Republic of the Philippines

Region I
DIVISION OF PANGASINAN II

SAN QUINTIN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

San Quintin, Pangasinan
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
SY 2020-2021
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CREATIVE WRITING
WRITE A CRAFT ESSAY
(HUMSS & GAS 12 QUARTER 2, WEEK 6-7)

MELCs: Create an online portfolio the outputs produced: poetry, fiction, script, etc. applying
ICT skills/any appropriate multimedia forms

K to 12 BEC CG: HUMSS_CW/MPIIc-f-24

Objectives: At the end of the module, the learners should be able to:
a. create an online portfolio (or group blog) on the outputs produced in poetry, creative
fiction, and script;
b. apply ICT skills or any appropriate multimedia forms in creating an online
portfolio; and
c. produce a suite of poems, a full and completed short story or a script for a one-act
play, with the option of staging.

Prepared by:

JAYSON P. PADILLA
Subject Teacher

Part I.
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A. Introduction:

The history of blogging starts with several digital precursors to it. Before “blogging” became popular, digital
communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as Genie, BiX and the
early CompuServe, e-mail list and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software,
such WebEx, created running conversations with “threads”. Threads are topical connections between
messages on a metaphorical “corkboard”. Some have likened blogging to Mass-Observation project of the
mid-20th century.

B. Discussions:

What is a Blog?

A blog (a shortened version of “weblog”) is a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an
individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style. It is a platform where a
writer or a group of writers share their views on an individual subject. Similarly, it is a term used to describe
websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog features diary-type commentary and
links to articles on other websites, usually presented as a list of entries in reverse chronological order. Blogs
range from the personal to the political and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects.

Here are common features that a typical blog will include:

• Header with the menu or navigation bar.

• Main content area with highlighted or latest blog posts.
• Sidebar with social profiles, favorite content, or call-to-action.
• Footer with relevant links like a disclaimer, privacy policy, contact page, etc.

What is the purpose of a blog?

There are many reasons to start a blog for personal use and only a handful of strong ones for business
blogging. Without blogging, your website would remain invisible, whereas running a blog makes you
searchable and competitive. So, the main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant audience.
Another one is to boost your circulation and send quality leads to your website.

The more frequent and better your blog posts are, the higher the chances for your website to get discovered
and visited by your target audience. This means that a blog is an effective lead generation tool.

What is a website?

A site or website is a central location of web pages that are related and accessed by visiting the home page
of the website using a browser. For example, the Computer Hope website address URL (Uniform Resource
Locator) is https://www.computerhope.com. From this home page, you could get access to any of the web
pages contained on its website.

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What differentiates blogs from websites?

Blogs need frequent updates. Good examples of this include a food blog sharing meal recipes or a company
writing about their industry news. Blogs also promote reader engagement. Readers have a chance to
comment and voice their different concerns and thoughts to the community. On the other hand, websites
consist of the content presented on static pages. Static website owners rarely update their pages. Blog
owners update their site with new blog posts on a regular basis.

C. Readings:

Blog Types

Personal blogs

The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog.
Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read. Blogs often become
more than a way to just communicate ; they become a way to reflect on life, or works of art. Blogging can
have a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs
quickly garner an extensive following. One type of personal blog, referred to as a microblog, is extremely
detailed and seeks to capture a moment in time. Some sites, such as Twitter, allow bloggers to share thoughts
and feelings instantaneously with friends and family, and are much faster than emailing or writing.

Corporate and organizational blogs

A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs used internally to enhance
the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or public relations
purposes are called corporate blogs. Similar blogs for clubs and societies are called club blogs, group blogs,
or by similar names; typical use is to inform members and other interested parties of club and member
activities.

By genre

Some blogs focus on a particular subject, such as political blogs, travel blogs (also known as travelogs),
house blogs, fashion blogs, project blogs, education blogs, niche blogs, classical music blogs, quizzing blogs
and legal blogs (often referred to as a blawgs) or dreamlogs. Two common types of genre blogs are art blogs
and music blogs.

By media

A blog comprising videos is called a vlog, one comprising links is called a linklog, a site containing a
portfolio of sketches is called a sketchblog or one comprising photos is called a photoblog. Blogs with
shorter posts and mixed media types are called tumblelogs. Blogs that are written on typewriters and then
scanned are called typecast or typecast blogs; see typecasting (blogging).

By device

Blogs can also be defined by which type of device is used to compose it. A blog written by a mobile device
like a mobile phone or PDA could be called a moblog. One early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an
online shared diary of a person’s personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a
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wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live
video together with text was referred to as sousveillance. Such journals have been used as evidence in legal
matters.

Forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of
posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on
the access level of a user and/or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before
it becomes visible. Forums have their own language; e.g. A single conversation is called a ‘ thread ‘. A forum is
hierarchical or tree-like in structure: forum – sub forum – topic – thread – reply . Depending on the forum set-up,
users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then subsequently log in in order to post messages.
Usually you do not have to log in to read existing messages. Forums are governed by a set of individuals , collectively
referred to as staff, made up of administrators and moderators, which are responsible for the forums’ conception,
technical maintenance, and policies (creation and enforcing). Most forums have a list of rules detailing the wishes, aim
and guidelines of the forums creators. Rules on forums usually apply to the entire user body and often have preset
exceptions, most commonly designating a section as an exception. For example, in an IT forum any discussion
regarding anything but computer programming languages may be against the rules, with the exception of a general
chat section.

Forum Structure

A forum consists of a tree like directory structure containing at the lowest end topics (commonly called threads ) and
inside them posts. Logically forums are organized into a finite set of generic topics (usually with one main topic)
driven and updated by a group known as members, and governed by a group known as moderators . All message
boards will use one of three possible display formats.

User groups

Internally, Western-style forums organise visitors and logged in members into user groups. Privileges and rights are
given based on these groups. A user of the forum can automatically be promoted to a more privileged user group
based on criteria set by the administrator.

Moderator

The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum who are granted
access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and
also keeping the forum clean (neutralizing spam and spambots etc.). Because they have access to all posts and threads
in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task.

Administrator

The administrators (short form: "admin") manage the technical details required for running the site. As
such, they may promote (and demote) members to moderators, manage the rules, create sections and sub-sections, as
well as perform any database operations (database backup etc.). Administrators often also act as moderators.
Administrators may also make forum-wide announcements, or change the appearance (known as the skin) of a forum.

Post

A post is a user submitted message enclosed into a block containing the user’s details and the date and time it was
submitted. Members are usually allowed to edit or delete their own posts. Posts are contained in threads, where they
appear as boxes one after another. The first post starts the thread; this may be called the TS (thread starter) or OP
(original post). Posts that follow in the thread are meant to continue discussion about that post, or respond to other
replies; it is not uncommon for discussions to be derailed.

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Moderator

A thread (sometimes called a topic) is a collection of posts, usually displayed from oldest to latest, although this is
typically configurable: options for newest to oldest and for a threaded view (a tree-like view applying logical reply
structure before chronological order) can be available. A thread is defined by a title, an additional description that may
summarize the intended discussion, and an opening or original post (common abbreviation ‘OP’, which can also mean
original poster ) which opens whatever dialogue or makes whatever announcement the poster wished. A thread can
contain any number of posts, including multiple posts from the same members, even if they are one after the other.

D. Example:

BLOGGING SITES

WordPress

Is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS)

based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a
template system. It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg
and Mike Little

Google Blogger
Is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi- user blogs with time-stamped
entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the
blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. 

TypePad
Is another blogging site that has gained a reputation through its user friendly interface and
ease of use. TypePad gives your blog search engine friendly URLs and will automatically
optimize your site for better search engine rankings. The TypePad software also has very good
anti- comment spam features. Unfortunately you must pay a fee of $8.95 per month to use
TypePad and, even at that price, you are only allowed three blogs. Originally launched in
October 2003

Movable Type
Is a weblog publishing system developed by the company SixApart. Written in Perl, and
supports storage of the weblogs contentand associated data within MySQL natively.Similar to
WordPress,Movable Type offers a free self-hostedpackage (MovableType.org) as well as a
service for non-developerswho would like to host their blog for free (MovableType.com).

Drupal
Is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) and content management
framework (CMF) written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.
Drupal runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running
PHP (including Apache, IIS, Lighttpd, Hiawatha,C herokee or Nginx) and a database (such
as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Mo

Xanga
started as a site for sharing book, music and movie review but hassince evolved into a full-
force blogging platform. Xanga is free but withthe premium/plus versions you are given more
publishing and designoptions, bandwidth and storage space. You can use Xanga on your
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 owndomain (as opposed to using a sub-domain of Xanga) and, because Xangauses domain
mapping, your domain will have free WHOIS protection,which means people cannot learn
your contact information by doing aWHOIS search on your domain (a service that usually costs
$10 per year).

Tripod
created by the underdog search engine Lycos, is a web hostingservice and content
management system for blogs and websites thatoperate under free, plus or pro accounts. The
software is not open sourcebut incredibly stream-lined and easy to use with a wide
variety ofprofessionally designed templates to choose from for your blog or
website.The free account is only allowed 20GB of disk space, 1GB of
monthlybandwidth and you must run ads by Tripod unless you upgrade to a Plusaccount.

Squarespace Similar to Tripod

Squarespace is a hosting service that comes with an easy to use, closed- source content
management system for blogs and websites. Squarespace offers some promising features,
including an iphone app to view and edit your site, dozens of professionally designed
templates, social media integration and an importation tool if you would like to move
your blog from WordPress, TypePad or Blogger. The trial version of Squarespace lasts
14 days and the basic package costs $8 per month. More expensive packages (like the
$50 community package) allow more bandwidth usage, disk space, custom URLs and other
functionalities

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Part II- Activity Properp

Activity 1. Read the statements below carefully. Choose from the choices inside the box the correct answer
to what is being asked in each item. Write your answer in your answer sheet.

