LEARNING MODALITY: FACE TO FACE

School NAIC WEST POINT COLLEGE Grade Level 12

LESSON
EXEMPLA Teacher JENNIFER L MENDOZA Learning Area ENGLISH
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Teaching Date and Time 60 MINS Quarter 2

I. OBJECTIVES At the end of the session the learners are expected to:

a) Identify the use of creative work in a sociopolitical context.

b) examine the orientation of literature in terms of sociopolitical

context

c) Realize the significance of the creative literature

1. Content Standards The different orientations of creative writing

2. Performance The learner produce a craft essay on the personal creative process
Standards deploying a consciously selected orientation of creative writing.
3. Learning 1. situate the creative work in literary and /or sociopolitical context
Competencies/ 2. demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the different
Objectives orientations of creative writing
3. write a craft essay
II. CONTENT Creative literary works and sociopolitical context.

A. References

a. Learner’s Material Pages

b. Textbook Pages

c. Additional Materials from

Learning Resources
Creative Writing Book

B. List of Learning Resources

for Development
Power point presentation

Method/Approach in Teaching Collaborative Approach

IV.PROCEDURES
A. Introduction
Preliminaries
A. ROUTINARY ACTIVITIES
 Prayer
 Checking of classroom condition
 Greetings
 Review

Review

Before learning how to craft essay that demonstrates awareness and

sensitivity to the different literary and socio-political contexts of creative
writing, let us check first if you can still remember your topic on exploring the
key elements of fiction.

Directions: Identify what is being described in the statements below about the
elements of fiction. Write your answers inside the boxes.

1. It includes the place, time, weather conditions and social conditions that
establish the atmosphere, or mood of a story or specific scene.

2. This describes the central idea embodied in a literary text and may be the
author’s thoughts about the topic or view of human nature.

3. In a literary text, it is the textual representation of a human being, or

occasionally another creature.

4. This kind of conflict portrays a situation wherein two characters have

opposing desires or interests.

5. In this kind of characterization, the narrator explicitly or directly describes

the character.

6. It means the arrangement or sequence of the events to develop the basic

idea in the story.

7. This is the process by which the character reveals the personality of the
character.

8. In this type of conflict, the character is in opposition with the norms and the
society.

9. It refers to the standpoint or angle from which the story is told.

10. This refers to the struggle between two entities.

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B. Development
What’s In?

Teaching Strategy: Monologue

Instructional Materials:
1) Monologue piece ( Sanity on Fire)

2) Rubric for assessing performance

Rubric - Criteria: Performance (25 pts), Analysis (25 pts), Creativity (25
pts), Collaboration (25 pts)

What’s New?

Literary texts do not stand alone. Readers need to understand the text by
viewing it as a whole and get the context in the surrounding frames. Literary
works are being described as branch of literature dealing with words in
creating mental pictures, idea, or story in a meaningful pattern. There are two
kinds of literary works: creative writing and analysis of the written work.

Creative writing means the original piece of work that expresses ideas and
thoughts in a creative or imaginative way while the analysis of written work is
the way that a person analyses the piece of literature in a more detailed
process. In this module, you will be doing the analysis of a written work
focusing on the dominant contexts found in the literary piece.

Have you experienced reflecting on the overall meaning of the text after
reading? Have you tried reflecting on the values and views of the author? Did
you think about the whole context of the literary piece in order for you to
understand the meaning of the text?

LITERARY CONTEXT

Literary context means understanding the literary genre. Determining the

literary genre helps in understanding the context of the passage. The author
and the reader agree through the genre. Examples of genre for fiction are:
drama, fable, fairytale, folklore, humor, horror, legend, poetry, short story,
and science fiction while the literary genres for non-fiction are: biography,
essay, speech, autobiography, and narrative non-fiction.

- The word “context” means the circumstances forming the set-up of an

event, statement, or idea to make it understandable and easy to assess.

Furthermore, there are several literary contexts which can help the readers in
giving interpretation of the text. These are social context, historical context,
ideological context, and cultural context.

TYPES OF LITERARY CONTEXT

1. SOCIAL CONTEXT.

- It is the way in which the surroundings, the people, the situation influence on
how people react and interpret things. How people react may be credited to
their previous experiences. Read the sample poem below and see how the
social context dominated in the overall understanding of the piece.

2. HISTORICAL CONTEXT.

- This kind of context is being hooked with the social context when the
literary work or era it was produced. There is no literary piece that can be
fully appreciated without knowing the historical context.

- For example, the poem written by Telesforo Sungkit Jr. entitled “I

Higaonon”, social and historical contexts can be derived from the poem. This
poem is about Higaonon tribe, one of the lumads or indigenous peoples in
Bukidnon Province, Northern Mindanao. The poem portrays a sort of social
discrimination on the part of the Higaonons stated in the 6th stanza below.

I you called savage

you say savage is bad people.
You say you is civilized
and civilized is good people.

Below are the 9th and 10th stanzas that divulged the resentful experience as
part of their tribe’s history. For decades, the Higaonons were struggling of
their independence, their cultural integrity, and rights to self-determination.
They fought for the protection of their forested mountains against the loggers
and the security of their ancestral domain for more than sixty years already.
More so, some of them were being killed and suppressed if they disagree with
those who tried to stop the superiors as described in the poem.

