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Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XIII-CARAGA REGION
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL SUR
CARRASCAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Nat’l. Highway, Gamuton, Carrascal, Surigao del Sur

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEETS IN 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

GRADE LEVEL: 11 – STEM/HUMSS & TVL DISCIPLINE: Literature

SUBJECT AREA: 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World TOPIC: “Silk Brocade”
QUARTER: Second WEEK: January 18 - 22, 2021

General Instructions: This learning activity sheet is intended to be answered for the duration of one week, answer all given activity to
earn a grade in this subject. You are not allowed to write anything, crumple or put unnecessary marks in the worksheets, provide yellow
sheet of paper/s for your answers. Please answer the activities provided HONESTLY. Enjoy answering!

WHAT IS IT

His T-shirts
By Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

Medium-sized t-shirts on his dark body.

He’s totally Chinese - more so than me.
But in periods when he’s building bridges,
Fixing windowpanes or drilling roads,
I think he’s from Africa.
Yellow skin is black in the sun.
Who said colors are God-given?

Medium-sized t-shirts he has aplenty.

Elated, in countries foreign, we do not forget
at home he’s suppressing his worried lips.
He wants nothing from us, but
we like the idea of giving. And so he’s
wearing t-shirts from London, Thailand,
Auckland, Japan, Finland, India,
Malaysia, Poland, Korea..
‘Where are you from, father?’ We are
teasers. Names of places bold/ in English on his chest. He doesn’t know.
‘China,’ he answers. We laugh.
We laugh. Bad daughters.

Medium-sized t-shirts on top of Large

-sized ones in his drawers.
He once stood huge/ in front of a snack bar,
buying us coca-colas,
and we cheered.

WHAT I NEED TO LEARN

Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong Kong-born editor, translator and poet. She is a founding co-editor of the Hong Kong-
based literary publication Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, an editor of the academic journal Victorian Network, and the
marketing director of the London-based Fleeting Books. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times
and the Forward Prize and her translations have appeared in Chinese Literature Today, CURA: A Literary Magazine of Art
and Action, Drunken Boat, The Margins, Pathlight, Poetry Sky and World Literature Today, among others. She holds a BA
(double major in Translation and English Language and Literature) and an MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and a
PhD from King's College London and she is currently an Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she
teaches fiction, poetry and poetics, and modern drama. Her latest project is Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with
Octavio Paz, which she co-edited for Chameleon Press. Her first poetry collection Hula Hooping was published in April
2015.

WHAT I CAN DO

Direction: Answer the following questions based on “His T-shirts.” Write your answer in the answer sheet.
1. Work individually and identify the following elements: the speaker or persona, the dramatic situation, the tone of the
poem, the figurative language used and the theme/s evident in the poem.
2. Write a brief reflection on your learning based on the poem.

“The Lord will keep you from all harm – He will watch over your life; the Lord will
watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
Psalm 121:7-8

Prepared by: Checked and Reviewed by: Validated by:

CHARLIE JOY G. INTANO EMILY P. NIMES __________________

Subject Teacher Grade12 Coordinator External Validator

Approved by:

FLUELLEN L. COS, PhD

Principal IV