Department of Education

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Division of Leyte
Jugaban National High School
Carigara, Leyte
Name of student: _____________________ Grade Level: ___________________
Section: ________________ Date: ____________ Contact #: ___________________

WEEK 1 DAY 1 MONDAY

General Objective: (MELC) Analyze the theme and techniques used in particular text
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-lb-d-4)
Learning Objective: Define Creative Nonfiction
A. Explore
Warm Up Activity: Arrange the jumbled letters in to appropriate words.
1. A T I V E C R E F I C N O N I O N T –
2. C T I O N F I –
3. M I A G I T I V E N A –
4. H T E M S E –
5. N G E E R -

B. Learn
RUBRICS:
3 Completely answered the question
2 Some were answered
1 No answer at all
Activity 1: What is fiction and nonfiction?
FICTION NONFICTION

CREATIVE NONFICTION
 The word “creative” in creative nonfiction refers to the use of literary craft in the writing of
nonfiction – to produce factually accurate essays or narratives about actual events and
people in a compelling and interesting way.
 According to Lee Gutkind, for a text to be categorized as creative nonfiction, the writer must
“communicate information just like a reporter, but shape it in a way that reads like fiction.”
 Scott Edelstein further defined creative nonfiction as “a distinct form of prose, a work of
nonfiction that uses some of the techniques of fiction and poetry, and/or that concerns itself
primarily with providing an emotional (rather than merely intellectual) experience.” Because
the term itself is relatively new, creative nonfiction was initially treated like an anomaly in
literature.
 The genres of creative nonfictions are personal essays, travel writing, meditation on ideas,
nature writing autobiography, biography, literary journalism, culture commentary, letters and
journals, memoirs, and other hybridized prose forms.

C. Engage
Activity 2: Study the examples below.
1st news story:
On July 15, Rivermaya will have a concert at the Araneta Coliseum. The band has just arrived
from a successful tour in China and Indonesia. Tickets are sold for the concert are selling quickly.

2nd news story:

Fans of Philippine musical band Rivermaya are in for a real thrill. On July 15, their idol, fresh 2
from their sold-out tour in China and Indonesia, will be at the Araneta Coliseum for a single concert.
 Marie Andrada, 18, a Communication Arts major from LIST, says this is one concert she would
rather die for than miss. Judging from tickets sales so far, at least 10,000 other people agree with
her.

The first news story is an ordinary news, it is factual and true, it appears dull and lacks of
interesting details. By using the genre of creative nonfiction, this news can be transformed
into more interesting piece of information.
Question: Differentiate the news story below:
1st news story:
Now that we understand more about global warming, we need to make our children realize
how important it is for them to do their part in protecting the environment. Examples are saving on
electricity and water, using paper bags rather than plastic bags, and recycling paper.

2nd news story:

Global warming is a reality. And it is here. Now that we have finally understood this, we have
no more excuses for children. Let us begin with our children. Let us make them aware that the
environment is also their responsibility.

D. Apply
RUBRICS:
3 Completely answered the question
2 Some were answered
1 No answer at all
1. What is creative nonfiction?
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2. What are the genres of creative nonfiction?
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3. Differentiate fiction and nonfiction?
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4. How important writing creatively in writing the genres of nonfiction?
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WEEK 1 DAY 2 TUESDAY

General Objective: (MELC) Analyze the theme and techniques used in particular text
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-lb-d-4)
Learning Objective: Compare and contrast how the conventions of fiction and drama are used and utilized
A. Explore
Exploratory Activity: Try to remember a book, a story, a play or a film that you have read or seen
that has had the most impact on you. It may be something that you have recently read or seen, or
 something that you have read or seen in a long time but you simply could not forget. Fill in the
blanks with the necessary details.
RUBRICS:
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3 Completely answered the question
2 Some were answered
1 No answer at all
1. Title of the book/story/play/film:
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2. What is the story all about?
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B. Learn
Four major elements of fiction and drama
 Plot – the sequence of events happening in a story
 Setting – the place and time where and when an event happens
 Characters – the person who inhabit story.
 Theme – the central idea, or thesis, or overall message that the story conveys
Comparison and Contrast of the Conventions and Devices between Fiction and Drama
1. Fiction is generally classified as short or novel. A short story is a brief artistic prose form that
center on single main incident and intends to produce a single dominant impression. A novel is an
extensive prose narrative that contains chapter and interludes.
Plays (drama), however, are generally classified into acts or major division. The most common are
one-act play, which has one unit of time, one unit of place, and one unit of action play; and three-
act play, which showcases a longer exposition of the theme and conflict.
2. All stories must have a point of view. The point of view is the vantage point or the angle from which
the readers can see how the story unfolds.
Drama also employs point of view but this is not apparent and evident in a play. What is visible is
the interplay of dialogue between and among the characters. A dialogue is what the viewers see
and hear in a performance and these are the words uttered by the characters in a dramatic play.
3. The development of plot in both fiction and drama has a pattern. Generally, it contains the following:
Exposition – introduces the characters and dramatic situation of the story or play.
Rising action – introduces the conflict of the story or play.
Climax – introduces the central moment of crisis that defines the conflict.
Falling action – introduces the aftermath of conflict (whether it is resolved or not)
Resolution/denouement – introduces the moment of insight, discovery, or revelation of the character
after falling action.

