11 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World Quarter 2-Module 7 21 Century Literature from the Philippines and the World st Literary Genres and their Elements, Structures, Rhythms, and Traditions Across the Globe TOPIC: Canonical authors and Works of Philippine National Artists in Literature D works Grade Levels: Grade 11 Core Subject: 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World Quarter 2 – Module 7-Literary Genres and their Elements, Structures, Rhythms, and Traditions Across the Globe First Edition, 2020 Republic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment of royalties. 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This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling. This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances. In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of the module: Give learners an uncommon experience. As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the tasks included in the module. For the Learner: Welcome to the 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module 7 on Literary Genres and their Elements, Structures, Rhythms, and Traditions Across the Globe! ii This module has the following parts and corresponding icons: What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or competencies you are expected to learn in the module. What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to check what you already know about the lesson to take. If you get all the answers correct (100%), you may decide to skip this module. What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current lesson with the previous one. What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you in various ways; a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an activity or a situation. What is It This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson. This aims to help you discover and understand new concepts and skills. What’s More This comprises activities for independent practice to solidify your understanding and skills of the topic. You may check the answers to the exercises using the Answer Key at the end of the module. What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process what you learned from the lesson. What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will help you transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life situations or concerns. Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of mastery in achieving the learning competency. iii Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of the lesson learned. Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the module. 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You can do it! iv TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENT TITLE PAGE PAGES ------------------------------------------------ i INTRODUCTORY MESSAGE --------------------------------For the Facilitator --------------------------------For the Learner ----------------------------------------- ii ii ii WHAT I NEED TO KNOW Learning Competency Learning Objectives ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 2 2 WHAT I KNOW Task 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 2 WHAT’S IN Task 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 3 WHAT’S NEW Task 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 4 WHAT IS IT ------------------------------------------------ 5 WHAT’S MORE Task 4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 9 WHAT I HAVE LEARNED Task 5 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 10 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 10 ASSESSMENT ------------------------------------------------ 11 ANSWER KEYS ------------------------------------------------ 12 -------------------------------------------- 14 WHAT I CAN DO Task 6 REFERENCE LIST v WHAT I NEED TO KNOW It is important to note that there is a difference between modernity, modernization, urbanization, and modernism. Modernity refers to the post–Enlightenment period when there was a rapid and radical change in social organization and thought thanks to a surge in scientific discovery. Modernization refers to the movement to achieve the modern. This includes changes in social organization (from fiefdoms to cities) and the creation of new spaces. This is where urbanization comes in. Urbanization thus refers to the spatial production of modernity. The ideals of modernity are realized through the construction of city space. Modernism finally refers to how philosophers, writers, and artists respond to modernity. The modern age gave way to new literary forms that had something to do with the ever – changing environment. The industrialized city- its fast – paced lifestyle, mechanical nature, and burgeoning human density – prompted poets like TS Eliot and Ezra Pound to examine the aridity of urban life in their poetry. This gave way for later poets to experiment on new forms like “prose poetry” (or poems that are written like paragraphs) or poems that were written in broken pieces to reflect the fragmentary nature of urban life. This interplay between theme and form as it relates to the environment can be seen even at the turn of the millennium where you have writers continuously finding innovative ways to reimagine what it means to live in a world that has become increasingly globalized and complex. The cosmopolitan and globalized nature of the world has opened the possibilities for writers to explore contextuality in their pieces. Each city has a rhythm that follows a particular kind of pacing. Cities have their own schedules, they “wake up”and “go to sleep” (or as they say about the city of New York, some cities don’t sleep at all). In fact, one can say that we have fully adjusted to the city when we have mastered its rhythm- its daily schedule, its commute, even timezones. (Source: Agustin, Roy Tristan B.et.al. 2016. 