APPENDIX 5

SUGGESTED READINGS FOR

KEY STAGE 3: LITERARY
TEXTS
SUGGESTED READINGS FOR KEY STAGE 3: LITERARY TEXTS
GRADE 7
Poetry
1. Another Name for Maid by Luisa A. Igloria
2. Any Woman Speaks by Angela Manalang Gloria
3. Disquisition by Karen Pioquinto
4. Earth-Man Song by Evee V. Huervana
5. Ermita in the Rain by Angela Manalang Gloria
6. Five Math Poems by Eileen Tupaz
7. Katol by Anonymous
8. More Math Poems by Eileen Tupaz
9. praevalet illicita by Karen Pioquinto
10. Soledad by Angela Manalang Gloria
11. Tit for Tat by H.O. Santos
12. Trahedya ng Isang Birhen by Genevieve Asenjo
13. Words by Angela Manalang Gloria My Islands by NVM Gonzales
14. Toys by Gemino Abad
15. What Poetry does Not Say by Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
16. Three Poems from the Philippines by Rina Garcia Chua

Prose
1. May Day Eve by Nick Joaquin
2. We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers by Alejandro Roces
3. The Bus Driver’s Daughter by H. O. Santos
4. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife by Manuel Arguilla
5. Harvest by Loreto Paras Sulit
6. All Over the World by Vicente Rivera, Jr.
7. At War’s End by Rony V. Diaz
8. Big Sister by Consorcio Borje
9. The Bus Driver’s Daughter by H.O. Santos
10. The Centipede by Rony V. Diaz
11. Clay by Juan T. Gatbonton
12. Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez
13. The Devil in the Details by Carlos Cortés
14. Essence by Jose Claudio B. Guerrero
15. Fireworks by H.O. Santos
16. Harvest by Loreto Paras Sulit
17. Kara’s Place by Luis Joaquin M. Katigbak
18. Lines by Lakambini A. Sitoy
19. The Little People by Maria Aleah G. Taboclaon
20. The Martini Effect by Doreen D.L. Jose
21. Meditations of a Piss Artist by Menchu Aquino Sarmiento
22. Meeting by Consorcio Borje
23. Nanking Store by Macario D. Tiu
24. A Night in the Hills by Paz Marquez Benitez
25. The Old Woman of the Candles by Kevin Piamonte
26. Portrait of a Great Man by Manuel A. Viray
27. A Question of Fidelity by Gemino H. Abad
28. The Summer I Learned to Bike by E.L. Koh
29. The Summer of My 17th Year by H.O. Santos
30. The Tale of Tonyo the Brave by Maria Aleah G. Taboclaon
31. Tether by May M. Tobias
32. Thousand Year Eve by Angelo Rodriguez Lacuesta
33. Turtle Season by Timothy R. Montes
34. Under the Mango Tree by Hugh Aaron
35. The Wonderful Machine by Carlos A. Angeles