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CRW11 - 12 Q2 0501M - PS - Sociopolitical Context Theme in Creative Writing
CRW11 - 12 Q2 0501M - PS - Sociopolitical Context Theme in Creative Writing
Creative Writing
General Academic Strand | Humanities and Social Sciences
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● a novel about magic
and family history
● political stance of
Márquez in relation to
the history of Latin
America
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● Nobel Prize for
Literature in 1982
● The world saw the
political significance
of his works.
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Sociopolitics in a Creative Output
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Learning
Competency
Write a craft essay demonstrating awareness
of and sensitivity to the different literary
and/or sociopolitical contexts of creative
writing (HUMSS_CW/MPIIc-f-23).
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Learning
Objectives
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Graphic Organizer
Let’s
1. On a piece of paper,
Begin
make a large copy of the
graphic organizer.
2. In the surrounding circles
of the graphic organizer,
write words or phrases
that you can associate
with the term
“sociopolitical context.”
3. Share your answers to
the class afterward.
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Guide Questions
Let’s 1. In your own words, what
Begin does “sociopolitical
contexts” mean?
2. How did you choose the
words that you
associated with
sociopolitical contexts?
3. Do you think the your
sociopolitical contexts
can affect the way you
write? Why or why not?
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Essential
Question
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Literary Tradition and the Sociopolitical Context
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Literary Tradition and the Sociopolitical Context
● race
● milieu
● et moment
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Literary Tradition and the Sociopolitical Context
● 1915
● modernism
● paradoxical discussion
● “chronological snobbery”
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Literary Tradition and the Sociopolitical Context
The Trial
Franz Kafka
● 1925
● Josef K.
● no reason given for arrest
● bureaucracy
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Literary Tradition and the Sociopolitical Context
Politics
Ralph Waldo Emerson
● 1803
● “The State is not superior to
the citizens.”
● champion of individualism
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Check Your
Progress Read the drama, An Enemy
of the People by Henrik
Ibsen.
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The Politics of the Writer
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The Politics of the Writer
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The Politics of the Writer
The Politics of George Orwell
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Writing
Tip
Read the selection first before developing your
essay. Use the space provided below in writing.
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Short-Answer Essay. Answer the following questions
concisely and precisely.
Try This!
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Short-Answer Essay. Answer the following questions
concisely and precisely.
Try This!
2. For Taine, a literary work is influenced by the
life and times of the author. Why is this so?
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Short-Answer Essay. Answer the following questions
concisely and precisely.
Try This!
3. How can writing be a way for an author to assert
their stance about a social or political issue?
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Short-Answer Essay. Answer the following questions
concisely and precisely.
Try This!
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Short-Answer Essay. Answer the following questions
concisely and precisely.
Try This!
5. George Orwell opined that “no book is
genuinely free from political bias.” Do you
agree or disagree? Why?
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Wrap-
Up ● Sociopolitical context refers to social and
political factors that affect a writer’s creative
output.
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Develop a three-to-five-paragraph
Challenge
Yourself essay that answers the given
prompt:
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Scheingold, Stuart Allen. The Political Novel: Re-Imagining the Twentieth Century. New York, New York: Continuum,
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics. London: Routledge, 2014.
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