SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL- Creative Nonfiction

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I. LEARNING SKILLS
A. Most Essential Learning Competencies:
1. Identify dominant literary conventions of a particular genre; and
2. Compare and contrast how the elements are used in the different
genres.

B. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, you are expected to:
1. Distinguish the major literary genres; and
2. Compare and contrast the use of literary elements in different sample genres.

II. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT

Drama

A drama is a composition in either verse or prose presenting a story through

pantomime or dialogue. It contains conflict of characters, particularly the ones who
perform in front of the audience on the stage. The person who writes drama for stage
directions is known as a “dramatist” or “playwright.” The term “drama” is also used for
the type of play written for theater, television, radio, and film.

Because of the combination of performance, music, dance, props, and others which
enable the audience to feel like a part of the action, drama is considered a unique
and distinctive genre of literature.

There are four distinct types of drama:

A. Comedy. A comedy is a type of dramatic presentation which intends to make

the audience laugh through well-composed humorous elements. The story may be
about real-life characters, funny experiences in life, or any type of fun-provoking
situation. It may be sarcastic and raunchy, light in tone and has happy endings.
Since provoking laughter is not an easy task, comedy writers require high level of
intellect and perceptive faculties to attain the desired end for a comedic presentation.

B. Tragedy. One of the oldest forms of drama, tragedy exposes the plight and
suffering of humans to the audience. Common tragic themes include ruins of a
dynasty, downfall of man, emotional betrayals, moral setback, personal loss, death,
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and denials. A tragedy when composed and enacted well can touch the audience
deeply. These rarely have happy endings.

C. Melodrama. This type of drama uses a technique marked by surge of feelings

since melodrama highlights exaggeration of emotions. The technique intends to
make the character and the plot more appealing to the audience although it can
sometimes fail to derive applause, because excessive display of emotions can
become monotonous. On the other hand, a superbly executed melodramatic plot can
absorb the audience’s attention completely. This happens when it effectively depicts
the good and evil aspects of the characters involved.

D. Musical drama. In a musical drama, the story is told through acting and
dialogue, as well as through dance and music, as well. The story may be comedic,
though it may also involve serious subjects.

III. ACTIVITIES

A. Practice Task 1
Directions: Identify ideas which are connected to literature. Write your answer in the
blank provided before each number.

__________________1. It is a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters

and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
__________________2. It is an opera in which the action is not interrupted by formal
song divisions (such as recitatives or arias) and the music is determined solely by
dramatic appropriateness.
__________________3. It is a genre of drama based on human suffering and,
mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character. Traditionally, its
intention is to invoke an accompanying catharsis, or a "pain awakens pleasure", for
the audience.
__________________4. It is a type of dramatic presentation which intends to make
the audience laugh through well-composed humorous elements. The story may be
about real-life characters, funny experiences in life, or any type of fun-provoking
situation. It may be sarcastic and raunchy, light in tone and has happy endings.
Since provoking laughter is not an easy task, comedy writers require high level of
intellect and perceptive faculties to attain the desired end for a comedic presentation.

A. Practice Task 2
Directions: Read the excerpt of a drama and answer the questions that follow it.

1. SCENE IV.
Another part of the field
Excursions. Enter RICHARD and CLIFFORD

RICHARD. Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone.

Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York, And
this for Rutland; both bound to revenge, Wert
thou environ'd with a brazen wall.
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CLIFFORD. Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone.
This is the hand that stabbed thy father York;
And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;
And here's the heart that triumphs in their death
And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother
To execute the like upon thyself;
And so, have at thee! [They fight]

Enter WARWICK; CLIFFORD flies

RICHARD. Nay, Warwick, single out some other chase;

For I myself will hunt this wolf to death. Exeunt

-William Shakespeare, King Henry VI (Third Part), from Shakespeare’s Complete

Works

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2. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears

By William Shakespeare
(from Julius Caesar, spoken by Marc Antony)

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil
that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it
were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest–
For Brutus is an honourable man; So are
they all, all honourable men– Come I to
speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious; And
Brutus is an honourable man.
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He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose
ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And
Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure,
he is an honourable man. I speak not to
disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to
speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And
I must pause till it come back to me.

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A Midsummer’s Night Dream

By William Shakespeare

ACT I
SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.
Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants
THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires, Like
to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue. HIPPOLYTA
Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
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And then the moon, like to a silver bow New-
bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our
solemnities.
THESEUS
Go, Philostrate,
Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn
melancholy forth to funerals;
The pale companion is not for our pomp.
Exit PHILOSTRATE
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,
And won thy love, doing thee injuries;
But I will wed thee in another key,
With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.
Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS EGEUS
Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke! THESEUS
Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?
EGEUS
Full of vexation come I, with complaint
Against my child, my daughter Hermia.
Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord, This
man hath my consent to marry her.
Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,
This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child; Thou,
thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, And
interchanged love-tokens with my child:
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,
With feigning voice verses of feigning love,
And stolen the impression of her fantasy
With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,
Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers Of
strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:
With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,
Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,
To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,
Be it so she; will not here before your grace
Consent to marry with Demetrius, I
beg the ancient privilege of Athens,
As she is mine, I may dispose of her:
Which shall be either to this gentleman Or
to her death, according to our law
Immediately provided in that case.
THESEUS
What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:
To you your father should be as a god;
One that composed your beauties, yea, and one

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To whom you are but as a form in wax
By him imprinted and within his power To
leave the figure or disfigure it.
Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
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B. ASSESSMENT

Directions: Do you watch melodrama on the television? Why do/don’t you watch
such a program? Defend your answer. Write your answer in the blanks provided.

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IV. RUBRIC

5 – Correct use of language/grammar; clarity of ideas; presence of words/expressions

about the choice
3 – Minor errors on language/grammar; clarity of ideas; presence of
words/expressions about the choice
1– Major errors on grammar; unclear presentation of ideas; absence of
words/expressions about the choice

V. REFLECTION/COMMENTS/SUGGESTIONS

What did you learn from this lesson?

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What part of the lesson did you find difficult to understand?
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VI. REFERENCES

Department of Education. (February 2014). K to 12 Senior High School Humanities

and Social Science Strand – Creative Nonfiction Curriculum Guide.
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Littlehale, K. (2020). Literary genres. From

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Masterclass. (July 2, 2019). What are the different genres of literature? From
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“Short story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster,

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Smith, J. Z., Bolle, K. W. & Buxton, R. G. A. (2020). “Myth.”

https://www.britanicca.com/topic/myth/Relation-of-myths-to-other-narrative-forms.
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Penn, J (2017). 5 Rules for Writing Creative Non-Fiction. From

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Mazzeo, T. J. (2012). Writing Creative Nonfiction, Course Guidebook. From

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Neruda, P. Pablo Neruda Selected Poems.

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Shakespeare, W. King Henry VI (Third Part). Shakespeare’s Complete Works. From

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 Prepared by:

Joyce T. De Guzman
Tinago National High School
DepEd Naga City Division

Gemmalyn P. Palmiano
Camarines Sur National High School
DepEd Naga City Division

Quality Assured by:

Honesto M. Pesimo Jr. EPS-I,

English

AL BAMBINO M. CAMINO, MT I EMMA V. DASCO

Vinzons Pilot High School EPS I - English
Camarines Norte Division Camarines Norte Division

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