21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc. ( teacher's manual and learner's manual) 21 1 Learning Competencies EN12Lit-IId-25 Compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and their elements, structures, and traditions from and across the globe. At the end of the module, you should be able to: Knowledge: explain the concept of rhythm as it relates to the structure of the essay “A Song of Two Cities”; Skills: compare and contrast the various 21st century literary genres and their elements, structures, rhythms, and traditions, across the globe; and, Attitude: respond critically to the essay and consequently articulate this response through writing a 200-word essay. Please take note that all answers shall be written in your activity notebooks, and that there should never be any markings placed in this module. WHAT I KNOW Diagnostic Test Task 1 Direction: Identify the word being described in each statement. Choose your answer from the words below. nihilism intertextuality middle class concerns prose poetry ennui ____ 1. It refers to that lethargic feeling wrought out of routine, out of the repetition of meaningless things. ____ 2. It refers to the idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit. 2 ____ 3. These concerns involve marriage, property, and social propriety, which are shared by the social class to which most novel readers belong. ____ 4. These are poems that are written in paragraphs. ____ 5. It refers to an attitude that finds meaninglessness in things, societal structures, rituals, habits, and moral codes. WHAT’S IN Activity 2 Instruction: Compare and contrast the two places indicated inside the graphic organizer. CEBU SINGAPORE 3 2 Acitivty 3WHAT’S NEW Rhythm and Flows features of urban life which looks at the pacing, movement, and flows of activity in the city. Rhythm in the City: can refer to the movements that lend to the idea of a repetitive musical motion. In a city, this is the process of going from one place to another, often connected with the time of the day (commuting to / from work, going out to eat/drink with friends, the movements of commerce and possibly, construction/demolition. Source: Agustin, Roy Tristan B.et.al. 2016. 21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc. ( teacher's manual and learner's manual) Instruction: Imagine yourself in the middle of an urbanized city like Cebu. Observe the movement of people and take interest on urban living: that to live in the city is essentially an experience of music (Agustin, et.al., 147). Then, accomplish the table below. An example is given for your guidance. Activities in the Cities Transportation Rhythm in the City - the flow of moving vehicles Explore! 1. How did you find the activity? 2. Was it easy/hard for you to finish the activity? 3. In your opinion, what does music in the city mean? 4 2 WHAT IS IT For this lesson, you will not only be reading the essay of Ypil but you will be examining as well the habits and rituals. About the author Lawrence Ypil is a Cebuano who moved to Manil for studies and work. After graduating from the Ateneo de Manila University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology. Lawrence Lacambra Ypil is a poet and essayist from Cebu, Philippines. He received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Washington University in St Louis on a Fulbright Scholarship, and has recently completed an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa. A distinct feature in Ypil’s essay on, “ A Song of Two Cities”, is his use of the present tense to narrate what is happening in his essay. The use of the present tense adds a sense of immediacy to the experience. It is as if the events in the essay are unfolding as the narrator proceeds to talk about it. Source: Agustin, Roy Tristan B.et.al. 2016. 