ST.

ANTHONY’S COLLEGE
San Jose, Antique
HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
21 Century Literature from the Philippines and the
st

World

Week 7 – First Quarter

Learning Competency: Discuss how different contexts enhance

the text’s meaning and enrich the reader’s understanding

Name:Christian Paul Vicente,Gian Dave Capistrano Grade &

Section 12-St. Luke  Activity 3. Navigate. – 45pts

Do the activity by pair. Respond critically to the following

questions and worksheets to process the selection. 

Base your answer from the selection, “The Love of Magdalena

Jalandoni.”

1. Supply the following biographical or historical details about

Magdalena Jalandoni mentioned 
     by the writer as he characterized his subject. Quote parts of the
essay to complete this basic 
     “biodata” of the Hiligaynon writer. (15pts)

Address
Jaro, Iloilo City 

Year of
birth May 27, 1891 in Jaro, Iloilo

Parents
 Gregorio Jalandoni and Francisca Gonzaga

Schooling
 Magdalena was sent to a day school in Jaro 
run by  Clemente Gonzales and his wife
Donata. Magdelina was always at the head of
her class that time Magdalena was enrolled in
the escuela publica where Magdalena, in less
than  six months, was  accelerated  from the
fourth grade to the first year  at the Iloilo High
School. she was a refined daughter and she did
not approve  of having boys and girls in same
class.

First
experience published her first novel Ang Mga Tunoc Sang
of Isa Ca Bulac (The Thorns of a Flower)
publishing

Her body of she still managed to publish 36 novels, 122

literary short stories, 7 novelettes, 7 long plays, 24
works short plays

Year of
death  September 14, 1978 

2. How did the essay go beyond these biographical details? Plot the
development of the character 
    of Jalandoni between the period of her birth and her death.(2pts
each = 10pts)

Birth
May 27, 1891

Growing
up Magdalena. Writing was masculine domain,
reserved exclusively for men. Women had to fulfill
purely ornamental and domestic functions and for
them, therefore,  there were the femanine arts of
painting, embroidery, sewing,  and cooking
As a
lady Magdalena Jalandoni was known as Western
Visayas first woman writer. She is now
 remembered as one of the most prolific Filipino
writer in the Hiligaynon language. 

At 75 Magdalena wrote about this leitmotif of losses and

finds in Juanita Cruz, her most mature novel
according to scholar Lucita Hossilos. Conscious of
the depreciating affluence of Jaro, She wrote about
Juanita who is a binukot of her family, a treasure
kept by her father to the highest bidder who offers
the greatest wealth and power but she fell in love
with a poor choirmaster Elias , Disinherited, She
Asis, went to Manila , found a surrogate family, and
became heiress of her foster parents. Juanita was
reunited with Elias in the end only to discover
Spain. 

At 80 80 Years after the realization of Jose’s dream,

Magdalena died at the age of 87. She remains the
reina of hiligaynon literature. No one knows if she
once had dreamt of herself as a reina for the feast od
Candelaria, or if she ever imagined of Jose Rizal
escorting plaza.

3. What does this passage from the essay suggest about the writer’s
attempt to capture in words the enigmatic Hiligaynon writer?: “No
one knows if she once had dreamt of herself as a reina for the feast
of Candelaria, or if she ever imagined of Jose escorting her down
the plaza.” Three to five sentences. (10pts)