21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

MODULE 1

MODULE 2

THE 21ST CENTURY PHILIPPINE NATIONAL

JUMPSTART: ACTIVITY 1:

1. Memoir
2. Linguistic
3. Context
4. Socio-cultural
5. structuralism
6. feminism
7. authorial
8. biographical
9. formalism
10. socialism

EXPLORE: ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY: UNDERSTAND ME!

ASSESSMENT 1

ANSWER:

1. WHO, HOME, AND WANDERING SHALLOWS are the striking words inside the
poem.
2. There 4 meaningful statements found in the poem.
3. Yes. It is cut from the writers urge to express the depth of his feelings
4. No there are no rhymes, it conveys the message of the poem clear and deep
which is rooting love for the nation he wants to live in.
 5. The imagery used in the poem is a lonely man longing for the land he one’s love
because of a lady.
6. The mood of the poem is solemn and lonely.
7. Yes. The step by step in line message of the poem is seen in a subtle style.

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY 2: READ AND SCRUTINIZE

ASSESSMENT 2

1. The narrator described his family as one whom enjoy their riches from rugs and
struggle to reach for the top of its victory.
2. The rich man’s family became ill and his children suffers from anemia and the
narators family became healthy and robust.
3. The conflict raised in the story is when the rich man complain about the poor man
family because of stealing their wealth and food.
4. No. because wealth does not determine within the life status of each family but
within the honor you brpught inside your home. It is a false accusation because
of greed and envy from the poor family’s wealth and health.
5. The poor man took the straw hat of his son and began to stack pile of centavo
inside the at asked if the child hear the tinkling of the coins and said that’s the
spirit of money that I will repay you.

ASSESSMENT 3

Carlos Bulosan is one of the best literary authors in the Philippines that always
tackles the social issue of the country's economic stability. Bulosan's central theme is
exile and return--the effect of departure from home and the necessity to return to the
Philippines to make sense of the exile's experience in the United States because of the
colonial status of the Philippines.

GAUGE

1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. A
9. A
10. C
11. FEMINISM
12. SOCIALISM/SOCIAL STRATIFICATION
13. POST COLONIALISM
14. MARXISM
15. NEW CRITICISM

16. The movie "Die Beautiful" shows the story of a transgender woman who wish to
be different celebrities in her every wake. This story shows how some people like
the character in the story have difficulties in facing the discrimination of others
and by the ones closest to them. This type of discrimination is sometimes
experienced by some people in conservative areas in a certain country or the
country itself. The people who do this to other people might have been raised
traditionally. This movie is full of cultural context despite of being in a modern
society.
17. The movie "Heneral Luna" is very historical in context, it shows how a hero who
risked his life for the country's liberty faced resistance from his own people. This
movie also shows how some fickle minded Filipinos got easily swayed by lies
and fear.
18. The Movie "Ang Larawan" tells of the story of two unmarried sisters Candida and
Paula Marasigan who are both relying to their father who is a famous painter who
in a long time didn't release a single painting. It was hard for both sisters and
their family so when the portrait of their father was released they argued whether
it's to be for selling or to be donated. This story shows how hard life is in a poor
country like the Philippines is. Back then, women are not allowed to work so they
 rely on their husbands or family so everything that means to be done should be
done to live. This story is full of cultural context.
19. The movie "Muro-Ami" tells how a vengeful fisherman takes avenge for his family
who he lost in an accident from a boat. Everyday he fishes with a heavy heart
and does illegal fishing. This movie shows how hard it is to be living as a
fisherman all your life. Also, fishing is one of the main source of income of most
Filipinos and this only proves how hard it is for them and for their family it is to be
making a living out of this. This has a Physical, rhetorical and Cultural context in
it.
20. The movie "Anak" tells how an OFW's hard work got tear apart when she return
to her shattered family. There are a lot of Filipinos who go to another country just
to work for their family's welfare and the work aoutside of the country is a hard
one and not everyone who return from abroad come home to a warm family.
That's how hard it is when deciding to go abroad for work. It might be a better
way to earn money but the end and what's between it is unprecedented. This
shows both cultural and physical context.

MODULE 3

EXPLORE ACTIVITY 2 WHERE THEY BELONG

AFRICA ASIA EUROPE NORTH SOUTH

AMERICA AMERICA
THINGS FALL LI BAI DON QUIXOTE SURREALISM BEOWOLF
APART THE TALE OF ROMEO AND NEGRITUDE THE
CHINUA GENJI JULIET 100 YEARS OF TAXIMAN’S
ACHEBE HARUKI ILLIAD SOLITUDE STORY
ONITSA MURAKAMI HOW DO I THE SIGLO DE
NOVELS THE IZU LOVE THEE PRESIDENTS ORO
GOD SEE THE DANCER OEDIPUS DECAMERON HOUSE OF
TRUTH BUT PABLO KING THE SPIRIT
WAITS NERUDA SONNET 18 NECKLACE WATER
WOLE GABRIEL LEO TOLSTOY MARGIN
SAYINKA GARCIA JK ROWLING FRANCISCO
I NOVEL MARQUEZ PETRARCH
PRO STOPPING
CLUENTIO BY
ALL MEN ARE WOODS ON
BROTHERS SNOWY
BASHO EVENING
JAMES
MBOTELA

DEEPEN

ACTIVITY 4 REFLECTION TIME

Pride is a sense of fulfillment then afterward one’s an accomplishment. It might

be a chance to be whichever a great emotion, alternately an awful person. The reason a
feeling, you might ask? Since fulfillment may be a feeling itself. That expression pride
infers from the English expressions “proud,” and the term pleased hails from those
french interpretations “preux,” which intends valiant. It is needed to be seen in an innate
premise of being a human, so helping others without discrimination and prejudice is a
must.

