Learner’s Activity Sheet

Subject (Quarter II – Week 1-2)

Name: _____________________________________ Grade and Section: _______________
Teacher: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________________
School: _________________________________________________________________________

Dear Learner,

Good day!

For this week, you will learn to write a close analysis and critical
interpretation of literary texts, applying a reading approach, and doing an
adaptation of these, require from the learner the ability to identify
representative texts and authors from Asia, North America, Europe, Latin
America, and Africa (EN12Lit-IIa-22)
Specifically, you are expected to:
1. Identify literary texts and authors from North America, Europe, Latin
America, and Africa
2. write a critical review of a story

Representative Texts and Authors from Asia, Africa, Europe,

and North and Latin America

ACTIVITY 1

Instructions: Recall what you learned about the literature of the world. Read and
answer the following statements. Encircle the letter of your choice. (10 Points)

1. Haiku is an example of ____literature.

A. Chinese Literature B. Japanese Literature C. Indian literature
2. Mahabharata is an oldest epic of ___.
A. India B. America C. China
3. The book “One Thousand and One Nights or Arabian Nights” was originated in ___.
A. Palestine B. China C. Saudi Arabia
4. An influential and sacred book of Islam.
A. Bible B. Canterbury Tales C. Qur’an
5. “Shih Ching” is translated in English or sometimes as “The Book of Songs”
or “The Odes” was originated in ___.
A. China B. Japan C. Malaysia
6. Puritan Literature was a reflection of ___
A. Filipino life B. Puritan life C. Japanese life
7. An influential book for Christians. It talks about Christianity.
A. Bible B. Canterbury Tales C. Qur’an
8. It refers to the literature that was written over a period of thousands of
years, in a variety of countries in Asia.
A. Asian literature C. Latin American Literature

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B. North American Literature

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 9. What continent does USA belongs?
A. Asia B. Europe C. North America
10. According to many literary critics, he was the greatest Chinese poet of all time.
A. Li Po B. Du Fu C. Choi Nam-seon

ACTIVITY 2

Instructions: Read the “A Thousand Splendid Suns”- An Excerpt written

by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan), then answer the given questions below.
Write your answer on your answer sheets. (10 points)

Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in
1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand
Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is also a U.S. Goodwill Envoy
to the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini
Foundation,
READ AND a nonprofit
REMEMBER that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of
Afghanistan.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

(Excerpt)
By Khaled Hosseini

Mariam had never before worn a burqa. Rasheed had to help her put it on. The
padded headpiece felt tight and heavy on her skull, and it was strange seeing the world
through a mesh screen. She practiced walking around her room in it and kept stepping
on the hem and stumbling. The loss of peripheral vision was unnerving, and she did not
like the suffocating way the pleated cloth kept pressing against her mouth.

“You’ll get used to it,” Rasheed said. “With time, I bet you’ll even like it.”
They took a bus to a place Rasheed called the Shar-e-Nau Park, where children pushed
each other on swings and slapped volleyballs over ragged nets tied to tree trunks. They
strolled together and watched boy fly kites, Mariam walking beside Rasheed, tripping
now and then on the burqa’s hem. For lunch, Rasheed took her to eat in a small kebab
house near a mosque he called the Haji Yaghoub. The floor was sticky and the air
smoky. The walls smelled faintly of raw meat and music, which Rasheed described to
her as logari, was loud.

The cooks were thin boys who fanned skewers with one hand and swatted gnats with
the other. Mariam, who had never been inside a restaurant, found it odd at first to sit in
a crowded room with so many strangers, to lift her burqa to put morsels of food into her
mouth. A hint of the same anxiety as the day at the tandoor stirred into her stomach,
but Rasheed’s presence was of some comfort, and, after a while, she did not mind so
much the music, the smoke, even the people. And the burqa, she learned to her
surprise, was also comforting. It was like a one-way window. Inside it, she was an
observer, buffered from the scrutinizing eyes of strangers. She no longer worried that
people knew, with a single glance, all the shameful secrets of the past.