NARRATIVE DEVICES
1. Foreshadowing is used in fiction and drama as a guide or hint at what is to happen next in the
story.
2. Irony is also used both in fiction and drama when words that are uttered, either by the author or
the characters in the story, are the opposite of what they actually mean.
3. Flashback is employed by an author or a playwright through the use of a past event that will
help the readers understand the present.
4. Conflict is both present in fiction and drama. It provides and showcases the opposing objective
of the protagonist and the antagonist, or inside the protagonist.
5. The use Deus ex machina in both fiction and drama was once s noble strategy. Today, it is a
sign of weakness in the written work. Once referring to the Greek practice of physically lowering
a “god” to the stage at the end of the play to solve all the problems, today it refers a contrived in
the plot used to solve a problem.

C. Engage
Activity 2: Read the story entitled “Tungkung Langit and Alunsina by Panay-Visayan Folktale
translated by F. Landa Jocano”

TUNGKUNG LANGIT AND ALUNSINA

Panay-Visayan Folktale
 Translated by F. Landa Jocano
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In the beginning everything was shapeless and formless. The earth, the sky, the sea, and the air
were almost mixed up. In a word, there was only confusion. Then from the depth of this formless
void there appeared the god Tungkung Langit and the goddess Alunsina.

It was not known just where these two deities came from but it is related by old Bisayan folk that
Tungkung Langit fell in love with Alunsina. After he had courted her for many years, they married
and made their home in the highest part of heaven. There the water was always warm and the
breeze was forever cool. In this place order and regularity began.

Tungkung Langit was a loving, hard-working god. He wanted to impose order over the confused
world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly bodies would move regularly. On the
other hand, Alunsina was a lazy, jealous, selfish goddess. She sat at the window all day doing
nothing.

Sometimes she would leave her home, sit down by a pool near the door, and comb her long, jet-
black hair all day long. One day Tungkung Langit told his wife that he would be away for some time.
He said he must make time go on smoothly and arrange everything in the world.

When he was gone, Alunsina set the breeze to spy on Tungkung Langit. Tungkung Langit found this
out and he became very angry. After he returned home, he told her that it was ungodly of her to be
jealous since there were no other gods in the world except the two of them.

Alunsina resented this reproach, and they quarreled. In his anger, Tungkung Langit drove his wife
away. No one knew where she went. Several days later, Tungkung Langit felt very lonely. He
realized that he should not have lost his temper. But it was too late.

Once vibrant with Alunsina’s sweet voice, his home became cold and desolate. In the morning when
he woke up, he would find himself alone. In the afternoon when he came home, he would feel the
same loneliness creeping deep in his heart because there was no one to meet him at the doorstep
or soothe the aching muscles of his arms.

For months, Tungkung Langit was in utter desolation. He could not find Alunsina, try hard as he
would. And so, in desperation, he decided to do something in order to forget his sorrows. For
months and months he thought, but his mind seemed pointless; his heart weary and sick. He
needed something to ease his lonely world.

One day, while he was sailing across the regions of the clouds, a thought came to him. He would
make the sea and the earth, and the earth and the sea suddenly appeared. However, the sombre
sight of the lonely sea and the barren land irritated him. So he came down to earth and planted the
ground with trees and flowers.

Then he took his wife’s treasured jewels and scattered them in the sky, hoping that when Alunsina
would see them she might be induced to return home. The goddess’s necklace became the stars,
her comb the moon and her crown the sun. However, despite Tungkung Langit’s efforts, Alunsina
did not come back.

Until now, some elders of Panay say Tungkung Langit lives alone in his palace in the skies.
Sometimes, he would cry out his pent-up emotion and his tears would fall down upon the earth.
When it thunders hard, it is Tungkung Langit sobbing, calling for his beloved Alunsina to come back,
entreating her so hard that his voice reverberates across the fields and the countryside.

