Week 1 Lesson 1 (21 st

Century Literature)
Name: Hannah Louise S. Codilla
Grade and Section: Grade 11 HUMSS - Weber
Date and Time: October 10, 2020
Application (Performance Task): Identifying the Literary Period from the text

Instructions: Read the following excerpts and identify its literary period. Briefly explain your
answer applying your learnings on the linguistic, geographic and cultural dimensions on literature
in the Philippines.
Example:
Sicalac and Sicavay
“Finally, they decided to go ahead and got married and had a
son named Sibo. Then they had a daughter named Samar.
Sibo and Samar had a daughter named Luplupan who grew
up and married Pandaguan,”

Sample answer: Pre-colonial Literary Period; it is a myth about the creation of the islands of the
Visayas, it explains how Cebu, Leyte and Bohol were formed. It is also evident in the language use
wherein Sibo is now the island of Cebu. During this period, people share stories through on how
nature and objects in the nature came about.

YOUR TURN
1. Title: Pagbuhat nag Tanaga by Eladio Abquina

Sarili nating sining

Na kilanli’y nalibing.
Kaya’t akin nang hiling
Ibig dito’y, magturing!

(I point this to our own art

Where repute was took apart
So now this wish, I impart,
May it be fond to your heart!)

Japanese Colonial Period; it is a poem regarding our own art and culture and how we
should do our best to preserve and improve it so that it will not be buried in the past and
just stay hidden, but that we should be proud of it and use it and keep it closer to our
hearts. During this period, Filipinos have learned to write in form of manner which is the
Tanaga, and have learned to express it more by this style.

2. To the Fatherland
To the Fatherland (A la Patria)
Hail! oh my native country! more than aught I adore thee,
Whom with so many treasures lavish Nature has blessed;
Eden where flowers more fragrant bloom than in other gardens,
Where with more beautiful colors, rising, the dawn paints the heavens,
And where the poet, enraptured, sees what he elsewhere but dreamt.

Hail! oh thou queen enchanting! Filipinas beloved,

Venus beauty-enshrouded, peerless, beloved land!
Region of light and color, poetry, fragrance, and gaiety,
Regions of fruits delicious and of sweet harmonies, gently
Lulled to sleep by the breezes and the surf of the sea.

Pearl the most precious and dazzling of our Eastern ocean,

Paradise gilt by the splendors of our brilliant sun:
Eagerly do I greet thee, and adoration ardent
Offers my soul with the burning, fervent desire to see thee
Free from thy bitter sorrow, free from the Spaniard's yoke!

Ah, in the midst of thy splendors, sadly in chains dost thou languish,
That which to thee is most precious-Freedom, thou hast it not!
Ah, to relieve thee, my country, in thy distress, in thy suffering,
Fain would I give my life-blood, gushing forth from my bosom
To the last drop, and oblivion find, and eternal rest.

Spanish Colonial Period; it is a poem by Emilio Jacinto about his homeland and adoring his
own country. The poem stated the goodness of his country, the richness of the land and
how beautiful and wonderful the Philippines is. In this period, people were more stylish
and symbolic on how they words and write pieces of literary forms. Even in this piece, it
reveals how the Filipino have excelled in writing in their time.

3. Ang Hunsoy Sungsungan Usab by Marcel M Navarra

Dili alang sa iyang kaugalingon, ni sa iyang bana ug duha ka anak

ang iyang nabalak-an. Makaantos pa sila nga unya na sa udto kasudlan og
diyotay ang ilang tiyan. Sa tinuoray, naanad na sila nga makaduha da
(usahay makausa lamang) makakaon sa usa ka adlaw. Dili man usab kay
sila ra ang nagping-it. Sa panahon sa gubat, magkalahugay lamang ang
kalisod nga sagubangon sa tawo.
 
Ang pito ka sundalo nga nagbantay sa pangpang mao ang
nahunahunaan ni Malta. Nahinumdom siya nga sa dayon na niyang gipong
sa kalayo, iya man diay, ug sa unom ka silingan, nga turno sa pag-amot og
pamahaw sa mga sundalo. Sukad ugod may nahidunggo nga usa ka lansang
Hapones sa Lipata (sumala sa mga sulti-sulti nga iyang nahipos, napugos
kuno ang mga Bakang sa pagdangop sa batoong hunasan sa Lipata aron
 paglikay sa mga ayroplanong Amerikanhon nga nagabahis na sa kalangitan
sa Sugbo), ang mga tulutinamod nga lumulupyo sa balangay mihangyo sa
dako-dako sa gerilya sa Kabkab nga butangan untag mga sundalo ang
pangpang sa Lipata aron, kon adunay modunggo pag-usab nga mga
kaaway, kini mahurot pagkatumba gumikan sa bantaaw nga pagkabutang
sa mga sundalo. Ang opisyal sa gerilya (ginganlan man kuno kadtog
Tenyente Minggoy) miuyon, apan ubos sa kondisyon nga ang taga Lipata
maoy mopakaon sa mga sundalo.

Japanese Colonial Period; this is Cebuano short story that showed Marcels’ reality about
realism and the sacrifices of how he faced difficulties during the World War II with regards
to the life of the Filipinos. In this period, I learned that Filipinos were taught to love their
own language and art. Japanese people encouraged to do their own work of art proudly
based on their own culture and native tongue, and not to get used to using foreign
languages. It simply means that they were given the freedom of expression as well as
speech.
4. Imaginary Ex by Mina V Esguera
When Zack asks Jasmine to pretend to be his ex-girlfriend, she gamely
agrees, thinking it would be fun. A few years later, she still has to keep
convincing people that they were never together! Then one day she finds
out he’s getting married – to someone she’d just met once!

21st Century; this is a story that is written in a website and app called Wattpad
for writers to publish new generated stories. This story explains how the
people in the modern world or the so-called 21 st Century are creative in
writing literary pieces. The mindsets of people nowadays have widened that
almost all genres and forms of literature are accepted and you are free to
express what’s on your mind whether it be speech or writing.
5. Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benítez

“Papa, and when will the ‘long table’ be set?”

“I don’t know yet. Alfredo is not very specific, but I understand Esperanza wants it to be next
month.”
Carmen sighed impatiently. “Why is he not a bit more decided, I wonder. He is over thirty, is he not?
And still a bachelor! Esperanza must be tired waiting.”
“She does not seem to be in much of a hurry either,” Don Julian nasally commented, while his rose
scissors busily snipped away.
“How can a woman be in a hurry when the man does not hurry her?” Carmen returned, pinching off
a worm with a careful, somewhat absent air. “Papa, do you remember how much in love he was?”

American Colonial Period: this is the first Filipino Modern Short Story written in English.
This shows the realism of Filipinos in those days. Their subjects were mostly real life
situations which many people can relate to. Many Filipino started writing again and the
nationalism of the people remain undaunted. Filipino writers went into all forms of
literature like news reporting, poetry, stories, plays, essays and novels. Their writings
clearly depicted their love of country and their longings for independence.