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EGE 111
TEACHING ENGLISH
THROUGH LITERATURE
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Table of Contents
Title Page -
Table of Contents 1
Pre-Test 3
Literature Defined 4
Teaching Strategies 4
K-W-L 4-5
Think-Pair-Share 5-6
Think-Square-Share 7
Image Analysis 9 - 11
Graphic Story 11 - 12
Enrichment Activity 14
Post Test 15 – 16
Key Answer 17
References 18
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Teaching English literature to the young learners is not easy. The teacher might
face and experience a lot of struggles in teaching English literature to the
learners that is why strategies such as formative strategies exist, and this module
contains those assessment strategies.
MODULE OBJECTIVES
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Multiple Choice:
Instruction: Read the carefully the question then choose the correct answer and write
your answer on the space provide.
1. It represents the culture and traditions of language people that reflects
the stories of individuals.
a. Literature
b. Poetry
c. Riddles
d. Stories
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This Module contain different types of genre in children Literature developing the interest of
the children in learning the various types of literary textbooks including the content integrating the
Literary arts at early stage. Emphasis on examining the capabilities in exploring fictions, poetry for
children, fairy tales, through text books and other affective skill, enlightened the opportunity to ample
the characteristics in building a meaningful and relevant learning system.
Literature represents the culture and traditions of language people that reflects the stories of
individuals.
Literature is any collection of work that existed, but it also used to narrow specifically
writing considered to be artistic and authentic form specially for Pros fiction, drama, novels,
and poetry.
Children Literature are book written by all children it includes stories, book, magazines
and poems created for children, formed by different genre that transmited to other countries
with different language form for children academic. There are two types of children's reader:
a genre intended to readers age are classic book and picture books for young children
while the other is fiction and other literature for young adults.
Learning outcomes
Poetry
Poetry is a form led of art that convey a thought describe the arrangement of line, patterns,
sound, rhythm, the meaning, and traditional rhyming word at the end of the sentence.
•Almost every literature evolves imaginative awareness, and emotional response through the
experiences of the author. It give emphasis to the language chosen derived to emotions attachment.
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•Poem can be structed with rhyming lines, meters and syllabic beats which form a non- formal
structure.
Characteristics of Poetry
Poetry use rhythmic pattern or other poetic structures to draw the attention and interest on
combining nature of language. It develop from ancient literacy, a culture formed orally in public. Every
culture access a globally standard form from the ancient poetry evidence.
Language of Poetry
Poetic language are to old to produce a meaningful sound, it should be more concise, vivid,
complex, or interesting. It often use a figurative speech like simile, methaphor, alliteration, etc.
Imaginative of Poetry
It use a imaginary sensor to figurative speech of the reader. It describe a wider range of
imagination by using a senses of sight, touch, smell, taste, sound, and the feeling or emotion.
There are 15 kinds of Poetry
There are three types of poetry and these are the following:
a) Narrative Poetry
b) b)Lyric Poetry
c) c)Dramatic Poetry
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Narrative Poetry
This form describes important events in life either real or imaginary.The different varieties are:
1. Epic - This is an extended narrative about heroic exploits often under supernatural
control.
2. Metrical Tale - This is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified either
as a ballad or a metrical romance.
3.Ballads - Of the narrative poems, this is considered the shortest and simplest. It has a
simple structure and tells of a single incident. There are also variations of these: love ballads,
war ballads and sea ballads, humorous, moral, and historical or mythical ballads. In the early
time, this referred to a song accompanying a dance.
Lyric Poetry
Originally, this refers to that kind of poetry meant to be sung to the accompaniment of lyric,
but now, this applies to any type of poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet.They are
usually short, simple and easy to understand.
- These are short poems intended to be sung. The common theme is about love, despair,
grief, doubt, joy, hope and sorrow.
Example: Ako ay may lobo
2. Sonnets
- This is a lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with an emotion, a feeling, or an idea. These are two types:
the Italian and the Shakespearean.
Example: SANTANG BUDS by Alfonso P. Santos
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3.
Elegy
- This is a lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief and melancholy, and whose theme is death.
Example: THE LOVER’S DEATH by Ricaredo Demetillo
4. Ode
- This is a poem of a noble feeling, expressed with dignity, with no definite number of syllables or
definite number of lines in a stanza.
Example: Ode a Grecian Urn by John Keats
5. Psalms (Dalit)
6. Awit (Song)
- These have measures of twelve syllables (dodecasyllabic) and slowly sung to theaccompaniment
of a guitar or banduria.
