Lesson Plan

Subject: 21st Century Grade Level: 11

Subject Teacher: Virgilio C. Dragon Jr. Date: 11-22-23
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the learners should be able to:
a. Understand the nature of world literature

b. Enumerate representative texts and authors from Asia, North America,

Europe Latin America and Africa; and

c. Appreciate the contribution of these authors and texts to world literature.

II. Content Standard

The learner will be able to understand and appreciate literary texts in various
genres across national literature and cultures.
III. Performance Standard
1. a written close analysis and critical interpretation of a literary text in terms
of form and theme, with a description of its context derived from research;
2. paper that analyzes literary texts in relation to the context of the reader and
the writer or a critical paper that interprets literary texts using any of the critical
approaches; and
3. an adaptation of a text into other creative forms using multimedia
IV. Learning Competency
Identify representative texts and authors from Asia, North America, Europe,
Latin America, and participates in active recreation. EN12Lit-IIa-22
Explain the texts in terms of literary elements, genres, and traditions.
EN12Lit-IIb-32
Situate the texts in the context of the region, nation, and the world.
EN12Lit-IIc-29
Appreciate the cultural and aesthetic diversity of literature of the world.
EN12Lit-IIc-33
Compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and their
elements, structures, and traditions from across the globe. EN12Lit-IId-25
Distinguish the literary uses of language from the nonliterary and understand
their use as well as the formal features and conventions of literature. EN12Lit-IIe-34
 V. Contents
TOPIC: Understanding and Appreciating the Literary Texts in Various Genres
Across National Literature and Cultures
SUB-TOPIC: Representative texts and authors from Asia, North America,
Europe, Latin America and Africa.
VI. Learning Resources
 Self Learning Module

VII. Procedures
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY
PRE-ACTIVITY Prayer
Checking of attendance
Setting of rules
Review
MOTIVATION Our lesson for today about
world literature.
What is world literature all about? - World literature is the totality of
all national literatures.

- emergence of writing and artistic

creativity
- Each nation`s literature has its
own artistic and national features.
- enrich each other borrowing
certain literary elements.
- explain the peculiarities of this
Very good! phenomenon

Who introduced the world - Jogann Wolfgang von Goethe

literature?

In 1827 he used the term

Weltliterature.

He claimed that literature

shouldn`t be restrained by
national boundaries. In 1894 the
world saw the first book about
world literature – “The History of
World Literature”. The world
literature emerged because of the
development of global economic
and cultural relations. This global
literary process was also caused
by the rapid development of
national
literatures. In the history of world
literature, we define several
stages of its development such as
the literature of Bronze Age,
Classical Literature, Early
Medieval Literature, Medieval
Literature, Early Modern and
Modern Literature.
World literature is the cultural
heritage of all humanity.

Do you understand? - Yes sir!

Lets proceed to some notable

writers in Asia.
 Tan Twan Eng - Tan Twan Eng was born in
 Musharraf Ali Farooqi Penang and lived in various
 Jeet Thayil places in Malaysia as a child. He
 Kim Thúy studied law at the University of
 Nayomi Munaweera London and later worked as
North America lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s
 Jonathan Safran Foer most reputable law firms; in 2016,
he was an International Writer-in-
 Sara Gruen
Residence at Nanyang
 Margaret Atwood
Technological University in
 Valeria Luiselli Singapore. Tan's first novel, The
 Carmen Boullosa Gift of Rain (2007), was longlisted
Europe for the Man Booker Prize and has
 Ian McEwan been translated into Italian,
 David Mitchell Spanish, Greek, Romanian,
 Zadie Smith Czech and Serbian.
 Delphine de Vigan -Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a
 Michel Houellebecq critically acclaimed Pakistani
Latin America author, novelist and translator.
 Isabel Allende - Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in
 Gabriel García Márquez Kerala) is an Indian poet,
 Mario Vargas Llosa novelist, librettist and musician.
 Patricio Pron
 Rodrigo Hasbún -Kim Thúy arrived in Canada in
Africa 1979, at the age of ten. She has
 Chimamanda Ngozi worked as a seamstress,
Adichie interpreter, lawyer and restaurant
 Aminatta Forna owner.
 Nadine Gordimer
-Nayomi Munaweera’s debut
 Alain Mabanckou
novel, “Island of a Thousand
 Ben Okri Mirror”
-Yes! Very good!
-He used the word “Weltliteratur”
in 1827.
-In 1894 the world saw the first
book about world literature – “The
History of World Literature”. The
world literature emerged because
of the development of global
economic and cultural relations.
-In your notebook, explain in three
(3) sentences what the statement -Yes Sir!
‘World literature is the cultural
heritage of all humanity’ means to
you.
It’s
-Are you done?
Done Sir!

