ENGLISH 10

WEEK 6 - THIRD QUARTER

Name: ___________________________ Grade & Section:_________
Teacher:__________________________ Date:____________________

Learning Competencies (Essential Competencies)

Critique a literary selection based on the following approaches:
(moralist)

Objectives

● Define Moral Criticism;

● Appreciate literature to enrich values in life; and
● Analyze a poem/short story using the Moralist Approach.

Let’s Understand

Moral/Ethical Criticism—The moral/intellectual critical approach is

concerned with content and values. The approach is as old as literature itself,
for literature is a traditional mode of imparting morality, philosophy, and
religion. The concern in moral/intellectual criticism is not only to discover
meaning but also to determine whether works of literature are
both true and significant.
To study literature from the moral/intellectual perspective is therefore to
determine whether a work conveys a lesson or message and whether it can
help readers lead better lives and improve their understanding of the world.

Moral Philosophy is concerned with finding the definitions of right

conduct and the good life.
It asks the following questions:
o How should one act?
o What does one think is right?
o How does one take moral knowledge and practice it?
o What does “right” mean?

Now, let us try this activity

TASK 1

Give at least 3 possessions you value the most. Rank them according to
your most priority down to the least.

1. ___________________
2. ___________________
3. ___________________

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TASK 2

VOCABULARY DRILL

Arrange the jumbled words in column A and match them to column B to get
the correct meaning.

A B.

1. P T S R I a person who runs an inn

2. I K N N P E R E E repay (a person who has spent or lost money)

3. S E M R E I U B R leave bare of accessories or fittings

4. I I E N D A R an ancient Roman silver coin, originally worth ten

asses

5. N I N an establishment providing accommodations,

food, and drink for travelers

Let’s Apply

Read the bible verse Luke 10:25-37

“The Parable of the Good Samaritan”

A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among

robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half

dead. By chance, a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw

him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way, a Levite also, when he

came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certain

Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was

moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on

oil and wine. He set him on his animal, and brought him to an inn, and took

care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii,

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gave them to the host, and said to him, 'Take care of him. Whatever you spend

beyond that, I will repay you when I return.

Answer the following questions based on the selection above

1. What happened to the man in the story?

2. How did the three people react when they saw the half-dead man?
3. If you were the priest and the Levite, would you do the same thing?
Why?
4. Would you also help a stranger?
5. What is the moral of the story?

Let’s Analyze

A short story is one kind of literary genre. A short story is a brief fictional
prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a
few characters. The short story is usually concerned with a single effect
conveyed in only one or a few significant episodes or scenes. The form
encourages the economy of setting, concise narrative, and the omission of a
complex plot; character is disclosed in action and dramatic encounter but is
seldom fully developed.

Read and analyze the story below and answer the questions that follow.

The Loveliest Rose in the World

By Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) (Adapted)
(Source: http://www.spirituality.org/is/177/05.asp)

Once there reigned a queen, in whose garden were found the most
glorious flowers at all seasons and from all the lands of the world. But more than
all others she loved the roses, and she had many kinds of this flower, from the
wild dog-rose with its apple-scented green leaves to the most splendid, large,
crimson roses. They grew against the garden walls, wound themselves around
the pillars and wind-frames, and crept through the windows into the rooms,
and all along the ceilings in the halls. And the roses were of many colors, and
of every fragrance and form. But care and sorrow dwelt in those halls. The
queen lay upon a sick-bed, and the doctors said she must die.

"There is still one thing that can save her," said the wise man. "Bring her
the loveliest rose in the world, the rose that is the symbol of the purest, the
brightest love. If that is held before her eyes were they close, she will not die."

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 Then old and young came from every side with roses, the loveliest that
bloomed in each garden, but they were not of the right sort. The flower was to
be plucked from the Garden of Love. But what rose in all that garden
expressed the highest and purest love? And the poets sang of the loveliest rose
in the world, —of the love of maid and youth, and of the love of dying heroes.

"But they have not named the right flower," said the wise man. "They
have not pointed out the place where it blooms in its splendor. It is not the rose
that springs from the hearts of youthful lovers, though this rose will ever be
fragrant in song. It is not the bloom that sprouts from the blood flowing from
the breast of the hero who dies for his country, though few deaths are sweeter
than his, and no rose is redder than the blood that flows then. Nor is it the
wondrous flower to which man devotes many a sleepless night and much of
his fresh life, the magic flower of science."

"But I know where it blooms," said a happy mother, who came with her
pretty child to the bedside of the dying queen. "I know where the loveliest rose
of love may be found. It springs in the blooming cheeks of my sweet child,
when, waking from sleep, it opens its eyes and smiles tenderly at me." "Lovely
is this rose, but there is a lovelier still," said the wise man. "I have seen the
loveliest, purest rose that blooms," said a woman. "I saw it on the cheeks of the
queen. She had taken off her golden crown.

And in the long, dreary night she carried her sick child in her arms. She
wept, kissed it, and prayed for her child." "Holy and wonderful is the white rose
of a mother's grief," answered the wise man, "but it is not the one we seek." "The
loveliest rose in the world I saw at the altar of the Lord," said the good Bishop,
"the young maidens went to the Lord's Table. Roses were blushing and pale
roses shining on their fresh cheeks. A young girl stood there. She looked with all
the love and purity of her spirit up to heaven. That was the expression of the
highest and purest love." "May she be blessed," said the wise man, "but not one
of you has yet named the loveliest rose in the world." Then there came into the
room a child, the queen's little son. "Mother," cried the boy, "only hear what I
have read." And the child sat by the bedside and read from the Book of Him
who suffered death upon the cross to save men, and even those who were
not yet born. "Greater love there is not." And a rosy glow spread over the
cheeks of the queen, and her eyes gleamed, for she saw that from the leaves
of the Book there bloomed the loveliest rose, that sprang from the blood of
Christ shed on the cross. "I see it!" she said, "he who beholds this, the loveliest
rose on earth, shall never die."

Guide questions:

1. What is the loveliest rose in the world?

2. What did the characters say about the loveliest rose in the world? How
did they describe it?
3. How does morality affect their values of life?
4. What is the moral of the story?

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5. Give your meaning of the loveliest rose in the world.

Let’s Try

Critique the poem below by writing a 2-paragraph essay and

remember to use the moralist approach.

I BELIEVE

We are all aware the world is changing

Life will never be the same again
The world is contagious
Humankind is futile

Everywhere I walk, hope is deserted

Like falling stars, dreams are dying
The virus is threatening human existence
Insecurity embraced into our homes

It is a huge difference between life and death

Wish I could press play for the world to reset
Diseases would not steal our hope away
Tears will not reside in our land

You may not notice it yet

However, God designed the world to be distinct
If but man is remorseful and repent his ways
The plague will be purged

All Rights Reserved © Akan Udofia 2020

Source: Fb page (Literary Criticism and Theory)

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 Let’s Create

Your goal is to create an analysis using the

Goal:
Moralist Approach.
Role: You are a literary analyst.
Your audience is your family, relatives, and
Audience:
friends
Situation: You have read an announcement through

the DepEd-Paranaque FB Page that the office

needs a literary analyst. One of the

requirements is to read an article about the

pandemic that we have been experiencing

nowadays, then, write a 500 to 1000-word

analysis using the Moralist Approach. Once

accepted, you will enjoy the cash incentives

to be given by the management.

Product/Performance: A paper analysis on an article about COVID-

19 Pandemic.

Standards: The output will be graded through a provided

rubric.