CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the Study of Philippine Literature
CHAPTER 2: Ilocos
CHAPTER 3: Cagayan Valley
CHAPTER 4: Central Luzon
CHAPTER 5: Southern Tagalog
CHAPTER 6: Bicol
CHAPTER 7: Western Visayas
CHAPTER 8: Central Visayas
CHAPTER 9: Eastern Visayas
CHAPTER 10: Western Mindanao
CHAPTER 11: Northern Mindanao
CHAPTER 12: Southern Mindanao
CHAPTER 13: Central Mindanao
CHAPTER 14: Caraga
CHAPTER 15: CAR- Cordillera Administrative Region
CHAPTER 16: ARMM- Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
CHAPTER 17: NCR- National Capital Region
Biyernes, Mayo 18, 2012
III. LITERATURE AS A PLATFORM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Literature offers the best way of teaching extensive reading skills. Non-literature reading programs, and especially programs for non-native speakers, focus on short passages. Big international surveys such as PISA (or tests of basic skills) are based on many readings of very short passages. Yet extensive reading is a different kettle of fish. To read something longer, you need to stay aware of macro structures such as plot.
Literature offers a way of linking the emotional with the intellectual. If students are to learn reading effectively, they have to remember significant turns in plot, and this will only happen, in the first instance, if those turns have emotional impact. So it harnesses the emotional to the cognitive. When literature does what it should, though, it acts against the alienation of the emotional and the intellectual.
Literature has the power to change destructive ways of thinking on many levels. In my life, poetry has been a wonderful thing. When your emotions bear down on you to see the world in a negative light, and believe that it's not you, it's just real, at a time like that; you need something as powerful as poetry. It can crystallize what you feel at that moment, or it can transform it into something better. I believe in memorizing poetry.
An author builds a narrative with thousands of tiny details.
Even before a reader knows what the book is really about, it’s through the gradual accumulation of these crucial moments, objects, movements, sounds, smells and touches that the power and meaning of the story emerges.
As an editor working with authors on novels, memoirs, short stories and narrative non-fiction, I often see early drafts that try to describe how the characters are feeling or explain what the story is about and how the reader is supposed to react to it. This approach creates a filter that clouds and ultimately obliterates the reality of what’s happening.
What I try to help the author do instead, is select the creative details that put the reader at the center of the each moment, so they can see, hear, and smell the landscape of the character’s experience.
Here are some techniques for creating effective details when building your narrative, whether you’re writing in first person or third:
Creating effective details
Look
Imagine your characters moving through each scene from their point of view. See through their eyes. Consider what they might be feeling, given their problems, conflicts, inner emotions. What do they focus on in their immediate landscape, what are the natural or manmade objects they encounter. Study them. Choose only those that reflect their emotions.
Follow
Track your characters in time and space. Now that you know where they are, what do they do? Create actions that demonstrate either directly or obliquely how well they’re able to function. Do they move in a straight line towards a tangible goal? Do they digress, avoid, circle back. How, specifically?
Touch
Get familiar with the objects they encounter or utilize. Find them in your own life. Handle them, buy them if necessary. Go to the place, the physical location you imagine them, if possible. Do what they do, so you can get a sense of the tactile experience, the feel, the smell of the scene.
Listen
What are your characters hearing? What do they say to themselves or others. Say it out loud and hear how it sounds. Remember that no one speaks exactly like someone else. Delineate your characters and have their words reflect their state of mind: in a hurry, avoiding, deflecting? And remember that written dialogue is not actually everything someone may say in real life, but a dramatic distillation.
Literature offers a way of linking the emotional with the intellectual. If students are to learn reading effectively, they have to remember significant turns in plot, and this will only happen, in the first instance, if those turns have emotional impact. So it harnesses the emotional to the cognitive. When literature does what it should, though, it acts against the alienation of the emotional and the intellectual.
Literature has the power to change destructive ways of thinking on many levels. In my life, poetry has been a wonderful thing. When your emotions bear down on you to see the world in a negative light, and believe that it's not you, it's just real, at a time like that; you need something as powerful as poetry. It can crystallize what you feel at that moment, or it can transform it into something better. I believe in memorizing poetry.
An author builds a narrative with thousands of tiny details.
Even before a reader knows what the book is really about, it’s through the gradual accumulation of these crucial moments, objects, movements, sounds, smells and touches that the power and meaning of the story emerges.
As an editor working with authors on novels, memoirs, short stories and narrative non-fiction, I often see early drafts that try to describe how the characters are feeling or explain what the story is about and how the reader is supposed to react to it. This approach creates a filter that clouds and ultimately obliterates the reality of what’s happening.
What I try to help the author do instead, is select the creative details that put the reader at the center of the each moment, so they can see, hear, and smell the landscape of the character’s experience.