-World literature is the cultural

heritage of all humanity. It is
essential to study world literature
as it helps us understand the life
of different people from all over
the world, forms our world-
outlook and acquaints us with the
-Very Good students! masterpieces of literature.
-Now let us get to know some
representative authors from
different regions in the world and
their works.
1.
-Tan Twan Eng was born in
Penang and lived in various
places in Malaysia as a child. He
studied law at the University of
London and later worked as
lawyer in one of Kuala Lumpur’s
most reputable law firms; in 2016,
he was an International Writer-in-
2. Residence at Nanyang
Technological University in
Singapore.

-Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a

critically acclaimed Pakistani
author, novelist and translator.
His novel "Between Clay and
Dust" was shortlisted for The Man
. Asian Literary Prize 2012 and
3. longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize
for South Asian Literature.

-Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala)

is an Indian poet, novelist,
librettist and musician.

4.

-Kim Thúy arrived in Canada in

1979, at the age of ten. She has
worked as a seamstress,
interpreter, lawyer and restaurant
owner.
5.

-Nayomi Munaweera’s debut

novel, “Island of a Thousand
Mirror” was long-listed for the
Man Asia Literary Prize and the
Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the
Commonwealth Regional Prize
for Asia and was short-listed for
the Northern California Book
North America Award.
1.

-Jonathan Safran Foer is the

author of two bestselling, award-
winning novels, “Everything Is
Illuminated and Extremely Loud
and Incredibly Close”, and a
bestselling work of nonfiction,
2.
“Eating Animals”. He lives in
Brooklyn, New York.

-
Sara Gruen is the #1 New York
Times and USA Today
bestselling author of five novels:
“At The Water’s Edge”, “Ape
House”, “Water for Elephants”,
“Riding Lessons”, and “Flying
Changes”. Her works have been
3. translated into forty-three
languages, and have sold more
than ten million copies worldwide.

- Canadian author Margaret

Atwood has numerous critically
acclaimed novels to her credit.
Some of her best-selling titles are
"Oryx and Crake" (2003), "The
Handmaid's Tale" (1986), and
"The Blind Assassin" (2000). She
is best known for her feminist and
dystopian political themes, and
her prolific output of work spans
multiple genres, including poetry,
short stories, and essays. She
distinguishes her "speculative
fiction" from science fiction
because "science fiction has
4. monsters and spaceships;
speculative fiction could really
happen."

-Award winning, translated into

numerous languages, Luiselli’s
playful, mesmeric novels, have
pushed the boundaries of
distortion between the real and
the imagined. Works such as
“Faces In The Crowd” (2012) and
“The Story Of My Teeth” (2015)
have seen her cast as one of the
bright lights of contemporary
Mexican fiction, and her collection
5. of non-fiction essays, “Sidewalks”
(2013), demonstrates the
versatility and deft touch of an
interesting new literary talent.

-Poet, playwright, and novelist,

Carmen Boullosa’s thoughtful and
eclectic works such as “Leaving
Tabasco” (2001), and “Texas:
The Great Theft” (2014), have
cemented the reputation of a
writer considered to be reaching
the height of her powers.
Europe Weaving through a wide range of
1. topics, and eras, Boullosa’s
imaginative power and craft have
allowed her to jump from one
project to another,
without being typecast or pigeon
holed.

-British writer Ian McEwan started

winning literary awards with his
first book, a collection of short
stories, "First Love, Last Rites"
2. (1976) and never stopped.
"Atonement" (2001), a family
drama focused on repentance,
won several awards and was
made into a movie directed by
Joe Wright (2007). "Saturday"
(2005) won the James Tait Black
Memorial Prize.

-David Mitchell
English novelist is known for his
frequent use of intricate and
complex experimental structure in
his work. In his first novel,
"Ghostwritten" (1999), he uses
nine narrators to tell the story,
and 2004's "Cloud Atlas" is a
3. novel comprising six
interconnected stories. Mitchell
won the John Llewellyn Rhys
Prize for "Ghostwritten," was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize
for "number9dream" (2001), and
was on the Booker longlist for
"The Bone Clocks" (2014).

