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 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 short

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

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)