collins wrote the “Hunger Games Series” with the book titles, “The
Hunger Games” (2008), “Catching Fire” (2009), __________ (2010), and “The Ballad of
Songbirds and Snakes” (2020).

• “Allegiant”•“Eclipse”• “Katniss” • “Mockingjay”

1. Dan Brown’s seven-book series which included “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels and Demons”
had a common main protagonist named __________.

• Edward Cullen• Robert Langdon

• Peeta Mellark• Tris Prior

1. The vampire romance series “The Twilight Saga” which has sold over 100 million copies was
written by famous American author __________.

• John Grisham• Rick Riordan

• J. R. R. Tolkien• Stephenie Meyer

FILL ME!

Directions: Answer the following questions by filling in the blank spaces provided. Write your answer
on your answer sheet.

1. Are you familiar with those representative texts and authors mentioned in Activity 2?

Yes ____________

No _____________
Some___________ (Please identify how many for each response.)

1. Do you have your own favorite literary text and author of World literature? Share its title
and the author who wrote it.
2. How do you feel when you read literary texts of other countries?

DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD LITERATURE

As a concept, world literature emerged only in the 19th century when the literary connections of
different countries had spread and strengthened. The term “world literature” was introduced by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Goethe is a German poet, playwright, novelist, and amateur artist,
considered the greatest German literary figure of the modern era. He used the word “Weltliteratur” in
1827. The idea of World Literature came from him as his interest to Chinese literature, among others,
flourished. He searched for an alternative to both metropolitan culture and German nationalism since
the German artists and intellectuals responded to the metropolitan culture, which is French literature,
through nationalist initiative. Goethe found the solution to be world literature.

There are many factors for a literary piece to be qualified as World Literature, let alone to be called
“literature”, per se. World literature is used to refer to the sum total of the world’s national
literatures, but usually denotes the circulation of works into the wider world beyond their
country of origin. To be considered world literature, it has to speak to people of more than one
nationality, hence it transcends borders. Often used in the past primarily for masterpieces of Western
European literature, world literature today is increasingly seen in global context because in the
present time, countries are experiencing similar situations and somehow, they are all linked together.
Literature went through profound changes in the 20th and 21st centuries, partly in that of technology,
communication and warfare.

Categorically, 21st Century Literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st
century, written from the year 2001 to present.

ASIAN LITERATURE

Studying Asian literature is categorized according to religion, zone, region, ethnic group, literary
genre, historical perspective or language of origin. The literary type of Asian writing such as lyric,
drama or narrative, is usually determined by the surrounding culture of the time and often expresses
the beliefs dominant in the era.

Here are some of the authors and literary texts from 21st century Asian literature:

Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a child. He studied law at the
University of London and later worked as lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s most reputable law firms. Tan's first
novel, The Gift of Rain (2007), was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian,
Spanish, Greek, Romanian, Czech and Serbian. The Garden of Evening Mists (2011), his second novel, won
the Man Asian Literary Prize and Walter Scott Prize, and was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize and the
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Nayomi Munaweera

Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, “Island of a Thousand Mirror” was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize
and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the
Northern California Book Award. Nayomi’s second novel, “What Lies Between Us” was released in February
2016 and had received accolades as one of 2016’s most anticipated books.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author, novelist and translator.

His novel "Between Clay and Dust" was short-listed for The Man Asian Literary Prize 2012 and long-listed for
the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Farooqi's second novel "The Story of a Widow" was short-listed
for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011, and long-listed for the 2010 IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award.

Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is best known as a poet
and is the author of four collections: These Errors Are Correct (Tranquebar, 2008), English (2004, Penguin
India, Rattapallax Press, New York, 2004), Apocalypso (Ark, 1997) and Gemini (Viking Penguin, 1992). His first
novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was short-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu
Literary Prize (2013).

Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy spent her early childhood in Vietnam before fleeing with her parents as boat people and
settling in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil in 1979, at the age of ten. Her debut novel “Ru” won the
Governor General's Award for French language fiction at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. An
English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman, was published in 2012 and was a short-listed
nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE

American literature has an English and American literary style. Their literary works became
necessary for Americans to develop means of expressions reflecting their habits, ideas, and youthful
ambitions. Their literature is reflected in the process of settlement, the conquering of a continent, the
growth of historical, social and spiritual ideas

Here are some of the 21st century authors and literary texts of North American literature:

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, “Everything Is
Illuminated and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, and a bestselling work of nonfiction, “Eating
Animals”. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Sara Gruen

Sara Gruen is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of five novels: “At The
Water’s Edge”, “Ape House”, “Water for Elephants”, “Riding Lessons”, and “Flying Changes”. Her
works have been translated into forty-three languages, and have sold more than ten million copies
worldwide. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS was adapted into a major motion picture starring Reese
Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz in 2011.

