Reading and Writing Skills
Name: ___________________________________ Date: ________________
Grade Level and Section: ____________________ Teacher: _____________
General Instructions: Accomplish Learning Activity Sheet on yellow paper.
Learning Activity Sheet No. 2.1
(April 04, 2024)
Lesson: THE CONTEXT IN WHICH A TEXT WAS DEVELOPED: Hypertext
Directions: Read the excerpt and answer the following question that follows:
The Filipino of today is soft, easy-going. His tendency is towards parasitism. He is uninclined to
sustained strenuous effort! He lacks earnestness. Face-saving is the dominant note in the confused
symphony of his existence. His sense of righteousness is often dulled by the desire of personal gain. His
norm of conduct is generally prompted by expediency rather than by principle. He shows a failing in that
superb courage which impels action because it is right, even at the cost of self-sacrifice. His greatest fear
is not to do wrong, but of being caught doing wrong.
-Excerpt from On Policies And Achievements Of The Government and Regeneration Of The
Filipino speech of President Manuel L. Quezon
Questions:
1. Are there how many links in the text?
2. How do you know they are links?
3. What happens when you click each of them?
4. Aside from traditional text, in what other forms of information will it give when you
clicked them?
5. Based on the information given by the hyperlink, what do you think is the context of
the speech excerpt?
Discussion
Every time you search on the web, you see words or clusters of words that are underlined
and are in blue. When you click these words, you will be transported to another site just as shown
in the picture below.
Being a critical reader also involves understanding that text always developed with a
certain context.
Thus, context is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical and other related
circumstances that surround the texts and form the terms from which it can be better understood
and evaluated. It also refers to the occasion or situation that informs the reader about why a
document was written.
HYPERTEXT
Ted Nelson (1965) described hypertext as a series of chunks connected by links that offer readers different
pathways
In hypertext, information can be presented in a semantic network in which multiple related sections of the
text are connected to each other
Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and is usually accomplished using “links”. Such links
help the readers navigate further information about the topic being discussed and may also lead to other
links that can direct the readers to various options
Typically, a text is written in a linear fashion. This linear progression only enables the readers to read the
material the way the author designed it from the beginning to end. Hypertextuality allows readers to study a text in
a different manner.
Hypertextuality according to Amaral, 2010 is simply a non-linear way of presenting information. Rather than
reading or learning about things in the order that an author, or editor, or publisher sets out for us, readers of
hypertext may follow their path, create their own order – their own meaning out the material. This is accomplished
by creating “links” between information. These links are provided so that the readers may – jump to further
information about a specific topic being discussed.
Learning Task
Research about a word that you are curious about. You can start with any reliable website,
then click on the hyperlinks on the article and see what sites the hyperlinks sent you. List down
five websites that you were able to explore.
WORD/PHRASE THAT YOU WANT TO RESEARCH OR READ FURTHER ABOUT:
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________
LIST OF WEBSITES THAT YOUR WERE ABLE TO VISIT BY CLICKING THE HYPERLINKS:
1. _________________________________________________________________________________
2. _________________________________________________________________________________
3. _________________________________________________________________________________
4. _________________________________________________________________________________
5. _________________________________________________________________________________
https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1938/08/19/address-of-president-manuel-l-quezon-on-policies-and-achievements-of-the-government-and-
regeneration-of-the-filipino/
Reading and Writing Skills
Name: ___________________________________ Date: ________________
Grade Level and Section: ____________________ Teacher: _____________
General Instructions: Accomplish Learning Activity Sheet on yellow paper.
Learning Activity Sheet No. 2.2
(April 04, 2024)
Lesson: THE CONTEXT IN WHICH A TEXT WAS DEVELOPED: Intertext
Directions: Take a look at the two pictures. Analyze what are the features that are the same. In
paragraph form answer the following guiding questions? Write your insights on your paper.
1. What features of the story are the same on
this two versions? What are the difference?
2. Do the two versions of the story affect the
perception of the readers towards the moral
lesson of the story?
3. Which version would you prefer and why?
Discussion
A text’s meaning can be determined based partly on the context in which it was developed.
Context is defined as the social, cultural, political, historical and other related circumstances
that surround the texts and form the terms from which it can be better understood and evaluated.
It also refers to the occasion or situation that informs the reader about why a document was
written.
Behind every writing of a text is an inspiration that often leaves clues about the situation
or the reality that serves as the backdrop of the text which is known as the context of the text.
INTERTEXT
the term coined by Julia Kristevain 1960s that deals with how different texts exist
through their relation to other literary texts. Basically, a text is always influenced by
previous texts.
according to Kristeva, nearly all works contain some forms of reference to another work
of the past.
is the complex connections between a text and various reading materials that add to the
meaning and analysis of the text have read.
Intertextuality
Intertextuality draws origin from literature and asserts that texts can only be understood
in relation to other texts. Also, present-day texts are believed to have been based on or
at least inspired by previously-published literature – from the style to the content, to the
context, etc.
Is one method of text development that enables the author to make another text based
on another text. It happens when some properties of an original text are incorporated in
the text that is created by another author.
Moreover, in formal essays, intertextuality is a key part of the research process. When you
cite a source, you are taking a little chunk of someone else’s text and building it into your own
argument.
Below are examples of many famous writings that employ the use of intertextuality:
a. The main plotline of Disney’s The Lion King is based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
b. The structure of James Joyce’s Ulysses is modeled after Homer’s Odyssey.
c. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series makes use of T.H. White’s The Sword in the Stone,
d. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
e. Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres is a contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s King
Lear.
f. Matt Groenig’s television show The Simpsons uses multiple intertextual references to
literature, films, other tv shows, and commercials for its storylines and jokes.
Learning Task
Choose two works of literature adapted into films or TV series and be able to explain in 2-3
paragraphs their intertextuality.
Prepared by:
RODORA C. ANDRES
Subject Teacher, Reading and Writing Skills