-Literary critic James Wood

coined the term "hysterical
realism" in 2000 to describe
Zadie Smith's hugely successful
debut novel, "White Teeth," which
Smith agreed was a "painfully
accurate term for the sort of
overblown, manic prose to be
found in novels like my own
'White Teeth.'" The British
novelist and essayist's third
novel, "On Beauty," was
 shortlisted for the Booker Prize
4. and won the 2006 Orange Prize
for Fiction.

-Delphine de Vigan is an award-

winning French novelist. She has
published several novels for
adults. Her breakthrough work
was the book “No et moi” (No and
Me) that was awarded the Prix
des Libraires (The Booksellers'
Prize) in France in 2008.
In 2011, she published a novel
5. “Rien ne s'oppose a la nuit”
(Nothing holds back the night)
that deals with a family coping
with their mother's bipolar
disorder. In her native France, the
novel brought her a set of
awards, including the prix du
roman Fnac (the prize given by
the Fnac bookstores) and the prix
Renaudot des lycéens.

-Michel Houellebecq (born Michel

Latin America Thomas), on the French island of
Réunion, is a controversial and
1. award-winning French novelist.
To admirers he is a writer in the
tradition of literary provocation
that reaches back to the Marquis
de Sade and Baudelaire; to
detractors he is a peddler, who
writes vulgar sleazy literature to
shock.

-Isabel Allende Llona is a

Chilean-American novelist.
Allende, who writes in the "magic
2. realism" tradition, is considered
one of the first successful women
novelists in Latin America. She
has written novels based in part
on her own experiences, often
focusing on the experiences of
women, weaving myth and
realism together.

3.
-Gabriel García Márquez (1927 to
2014) was a Colombian writer,
associated with the Magical
Realism genre of narrative fiction
and credited with reinvigorating
Latin American writing. He won
the Nobel prize for literature in
1982, for a body of work that
included novels such as "100
Years of Solitude" and "Love in
the Time of Cholera."

-Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's

foremost author and the winner of
the 2010 Nobel Prize in
Literature. In 1994 he was
awarded the Cervantes Prize, the
Spanish-speaking world's most
4. distinguished literary honor, and
in 1995 he won the Jerusalem
Prize. His many distinguished
works include “The Storyteller”,
“The Feast of the Goat”, “Aunt
Julia and the Scriptwriter”, “Death
in the Andes”, “In Praise of the
Stepmother”, “The Bad Girl”,
“Conversation in the Cathedral”,
“The Way to Paradise”, and “The
War of the End of the World”. He
lives in London.

-Patricio Pron, born in 1975, is

the author of seven novels and
six story collections, and he also
works as a translator and critic.
His fiction has appeared in
5. Granta, Zoetrope: All-Story, and
The Paris Review, and he has
received numerous prizes,
including the Alfaguara Prize, the
Juan Rulfo Prize, the Premio
Literario Jaén de Novela award,
and the 2008 José Manuel Lara
Foundation Award for one of the
five best works published in
Spain that year. He was named
one of the best young Spanish-
language novelists by Granta in
2010.

-Rodrigo Hasbún is a Bolivian

Africa novelist living and working in
Houston, Texas. In 2007, he was
1. selected by the Hay Festival as
one of the best Latin American
writers under the age of thirty-
nine for Bogotá39, and in 2010
he was named one of Grantas
Best Young Spanish-Language
Novelists. He is the author of
three novels, a volume of
personal essays, and three
collections of short stories, two of
which have been made into films.

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

grew up in Nigeria. Her work has
been translated into over thirty
languages and has appeared in
various publications, including
The New Yorker, Granta, The O.
Henry Prize Stories, the Financial
Times, and Zoetrope. She is the
author of the novels “Purple
Hibiscus”, which won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and
the Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award; “Half of a Yellow Sun”,
which won the Orange Prize and
was a National Book Critics Circle
Award Finalist and a New York
Times Notable Book; and
“Americanah”, which won the
 2. National Book Critics Circle
Award and was named one of
The New York Times Top Ten
Best Books of 2013. Ms. Adichie
is also the author of the story
collection “The Thing Around
Your Neck”.

-Born in Glasgow but raised in

Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna first
drew attention for her memoir
“The Devil That Danced on
Water” (2003), an extraordinarily
brave account of her family’s
experiences living in war-torn
Sierra Leone, and in particular
her father’s tragic fate as a
political dissident. Forna has
gone on to write several novels,
each of them critically acclaimed:
her work “The Memory of Love”
(2010) juxtaposes personal
stories of love and loss within the
wider context of the devastation
of the Sierre Leone civil war,and
was nominated for the Orange
Prize for Fiction.

ACTIVITY -Instruction:
Match the descriptions in Column
A with the corresponding author in
Column B. Write the letter with the
correct answer in your notebook.

Column A Colum B
1. One of the a.
apartheid era’s Isabel
most prolific Allende
writers whose b.
works include Aminatta
“Burger’s Forna
Daughter”. c.
2. Name one Patricio -
of the best Pron 1.J
young d. 2.C.
Spanish- Alain 3.F
language Mabanckou 4.I
novelists by e. 5.B
Granta in 2010 Gabriel 6.J
whose latest García 7.H
novel, “My Márquez 8.E
Fathers’ Ghost f. 9.A
Is Climbing in Valerie 10.D.
the Rain”. Luiselli
3. Award g.
winning author Chimamand
whose novels, a Ngozi
have pushed Adichie
the boundaries h.
of distortion Margaret
between the Atwood
real and the i.
imagined. Musharraf
Works such as Ali Farooqi
“Faces in The j.
Crowd” (2012) Nadine
and “The Story Gordimer
of My Teeth” k.
(2015). Mario
4. A critically Vargas
acclaimed Llosa
Pakistani
author whose
novel
"Between Clay
and Dust" was
shortlisted for
The Man
Asian Literary
Prize 2012
and longlisted
for the 2013
DSC Prize for
South Asian
Literature.
5. First drew
attention for
the memoir
“The Devil
That Danced
on Water”
 (2003), an
extraordinarily
brave account
of family’s
experiences
living in war-
torn Sierra
Leone.
6. The author
of the novels
“Purple
Hibiscus”,
which won the
Commonwealt
h Writers Prize
and the
Hurston/Wrigh
t Legacy
Award.
7. Best known
for feminist
and dystopian
political
themes,
whose best-
selling works
include “Oryx
and Crake”
(2003) and
“The Blind
Assassin”
(2000).
ANALYSIS
-Very Good class!
-Now? Enumerate the notable - Tan twan eng
writers in Asia. - Musharraf Ali Farooqi
- Jeet Thayil
- Kim Thuy
- Nayomi Munaweera
Very good!
How About in North America? - Jonathan Safran Foer
- Sara Gruen
- Margaret Atwood
- Valeria Luiselli
- Carmen Boullosa

Now, In Europe. - Ian McEwan

- David Mitchell
 - Zadie Smith

- Delphine de Vigan

- Michel Houellebecq

In Latin America. - Isabel Allende

- Gabriel García Márquez

- Mario Vargas Llosa

- Patricio Pron

- Rodrigo Hasbún

I think also that you can - Chimamanda Ngozi

enumerate the writers in Africa. Adichie

- Aminatta Forna

- Nadine Gordimer

- Alain Mabanckou

- Ben Okri
-Very Good class! You already
know/familiar the notable writer all
over the world
ABSTRACTION -Class, why is that studying world -Because, World literature is the
literature is very important? cultural heritage of all humanity. It
is essential to study world
literature as it helps us
understand the life of different
people from all over the world,
forms our world-outlook and
acquaints us with the
masterpieces of literature.

- This global literary process was

also caused by the rapid
development of national
literatures. In the history of world
literature, we define several
stages of its development such
as the literature of Bronze Age,
Classical Literature, Early
Medieval Literature, Medieval
Literature, Early Modern and
Modern Literature.

APPLICATION
- ACTIVITY
You are a freelance blogger in an online literary magazine. You need
to write a 500-word feature article on a contemporary (21st century)
author from outside your country. Do an online search on a
noteworthy writer and his or her contribution to the society relative to
his/her work. You may choose someone from the list of authors in the
table above, but you are not limited to that list. It may also be nice to
write about an author who has a little online presence, but have made
significant impact to the lives of his/her readers. Make sure that your
feature provides the following information: background of the author, a
short overview of the authors literary works (books, online or print
publications, etc.), a short sampling of the authors work/s together
with your commentary. End the article by highlighting what are the
author’s contribution to contemporary literature where you can include
his/her causes or advocacies based on the common themes found in
his/her work.
 (Note: Write this activity in your notebook. You may also publish this
online.)

RUBRIC FOR Very Good Good Needs

WRITING 10-8 7-5 Improvement
COMPOSITION 4-1
Performance
Areas
Content Article has Central idea Unable to find
specific central is vague; specific
idea that is non- supporting
clearly stated supportive details
in the opening to the topic;
paragraph, lacks focus
appropriate,
concrete
details.

VIII. Evaluation

IX. Remarks

X. Reflection