D. Apply
Answer the following questions.
RUBRICS:
3 Completely answered the question
2 Some were answered
 1 No answer at all
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1. This is an old mythical story about the earth’s creation as told by the people from Panay. How is
this different from the bible story of creation?
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2. How do you compare and contrast the personalities of Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?
List down their respective characteristics below.
Tungkung Langit Alunsina
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3. What do you think is the conflict of the story?

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4. What general messages do creation stories convey?
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WEEK 1 DAY 3 WEDNESDAY

General Objective: (MELC) Analyze the theme and techniques used in particular text
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-lb-d-4)
Learning Objective: Analyze and interpret the themes and techniques used in the poem.
A. Explore
Warm up Activity: Four pics one word

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R E O P Y S T
Question to reflect:
 1. A writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language
chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sounds, and
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B. Learn
Poetry is always characterized according to the following:
1. Poetry attempts to achieve beauty.
2. Poetry is imaginative, or makes use of the strength of imagination.
3. Poetry is musical, melodic, and rhythmical
4. Poetry makes use of languages that is metaphorical or symbolic, not direct.
5. Poetry is more concentrated than prose.
6. Poetry makes use of brevity and conciseness.

Three major categories of poetry: narrative, lyric, and dramatic.

1. Narrative poems tell stories. They may be short and simple. Others are long and complex. Epics
like Iliad, ballads like Lord Randall, and prose poems like the metrical romance of King Arthur fall
under this category.
2. Dramatic poems employ dramatic form of elements of dramatic technique such as dialogue or
characters, instead of just a single speaker or persona.
3. Lyrical poems are brief in structure and subjective in expressing the thoughts and emotions of the
persona, the speaker of the poem.

Understanding the Elements and Conventions of Poetry

1. Imagery. The use of images is a constant in poetry. It is the literal representation of an experience
or object that is perceived through the senses.
2. Figurative language. Figure of speech are devices that help beautify or make the language more
poetic than it already is.
3. Sounds. Poetry is as much an oral as it is visual form; therefore, it is meant to be recited and read
aloud.
4. Persona. The speaker of the poem is not necessarily the poet. In many cases, poets create a
persona.

C. Engage
Activity 1: Read and analyze the theme and techniques used in the poem.
Finder Loser
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta

more than half of my life around to pursue this search,

I spend searching for lost holding on to dear life,
objects (papers, receipts, or dear death, does it matter—
old letters, pills, and whatever they are one in the proper
else) and causes and the rest, losing time but not till then.
and finding, and losing I shall go on seeking out
them again, found or otherwise; lost faces and faiths in the
losing what I have and in good cold, collecting, calculating
measure, finding what crowd sadly aware that later
I can’t almost have— but an unbreath away,
one perpetual lifetime probe, I shall lose them all again,
forever rummaging through as I was wont, losing all
bureaus and drawers and pages in this final irretrievable
of my life’s past disarray . . . loss of my death time.
or perhaps, possibly, yes,
and so when I finally go death will be kinder and oh, yes
keep vault unlidded, for I allow me at last this
shall surely sit up and look flowing final find.
D. Apply
RUBRICS:
3 Completely answered the question
 2 Some were answered
1 No answer at all
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Answer the following questions;

1. What does the title of the poem mean? Explain
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2. In the first few lines of the first stanza, the persona admits that s/he constantly loses and finds
objects (papers, receipts, letters, pills, etc.), but towards the end of the stanza, the persona admits
not “finding what I can’t almost have—0ne perpetual lifetime probe,… of my life’s past disarray.”
What does s/he means by this?
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3. The poem makes typical use of alliteration (cold, collecting, calculating crowd; flowing, final, find).
What is alliteration? What is impression is achieved in using in this particular poem?
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WEEK 1 DAY 4 THURSDAY

General Objective: (MELC) Create samples of the different literary elements based on one’s experiences.
(HUMSS_CNF11/12-lb-d-4)
Learning Objective: Writing a piece using the literary conventions of fiction/drama/poetry.
E. Explore
Directions: Circle the 10 words listed below. Words appear straight across, back word straight
across, up and down, down and up, and diagonally. Check your work with the answer below.
Warm up Activity: Word Search
P G H T J K K M N G Y F T T
S O U N D S R H R R N L S D
V P E R S O N A T U A S C V
D F R M F V N E M U G F X W
F I G U R E O F S P E E C H
K L G U I P O I M A G E R Y
E L I M I S V P F Y V I L P
M E T A P H O R R W J O N M