21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc. ( teacher's manual and learner's manual) Points to Remember Present tense, from a literary perspective, creates a sense of immediacy to the experience. Modernization is a movement to achieve the modern. Urbanization is the spatial production of modernity. Modernity is physicalized and concretized. The city is a testament to the magnanimity of rational thought. The process of becoming a city or taking on the characteristics of a city. Concretely, this is when a smaller building is replaced with larger ones, where open spaces become occupied by city structures. Modernism refers to how intellectuals, philosophers and artists respond to modernity; a way of characterizing and representing modern life. 25 Read the selection “A Song of Two Cities” by Lawrence Ypil and answer the questions that follow. A SONG OF TWO CITIES By Lawrence L. Ypil Cebu/ Singapore It’s Friday night. I’m having dinner out with a friend, and although the circumstances would suggest otherwise, there is something about tonight that makes me feel like I am not too far away from home. Maybe it’s because I’m in one of Singapore’s many hawker centers, and more than any other place in this rapidly changing city, It’s the part that reminds me most of Cebu. It’s the part that reminds me of the cultural mix, the provincial urbanity, the good food of the city I grew up in Cebu, which in spite of its rapid growth in the past decades, still retains the spirit of a small town, where everyone feels distantly related to each other, whether by blood or stubborn belief, and there is a sense that things are simultaneously changing (Is that a new mall being built around the corner?) and forever the same ( Her favorite dress hasn’t changed through the years!). Maybe it’s because the sea is so near; ever moving, always there. Perhaps it’s the hawker center’s leisurely ease that seems so familiar. Especially, in the early evenings, when people are coming home from work, it’s where people sit down to talk and grab a bite before they return to their HDB flats to sleep- in Singapore a good number have dinner out , it’ s busy, yes, don’t get me wrong. It’s crowded. And sometimes it takes both stealth and cunning, not to mention a quick hand, to grab a seat. But in highly urbanized Singapore where discipline is pride and honor, and rules are if not set in stone then hard pressed into the mind of one’s manners, the seeming chaos and sense of recklessness could very well be a version of home. It has the ease of possibility. Anything can happen. In the Cebu way of both linger and surprise – lounging in the porch in the afternoon and then rushing out of the house because a friend is suddenly back in town – nothing need be as planned. One is assured always of finding something great to eat but there is also the opportunity of following one sudden craving, one’s unpredictable hungers, one’s guts. Besides, in the evenings the hawker centers seem to be permeated with the energy of huge, anonymous extended family dinner where everyone’s a cousin of a cousin, and this is a collective version of hot soup served by an invisible mother figure welcoming her sons and daughters from a long day out in the world. Or perhaps tonight things seem especially familiar because on this Friday evening, while we’re having a cold beer in the middle of a crowded hawker center, song from a nearby table trails its way, no, barrels its way into ours. It is familiar to my ears even if I do not know its words, even if it is in a foreign tongue – Malaysian – that is near enough to Cebuano that I can catch a few words I can understand, but different enough that I do not exactly what it wants to say. The music’s coming from the phone of an old26 style 50-ish-looking rocker: tattered denim jacket, tattoos, a liter of beer that suggests the night is going to be long, or at least as long as he can stretch it. He was the swagger of men I have met in the past – rebellious boys who reject the civilizing impulse of adulthood. They hold their angers and discontents like badges of honor. They cup their sadnesses into their growls and use them to magnify their laughters. If they seem to refuse to grow up or fit in, it is because they understand that the very resistance to what is expected of men of their age comes from an allegiance to the big questions held dear in adolescence. Specifically: What am I meant to do in this life? How do I make the world a more liveable place for everyone? Where do I belong? Sentiments which, if they may not be expressed in words, then expressed in song – or at least versions of them in songs like the one I am hearing tonight. Have I mentioned that it sounds like the love songs I grew up on in the Philippines? It is a rock ballad really, a kind of sentimental love song for the young. And while the rocker’s insistence to blast his feelings tonight vicariously through music makes him seem displaced in a country that appears to pride itself in keeping its sentiments in check, I suspect it might actually be the very reason I have assumed that the song he plays is simultaneously meant entirely for him alone and intended entirely for everyone else, including me who doesn’t fully understand it. I take a sip of my beer. I look at him from the corner of my eyes as I continue a conversation with my friend. “How did we end up here?” she laughs. The volume of the song exposes the depth of the man’s longing, as it digs into mine. Speed Limit In the past few weeks, I have been visiting a nearby museum to watch a film by the Singaporean artist Tan Pin Pin, called “80km/h.” It is a documentary she made in 2004, where she took a video camera and positioned it on her car window and beginning at Changi Airport on the east of Singapore, she drove