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EGE 111
TEACHING ENGLISH
THROUGH LITERATURE

INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE:


STRATEGIES IN TEACHING
LITERACY THROUGH
LITERATURE

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Table of Contents
Title Page -

Table of Contents 1

Introduction: Strategies in Teaching Literacy Through Literature 2

Pre-Test 3

Literature Defined 4

Teaching Strategies 4

K-W-L 4-5

Think-Pair-Share 5-6

Think-Square-Share 7

The Drama Method 8-9

Image Analysis 9 - 11

Graphic Story 11 - 12

Using Graphic Organizer 12 - 14

Enrichment Activity 14

Post Test 15 – 16

Key Answer 17

References 18

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Strategies in Teaching Literacy


Through Literature

This module contains information about different


strategies in teaching literacy through literature, specifically formative
assessment strategies.

WHAT THIS MODULE IS ABOUT

Teachers and children as learners live in an


age wherein, they benefits with each other by
gaining knowledge and gaining experiences.
As days go by, different learners continue to
unite as one in a classroom which makes the
teachers think about different strategies to
teach literacy as well.

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

a. Present the Seven (7) Formative assessment Strategies.


b. State the importance/benefits of the seven formative assessment tools.
c. Give examples of learning activities in each assessment strategy.
d. Develop a simple classroom activity using Literary methods.

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE (Pre-Test)

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

2. 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

3. A statement having a double hidden or veiled meaning as language


puzzle using intelligence or reasoning.
a) Poetry
b) Riddles
c) Stories
d) Drama

4. 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

5. It conveys a fiction or non-fiction genre.


a. Poetry
b. Riddles
c. Stories
d. Drama

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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.

What is this module about?

Literature represents the culture and traditions of language people that reflects the stories of
individuals.

According to Wikipedia: a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting


knowledge and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature,
as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography,
diaries, memoir, letters, and essays.

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

•Describe the different literary genre for children


•Give examples of selections, stories, riddles and poems suitable
for literacy development among young children
•Compile well-selected literary pieces that can be used for instruction

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.

Example is "Epic of Gilgamesh (2500 BCE)

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

•Rhymed Poetry •Pastoral Poetry •Narrative Poetry


•Lyric Poetry •Epics •Sonnet
•Blank Verse •Free Verse •Villanelle
•Ballad •Lemirick •Soliloquy
•Haiku •Ode •Elegy

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.

Example:THE HARVEST SONG OF ALIGUYON

2. Metrical Tale - This is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified either
as a ballad or a metrical romance.

Examples: BAYANI NG BUKID by Al Perez

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.

Example: Space and Green Cheese

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.

1. Folksongs (Awiting Bayan)

- 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)

- This is a song praising God and containing a philosophy of life.


Example: Song of David Psalm 23:1-6

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

4. Farce - This is an exaggerated comedy. It seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines;


situations are too ridiculous to be true; the characters seem to be caricatures and the
motives undignified andabsurd.
Example: The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

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

Example: Delphic Oracles

Some of the riddle appear in the Bible and Quran (Koran)

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

•It unusually use in everyday language for describing


•It Use Methaphor
•It often Signify in oral but can also use pictionary
•Use of language confusion

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 : The Milky Way

Example: I am a god a planet and measure of heat

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.

The question is What’s in the middle of the ocean?

Answer : Letter 'E'

The Purpose of Riddles

To explore a question with critical thingking align through the readers view of point in a clear
view of the issues.

Let's Play Riddles (Bugtungan Tayo)

1. Hindi pari, hindi hari, nagdadamit ng sari-sari.

Answer : Choth

2. Here comes Kaka, walking with an open leg.

Answer : Scissor

3. Buhok ni Adan, hindi mabilang.

Answer : Rain

4. Riddle me, Riddle me, here comes a roaring chain.

Answer : Train

5. Bibingka ng hari, hindi mo mahati.

Answer : Water

6. A wild pig of forest is covered with spikes.

Answer : Jackfruit/Langka

7. The horse of Adam does not eat unless someone rides on it.

Answer : Kudkuran/Coconot Grater

8. Terheta kong plastic sobra pa sa madyik, ikakas ko lamang, binili ko'y nabayaran na

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Answer : Credit Card


.
9. Telegrama ng reyna mabilis agad na nakuha, kung sasagutin mo siya piso bawat padala.

