Science 7 - LAND and SEA BREEZE and its Characteristics
phil lit syllabus.docx
1. Week Course Learning Outcomes Content Readings Instructional
Delivery
Assessment Resources
Week 1 1. Trace literary history and
discuss the landscape of
Philippine Literature in
English in relation to its
socio-political and
intellectual milieu.
2. List and identify outstanding
Filipino writers in English,
analyze their major works in
depth and draw out their
distinctive style and
techniques.
3. Point out the recurrent
themes and gain insights
into the Filipino psyche and
value system
4. Define, identify the features
and differentiate each major
genre
5. Assess the relationship, the
elements of each major
genre
6. Heightened aesthetic sense
tempered by critical thinking
through exposure to various
literary texts.
7. Manifest understanding and
appreciation of the major
emerging genre through a
literary blog
I. EARLY PERIOD
The Literary Forms in the
Philippines Literature
Luis Dato – The Spouse
Cecilio Apostol – To the Yankee
Manuel Arguilla – A son is Born
Carlos Bulusan – Two Faces of
America
Carlos Bulosan – My Brother
Goes to Court
Angela M. Gloria – To a Lost One
Jorge – College Uneducation
Week 2 II. THE MIDDLE PERIOD
Angela M. Gloria – I have
Begrudged the Years
Amador Daguio – Man of Earth
Amador Daguio – Wedding
Dance
Rafael Zulueta de Costa – Like
the Molave
Paz Marquez Benitez – Dead
Stars
Jose Garcia Villa – Footnote to
Youth
Week 3 III. Under the Republic (1946-
1971)
Jose Garcia Villa – Song for a Dry
Season
Nick Joaquin – Three
Generations
2. Bienvenido Santos – The
Contender
Bienvenido Santos – The Day
The Dancers Came
NVM Gonzales – Children of Ash-
Covered Loam
Marcelino Agana – New Yorker
in Tondo
NVM Gonzales – Bread of Salt
Francisco Arcellana – Divide by
Two
Estrella Alfon – Magnificence
Gilda Cordero Fernando – The
Visitation of the Gods
Manuel Bernabe – The
Pilgrimage of Death
Amado V. Hernandez- Isolation
Cell
IV. Under Martial Law (1972-
1985)
Rolando S. Tinio – Valediction at
Hillcrest
Virgilio S. Almario – The Life of
Ka Bestre, Rig-Driver
Jose F. Lacaba – Force of
Circumstance
Bonifacio Ilagan – The Sermon
F. Sionil Jose – Dusk
F. Sionil Jose – Why Filipinos are
so poor?
F. Sionil Jose – Mass
3. Amdis Ma. Guerrero – Children
of the City
Carmen Guerrero – The Filipino
Woman
Leonico P. Deriada – Dog Eaters
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
V. Under the EDSA Democracy
(1986-1994)
Mariano Kilates – Of Children
Drying by Hunger Negros
Elsewhere
Merlinda Bobis – Peopleness
Ninotchka Rosca – State of War
Edgardo Maranan – Island and
Hinterland
Belinda S. Santos – The
Intellectual
Eric Gamalinda – Edge and
Mourning and Weeping in this
Valley of Tears
Charlson Ong – A tropical
Winter’s Tale
Edgardo B. Maranan – Cogon
Jessica Zafrra – Portents
Katrina Tuvera – The Flight
VI. Under the Age of
Globalization (1995 –
present)
Christina Pantoja-Hidalgo –
Recuerdo
Danton Remoto – From Gaydar
and Pulot Gata
4. Ramil Digal Gulle – Twenty Fifth
Fly
Alfred Yuson – Pillage
Edgar Maranan – Tabon
Elsa Martinez Coscolluela –
Katipunera
FINAL EXAMINATION