toward the western tip of the island while continuously recording. It’s a film, ultimately, about movement. What it means to live on an island where one can go from one end to the other in a matter of 38 minutes, traveling at its speed limit of – as the film’s title indicates – 80 kph. It is about what can be captured at that speed, what is possible to document with a camera at that place. It is about moving, perpetually, like cars in a highway where to stop midway would mean that there must have been a terrible accident of the proportions of a truck ramming into a bus, but it is also about not moving. What does it mean to be able to traverse the entire breadth of a country in less than the time it takes to see a movie, that it could take the form of a film itself, intro credits to end credits, from one darkness to another? Assuming, of course, that one wasn’t tempted to digress and take one of the backstreets, or to make the sudden decision to pull over or out of the main course of things and linger in a part of the island the one had seen before and suddenly wished to see again, for no apparent or urgent reason. 27 Because there is nothing like nostalgia to fuel my thoughts, and because to fuel nostalgia is one of the ways that I have come to term with diaspora, I am thinking of the Singapore I remember from the childhood vacations as I watch Tan’s film. Sentosa island. The heat of summer. The notion that the ideal vacation is spending a week in another country where the weather is cooler. (So why are we in a place that is even more humid than Cebu?) My mother and father on a bus. My brother beside me. It is 2016 and I am watching a documentary film of Singapore from more than 10 years back and I cannot help but wonder if a younger version of myself has been caught on camera. Perhaps there is a half-second shot of a bus where I am sitting by the window looking up at the high-rise condominiums with their green shrubbery, not knowing that many years later I will find myself back here as a writer. The fantasy that there is a fragment of once past that has been caught inadvertently on tape in a form of a film snippet, but also the that there are cities like this which hold within them a part of once past that one may have access to even if for just a moment. The Singaporeans that are watching the film with me perhaps are looking at it through a slightly different lens. Faced with rapid infrastructure changes, where buildings, where buildings are torn down and new ones are built, Singapore changes its face by the second. One is not surprised to find that where a week ago a barren piece of earth by the slide of a street lay, there now stands, miraculously, a transplanted tree. Voila. When they watch this film, it is through the lens of a people coming to grips with what it means to live in a city that is changing before their eyes. Catch the view of this landscape before it disappears from your eyes completely. Try to remember the shade of this shaft of light in the moment. Because who knows, what you see today might be gone tomorrow. When a city changes at a pace that is faster than it is possible for the human heart to catch up, one hopes that there are other ways to document the day as it is fading. Perhaps that is the role of the film today, the role of all art. I watch the orange light of sunset that streams from a window in the room where I watch a film at it comes to the end of a day from many years ago and I imagine that I am almost there. I am almost here where I am right now. Somewhere nearby To be a Filipino expat writer in Southeast Asia is to be a witness to ways in which versions of oneself are mirrored in landscapes that are different from and similar to one’s own. To suffer the weather of the same but also of the not quite. When I moved to Singapore after a few years of living in the U.S., I knew I was finally returning home to the region, but not quite. Cebu, finally only a quick plane ride away, was suddenly nearer for the first time in years, but also not fully within my grasp. When I visited Penang, Malaysia, a few months ago for a conference, I knew instantly when the plane touch the tarmac and I saw the vegetation of the island from my window that I had arrived in an alternate version of Cebu with its ethnic mix, its vibe of ease, its sidewalks that were untraversable because there 28 were stalls selling all kinds of trinkets to the tourist, to the passerby, to the neighbor from a different island. Ah, yes. But when what we have been used to is always to see oneself in relation to the somewhere far (the U.S., the U.K., Europe), it takes a while for the eye to adjust to what it means to look at something that is somewhere nearby. Close, but different. There, but near here enough to make one say: “Hey, isn’t that a version of myself I see in the rearview mirror? Isn’t that a song I used to sing but in a different language? Please tell me the words of the song that I know I should be able to sing but can’t. For now.” Comprehension questions: 1. What is established by the writer in the opening paragraph? What is he setting up with the introduction? 