LA SALLE UNIVERSITY

Ozamiz City

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

LEARNING MODULE

Course: Philippine Literature Teacher: Alter P. Hofilena

Module & Week No.: Module 1, Week 1 No. of Students:

TITLE: Introduction to Literature and the Literary Standards

Literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been

applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the
intentions of their authors and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their
OVERVIEW: execution. Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems,
including language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
This module focuses on the definition of literature, its nature and scope.
Students are introduced to the different genres of literature and their difference.
In this part of the course, the students acquire the skills to identify literary pieces
that manifest, according to Merriam-Webster, “writings having excellence of
form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest”
through the knowledge of the literary standards.

Please take note of the following instructions.

1. Your success in this module largely depends on your diligence and hard work
GENERAL in accomplishing the activities prepared for you.
INSTRUCTION 2. Read and follow instructions carefully.
S: 3. Some activities require research and thorough reading. Please be responsible to
do your part.
4. Learning is self-paced and self-directed. Use your time wisely.
5. All outputs should be submitted through Google Classroom or in the Drop-off
area within the given time frame.
6. For questions and clarifications, use our official group chat.

At the end of the module, the students must have:

1. defined literature
LEARNING 2. differentiated the various literary genres
OUTCOMES: 3. discussed the literary standards
 4. written an essay discussing a literary piece using the standards of literature as
a critical lens

Directions: Pick one from the “Quotes About Writing and Literature” and
discuss your agreement or disagreement with it.

 Henry Miller: "Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things,
literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures,
beautiful souls, and interesting people. Forget yourself."
 Ezra Pound: "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the
utmost possible degree."
 Joseph Heller: "He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."
PRE-TEST:  John Steinbeck: "I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the
perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
 Alfred North Whitehead: "It is in literature that the concrete outlook of
humanity receives its expression."
 Henry James: "It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
 C. S. Lewis: "Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches
the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this
respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
 Oscar Wilde: "Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it but molds it
to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of
Balzac."
 G. K. Chesterton: "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
 Virginia Woolf: "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have
minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
 Salman Rushdie: "Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest
places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute
truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."
 William Somerset Maugham: "The crown of literature is poetry."
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "The decline of literature indicates the decline of
a nation."
 Robert Louis Stevenson: "The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write
what you mean."

Activity 1: It’s Not My Cup of Tea

Directions: Identify which literary genre is referred to in the following

statements

1. Its written text contains dialogues, and stage directions.

2. Sometimes this genre may tell a story, like an autobiography, or sometimes it
may convey information to readers.
GENERAL 3. Unlike poetry, it is more structured, follows proper grammatical pattern, and
INSTRUCTION correct mechanics.
S: 4. It includes short stories and novels, while fiction and non-fiction are its sub
genres.
5. This genre’s mode of fictional representation is through dialogue and
performance.
6. It contains conflict of characters, particularly the ones who perform in front of
audience on the stage.
7. It evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific
emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning,
sound, and rhythm.
8. This literary genre is derived from the Latin fictiō, “the act of making,
fashioning, or molding.”
9. It could be creative like a personal essay, or factual, like a scientific paper.
10. According to Somerset Maugham, this genre is the crown of literature.

Activity 2: Act It Like You Mean It

Directions:
A. Differentiate the genres using a presentation of short skit for each.
B. Each skit should not exceed 3 minutes.
C. Provide a clear storyline that identify the genre and differentiate it from the
others.
D. Your skit will be graded through this rubric.

Skit Performance Rubric

Category 4 3 2 1
Speaks Speaks clearly Speaks clearly Speaks clearly Often
Clearly and distinctly and distinctly and distinctly mumbles or
all (100-95%) all (100-95%) most (94-85%) cannot be
the time, the time, the time, understood
mispronounce mispronounces mispronounces OR
s no words. one word. no more than mispronounces
one word. more than one
word.
Volume Volume is loud Volume is loud Volume is loud Volume often
enough to be enough to be enough to be too soft to be
heard by all heard by all heard by all heard by all
audience audience audience audience
members members at members at members.
throughout the least 90% of least 80% of
presentation. the time. the time.
 Stays on Stays on topic Stays on topic Stays on topic It was hard to
Topic all of the time. most (99-90%) some of the tell what the
of the time. time (89-75%). topic was.
Content Shows a full Shows a good Shows a good Does not seem
understanding understanding understanding to understand
of the topic. of the topic. of parts of the the topic very
topic. well.
Preparedness Students are Students seem The students Students do
completely pretty are somewhat not seem at all
prepared and prepared but prepared, but prepared to
has obviously might have it is clear that present.
rehearsed. needed more rehearsal was
rehearsal. lacking.

Activity 3: What Makes It Tick

Directions: Watch the film, Oro, Plata, Mata by Peque Gallaga. Discuss the literary
standards highlighted in the film. Choose at least 3 literary standards and talk
about their strong presence on the film which make it great.

ASSESSMENT: ESSAY
Directions: Write a 3-page essay on the poem, Isang Dipang Langit, by Amado V.
Hernandez using the literary standards as a critical lens.
REFERENCES Web references:
1. https://www.britannica.com/art/literature
2. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-literature-740531
3. https://www.thoughtco.com/literature-quotes-and-sayings-738757
4. https://www.academia.edu/37379359/Literary_Standards_of_Literature
5. https://literarydevices.net/genre/
6. https://www.tagaloglang.com/tula-isang-dipang-langit/

Textbook:
1. Norton Introduction to Literature