Answer : Text Message

10.Dumaan si Kabo negro, namatay lahat ng tao.

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

•Bedtime Story •History Fiction •Horror Stories


•Science Fiction •Epic •Drama
•Folklore •Adventure •Love Story
•Fairytale •Non-Fiction Stories • Ghost Stories
•Fantasy • Mythology •Legend

The Importance of Story

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.

Exposition can be given in a variety of ways. Some examples include:

•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.

There are two common types of Character:

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

First Person Point of View


A story was told by the first person view which often told the point of view of the
protagonist. The protagonist narrator will speak using first person pronouns (I, we, me, etc).
Example : The Hunger Games novel which Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist

Second Person Point of View


Second person is not often use in literature, but the second person, the reader is addressed
directly and may even become a character of sorts in your story. This point of view is written using
second person pronouns (you, your, etc).

Third Person Point of View


Third person POV is a foremost common point of view in fiction writing. It was the reader is a
bystander, observing the actions of the characters as told by an ‘outside narrator’. This POV used
third person pronouns (he, she, they, etc) it depend on how the style of the author.

Third Person Limited


Narrator has access to only one character’s inside thoughts and feelings. As the reader, we
typically follow this one character as our main character, learning only what they know and seeing the
world through their eyes and experiences.

 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.

Character vs. Self


The main character must overcome something within themselves to achieve their goal. These
internal conflicts may look like a doubt, fear, or grudge.
Example: Lord of the Rings

Character vs. Character


This is a very common conflict type in superhero tales. There’s a ‘bad guy’ our main
characters must defeat before the story ends.
Example: Darna, Justice League

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Character vs. Nature


A pit our characters against some kind of natural force. It could be a natural disaster
(tornado, hurricane, wildfire, avalanche) or any other kind of survival tale.
Example : The Fault in our stars by John Green

Character vs. Society


Characters are battling oppressive societal norms. In character vs society, our protagonist feels like
they are at odds with the whole world.

 What is the importance of incorporated this kind of elements in a story ?


In writing a story, essay, reflection paper this element includes in a story is so important for
every person to build and inspire a story to write their own stories. It will cope the interest of
everyone by the different genre they like, especially knowing this 5 element can create a more
impact in wider iimagination the feel of emotion and using the senses can be a good experience in
reading. their stories direction, structure, and a great flow, keeping their readers flipping those pages
long into the night is a wonderful present specially to the book lovers.

 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.

What is drama about?


It derives from a classical convention distinction between comedy and tragedy. So, it
common to an artist to portray the understand of the characters emotion. Drama present a story from
a play, ballet, or opera. A story with a dialogue and action to entertain the views or audience, in
performing actress and actors need to emphasize the emotion and action without a dialogue, cause
the importance here is how the veiwer overview of the event.

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.

The main Theme :


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•The tone is lighthearted.


•Ingenious wordplay or twists of phrases.
•Serious issues are addressed in a lighthearted manner.
•Misunderstandings are amusing.
•A happy ending.
•Characters who are silly and out of the ordinary.
•Usually concludes with a wedding, especially in romantic comedies.
One of the example of this was : "The
MidSummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare

Farce
Is was a drama which give boardly Humorous which signifies different
between Comedy and Farce.

The Main Theme


•Exaggerated wit
•Jokes that are slapstick
•The plot is illogical.
•Unexpected occurrences
•Humor is frequently coarse and inappropriate.
Example is : " Waiting for Godot " by
Samuel

Tragedy
A sad event happens in one's persona which feel a devastated tragic demise of a character
with an overflowing of heartbreaking emotion.

The Main Theme :


•A fatal fault in the protagonist
•Situations that easily spiral out of control — and not in a good way
•Human agony, hate, or poverty are frequent topics. These are darker topics than in a melodrama.
•Describes the demise of a once heroic or well-liked persona.
•An unredeemable conclusion in which one or more
characters die
•Arrives at a terrible catharsis
Example is : " Othello " by William Shakespeare

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.

