Written Report in 21st Literature

Topic: The Adopted Healthy Baby

by: Layeta P. Bucoy

Abstract
The report that we tackled is aiming for the lessons and knowledge that students can get about the said topic.
Layeta P. Bucoy wrote the story “The Adopted Healthy Baby” to give value and importance in our life by being
responsible in the future. The story was all about a man who is depending to other person for his own problem, where he
can’t stand alone by his own feet to do his tasks without depending to someone. The story undertake the importance
responsible and the value of it to a person.

Body
Mrs. Layeta P. Bucoy’s short background:

 Layeta Bucoy was a first-place winner in this year’s Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for
Literature’s English One-Act Play category. Her play “The Adopted Healthy Baby” is about a college
teacher’s fears about the new K-12 curriculum.
 This is her fifth win. She previously won for “Ellas Inocentes,” 2007; “Doc Resurreccion: Gagamutin ang
Bayan,” 2009; and “El Galeon de Simeon,” 2011; all in the Filipino One-Act Play category. Her very first
win was in the Filipino Teleplay category in 1998 for “Ang Repleksyon ni Ms. Trajano.”

Introduction
 The Background of the story
The “Adopted Healthy Baby” is about a chemistry professor who’s about to lose his job and was considered as the
“adopted healthy baby” of the late Ma’am Mendoza because he had a good heart.

 Purpose
The purpose of the whole story was to tackle some of the most trending issues in education in the Philippines the
time that this was published and could be even be experienced right now, the implementation of the K-12 Curriculum in
schools nationwide, and the cases of plagiarism in schools.

 The Scope
Some tend to do the wrong thing because of their needs, it’s not wrong to ask for help as long as you know that
you are not going to hurt someone and it’s for everyone’s good.

Guide Questions during presentation

1. What lesson in life did you get from this story?
2. How can you apply this lesson in the reality?
3. Does the story helps you to become a better person?

GROUP 1

1. MARK JOHNSON A. GUMOGOD

2. SHAWN VERSOZA
3. LYSTER NEGROS
4. IVAN VERRA
5. BENEDICT BOBARES