ACTIVITY 5 HAIKU WRITING

NATIONAL IDENTITY

Youth of today is advance

Millennials’ meme -

Find one’self

delving deep down into

 identity search…

GAUGE PART 1 MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. A
2. B
3. A
4. A
5. D
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. B
10. B
11. A
12. A
13. C
14. D
15. A
16. A
17. C
18. C
19. B
20. B
21. B
22. D
23. D
24. A
25. D

PART 2 SHORT ESSAY

ASIA- entangles the importance of literature and tradition throughout the life of man
AFRICA – because of discrimination and the need to be treated nice and fairly the
literary tes]xt is always about discrimination and cruelty

EUROPE - because of the image of greatness through the kings and queens
dominance the need to be liberal is seen in almost all of the literary pieces.

NORTH AMERICA – love and contentment for a certain situation is depicted in the
marginalized flow of literary text.

SOUTH AMERICA – just like African literature south American literary pieces dominates
love and discrimination in the text written by great authors.

MODULE 4

EXPLORE WALANG MODULE 4 DITO

PASEND ULIT

MODULE 5

EXPLORE

21st Century Writer/s Literary Work/s Region/Place of Origin

1. Chimamanda Ngozi , Half of a Yellow Sun AFRICA
Adichie (2006)
2. SHAABAN ROBERT Uhuru wa Watumwa AFRICA
(“Freedom for the Slaves”),
3. HOMER ILLIAD AND ODYSSEY EUROPE
4. SHAKESPEAR ROMEO AND JULIET EUROPE
5. CHINUA ACHEBE THINGS FALL APART AFRICA

DEEPEN

SUMMARIZE IT
Things Fall Apart is the first novel by Chinua Achebe, written in English and published
in 1958. Things Fall Apart helped create the Nigerian literary renaissance of the 1960s.

The novel chronicles the life of Okonkwo, the leader of an Igbo community, from the
events leading up to his banishment from the community for accidentally killing a
clansman, through the seven years of his exile, to his return. It addresses a particular
problem of emergent Africa—the intrusion in the 1890s of white missionaries and
colonial government into tribal Igbo society. Traditionally structured and peppered with
Igbo proverbs, it describes the simultaneous disintegration of its protagonist Okonkwo
and his village. The novel was praised for its intelligent and realistic treatment of tribal
beliefs and psychological deterioration coincident with social unraveling.

Chinua Achebe, in full Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, (born November 16, 1930,

Ogidi, Nigeria—died March 21, 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.), Nigerian novelist
acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation
accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African
society. His particular concern was with emergent Africa at its moments of crisis; his
novels range in subject matter from the first contact of an African village with the white
man to the educated African’s attempt to create a firm moral order out of the changing
values in a large city.
Achebe grew up in the Igbo (Ibo) town of Ogidi, Nigeria. After studying English and
literature at University College (now the University of Ibadan), Achebe taught for a short
time before joining the staff of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos, where
he served as director of external broadcasting in 1961–66. In 1967 he co-founded a
publishing company at Enugu with the poet Christopher Okigbo, who died shortly after
in the Nigerian civil war for Biafran independence, which Achebe openly supported. In
1969 Achebe toured the United States with fellow writers Gabriel Okara and Cyprian
Ekwensi, lecturing at universities. Upon his return to Nigeria, he was appointed research
fellow at the University of Nigeria and became professor of English, a position he held
from 1976 until 1981 (professor emeritus from 1985). He was director (from 1970) of
two Nigerian publishers, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. and Nwankwo-Ifejika Ltd.
After an automobile accident in Nigeria in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed, he
moved to the United States where he taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York. In 2009 Achebe left Bard to join the faculty of Brown University in
Providence, Rhode Island.
Things Fall Apart (1958), Achebe’s first novel, concerns traditional Igbo life when the
advent of missionaries and colonial government in his homeland. His principal character
cannot accept the new order, even though the old has already collapsed. In the
sequel No Longer at Ease (1960), he portrayed a newly appointed civil servant, recently
returned from university study in England, who cannot sustain the moral values he
believes to be correct in the face of the obligations and temptations of his new position.
In Arrow of God (1964), set in the 1920s in a village under British administration, the
principal character, the chief priest of the village, whose son becomes a zealous
Christian, turns his resentment at the white man's position against his people places him
in. A Man of the People (1966) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) deal with corruption
and other aspects of postcolonial African life.
Achebe also published several short stories and children’s books, including How the
Leopard Got His Claws (1973; with John Iroaganachi). Beware, Soul-Brother (1971)
and Christmas in Biafra (1973) are poetry collections. Another Africa (1998) combines
an essay and poems by Achebe with photographs by Robert Lyons. Achebe’s books of
essays include Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975), Hopes and
Impediments (1988), Home and Exile (2000), The Education of a British-Protected
Child (2009), and the autobiographical There Was a Country: A Personal History of
Biafra (2012). In 2007 he won the Man Booker International Prize