The women in the part of Kabul were a different breed from the women in the
poorer neighbourhoods – like the one where she and Rasheed lived, where so
many of the women covered fully. These women were – what was the word of
Rasheed had used? – “modern”. Yes, modern Afghan women married modern
Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with
makeup on their faces and nothing of their heads. Mariam watched then
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cantering uninhibited down the street, sometimes with a man, sometimes
alone, sometimes with rosy-cheeked children who wore shiny shoes and
 1. What over –generalized belief about Afghans and Muslims do we find in
the society? Do you think these stereotypes are true or false?
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ACTIVITY 3

(Please practice your writing skills by copying this on your notebook)

Instructions: Read the discussion of some of the representative texts from Asia,
Africa, North America, Latin America, and Europe.

What is World Literature?

World literature is the totality of all national literatures. The formation of
literature in different countries happened not at the same time, which is connected
with the emergence of writing and artistic creativity. Each nation`s literature has
its own artistic and national features.
In the history of world literature, we define several stages of its development
such as the literature of Bronze Age, Classical Literature, Early Medieval Literature,
Medieval Literature, Early Modern and Modern Literature.

World literature is the cultural heritage of all humanity. It is essential to

study world literature as it helps us understand the life of different people from all
over the world, forms our world-outlook and acquaints us with the masterpieces of
literature.

Now let us get to know some representative authors from different regions in
the world and their works.

Some Notable Writers from Asia:

ASIA
Country Author Literary Country Author Literary Texts
Texts
China Du Fu (also “The Ballad of Malaysia Tan Twan The Gift of Rain
known as Tu fu) the Army Eng (2007)
– according to Cats” The Garden of
many literary Evening Mists
(2011)
critics, he was
the greatest
Chinese poet of
all time.
Korea Choi Nam-Seon "The Ocean to Pakistan Musharraf "Between Clay
the Youth” Ali and Dust”,
Farooqi "The
Adventures of
Amir Hamza",
"Hoshruba"
"The Story of a

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 Widow"
"Tik-Tik, The
Master of Time"
Japan Ryūnosuke “Rashomon” India Jeet These Errors
Akutagawa Thayil Are Correct,
regarded as the English,
“Father of the Apocalypso
Gemini
Japanese short
Narcopolis
story”
Egypt Taha Hussein “The Days”, Vietnam Nguyen “The Tale of
“The Dean of Du “father Kieu”
Arabic of
Literature” Vietnames
e
literature”

Some Notable Writers from Africa:

AFRICA
Country Author Literary Texts
Africa Wole Soyinka “A Dance of the Forests”
Ghana Kofi Awoonor “This Earth, My Brother”
Kenya Ngungi wa “Weep Not, Child”
Thiong’o
Nigeria Ben Okri “The Famished Road” (1991)
“Songs of Enchantment” (1993)
“Infinite Riches” (1998)
“Astonishing the Gods” (1995)

Some Notable Writers from North America:

NORTH AMERICA
Country Author Literary Texts
USA David L. Weatherford "Slow Dance"
USA Alfred Edward “When I Was One-and-
Housman Twenty”
USA Robert Charles “My Face”
Benchley
Canada Margaret Atwood "Oryx and Crake" (2003)
"The Handmaid's Tale" (1986)
"The Blind Assassin" (2000)

Here is a representative literary text from North America.

Slow Dance
David L. Weatherford

Have you ever watched kids on a Ever told your child, we'll do it
merry-go-round, tomorrow,
or listened to rain slapping the and in your haste, not see his

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 ground? sorrow?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic Ever lost touch, let a friendship die,
flight, 'cause you never had time to call
or gazed at the sun fading into the and say hi?
night?
You better slow down, don't dance
You better slow down, don't dance so so fast,
fast, time is short, the music won't last.
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get
Do you run through each day on the somewhere,
fly, you miss half the fun of getting
when you ask "How are you?", do you there.
hear the reply?
When you worry and hurry through
When the day is done, do you lie in your day,
your bed, it's like an unopened gift thrown
with the next hundred chores running away.
through your head?
Life isn't a race, so take it slower,
You better slow down, don't dance so hear the music before your song is
fast, over.
time is short, the music won't last.

