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Learning Module in 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

GRADE 11 HUMSS/ABM GRADE 12 STEM
First Quarter, Week 4 Module No.4

AN OVERVIEW OF PHILIPPINE LITERARY HISTORY

TITLE

LEARNING COMPETENCY

Differentiate/compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and the ones
from the earlier genres/periods citing their elements, structures and traditions (EN12Lit-Id-25)

OVERVIEW / TO DO LISTS
LEARNER– In this module, you will learn to differentiate about the realism and fantasy according to its subgenres. For
you to be able to do the activity correctly, read the instruction on every activity. Ask the guidance of your parent in doing
the activity if there are things you can’t understand on the module.

FACILITATOR – Please facilitate your child upon answering or completing this module. Let them do the task
independently.

INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON

Philippine literature withstood time and periods and has evolved through generations.  For every period that
passed, different genres appeared, and these literary works rooted from all regions reflecting their culture,
society and lifestyle.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
 Identify the different subgenres of fantasy and realism.
 Apply the different genres through various activities.
 Share insights about the story “Green Girl” (2008), a work of fantasy by Cyan Abad- Jugo.

WHAT I KNOW
Why are popular vernacular novels not as studied as much as other literary works?

LESSON PROPER
REVIEW
What are the elements and forms of poetry?
What is the difference between dramatic irony and situational irony?

WHAT I NEED TO KNOW

It is given, especially in a significant number of accounts of our literary history, that what we designate
as the body of work called “Philippine literature” evolved in relation to our historical experience.
 It is now commonplace, for instance, to explain the emergence of Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere as a
reaction to our experience of colonial oppression during the Spanish occupation.
 A consideration of literature’s abiding relationship to history can enlarge our understanding of how the
literary, in its “symbolic representation of human experience,” can also affect changes in how we live
out or experience and interpret our realities.
 We can trace the emergence of fantasy as a subgenre in the short fiction of as early a proponent as
Nick Joaquin or Gilda Cordero-Fernando, realism has maintained its status as the dominant mode of
representation in Philippine fiction since Rizal’s Noli Me Tnagere. Realism is held to be the most
conducive structure for representing social realities. In the last fifteen or so years though have evolved
a more substantial crop of works whose narrative strategies are developed by the alternative modes of
fantasy, science fiction, fabulation, and magic realism. 1
  Fantasy is often compared to the fairy tale in that it contains the same elements of magic and
supernatural, which impel the main action.
 In Damania Eugenio’s multivolume archive of Philippines folk literature, tales of magic or fairy tales are
a type of folktale. As our precolonial literature, epics, myths, legends, folktales, proverbs, and riddles
are not technically “literature” in the sense that these are not written texts intended for a reading
public.
 They are varieties of oral lore whose creation owes not to be work of an author but to the collective
imaginary and common experiences of a specific community.
 Legends are similar to myths since they likewise explain events and realities, but the former are more
secular narratives, which developed out of closer ties to the local.
 In fact, legend are held to embody the native or event motivates the telling. Legends typically revolve
around a cultural fact or given that merits contemplation by the members. Folktales are the most
fictive, least serious of the three in that they embody neither dogma nor history. Under this
classification are fairy tales, fables, trickster tales, and religious tales.
 Fantasy is a modern work written by an author although it may borrow a number of motifs from epics,
myths, and legends. Whereas the fairy tales is set in mythic time, detached from history. Fantasy
begins and ends in the here and now of the reader.
 Fantastic plots typically begin in the real world with a protagonist, usually a child who encounters a
supernatural object, event, or being which transports him or her to a different, alternate, or parallel
setting or world.
 The main characters in fantasy tend to be more complex and ambiguous than the characters in fairy
tales who either good or evil.
 The listener or reader of fairy tales knows the story is “true” or “real” moral.

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED

Directions: Read and answer the following question.

1. Compare and contrast realism and fantasy

2. What are the subgenres under fantasy? Describe each.
a. e.
b. f.
c. g.
d. h.

3. What are the subgenres under realism? Describe each.

a. d.
b. e.
c. f.

II. Watch your favorite movie in fantasy and in fairy tale , compare each through an essay . Your essay must be
written in a bond paper with your creativity .

Rubrics
Content 10
Creativity and cleanliness 10
Total Score 20
LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET

Name:__________________________________________________________________________________
Grade and Section: ___________________________________________________Date:________________

Directions: Read “Green Girl” (2008), a work of fantasy by Cyan Abad- Jugo. Answer and discuss the
guide questions that follow.
1. In what way is the story a work of fantasy? 2
 2. Which elements or motifs from the legend and the fairy tale does “Green Girl” appropriate?
3. Describe the character of Milton and his attitude toward the story about the house next door,
which his Aunt Hilda narrates.
4. In a way, “Green Girl” is a story within a story: Milton is listener to his Aunt Hilda’s stories. When
Milton rejects the creature’s request, it vanishes and becomes the substance if his dreams. Who or
what is this creature? To whom or what can we attribute its existence?

REFLECTION
1. Is it possible to read fantasy as an intertext of children’s literature?
2. To what extent is fantasy as embodied in “Green Girl” a Western genre?

REFERENCES
MELC (Most Essential learning Competency)
Reading Literature in the 21st Century Literature
First Edition
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