21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World T5: Teaching

Guide T1: Acid Plan(3rd)

Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches

21st Century Philippine Literature: Writings from the diaspora “Turban Legend (Excerpt from Leche)”
TOPIC /LESSON NAME
by R. Zamora Linmark
The learner will be able to understand and appreciate the elements and contexts of 21st Century Philippine
CONTENT STANDARDS
Literature from the regions.
The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of 21st Century Philippine literature
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS from the regions through a critical paper that analyzes literary texts in relation to the context of the reader and
the writer or a critical paper that interprets literary texts using any of the critical approaches.
1. Identify the literary element in the text.
2. Explain the texts in terms of literary elements, genres,and traditions.
LEARNING COMPETENCIES
3. Examine the relationship between text and context

At the end of this lesson, the learners will be able to:

1. Discuss literary elements used in a text / literary piece.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES
2. Identify literary elements used in a text / literary piece.
3. Write a short literary piece containing the literary devices.
TIME ALLOTMENT Two sessions (120 minutes)

LESSON OUTLINE:
1. INTRODUCTION: Classroom Routines, Articulating Learning Objectives (10 minutes)
2. MOTIVATION: Pair Work with Guide Questions (10 minutes)
3. INSTRUCTION/DELIVERY: Reading Circles and Plenary Discussion (30 minutes)
4. PRACTICE: Identifying the Theme (10 minutes)
5. ENRICHMENT : Theme Discussion
6. EVALUATION: Writing a short literary text containing the literary devices.

PowerPoint Presentation, whiteboard, markers, excerpt of the story, worksheets

MATERIALS

RESOURCES
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World T5: Teaching
Guide T1: Acid Plan(3rd)
Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches

PROCEDURE MEETING LEARNERS’

NEEDS
1. INTRODUCTION
At the end of the course learners should:
-Understand the objectives of the course and gain a top-level awareness of the topics that shall
be covered. Gaining top-level awareness of
the course and leveling of
-Level their expectations so they already know that their output for this course is literary piece
expectations
(thus, it will be a written output), and that the steps/milestones they will undergo will help them in
creating a better final piece.

2. MOTIVATION
(10 Minutes)
SQUAD WORK: Stuff It. Instruct the class to work with their squad with a maximum of five
members. Provide a 1/4 size cartolina which has a drawing of a "balikbayan" box in each. Let them
draw some stuff that can be found in a typical "balikbayan" box. Ask each squad to present their
work.

3. INSTRUCTION / DELIVERY
(15 Minutes)
-Have the learners go to their groups.
-Inform them that they will use Reading Circle as they read and discuss the text.
-Make sure that in a group there is a Discussion Leader, Summarizer, 2 Link Makers, and Word
Wizard. Making connections from the text
*Discussion Leader: Will make sure that all member of the group are talking and sharing their to real life experiences.
ideas. If a member does not participate, discussion leader will make sure that the member speaks.
*Summarizer: will take note of all the discussed ideas in the group, should note all key pointers.
*Link Makers: Should connect the text to real-life situations.
*Word Wizard: Will unlock the meaning of difficult words and share it to the class.
-As each group processes the text using the Reading Circles, go around the classroom to take
note of their discussions.

Guide Questions:
1. Why do you think Filipinos Love balikbayan boxes?
2. What do you think the boxes symbolize? Why do they seem to be more important than their
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Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches

contents?
3. What do you think is the real message behind the anecdote or the “turban legend”?
4. Do you think that Filipinos who live or work abroad suffer from homesickness? Explain your
answer.
5. What is the significance of the story?

-Make sure the learners are speaking in complete sentences.

-Intervene only in group discussions when necessary.
-Process the activity in plenary; ask the word wizards of the difficult words, ask the summarizers
to share what they’ve discussed.
-Focus on unrooting the Theme of the Story.

4. PRACTICE
By this time, learners are able to identify themes in a text/literary piece. As a class, learners will
guess the possible themes of the movie trailers and ask them to justify their answers.
Identifying the theme of the
literary piece.
1. The Help - Racism; hypocrisy and integrity Commented [1]: parallel texts
2. Brides Maids - Jealousy, Freindship, empowering oneself
3. Us - Exixtence of supernatural beings
4. The Space between us - impossible teen romance
5. Robin Hood - social justice, “take from the rich and give to the poor”
6. The Theory of Everything - Based from true story (Stephen Hawking)
7. A beautiful mind - discrimination against mental illness - psychotic disorder - schizophrenia -
Based from true story (John Nash) Transfer of learning.

5. ENRICHMENT
Homework - Theme Discussion
Learners will pick a literary piece of their choice from the Philippine Diaspora. They have to identify
the theme present in the text and share it to the class.
Commented [2]: give choices

Transfer of learning.
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6. EVALUATION
Learners will be working in pairs. They will write a short literary text (haiku, tanaga, prose,
poetry) that embodies any of the given 21st Century Literary Themes. Learners will be graded based Commented [3]: Make a video saying message to the
on the following rubric: ofw relatives thru the use of multi media; 1 minute ad;
skype; use of podcast, gmail, messenger, multimedia
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World T5: Teaching
Guide T1: Acid Plan(3rd)
Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World T5: Teaching
Guide T1: Acid Plan(3rd)
Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World T5: Teaching
Guide T1: Acid Plan(3rd)
Essential Topic 5:21st Century Literary Text from the World: Literary Elements, Techniques, Devices, and Critical Approaches