Some Notable Writers from Latin America:

LATIN AMERICA
Country Author Literary Texts
Chile Isabel Allende “The House of the Spirits and
City of the Beasts”
Colombia Gabriel García "100 Years of Solitude"
Márquez "Love in the Time of
Cholera"
Peru Mario Vargas Llosa “The Storyteller”
“The Feast of the Goat”
“Death in the Andes”,
“The Bad Girl”,
“The Way to Paradise” “The
War of the End of the World”

Some Notable Writer from Europe:

The names that are presented in column A are all European authors, the
contexts found in column B are the titles of the literary texts that they have
contributed in literary history development.

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 EUROPE
Country Author Literary Texts
England Ian McEwan First Love, Last Rites" (1976)
"Atonement" (2001)
"Saturday" (2005)
England J.K. Rowling “Harry Potter”
England David Mitchell "Ghostwritten" (1999)
"Cloud Atlas" (2004)
"The Bone Clocks" (2014)
France Delphine de Vigan “No et moi” (No and Me)
“Rien ne s'oppose a la
nuit” (Nothing holds back
the night)
Greece Homer “Iliad and Odyssey“
Russia Count Lev The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Nikolayevich
Tolstoy (Leo
Tolstoy)

ACTIVITY 4

Instructions: Your task is to choose a story from world literature and write a
critical review of your chosen story. Your review must be one to two pages long,
double-spaced, and with a proper title. NOTE: Use short bond paper. (30 Points)

Writing Short Paper

A short paper is literally “short.” It consists of one or two pages of written

critique that will succinctly discuss your idea, realization, or concept regarding a
literary selection. The point here is to introduce your idea or discovery about a
literary selection.

Tips in Writing Short Paper

1. Choose a literary selection that you want to analyse.
2. Always begin with an outline.
3. Start with a joke, an anecdote, or a quotation from the literary text as your
introduction.(The idea is to hook your readers so that they will be more willing to
listen to your idea).
4. The body of your essay must try to discuss the relation of your idea with the
literary text.
5. The conclusion is just like any conclusion when you are writing an essay –
summarize what you have said or discussed in the body in two to three
sentences.

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Rubric

Criteria Description Score

10 points 7 points 4 points

Outstanding use of Adequate use of Inappropriate use

color, design and color, design, and of color, design,
Accuracy
space; overall space; overall and space; lack of
design is pleasing design is mostly harmonious
and harmonious pleasing and design in
harmonious presentation

Cohesion The essay is The essay is The essay is not

cohesive and has moderately cohesive at all and
only one voice. cohesive and has needs further
two or three editing.
voices, which can
be further edited.

Organization The essay is The essay is The essay is not

organized and can moderately organized at all
be understood organized and and needs major
easily. needs some rewriting.
editing.

Score /30
ACTIVITY 5

Instructions: Recognize the names of authors given in Column A. Relate them to

the corresponding literary titles in Column B. Write the letter of your answer on
the space provided before each number. (1 Point Each)

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COLUMN A COLUMN B

____ 1. William Shakespeare a. Canterbury Tales

____ 2. J.K. Rowling b. Charge the Light Brigade
____ 3. Geoffrey Chaucer c. Romeo and Juliet
____ 4. Ovid d. The Satanic Verses
____ 5. Dante e. Divine Comedy
____ 6. Homer f. Iliad and Odyssey
____ 7. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie g. Metamorphosis
____ 8. Lord Alfred Tennyson h. Harry Potter
____ 9. John Milton i. Paradise Lost
____ 10. Virgil j. Aeneid
____ 11. Leo Tolstoy k. Oedipus the King
____ 12. Sophocles l. Anna Karenina
m. The Watchers

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 References:

1. 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World ADM Quarter 2
– Module 2 Understanding and Appreciating the Literary Texts in Various
Genres Across National Literature and Cultures by Noemi M. Abellanosa,
Emmalyn L. Achacoso, El Dela Cruz and Jade Ann R. Maaliao
Department of Education.
2. https://www.deped.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/SHS-
Core_21st-Century-Literature-from-the-Philippines-and-the-World-CG.pdf

CERTIFICATION
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activities included in this Learning Activity Sheet.

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