Example: FLORANTE AT LAURA by Franciso Balagtas
7. Corridos (Kuridos)
- These have measures of eight syllables (octosyllabic) and recited to a martial beat.
Example: IBONG ADARNA
Dramatic Poetry
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1. Comedy - The word comedy comes from the Greek term “komos” meaning
festivity or revelry. This form usually is light and written with the purpose of amusing,
and usually has a happy ending.
Example: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
2. Melodrama - This is usually used in musical plays with the opera. Today, this is
related to tragedy just as the farce is to comedy. It arouses immediate and intense
emotion and is usually sad but thereis a happy ending for the principal character.
Example: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
3. Tragedy - This involves the hero struggling mightily against dynamic forces; he meets
death or ruin without success and satisfaction obtained by the protagonist in a comedy.
Example: The Three Rats by Wilfrido Guerrero
5. Social Poems - This form is either purely comic or tragic and it pictures the life
of today. It may aim to bring about changes in the social conditions.
Example: Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah by Carlo Vergara
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Riddles
Riddle is a statement having a double hidden or veiled meaning as language puzzle using
intelligence or reasoning which include critical thinking to solve the question. This are ways to
improve the understanding of nuances in English Language in the sense of logically puzzle patterned
question.For the ancient origin riddles are found in most cultures. It traditionally an entertainment
question to leisure time while having fun, probably it more like a game in Modern generation. It was a
long time tradition on ancient times both in oral and written riddles. There are different types of riddles
that will continuously cope the interest of one era to the next generation up until now.
•Riddles also analyse the subject, metaphor and formulating riddles as functional. Riddles is an
exchanging words of person one at a time to answer right in the question sometime it often mislead
the answer and discovers a complete unexpected answer
Example: I have a round face with two hands, but no arms and legs, What am I?
Answer : Clock
This riddle is a work of pun. When you heard the first phrase you basically refers it to a person with
face and hands but once you answer you probably realize that it was actually a clock which tends to
unexpected answer.
Brief History
-It's from a very ancient origin that found mostly in cultural and traditional environment. In the
early years_ riddles are often portentous, used by oracles and soothsayers to convey messages from
the Gods
Bible Riddles
Example: In Samson's riddle - And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and
out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle. (Judges
14:14 KJV 1611)
Example:without legs but can crawl a tongue that has a fork. You might hear parsel tongue if
you found one that could talk that's I am.
Answer : Honey
Answer : Snake
It refers to the serpent snake which tempted Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of life
knowing Good and Evil.On Moses arc, how many of each animal did he
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bring?
Answer : None. Because Moses Don't have an arc, it was Noah that God command to build an arc.
There are Philosophers who analyzed riddles as metaphorical expressions related to natural
phenomena-in classical mythology. One of these is Aristotle
There are famous riddle was told by the Sphinx and solved by Oedipus
“What animal in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening on three?
Answer : Man
Characteristics of Riddle
Types of Riddles
1. Enigma
- problems generally expressed in metaphoricalor allegorical language and which require
ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution include proverbs and fables. It was more tricky
question
Example : They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs
of their own. What are they?
Answer : Gloves Example:Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.All the
king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
2. Conundrum
- questions the effects of which are based on punning, in either the question or the answer. It
derives difficult problem, one that is impossible or almost impossible to solve
Example: Nobody has ever walked this way. What way was this?
Answer : Mercury
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Example: Can you find the hidden number written in the below picture?
Answer : 66
In an ocean, there is an island.On the island, there is a house. In the center of the house, there is a
glass of water,Inside the glass of water, there is a coin.
To explore a question with critical thingking align through the readers view of point in a clear
view of the issues.
Answer : Choth
Answer : Scissor
Answer : Rain
Answer : Train
Answer : Water
Answer : Jackfruit/Langka
7. The horse of Adam does not eat unless someone rides on it.
8. Terheta kong plastic sobra pa sa madyik, ikakas ko lamang, binili ko'y nabayaran na
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Answer : Buwan
Stories
A story or narrative story is about the event, people, series, imagery, language, performance.
Connected to what is happening in forms of word through spoken or written form. It conveys a fiction
or non-fiction genre. Story are the great value to human culture that been part of life.
Journalists write stories from a different platform like newspaper, essay, storytelling and
others to make a storyline that maybe occur in a true event of story or not. Story is a material
information produce and written product of author for children literature.
