Schools Division Office

LAGRO HIGH SCHOOL

Quezon City, District V, Metro Manila

March 20, 2024

I. Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and other text
types serve as sources of wisdom in expressing and resolving conflicts among individuals, groups and
nature; also, how to use evaluative reading, listening and viewing strategies, special speeches for
occasion, pronouns and structures of modification.

Performance Standard: The learner skillfully delivers a speech for a special occasion through
utilizing effective verbal and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources.

Learning Competency: Critique a literary selection based on the literary criticism approaches.
(EN10WC-IIIg-14)

Objectives:

a. Define the literary criticism and Literary Approaches.

b. Recognize the different types of literary approaches.
c. Distinguish literary approach/es depicted in a particular situation.

II. Content: Maximizing Strength

References:
 https://www.tckpublishing.com/literary-theories/

 https://www.masterclass.com/articles/literary-theory-explained

III. Procedure

A.1 Motivation: The Whisper Race

Instruction: there are 6 students sit in a line in two teams, facing a board. At the back of
the line is the ‘reader’, who has been given a short paragraph, no more than a few
sentences long.then they will whisper a passage to the team member in front of them,
who will pass it down the line. At the end of the line is the ‘writer’ of the team, who
will write out the paragraph on their section of the board. The most accurate
paragraph wins!
Our game is in connection for today’s lesson

Lesson Proper

A. Discussion:
1. What is literary criticism?
2. Have you encountered some problems before?
3. When you read books do you feel that you can relate to the story you are reading?
4. What genre did you read?

Literary Criticism- the comparison, analysis, interpretation, and/or evaluation of works of

literature.

Different approaches you can use in writing a critique.

 There are six (10) literary approaches that you can use in writing a critique. (a)
Structural/Formalist, (b) Moralist, (c) Marxist, (d) Feminist, (e) New Historicism, (f)
Reader-Response, (g) Archetypal, (h) Psychoanalytic, (i) Post Colonial, (j) Queer Theory

(a) Structuralist/Formalist
 Structuralist critics analyze material by examining underlying structure, such as
characterization or plot
 Structuralists believe that there is a deep structure that is universal to all members of a
particular genre.
Ex. All novels are expected to have a plot, characters, settings, a core conflict, etc.

(b) Moralist
 Under moralist criticism, it is a literary text expected to reinforce moral values,
Courage, maturity, sensitivity, honesty and so on.

(c) Marxist
 An approach the examines the literary work based on the representation and treats
power dynamics between social classes.
 Marxist criticism is based on a movement that based on a theory and social
examination of Karl Marx.
 Marx believed that the conflict among classes- the elite class, middle class, and
working class would always be present and it would lead to a revolution.
(Example: The hunger games, it shows the division of social classes)

(d) Feminist
 Focuses on prevailing societal beliefs about women in an attempt to expose the
oppression of women on various levels by patriarchal systems both contemporary and
historical.
 The focus here is the dynamics between gender and this approach identifies the
challenges and the ways women are being marginalized in a patriarchal society.

(e) New Historicism

 This approach focuses on the historical and social circumstances that surrounded the
writing of a text.
  It may examine biographical facts about the author’s life as well as the influence of
social, political, national, and international events.

(f) Reader-Response
 An approach that emphasizes the reader as much as the text. It seeks to understand
how a given reader comes together with a given literary work to produce a unique
rading.
 This is based on the reader’s experience when it comes to interpretation of a text.

(g) Archetypal
 Archetypal Criticism is the interpretation of a text based on the archetypes that
appear time and time again in a wide variety of literature.

 This approach also called a hero’s journey or the mono-myth.

(h) Psycho Analytic

 Psychoanalytic criticism is based on Sigmund Freud’s theories in psychology, including those
of the consciousnesses and the unconscious.

 A character from a text may be psychoanalyzed, but the usual assumption is that all characters
are a projection of the author’s psyche.

(i) Post Colonial

 Postcolonial criticism concerns itself with literature written by colonizers and those who
were/are colonized. In particular, it looks at issues of culture, religion, politics, and
economics within the text and how these relate to colonial hegemony (the colonizer’s act
of controlling the colonized).

(j) Queer Theory

 Queer theory explores the representation of gender and sexuality in literature. It challenges the
assumption that heterosexuality is the preferred or normal mode of sexual orientation—a notion
that is reinforced by certain social institutions such as marriage, employment, and adoption
rights.

B. After Reading:
Comprehension Questions:
1. Enumerate the ten (10) approaches of literary analysis.
2. what are the 4 types of approaches that we discuss for today?
3. What is the focus of Archetypal approach
4. ____ is having running on a bike but he/she/they pushed him/her what approach does this
scenario falls.

IV. Evaluation

A. Group Differentiated Task:

The class will be divided into 4 groups and each group will give a story the students will pick on a
rolling paper, using your phones look for the story written on a paper and apply the literary approach
on a given story, present it on the front of the class.

B. SHORT QUIZ

Identification
 1. It is an approach where it tells the journey of a hero.
2. This approach focuses on representation of gender and sexuality.
3. This approach examines how the text deals with the issue of power dynamics between
the social classes.
4. This literary approach talks about the issues of culture, religion, politics, and
economics within the text and how these relate to colonial hegemony
5. This literary approach has the usual assumption is that all characters are a projection of
the author’s psyche.

Answers:
1. Archetypal
2. Queer theory
3. Marxism
4. Post- Colonial
5. Psychoanalytic

IV. Assignment:
In your own chosen literary piece make your own literary criticism based on what
approaches we tackled today.