1. A website that is often created by an individual to keep a list of entries that interests them.

2. An area where users share thoughts, ideas, or help by posting text messages.

3. A cloud-based service provided by certain companies, and these services allow users to access their e-
mail over the Internet without the need of software installation, unlike Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird..

4. A software accessed on the Internet that searches a database of information according to the user's query.

5. It is a page or collection of pages on the World Wide Web that contains specific information which was
all provided by one person or entity and traces back to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

Website
Webmail
Search engine
Blog
Forum
Chat

Activity 2. Look closely on the image below. Make a script based on the image demonstrating awareness
and sensitivity to the different literary and/or socio-political contexts of creative writing. The group will
perform the drama on stage using your written script.

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KEY TO CORRECTIONS:
Activity 1.

1. BLOG
2. FORUM
3. WEBMAIL
4. SEARCH ENGINE
5. WEBSITE

Activity 2.
Answer may vary

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III. SUMMATIVE EVALUATION
A. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it in a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is a specific mode of fiction represented through a performance.
a. poetry b. short story c. drama d. short paragraph

2. The narrator tells the story and is a character in the story.

a. First person POV b. second person POV
c. third person POV d. fourth person POV

3. It is an intensification of the conflict in a story or play.

a. exposition b. rising action c. complication d. falling action

4. It is the action or sequence of events in a story.

a. setting b. point of view c. plot d. theme

5. A kind of staging modality with only two sides of seats. This style of staging is almost like a catwalk and
commonly used for fashion shows.
a. theater-in-rounds b. arena stage
c. traverse stage d. thrust stage

6. The audience sits on all four sides of the acting area.

a. arena stage b. promenade stage
c. thrust stage d. end on stage

7. A type of drama in which the protagonist meets a calamitous end.

a. tragedy b. comedy c. melodrama d. fantasy

8.It is a struggle between opposing forces in a story or play usually resolved by the end of the work.
a. exposition b. rising actionc. resolution d. conflict

9. The mode of expression or delivery of lines

a. speaking style b. diction c. facial expression d. gesture

10. Any movement of the actor’s head, shoulders, arms, hand leg or foot that is done to convey meaning.
a. gesture b. facial expression c. diction d. speaking style

11. It is a genre of fiction that deals with the solution of a crime or the unravelling of secrets. It is anything
that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown.
a. mythology b. horror c. fantasy d. mystery

12. It is a hosting service that comes with an easy to use, closed- source content management system for
blogs and websites
a. Tripod b. Squarespace c. Wordpress d. Google Blogger

13. A literary work expressed in verse, measure, rhythm, sound and imaginative language, and creates an
emotional response to an expression, feeling or fact.
a. prose b. poetry c. fiction d. Nonfiction

14. It is a web hostingservice and content management system for blogs and websites thatoperate under free,
plus or pro accounts.
a. Tripod b. Squarespace c. Wordpress d. Google Blogger

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15. It is a term used to describe websites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information.
a. search engine b. Blog c. website d. URL

B. Directions:

Create a 4x4 poem about what you have learned in Creative Writing. Be guided with the guidelines below.

C. Directions:

Create an online portfolio or a blog where you can place all your outputs in poetry, fiction, short
stories, written script of your play or drama, and even the video on the play or drama presentation of your
group, applying ICT skills or any multimedia forms.

*This activity is a group work with 5 members, make sure that all members must post/upload all of their
outputs from the beginning of the module during the second quarter.
Indicate in your answer sheet the name/URL of your blog from the blog site you have chosen.
Write the names of your members.

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REFERENCES:
Estacio, Ma. Joahna M .2016. Developing Reading and Writing Skills. 927 Quezon Avenue, 1104 Quezon,
City: The Phoenix Publishing House, Inc.

Wyson, John Daryl B. 2016. English for Academic and Professional Purposes. Quezon City:Vibal Group
Inc.

English for Academic Purposes Learner’s Material and Teacher’s Guide. Department of Education, First
Edition, 2016.

https://www.freepik.com/free-photos-vectors/line”>Line vector by pch.vector – www.freepik.com</a>

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Prepared by:

JAYSON P. PADILLA
T-II

Checked:

BEVERLY L. GARCIA, T-I JUNELYN J. SAPITULA, T-II DAPHNE M. MAGNO, T-II

Checking Committee Chairman Checking Committee Member Checking Committee Member
G12 Curriculum Chairman G11 Curriculum Chairman G12 Adviser

Recommending Approval: Approved:

DOMINGO T. DISMAYA II, EdD EMELDA T. HERNANDEZ

Assistant Principal II Principal III

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