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author Margaret Atwood has numerous critically acclaimed novels to her credit. Some of
her best-selling titles are "Oryx and Crake" (2003), "The Handmaid's Tale" (1986), and "The Blind
Assassin" (2000). She is best known for her feminist and dystopian political themes, and her prolific
output of work spans multiple genres, including poetry, short stories, and essays. She distinguishes
her "speculative fiction" from science fiction because "science fiction has monsters and spaceships;
speculative fiction could really happen."

Valeria Luiselli

Award winning, translated into numerous languages, Luiselli’s playful, mesmeric novels, have pushed
the boundaries of distortion between the real and the imagined. Works such as “Faces In The Crowd”
(2012) and “The Story Of My Teeth” (2015) have seen her cast as one of the bright lights of
contemporary Mexican fiction, and her collection of nonfiction essays, “Sidewalks” (2013),
demonstrates the versatility and deft touch of an interesting new literary talent.

Carmen Boullosa
Poet, playwright, and novelist, Carmen Boullosa’s thoughtful and eclectic works such as “Leaving
Tabasco” (2001), and “Texas: The Great Theft” (2014), have cemented the reputation of a writer
considered to be reaching the height of her powers. Weaving through a wide range of topics, and
eras, Boullosa’s imaginative power and craft have allowed her to jump from one project to another,
without being typecast or pigeon holed.11

EUROPEAN LITERATURE

European literature is also known as Western literature. It is composed of diverse languages. Its
literature was preserved, transformed, and spread by Christianity and thus transmitted to
the vernacular languages of the European Continent. To the present day, this body of writing displays
a unity in its main features that sets it apart from the literatures of the rest of the world.

Here are some of the 21st century European authors and their literary works:

Ian Mcewan

Ian McEwan’s works have earned him worldwide critical acclaim. He won the Somerset Maugham
Award in 1976 for his first collection of short stories First Love, Last Rites; the Whitbread Novel Award
(1987) and the Prix Fémina Etranger (1993) for The Child in Time; and Germany's Shakespeare Prize
in 1999. He has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction numerous times, winning the
award for Amsterdam in 1998. His novel Atonement received the WH Smith Literary Award (2002),
National Book Critics' Circle Fiction Award (2003), Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction (2003), and
the Santiago Prize for the European Novel (2004). Atonement was also made into an Oscar-winning
film.

Zadie Smith

Literary critic James Wood coined the term "hysterical realism" in 2000 to describe Zadie Smith's
hugely successful debut novel, "White Teeth," which Smith agreed was a "painfully accurate term for
the sort of overblown, manic prose to be found in novels like my own 'White Teeth.'" The British
novelist and essayist's third novel, "On Beauty," was short-listed for the Booker Prize and won the
2006 Orange Prize for Fiction. Her 2012 novel "NW" was short-listed for the Ondaatje Prize and the
Women's Prize for Fiction. Her works often deal with race and the immigrant's postcolonial
experience.

Delphine De Vigan

Delphine de Vigan is an award-winning French novelist. She has published several novels for adults.
Her breakthrough work was the book “No et moi” (No and Me) that was awarded the Prix des
Libraires (The Booksellers' Prize) in France in 2008.

In 2011, she published a novel “Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit” (Nothing holds back the night) that deals
with a family coping with their mother's bipolar disorder. In her native France, the novel brought her a
set of awards, including the prix du roman Fnac (the prize given by the Fnac bookstores) and the prix
Renaudot des lycéens.

Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and
award-winning French novelist. In 2010, he published “La Carte et le Territoire” (published the same
year in English as The Map and the Territory) which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt; and, in 2015,
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LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Latin American literature is the national literature of the Spanish-speaking countries of the Western
Hemisphere which also includes the literary expression of the highly-developed American
Indian civilizations conquered by the Spaniards. It has developed a rich and complex diversity of
themes, forms, creative idioms, and style. It adopted a number of oral narratives, themes, characters,
topics and metaphors of European invaders.

Here are some examples of 21st century Latin American literature authors and literary texts:

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927 to 2014) was a Colombian writer, associated with the Magical Realism
genre of narrative fiction and credited with reinvigorating Latin American writing. He won the Nobel
prize for literature in 1982, for a body of work that included novels such as "100 Years of Solitude"
and "Love in the Time of Cholera."

