21st Century List of Activities and Stories

I. What is Literature?
a. Story of Beginnings: Mankind’s quest to find meaning
i. Creative Presentation Story about how you were NAMED
ii. Myths of Creation
iii. Legends
iv. Epics
b. For Entertainment’s Sake or Imparting Wisdom
i. Fables/ Parables and Paradoxes
ii. Poetry (lyric poetry/ spoken poetry)
iii. Other forms (riddles, proverbs)
c. 5 Periods of Philippine Lit
i. Prehistoric: oral lores
ii. Colonial Period (Spanish period – American Period) :
iii. Republic Period :
iv. Modern :
v. Contemporary (post – post modern)
II. The Elements of Literature
III. The Epic Hero: (reading Activity)
a. Hercules (BBC film)
b. Bantugan or Agyu
IV. List of Readings (group reporting and short check up quiz per reading)
a. POETRY
i. Adonis Durado poems (2)
ii. German Gervacio : Ang Totoo Raya
b. SHORT STORY
i. Short stories (Tiempo, arguilla, aida rivera ford) - Chambers of the Sea, How My
brother Leon brought home a wife, love in the cornhusk
ii. Coraline (Neil Gaiman )
iii. Silk by Alessandro Barrico
iv. The Self by Amy Tan
v.
c. NOVEL (chapter excerpts)
i. Bob ong:
ii. JK Rowling : Harry Potter Excerpt Chapter 1 – 2 *
iii. Japanese Novel : The boy named Crow by Haruki Murakami
d. CREATIVE NON FICTION
i. Anthony Tan
ii. Jessica Zafra
e. NEW FICTION / DIGITAL FICTION
i. Comics: Select TRESE CHAPTER
ii. Webtoon
iii. Fan Fiction
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