I angry you kill my datus,

I angry you burn my house,
I angry you get my honey,
I angry you get my sakop,
but you say I should know democracy.
You say know democracy
but you commanding all
you telling I not speak
you forcing I live near plantations
You making all us sakop
you killing my brothers not liking you.

3. IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS.

- Ideology is described as the systems of beliefs and ideas being found in our
attitudes and behavior. This kind of context is invisible as it is being
normalized as people act according to their assumptions and social norms.

- For instance, in the epic of Maranao entitled “Darangan”, there were two
sons of the king: Prince Madali and Prince Bantugan. Between the two
princes, the younger one, Prince Bantugan was better in strength and
intelligence. When their father died, the elder brother, Prince Madali was
promoted to the throne. Implicitly, the story valued the role of the elder
brother who was next to his father even though the younger brother was more
capable to rule. This kind of norm called seniority rule is still applied in some
organizations and group of people nowadays.

4. CULTURAL CONTEXTS.

- Culture means the way of life including religion, race, nationality, food,
dress code, manner, art, music, and literature.

It is also linked with social, historical, and ideological context. This kind of
context is dominant especially when the author is commenting about an aspect
of culture, or conflict of culture. Through literature, rich cultures are being
manifested in the text.

Take a look at the short story written by Amador Daguio entitled “Wedding
Dance”. The characters Awiyao and Lumnay most probably belonged to the
Igorot people who inhabit the large areas of Luzon. Since Filipinos were
being colonized by

Spaniards in 1500s, Americans in 1898, and Japanese in 1940s, there were

mixed cultures being practiced by our ancestors. Thus the writer, Amador
Daguio being born in Ilocos Province dwelt in the culture of his ancestors to
explore the Filipino traditions. In the short story, after being married for seven
years Awiyao was forced to marry another girl because Lumnay could not
bear a child. The culture suggested that a measurement of being a family man
is to have a child. In that case, the love of the couple was in a big trouble
leading their true love to unhappy ending. This literary piece also depicts that
culture has a great factor in the decision of a person.

THREE AREAS IN SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT

Furthermore, there are three areas that involved in the socio-political contexts.
These are social issues, politics, and religion.

1. SOCIAL ISSUES.

These are related to the issues concerning the national aspect of human life. In
the Philippines, examples of social problems are: corruption, poverty, lack of
education, teenage pregnancy, oppression to the poor, prostitution,
suppression of freedom of the press, dishonesty, and others.

2. POLITICS.

This is one of the prolific themes in literature that has something to do with
the governance of a country or an area.
3. RELIGION.

This refers to the belief of humanity that there is far greater entity who made
the greatness of nature

As an example, the historical fantasy novel from Mindanao entitled

“Margosatubig: The Story of Salagunting” by Ramon L. Muzones features the
socio-political context in this literary text.

In its social issues, it can be culled from the story the greediness for fame,
fortune and power to rule Sulu and Maguindanao. Sultan Mohamed who
contested to rule Margosatubig even poisoned Salagunting’s grandfather so
that he could seize the throne. Salagunting was the rightful heir to the
sultanate kingdom, Margosatubig. Salagunting was against the wrongdoings
of the forces of Sultan Mohamed who practiced Moro slave raids, pillaging,
and piracy in Christian towns.

Since the story is about the most coveted sultanate kingdom, the
Margosatubig, most parts of the story were highly political. Sultan Mohamed
was really desirous to seize the throne doing everything that expelled the
father of Salagunting, Datu Ibyn Parang from his throne.

There was also religious context in the story when Sultan Mohamed
condemned Datu Ibyn Parang for marrying a Christian woman and bearing
Salagunting. Because Salagunting was half-Christian and half Muslim, he
dreamt to unite many lands by promoting good justice and good governance.

In this part of the module, you will be applying the literary and sociopolitical
contexts that you just have learned. You will be reading a poem and apply the
knowledge you gained about developing sensitivity in the literary and socio-
political contexts of creative writing.
C. Engagement
What’s More?
Output 5. Within the Lines Directions:
Directions: Write an essay expounding the dominant context whether literary
or socio political contexts that can be found in the poem. Support your essay
with lines from the poems as your evidence or additional explanations. Use a
separate sheet of paper.

Sad Little Houses

By Amparo Asuncion
The sad little houses, the poor little houses
Crowd by the riverside.
The holes in their roofs, the cracks in their walls,
Vainly they try to hide.
The stench of the river, the dark, muddy river
Is with them night and day,
Pure, fresh air may be had for the moving.
But they can’t move away.
They can only stand by the bank of the river
Buried knee-deep in the clay,
They can only stare at the drifting garbage
Until they, too, decay.
And, pass away into ghosts of houses
Killed by a burning sun,
Smothered with dust and then forgotten—
Forgotten by everyone.

D. Assimilation
Generalization

What I have learned:

Today I have learned that creative literature is

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I have also learned that creative literature is associated in sociopolitical context in

such a way that
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I have understood that literary devices play an important role in a drama because
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Therefore, I commit _________________________________________________

 Assessment
Post-Assessment: Creative literary works and sociopolitical context.

Direction: Read and understand carefully the statements in every item

and write an essay.

1. As a student, in your own words, write your understanding on

how to develop sensitivity to the literary and sociocultural
contexts in creative writing.

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I am happy that I have learned about
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V.REFLECTION ______________________________________

I can use this knowledge in

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Prepared by:
JENNIFER L MENDOZA
Practice Teacher