Types of Stories
story are part of everyday life, the events from the past, present and future is a ongoing story
of individuals. Some event are essential to humans culture. Some event produce in real-life story that
a human create. Basically, story is connected to identify and identity is a story for it created by each
individual.
There are 5 element in every story, these are: plot, setting, characters, point of view, and conflicts.
Plot
Plot is the event or action to know what is happening in the story. So plot is important to any
story for it show how a protagonist described the problem of the character and give a detailed
solution.
•It may attach the feeling of exciting part constructing in a strong emotion of the characters event.
•To keep the readers engage the interest it includes: exposition, rising, action,
climax, falling action and resolution.
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Exposition
Exposition gives the reader the background info they need to jump right into your story’s
world.
•Flashbacks
•Character dialogue
•Letters from the past
•Setting or character descriptions
•Point of View (aka POV, such as the narrator or main character’s thoughts)
Rising Action
The rising action is the moments in your story that lead up to the climax it
building up the readers interest.
Climax
The Climax indicate primary turning point and what your story has been building towards.
Falling Action
The main conflict is resolved, it’s time to begin wrapping everything up. The falling action is a
great time to tie up any loose ends while also giving your characters a chance to deal with the
aftermath of the climax
Resolution
Resolution is also the time to show the next step in the characters’ lives.
Settings
The setting of story is both the physical location and point in time in which your plot takes
place. Setting is a huge part of the story. It build a whole new world with its own languages and
creatures.
Characters
The characters are the people, animals, beings, or personified objects driving your story. A
story can have many characters or just one main character as the focus.
Protagonist
The protagonist is typically the ‘good guy’ in a story it suppose to be a lead role in a story that
the reader rooting for. This main character is super important and central to your plot.
Antagonist
The antagonist of your story doesn’t have to be a single person. It can be any character,
group, or force that is at odds with the protagonist. This doesn’t mean they have to be ‘evil’ or the
‘bad guy’, but the antagonist is often pushing the conflict onto the lead protagonist.
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Point of view
Point of view (or POV) describes the lens through which the story is being told.
Example of this was the story of "The Wizard of Oz", in summary the Wicked Witch is at odds with
the protagonist Dorothy and her quest to return home. However, in Wicked, we get to see the green
witch as a young woman going through the typical struggles with different conflict with her of friend
and pure love.
There are different types of PoV or Point of view, the most common is The First Person, Second
Person and Third Person
Conflict
The conflict is the big problem of the story. What is your main character trying to overcome?
This question refers to a conflict. Conflict is a different forms of hardship involve in antagonist
character. Confict is the protagonist or the character encounters by several times of event.
There are several types of confict it include: Character vs. Self, Character vs. Character, Character
vs. Nature and Character vs. Society.
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Drama
Drama is a term comes from the ancient Greek "draō" which means "to do or to act", provides
a different forms of drama which understand an art of performing. It includes the presentation of
fiction with the forms of plot, setting, event and story in line. This Genre produce a visual and written
media pattern to corporation of enactment in theaters/theatre.
Brief History
Ancient Greece, where Western drama originated. The cultural city of Athens mainly produced
three types of Drama - tragedy, comedy and satyr play. The exact origin of drama, or plays is
obscure, as is the custom for so many cultural traditions.
Drama as a mode of celebration was institutionalized in Athens in the 5th century BC through
competitions to honour the God Dionysus. From the ancient period,
Ancient Romans
The Romans came across Greek drama when they captured several territories of the Ancient
Greece in the 3rd century BC. By means of the Roman Empire, the art of drama spread far and wide.
However there are only few work of Drama in Roman times.
Medieval Peroid
Churches took it upon themselves to popularize drama by encouraging enactments of biblical
events.
These drama require two groups to sing in Latin and by the11th century, this spread through
the whole of Europe and even Russia.
Elizabethan Peroid
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The 16th and 17th century England was perhaps the most important period for drama. At this
time, most plays were written in verses in iambic pentameter. It is a type of metric line used in
poetry and verse drama. It specifies the rhythm or meter in a particular line. In addition to William
Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson are important playwrights of
this period.
Element of Drama
Drama can captivate the viewers by hearing and sight, Consequently, Drama boards with two
types. A drama of action and drama of literature. Now let's proceed to the elements of drama.
Setting
It defines the time and place were the event happens. A moment that consist of historical
drama and different form of drama were can actors see a wonderful sceneries that include in the
performance.