Here are some techniques for creating effective details when building your narrative, whether you’re writing in first person or third:
Creating effective details
Look
Imagine your characters moving through each scene from their point of view. See through their eyes. Consider what they might be feeling, given their problems, conflicts, inner emotions. What do they focus on in their immediate landscape, what are the natural or manmade objects they encounter. Study them. Choose only those that reflect their emotions.
Follow
Track your characters in time and space. Now that you know where they are, what do they do? Create actions that demonstrate either directly or obliquely how well they’re able to function. Do they move in a straight line towards a tangible goal? Do they digress, avoid, circle back. How, specifically?
Touch
Get familiar with the objects they encounter or utilize. Find them in your own life. Handle them, buy them if necessary. Go to the place, the physical location you imagine them, if possible. Do what they do, so you can get a sense of the tactile experience, the feel, the smell of the scene.
Listen
What are your characters hearing? What do they say to themselves or others. Say it out loud and hear how it sounds. Remember that no one speaks exactly like someone else. Delineate your characters and have their words reflect their state of mind: in a hurry, avoiding, deflecting? And remember that written dialogue is not actually everything someone may say in real life, but a dramatic distillation.
IV. REFLECTION IN LITERATURE
Writings of country or period, or prose or verse especially writings having artistic value or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest that's "LITERATURE".
First day of the class, I found it was boring because our teacher was a soft-spoken person, her voice was not too loud for us to hear what she was saying. Every topic that we discuss I might yawn but i know she teaches well. Literature is our first topic. Definition,example and discussing about that topic makes me learn what literature is.
Our next topic is all about LEGEND (Latin, legenda, "things to be read") is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and passive participants includes no happenings that are outside the realm of "possibility", defined by a highly flexible set of parameters, which may include miracles that are perceived as actually having happened, within the specific tradition of indoctrination where the legend arises, and within which it may be transformed over time, in order to keep it fresh and vital, and realistic. A majority of legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted. Professor Dellera told us that we have to choose one kind of legend and we have to cite it in front without reading it. The legend I chose was “The Legend of the First Butterfly”.Next to that, we took up riddles. This is the most interesting topic that we had discusse. RIDDLES is a statement or question having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.
First day of the class, I found it was boring because our teacher was a soft-spoken person, her voice was not too loud for us to hear what she was saying. Every topic that we discuss I might yawn but i know she teaches well. Literature is our first topic. Definition,example and discussing about that topic makes me learn what literature is.
Examples:
There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?
WATERMELON
I am always hungry,
I must always be fed,
The finger I touch,
Will soon turn red
I must always be fed,
The finger I touch,
Will soon turn red
FIRE
In this topic we recited what we research about the example of riddles It's fun because it enhance my capacity to learn and to analyze every question
..........
The next topic was PROVERBS it is a terse statement of practical wisdom based or long experience and observation about life
EXAMPLES:
A good beginning makes a good end
-it means that, if a task is carefully planned, there's a better chance that it will be done well
Distance makes the Heart grow fonder
-it means that, when you are separated from the person you love, your feelings are even stronger
A bad tree does not yield Apples
-it means that, A bad Parents does not raise good Children
..........
The second to the last topic was BALLAD is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. We research about the Ballad songs of Kenny Rogers and relate it to our own life. The song I choose here was "I Will Always Love You"
I Will Always Love You
If I should stay
I would only be in your way
So, I'll go but I know
I'll think of you
Each step of the way
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I am taking with me
So goodbye, please don't you cry
'Cause we both know I'm not what you need
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all, I wish you love
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I am taking with me
So goodbye, please don't you cry
'Cause we both know I'm not what you need
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you...
I would only be in your way
So, I'll go but I know
I'll think of you
Each step of the way
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I am taking with me
So goodbye, please don't you cry
'Cause we both know I'm not what you need
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of
And I wish you joy and happiness
But above all, I wish you love
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you
Bittersweet memories,
That is all I am taking with me
So goodbye, please don't you cry
'Cause we both know I'm not what you need
And I will always love you.
And I will always love you...
After i read this song in front of my classmate I also read the explanation, and as far as I remember the explanation goes like this.
___ "This song is about loving alone after break up for almost 3 years. Even though we are not together anymore I still always Love him. Those sweet and Bitter memories makes me love him more but Destiny won't allow us to continue, so i just have to keep this love with in my Heart.
Dark, Gray, Gloomy Clouds brings back memory of past where you and me just us, making great love story and making it last but how we would continue if destiny is Against us.
Maybe goodbye is Bitter but Better for us, but still i will Always Love You"___
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And the last topic was EPIC is a long narrative poem like Biag ni Lam-ang it is very popular epic nowadays. It included in our Midterm exam or should I say "SURPRISE" MIDTERM EXAMINATION. She said that we have our quiz that time but it is not quiz but rather an examination but it's okay because as I know I've study already so I contented or convince that I've pass the examination. As time goes by, I realize that I learn also a lot about Literature because of my teacher and because also of my attention to know more about it. So, I want to thank my Teacher to teach us well in this summer class subject. That's very nice and hope I can used it to the near future.
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