Name: __________________________Date: __________

Grade: _____________________ Section: ___________

Subject: 21st Century Literature of the Philippines and the
World
Activity 1
African Literature
Learning Competencies: a. Identify representative texts and authors from
Asia, North America, Europe, Latin America, and Africa; (EN12Lit-IIa-22)

What I Need to Do
Let’s review the elements of a story. Identify the element being described. Choose your
answer from the word bank below.

1. The complication begins to show itself on the ___________________

characters, setting, and events in the story
2. The result of the climax, and it is the part ___________________
when things start falling into place for the characters
3. The locale or period in which the action of ___________________
a story takes place
4. The sequence of series of events in a story ___________________
5. The underlying message that the writer would
like to get across. ___________________
6. The beginning of the story, wherein the writer ___________________
sets the scene by introducing the characters,
describing the setting, and sometimes will give
a brief background of the story.
7. The event with the greatest tension in the story. ___________________
8. Where the story reaches its final conclusion ___________________
and the writer starts to get ready to tell the ending
by way of explaining a finality to make the story complete.
9. A struggle between two opposing forces ___________________
10. Evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through
words and descriptions ___________________

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 Gearing Up

Every story has basic components: characters, setting, plot, theme, conflict. Read Aesop’s fable The
Lion and the Mouse, and fill in the story mind map below.

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 Getting Better

Now let’s have a poem written by Roland Tombekai Dempster. Read it

carefully and answer the following questions.

1. What African qualities do the lines express?

2. What do you think they are all craving for?
3. Do you think there is a way of liberating themselves from slavery?
4. Does discrimination exist in African society? Single out lines from the
poem that prove this claim.
5. What does the poem reveal about the African character?

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Gaining Mastery
Accomplish the Character Analysis Model based from the
poem Africa’s Plea

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