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Llona is a Chilean-American novelist. Allende, who writes in the "magic realism"
tradition, is considered one of the first successful women novelists in Latin America. She has written
novels based in part on her own experiences, often focusing on the experiences of women, weaving
myth and realism together. Her best known works include the novels “The House of the Spirits and
City of the Beasts.” She has written over 20 books that have been translated into more than 35
languages and sold more than 67 million copies.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author, winner of National Book Critics Circle and the 2010
Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's
most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished
works include “The Storyteller”, “The Feast of the Goat”, “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter”, “Death in
the Andes”, “In Praise of the Stepmother”, “The Bad Girl”, “Conversation in the Cathedral”, “The Way
to Paradise”, and “The War of the End of the World.”

Patricio Pron

Patricio Pron, born in 1975, is the author of seven novels and six story collections, and he also works
as a translator and critic. His fiction has appeared in Granta, Zoetrope: AllStory, and The Paris
Review, and he has received numerous prizes, including the Alfaguara Prize, the Juan Rulfo Prize, the
Premio Literario Jaén de Novela award, and the 2008 José Manuel Lara Foundation Award for one of
the five best works published in Spain that year. He was named one of the best young Spanish-
language novelists by Granta in 2010. His latest novel, “My Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain”
was recently published in Vintage paperback.

Rodrigo Hasbún

Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian novelist living and working in Houston, Texas. In 2007, he was selected
by the Hay Festival as one of the best Latin American writers under the age of thirty-nine for
Bogotá39, and in 2010 he was named one of Grantas Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists. He is
the author of three novels, a volume of personal essays, and three collections of short stories, two of
which have been made into films. His work has appeared in Granta, McSweeneys, Zoetrope: All-
Story, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. Affections received an English PEN Award and has
been published in twelve languages.

AFRICAN LITERATURE

African literature, is a literary works of the African continent consists of a body of work in different
languages and various genres, reaching from oral to written literature in colonial languages such as
French, Portuguese, and English. African writings had gained attention in the West were their writings
themed “apartheid”, reflecting slavery and experiences of living in a racially segregated society. And
after World War II, as Africans began demanding their independence, more African writers were
published.

Here are some of the 21st century texts and authors of African literature:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into over thirty
languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, Granta, The O. Henry
Prize Stories, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope. She is the author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus”,
which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; “Half of a Yellow
Sun”, which won the Orange Prize and was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a New
York Times Notable Book; and “Americanah”, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and
was named one of The New York Times Top Ten Best Books of 2013.

Aminatta Forna

Born in Glasgow but raised in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna first drew attention for her memoir “The
Devil That Danced on Water” (2003), an extraordinarily brave account of her family’s experiences
living in war-torn Sierra Leone, and in particular her father’s tragic fate as a political dissident. Forna
has gone on to write several novels, each of them critically acclaimed: her work “The Memory of
Love” (2010) juxtaposes personal stories of love and loss within the wider context of the devastation
of the Sierra Leone civil war, and was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los
Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of
Michigan. Mabanckou became a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-
2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes
of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel,
“Blue-White-Red”, “The Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass”, and the “Prix
Renaudot” in 2006 for “Memoirs of a Porcupine”. He was selected by the French publishing trade
journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the coming century. His most recent book is
“African Psycho.”

Ben Okri

Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, Northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and
Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his
early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in
Nigeria.

In 1991 Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel “The Famished Road” (1991). Set
in a Nigerian village, this is the first in a trilogy of novels which tell the story of Azaro, a spirit child.
Azaro's narrative is continued in “Songs of Enchantment” (1993) and “Infinite Riches” (1998). Other
recent fiction includes “Astonishing the Gods” (1995) and “Dangerous Love” (1996), which was
awarded the Premio Palmi (Italy) in 2000. His latest novels are “In Arcadia” (2002) and “Starbook”
(2007).

Activity 4: THY NAMES RESOUNDING

Directions: For your performance task, carefully read and follow the instructions.

Note: Write your output in your answer sheet. You may also print this feature article on a letter-sized
bond paper: Font size 11.

RUBRIC FOR WRITING COMPOSITION (FEATURE ARTICLE)

This rubric serves as a scoring guide and defines what are expected and what will be assessed
based on your written output. The highest total score is 50 points.

Very Good Good Needs Improvement

PERFORMANCE
AREAS
10-8 7-5 4-1

Article has specific central

idea that is clearly stated Central idea is vague; non-
Unable to find specific
CONTENT in the opening paragraph, supportive to the topic;
supporting details
appropriate, concrete lacks focus
details.

Central point and flow of

Article is logically
Writing somewhat deviates article is lost; lacks
ORGANIZATION organized and well-
from the central idea. organization and
structured.
continuity.

Cited research
information, introduced Some research of the
personal topic was done but was Did little or no gathering of
RESEARCH inconclusive to support information on the topic,
ideas to enhance article topic; cited information did not cite information
was vague.
cohesiveness

Sentences are varied and Lacks creativity and focus.