1. VISUAL 6. PERSONA
1. IMAGERY 7. POEM
2. FORM 8. POETRY
3. FIGURE OF SPEECH 9. METAPHORE
4. SOUNDS 10. SIMILE

F. Learn
 WRITING TIPS (Story writing)
Story writing often begins with a question: What can I create out of this image, this memory, or this feeling?
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The image of a river littered with plastic and empty tin cans can grow into a story about protecting
the environment.
The memory of a former schoolmate can evolve into a story about losing a friend.
Feelings of gratitude can result in a story about parents.
This images, memories, and feelings could be good starting points for telling the stories you will write
about, and they could spark ideas for your line or plot.
WRITING TIPS (Poetry writing)
No one can really answer the question, How can I become a good poet? Even the best and most revered
poets and teachers do not have an answer. But they can suggest that you start by reading poetry. The
following are some helpful tips:
Think of a certain vivid experience or memory or feelings form your past. And then relate this to a
particular image that you can use. For example, a marble can be a perfect image of the games you
played when you were young. This could serve as a starting point for a poem.
Use specific sensory details. Remember, poems are made to visualized, and felt, and heard, and
smelled. Use words that appeal to the senses.
Read some of the lines that you have written aloud. You will know it is good if it sounds effective.
Make sure that each word in the poem has its use. Poems, generally, are not long. Make sure that all
the words that you employed count and contribute to the general impression of the poem.

G. Engage
Story Writing : Poem Writing Rubric

CATEGORY Exceptional (5pts.) Good Work (4pts.) Developing (3pts.) Beginning (2pts.)

Focus on The entire poem is Most of the poem is Some of the poem is No attempt has been
Assigned related to the assigned related to the assigned related to the assigned made to relate the poem
Topic (5%) topic and allows the topic. The poem wanders topic, but a reader does to the assigned topic.
reader to understand off at one point, but the not learn much about
much more about the reader can still learn the topic.
topic. something about the topic.
Creativity The poem contains The poem contains a few The poem contains a There is little evidence of
(5%) many creative details creative details and/or few creative details creativity in the poem. The
and/or descriptions that descriptions that and/or descriptions, but author does not seem to
contribute to the contribute to the reader's they distract from the have used much
reader's enjoyment. enjoyment. The author poem. The author has imagination.
The author has really has used his imagination. tried to use his
used his imagination. imagination.
Spelling and There are no spelling or There is one spelling or There are 2-3 spelling The final draft has more
Punctuation punctuation errors in punctuation error in the and punctuation errors than 3 spelling and
(5%) the final draft. final draft. in the final draft. punctuation errors.

Title (5%) Title is creative, sparks Title is related to the Title is present, but does No title.
interest and is related poem and topic. not appear to be related
to the poem and topic. to the poem and topic.

Imagery (5%) Many vivid, descriptive Some vivid, descriptive The reader can figure The reader has trouble
words are used. The words are used. The out what to picture in the figuring out what imagery
reader can picture the reader can somewhat poem, but the author the poem is using and
imagery in the poem. picture the imagery in the didn't supply much what the author wants
poem. detail. him/her to picture.

Activity 1: Read and analyze the situation below.

Two kids are outside the house. Kid A is reading a book and does not want to be
disturbed. Kid B, on the other hand, want ride a bicycle and catch butterflies. Kid B persuades
Kid A to do the same but Kid A wants to finish reading the story.
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Instructions:
1. Study the situation above. Try to imagine and visualize the situation.
2. You have the option to submit a draft story, a draft play, or a draft poem based on the situation. Your
choice will depend on your strength as a writer.
3. Fiction: If you are submitting a draft story, write a paragraph describing the setting of the story and
the two characters. Be aware of the details of storytelling.
4. Play: If you plan to submit a draft paly, write a half-page dialogue of the two characters. Make sure
that the two characters have different personalities which are revealed through their dialogues.
5. Poem: If you are planning to submit a poem, write one with six to eight lines addressing the
difference between the two kids and their preferences. Use images and figurative languages.
6. Submit this to your teacher for checking and critiquing.

H. Apply
Instructions: (Poem) Edit your draft based on the following:
1. Clear use of imagery and figurative language.
2. Well-developed and creatively presented idea.
3. The use of persona that reflects the poem’s intent
4. Effective sounds when read aloud
5. Basic rules of spelling and grammar

Instructions: (Fiction, Play) Edit your draft based on the following:

1. Clarity of the dialogue
2. Appropriateness of the dialogue
3. Dramatic content of the dialogue
4. Realistic content of the dialogue