The Main Theme :


•A serious plot delivered in a funny, sarcastic, or snarky manner.
•Characters with tragic flaws whose acts do not result in death
•A confusing subject
•Characters with broad personalities that act in stereotypically humorous ways
•There is no joyful or funny conclusion.
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Example is : Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”

Melodrama
An exaggeration type of drama which conventional to one dimention character. Contended
with exciting, passionate, and frequently deadly situations.

The Main Theme


•Character clichés include heroes, heroines, villains, mentors, and so on.
•Romantic or sombre stories with sweeping arcs
•Plots and events that are larger-than-life (or very small stories told in big ways)
•Character reactions are exaggerated
•Clearly defined literary topics
•Character flaws must be overcome in order to attain a resolution
•Ending that is sometimes cheerful and sometimes sad
Example is : “A Doll's House” by Herick Ibsen

Opera
Is a type of drama were actors sing a dialogue lines instead is of dictating in formal speech.

The Main Theme


•Arias, which are actually musical soliloquies.
•Plot-driving sequences that may or may not be
melodious
•A libretto (text) that has been turned to music.
•Tragic, comic, or melodramatic subject matter
•May have a dancing aspect, but mostly depends upon vocal performances
•Set design, costume design, and production
Example is : “La Puccini
Boheme” Opera by Giacomo

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.

The Main Theme


•Firstly Songs break up periods of conventional plot.
•Characters frequently sing in unison to express their emotions.
•Songs as plot-altering devices
•Storylines that be dramatic or hilarious
•A memorable and unique musical score
•Frequently a lot of singing and dancing. Example is : “ Les Miserables and Phantom of Opera ”

 Conclusion
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Literature are compose of different types of children's Literature. it traditionally represents


the culture and traditions of language people that reflects the stories of individuals. The terms to
use and describe written word and sometimes spoken materials. (Latin Literature means
“writing formed Letters, it also Littera means Letters). This kind of literature can shape the
individual dwell in the future. Furthermore, literature can enhance the ability of each children to
improve their writting and reading skill and to captivate the interest in learning various types of
literature. In summary each literature has a common factor specially for reader to gain interest in the
word of literature compassing these genre came from the ancient time which ancestors era
originate that until not is passing by this culture to next generation. Teaching Literature in
elementary grade is very crucial/difficult specially for the lower level. This gives the pupil and
teacher the opportunity to widen their experiences, it will help them to expose on using the
language, express their feelings, thoughts, and events. It is normal to the children to have a difficulty
on learning and understanding basic literature. Children literature creates foundational pathways for
a children’s language development and appreciation as well as encourages an actively engage
imagination.
The literature component in English is aim to enhance students’ language proficiency. This
certain approaches can be a big help on teaching to children, So the purpose of this, are to generate
an aesthetic part of the Language in personal needs of students

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ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY!

Activity 1: Arrange and Define Me


Instruction: Arrange the jumble letter in the box to form the correct word in each item. After forming a
word write your own definition of each describe word.

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 :
_

5. T E R C H A A C R
Definition :
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CHECK YOUR UNDRSTANDING (Post-Test)

Multiple Choice: Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. A connected series of events told through words written or spoken.


a.Poetry
b.Stories
c.Drama
d.Riddles

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

7. It derives from a classical convention distinction between comedy and tragedy.


a.Drama
b.Poetry
c.Riddles
d.Stories

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8. The cultural city of Athens mainly produced three types of Drama.


a.Tragedy, Comedy, Satyr play
b.Tragedy, stories, drama
c.Tragedy, Riddles, stories
d.Tragedy, drama, Riddles

9. It is a mode of expression on how the characters deleted or portray in a play.


a.Style
b.Theme
c.Setting
d.Plot

10. This is intended to entertain the viewer to feel overwhelmed or excited/laughing.


a.Tragedy
b.Melodrama
c.Musical
d.Comedy

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

20. It conveys a fiction or non-fiction genre.


a.Poetry
b.Riddles
c.Stories
d.Drama

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Pre-Test: Key answer Post-Test: Key answer

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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