Character are: The Poeple, artist, actors play with the drama.
Characters Aspect
•Social
•Physical
•Moral
•Psychological
Plot
The happening on the event which serve an structural framework which bring the events a
real situation happen, some plot have a twist in adrama
Types of Plot
•Natural Plot
•Episodic Plot
Theme
Is the unifying element that provide a dramatic Idea suggested in a play. Overall implications
of the action derives to problematic scenes, ethical judgement, suggested attitude on eliminating the
crisis.
Style
The style is a mode of expression on how the characters deleted or portray in a play, it also
compost of playwriter viewpoint.
Major Dramatic Attitude
•Realism
•Non-Realism
7 Types of Drama
Comedy
Comedy is intended to entertain the viewer to feel overwhelmed or excited/laughing. Humour
is what comedy consist, However, it is not the only quality that signifies Comedy Drama.
Farce
Is was a drama which give boardly Humorous which signifies different
between Comedy and Farce.
Tragedy
A sad event happens in one's persona which feel a devastated tragic demise of a character
with an overflowing of heartbreaking emotion.
Tragi-Com
A complex type of drama combining the tragedy and Comedy to serious up to sarcastic plot.
So, it blend with enough Comedy style with the aspect of classified tragic plot.
Melodrama
An exaggeration type of drama which conventional to one dimention character. Contended
with exciting, passionate, and frequently deadly situations.
Opera
Is a type of drama were actors sing a dialogue lines instead is of dictating in formal speech.
Musical
Musical Drama is a Performance with a dialogue infuse with music performance presenting
on stages. While sometimes mislead with the difference of opera and musical, opera sing in a line
verse portraying the emotion from the tone of voice different from the musical.
Conclusion
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ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY!
1. R E L D D S I
Definition :
P O T Y R E
2.
Definition :
3. A D R A M
Definition :
4.
T O R I E S S
Definition :
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5. T E R C H A A C R
Definition :
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A Quote for today:If you think you can do it, you can.
- John Burroughs
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2. It shows how a protagonist described the problem of the character and gave a detailed solution. An
event happens in the story.
a.Plot
b.Genre
c.Setting
d.Climax
3. Indicates primary turning point and what a story has been building towards.
a.Climax
b.Genre
c.Setting
d.Character
4.The physical location and point in time in which your plot takes place.
a.Climax
b.Location
c.Setting
d.Character
5.It describes the lens through which the story is being told.
a.Plot
b.Character
c.Point of view
d.Melodrama
6. Drama is a term comes from the ancient Greek "draō" which means.
a.To do or to do
b.To do or to act
c.To act or to go
d.To didn’t do
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11. This is a lyric poem of 14 lines dealing with an emotion, a feeling, or an idea. These are two
types: the Italian and the Shakespearean.
a.Sonnets
b.Elegy
c.Ode
d.Psalms
12. It is use rhythmic pattern or other poetic structures to draw the attention and interest on
combining nature of language.
a.Poetic
b.Poetry
c.Psalms
d.Imaginative Poetry
13. This is an extended narrative about heroic exploits often under supernatural control.
a.Epic
b.Song
c.Ballads
d.Metrical Tale
14. This is usually used in musical plays with the opera which related to tragedy just as the farce is to
comedy.
a.Farce
b.Melodrama
c.Social Poems
d.Tragedy
15. This form describes important events in life either real or imaginary.
a.Narrative Poetry
b.Lyric Poetry
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c.Dramatic Poetry
d.Imaginative Poetry
16. It represents the culture and traditions of language people that reflects the stories of individuals.
a.Literature
b.Poetry
c.Riddles
d.Stories
17. A form of art that conveys a thought and describes the arrangement of line, patterns, sound,
rhythm the meaning and traditional rhyming word.
a.Literature
b.Poetry
c.Riddles
d.Stories
18. A statement having a double hidden or veiled meaning as language puzzle using intelligence or
reasoning.
a.Poetry
b.Riddles
c.Stories
d.Drama
19. It includes the presentation of fiction with the forms of plot, setting, event and story in line.
a.Poetry
b.Riddles
c.Stories
d.Drama
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A 1. B 11. D
B 2. A 12. B
B 3. A 13. A
D 4. C 14. B
C 5. C 15. A
6. A 16. A
7. A 17. B
8. A 18. B
9. A 19.D
10.D 20.C
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