READING and WRITING SKILLS

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Activity 1
List down titles of five fictional prose forms and five non – fictional prose forms you are familiar with.

Fictional Prose Forms Non – fictional Prose Forms

1. 1.

2. 2.

3. 3.

4. 4.

5. 5.

Activity 2
List down title of a poem that exemplifies each of the forms of poetry described. Recall the poems you studied in grade school
or in junior high school. Provide/attach at least two copies of the poems that you can recall.

Forms of Poetry Examples

1. Narrative Poetry

2. Epics

3. Ballads

4. Sonnets

5. Haiku

Activity 3
List down titles of a play that exemplifies each of the forms of drama described. Be able to provide an excerpt for each.

Forms of Drama Examples

1. Comedy

2. Tragedy

3. Melodrama

4. Farce

5. Historical Drama

Activity 4
Read the titles of text in the first box below. Determine if the text is a literary text or an informational text. Write the title under
the heading where it belongs in the chart below. Alongside each title, write the specific genre of that text, e.g., Invictus (Poetry – lyric
poem).
 Titles of Texts Literary Informational

“ The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan
Poe
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by
William Shakespeare
“Beauty and the Beast” by Hans Christian
Andersen
“O Captain, My Captain!” by Walt
Whitman
The Social Cancer by Jose Rizal

History of the Philippines by Teodoro

Agoncillo
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest
Hemingway
A Brief History of Time by Stephen
Hawking
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Constitution of the Republic of the
Philippines
Newsweek

The Grammar Book by Marianne Celce-

Murcia and Dianne Freeman