Writing is smooth,
STYLE inconsistent with central Unrelated word choice to
coherent and consistent
idea central idea

Written work is relatively

Written work has no
free of errors in word
errors in word selection
selection and use, Written article has several
and use sentence
MECHANICS sentence structure, errors in word selection
structure, spelling,
spelling, punctuation and and use.
punctuation, and
capitalization (some have
capitalization
errors)
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WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

Directions: Reflect on the learning you had all throughout the lessons. Answer the following
questions and write your answer on your answer sheet.

1. What discovery did you have after learning some features of literary texts from world literature?

1. In a scale of 1-10 (with 1 being the lowest), rate your own appreciation and enthusiasm to read
21st century literature of the world. Explain your rating.
Directions: This time, let us recap the information that you have learned. Match the

descriptions in Column A with the corresponding author in Column B. Write the letter with the correct
answer in your answer sheet.
 COLUMN A COLUMN B

1. One of the apartheid era’s most prolific writers whose works

include “Burger’s Daughter”. Isabel Allende
2. Name one of the best young Spanish-language novelists by
Granta in 2010 whose latest novel, “My Aminatta Forna

Patricio Pron
Fathers’ Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain”.
Alain Mabanckou
1. Award winning author whose novels, have pushed the
boundaries of distortion between the real and the imagined. Gabriel García Márquez
Works such as “Faces in The Crowd” (2012) and “The Story of
My Teeth” (2015).
2. A critically acclaimed Pakistani author whose novel "Between
Clay and Dust" was short-listed for The Man Asian Literary Valerie Luiselli
Prize 2012 and long-listed for the 2013 DSC Prize for South
Chimamanda Ngozi
Asian Literature.
Adichie
3. First drew attention for the memoir “The Devil That Danced on
Water” (2003), an extraordinarily brave account of family’s
experiences living in war-torn Sierra Leone.
4. The author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus”, which won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Margaret Atwood
Award. Musharraf Ali Farooqi
5. Best known for feminist and dystopian political themes, whose
best-selling works include “Oryx and Crake” (2003) and “The
Blind Assassin” (2000).
6. Won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, for a body of work
Nadine Gordimer
that included novels such as "100 Years of Solitude" and "Love
in the Time of Cholera". Mario Vargas Llosa
7. Best known for works such as the novels “The House of the
Spirits” and “City of the Beasts”. Tan Twan Eng
8. Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize
in Literature whose many distinguished works include “The
Storyteller” and “The Feast of the Goat.”

ENGLISH LEARNING KIT

Senior High School
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 Identifying Representative Texts
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Development Team of English Learning KitWriters:Patrick Philip P. CasiananAnna Marie O. MalforeJoe
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Grade 11 - 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the WorldCompetency: Identifies representative texts and authors from Asia, North
America, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
(EN12Lit-IIa-22)

BEGIN
Are you now ready to expand your horizons and discover the world through literature?World literature
started out to be an ideal or ambition. Centuries later, literature has become a part of our culture, and
writers from across continents have become catalysts to accelerating it.In the 21st century, because
of technology and freedom of expression, we continue to accelerate world literature as more and
more people contribute to it.In this module, let us discover the 21st century authors and their written
texts representing the different continents of the world. These authors and their texts would surely
awaken you to take a closer look at the different facets of living of people from other countries.Thus,
enjoy your international literary journey!

TARGETS
Before we start this journey, let us check what you already know about the concepts that you are
about to learn.TRY THIS

DO THIS
Awesome! You did well in the activity! This time, you are about to answer another one. Set your mood
to learn, explore and discover new ideas and knowledge through this activity...

EXPLOREE
1. KEEP THIS IN MIND
Well done! You were able to answer the questions in the previous activities. What a good memory you
have! Now, you are going to learn more about 21st century world literature and its representative texts
and authors. Keep reading!

APPLY WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

You are a freelance blogger in an online literary magazine. You need to write a 500-word feature
article on a contemporary (21st century) author from outside your country. Do an online search on a
noteworthy writer and his or her contribution to the society relative to his/her work. You may choose
someone from the list of authors in the previous tables, but you are not limited to that list. It may also
be nice to write about an author who has a little online presence, but have made significant impact to
the lives of his/her readers. Make sure that your feature provides the following information:
background of the author, a short overview of the author’s literary works (books, online or print
publications, etc.), a short sample of the author’s work/s together with your commentary. End the
article by highlighting what are the author’s contribution to contemporary literature where you can
include his/her causes or advocacies based on the common themes found in his/her work.

Well done! You have shown great improvement after accomplishing all the tasks in this lesson. This
time you will reflect on your work and will rate your understanding by answering the final
task.REFLECT

REFLECT
ASSESS WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED