Parochial School of Catanauan, Inc.

School ID No. 402737

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21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
Program The course aims to engage students in appreciation and critical study of 21 st Century Content The learner will be able to understand and appreciate literary texts in various genres
Standard Literature from the World encompassing their various dimensions, genres, elements, Standard across national literature and cultures.
structures, contexts, and traditions.
Grade Level The learner will engage in appreciation and critical study of 21 st Century Literature Performance The learner will be able to demonstrate understanding and appreciation of 21st
Standards from the Philippines and the World encompassing their various dimensions, genres, Standard century literature of the world through:
elements, structures, contexts, and traditions.  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
 critical 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
 an adaptation of a text into other creative forms using multimedia
Subject Title 21st Century Literature from the World
Number of Days 36 days
Core
PVMGO and Core Time Frame
Topics MELC Understandings Assessments Instruction Activities
Values Integration
and Core Questions

Asian Literature Write a close analysis and
critical interpretation of
literary texts, applying a
reading approach, and
doing an adaptation of
these, require from the
learner the ability to
identify representative text
and authors from Asia,
North America, Europe,
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SECOND QUARTER
Core Understanding: Quizzes Discussion Reciting one of the works Katotohanan 4 days
Asian regions that have of Arthur Waley, Battle.
produced literature Monthly Exam/s Group activity
through the ages include Comparing the works of
East Asia (China, Japan, Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/reciting the Chu’ u Yuan with the
Korea); South Asia (which poem works of modern Chinese
includes India); Central poet.
Asia (Afghanistan,
Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Latin America and Africa.
Compare and contrast the
various 21st century
literary genres and their
elements, structures, and
traditions from across the
globe.
Do self- and/or peer-
African Literature assessment of the
creative adaptation of a
literary text, based on
rationalized criteria, prior
to presentation.
European Literature
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Mongolia, Tibet, and
Nepal); the Middle East;
and Southeast Asia (which
includes the Philippines).
Essential Questions:
What are the different
Asian regions that have
produced literature
through the ages?
Core Understanding:
African literature went
through the phases or
periods of oral tradition,
slave trade and
colonization, resistance,
and independence.
Essential Questions:
What were the different
periods of African
literature’s development?
Core Understanding:
European literature went
through the periods of
Archaic times. Classical
times, Medieval period,
Renaissance, Neoclassical
and Romantic periods, and
the periods of Realism,
Naturalism and
Modernism.
Essential question:
What were the different
periods of European
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Quizzes Discussion Reading the selections Katotohanan 4 days
(The Clever Young Man
Monthly Exam/s Group activity and the Monster and
Rawera [the Comforter]
Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling and the Monster) that both
belonging to the myth,
genre that attest to the
power of the motherland’s
literary tradition that roots
in the ancient times.
Comparing the African
myths to the narratives of
the writers.
Quizzes Discussion Reading the selection Proper discipline 4 days
(The Miracle of the Sword
Monthly Exam/s Group activity and Stone) that presents
the pivotal movement in
Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling which a precocious young
man began his
transformation into ruler of
England.
Determining how the
Arthurian themes are
echoed in the works of
writers.
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American Literature
Philippine Literature in the
21st Century
literature’s development?
Core Understanding: Quizzes Discussion Reading the selection (On Makapag-isip ng tama 4 days
European literature went Democracy) to glimpse a
through the periods of Monthly Exam/s Group activity sample oof how
precolonial times, Puritan democracy was viewed by
movement, American Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling the Americans in the 19th
Revolution, century.
transcendalism and
romanticism, realism, and Comparing Lowell’s work
modernism. with the writings of the
American essayists.
Essential Question:
What are the different
periods in the
development of American
literature?
Core Understanding: Quizzes Discussion Reading the selection Pagpapahalagang moral 4 days
21st century Philippine (The Phabletized Future)
literature is characterized Monthly Exam/s Group activity that gives us a glimpse of
by postmodernist and post technology’s significance
structuralist influences, Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling in 21st century society.
language diversity,
appropriation of English, Commenting on the
technological author’s description of his
advancements, and new iPhone.
empowerment of several
voices in society.

Essential Question:
What are the
distinguishing features of
21st century Philippine
literature?
World Literature in the 21st Core Understanding: Quizzes Discussion Composing the text Makapag-isip ng tama 8 days
Century: The Impact of In the 21st century, indicated (twitter,
Technology literature from all around Monthly Exam/s Group activity Facebook, and SMS
the world has been fiction).
influenced by Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling
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technological innovations. Comparing the 21st

The proliferation of digital century genres (such as
media has changed the Tweets, and SMS fiction
industry of printing with traditional forms of
indelibly. Developments literature.
like modern gadgets and
social media have also
made a tremendous
impact on literature.

Essential Question:
What key influences have
shaped 21st century
literature across the world
Trends in World Literature Core Understanding: Quizzes Discussion Reading the 21st century Proper discipline 8 days
in the 21st Century Literary trends have swept selection to see how
in the 21st century include Monthly Exam/s Group activity metadrama is used to
science fiction, speculative explore the theme of
fiction, graphic novels, Quarterly Assessment Film viewing/story telling death.
flash fiction, transrealism,
and metaliterature. Commenting on the
unique structure of the
Essential Question: play.
What trends have sept
through 21st century
literature across the
world?

Prepared by:

MS. ROCKY HAZEL C. COMISO

Teacher

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