ENGLISH VII

Lesson 7: CONNECTING TO MY PAST

Objective: 1. Discover Philippine literature as means of expanding experiences and
outlook and enhancing worthwhile universal human values;

2. Analyze the personality of a major character in a story presented;

3. Organize Ideas in the legends using comparison-contrast chart

Activity: ACTITUDE (ACTION – ATTITUDE ANALYSIS SURVEY)

Reading Text: The First Monkey

Parallel Text: The Legend of Mango

There was once a man named Daeogdog who lived in a quiet village in the Pangasinan Province. He
was known for his quick, explosive temper and for always trying to get his way. Thus, it was no surprise
when he forced his beautiful and gentle daughter, Aganhon, into an engagement with Maeopig, a young man
who was as quarrelsome and domineering as he was. Aganhon pleaded with her father to cancel the
engagement, but he flatly refused and kept insisting that his choice was the best.

On the day of the wedding, Aganhon was nowhere to be found. The bridal party searched high and
low, until someone finally ventured into a nearby stream and stumbled upon the young bride’s motionless
body, with a dagger sticking out of the poor girl’s chest. (I suppose she preferred to stab her own heart rather
than give it to the pig she was supposed to marry.)

Stricken with grief and remorse, Daeogdog dreamt of his daughter on the night of her funeral. In the
dream, Aganhon led her father to a tree that grew on the spot where they found her body. As soon as he
awakened, Daeogdog rushed over to the stream and found the same tree, its branches heavy with bright
yellow fruits that were shaped like hearts. He sampled one and found it to be as sweet and tender as the heart
of the daughter whose feelings he callously disregarded. He called it “mango”/”mangga”, which meant
“heart-shaped” in their ancient tongue.

Questions:
1. What is the reason why Daeogdog want Aganhon to be engage with Maeopig?
2. Why did Aganhon killed herself?
3. Where did they found the body of the girl?
4. What is the message of Aganhon to his father when the night of her funeral?

Prepared by:

MARY JOY A. QUIBUAL

Teacher I

ROSE-MARIE I. IGAMA
Teacher I

Checked BY:

ROSARIO C. AVILES, Ed. D.

Head Teacher III, English Department