2. What is the significance of discussing the Singaporean film? How do we connect this to the earlier comparison between Singapore and Cebu? 3. What is the significance of the title in bringing all of this together? Source: Agustin, Roy Tristan B.et.al. 2016. 21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc. ( teacher's manual and learner's manual) WHAT'S MORE Task 4 Instructions: Do what are asked in the table. Modernist Approach to Writing Description based on “A Song of Two Cities” 1. Content 2. Rhythm 3. Form/Orgnization 4. Intertextuality 29 WHAT I HAVE LEARNED Task 5 Directions: Write your reflection in your notebook by completing the unfinished statements below. I have learned that ________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ I have realized that _______________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ I will apply _______________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ WHAT I CAN DO I Task 6 Instructions: What other features of the city do you think can be used to trigger memories about our past and ourselves? Write a 200word essay to discuss your idea. Rubric for Essay CATEGORY 4 Organization Student presents information in logical, interesting sequence which audience can follow. 3 2 1 Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow, but the overall organization of topics is basic. Content is logically organized for the most part, but audience could have some difficulty following presentation. There is no sequence of information, just a series of facts. 210 Content Knowledge Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent. Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good, but student doesn't elaborate. Includes some essential information about the topic and/or there are a few factual errors. Content is minimal and/or there are several factual errors. Mechanics No misspellings or grammatical errors. Three or fewer misspellings Four misspellings and/or More than 4 errors in and/or mechanical errors. grammatical errors. spelling or grammar. ASSESSMENT Task 7 Direction: Complete the following sentences as honestly as you can. Write your answers on your notebook. 1. In this lesson, I learned the essay is a viable way to talk about the city because ________________. 2. I learned that modern life is __________________. 3. The tense use in the essay is important because _______________________. 4. _______________ features of urban life which looks at the pacing, movement, and flows of activity in the city. 5. ________ creates a sense of immediacy to the experience. 211 ANSWER KEY 1. ennui 2. intertextuality 3. middle class concerns 4. prose poetry 5. nihilism Task 1 Task 2 CEBU Point of Comparison Dining Practices Music Language Weather SINGAPORE How are Singapore and Cebu Similar Both, at least in the hawkers in Singapore, share an easy, leisurely feel to the dining experience. The style of the song he hears, a rock ballad is similar to Philippine Rock Ballads. Malaysian and Cebuano share words, which enable the author to identify them. Both Singapore and Cebu are hot,tropical counties. 2 12 How are Singapore and Cebu Different Singapore is more disciplined while cebu is more unplanned and spontaneous. The rock ballad is in Bahasa Malaysia, which, while similar to Cebuano, remains a foreign language. Malaysian and Cebuano share words, but not a complete language. Singapore is actually even more humid than Cebu. Task 3 Activities in the Cities Transportation Movement of people Movement of Commerce Construction/Demolition Rhythm in the Cities -the flow of the moving vehicles -often connected with the time of day where people commute to/from work -people going out to eat/drink and do shopping -Sounds created by construction workers and people doing demolition Task 4 Modernist Approach to Writing 1. Content 2. Rhythm 3. Form/Orgnization 4. Intertextuality Description based on “A Song of Two Cities” -is on modernity, modernization, urbanization and modernism. -follows a particular kind of pacing while living in the city or in a modern world.. -illustrates urban life. - the use of “prose poetry” or poems that are written like paragraphs -the use of poems in broken pieces to reflect the fragmentary nature of urban life. -the interplay between theme and form as it relates to an increasingly globalized and complex environment. Task 5 – Answers may vary Task 6 – Answers may vary Assessment: 1-3. Answers may vary . 4. Rhythm and flows 5. Present tense 2 13 REFERENCES Books Agustin, Roy Tristan B.et.al. 2016. 21st Century Literature From the Philippines and the World. Quezon City: Vibal Group, Inc. ( teacher's manual and learner's manual) Online Sources (https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=ZYjQX5fdKoqK0ATFnZrACg&q =venn+diagram+template n.d.) Staff, Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary. Vol. 2. MerriamWebster, 2004. 2 14 For inquiries or feedback, please write or call: Department of Education – Schools Division of Negros Oriental Kagawasan, Avenue, Daro, Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental Tel #: (035) 225 2376 / 541 1117 Email Address: negros.oriental@deped.gov.ph Website: lrmds.depednodis.net 2