This folktale from the Manobo people explains the cycle of the sun and moon. The moon tended the home while the sun traveled the sky. One day, the moon left the sun to care for their children, but he disobeyed and touched them, causing them to turn to ashes. In her grief and anger, the moon scattered the ashes and now flees from the sun across the sky, followed by the stars which are their children. The cycle of the sun chasing the moon is represented by day and night.

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English 7
Grade 7 - Courage

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The Cycle of
the Sun and
the Moon
(Literary Piece)

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LORE
- something that is taught
- a lesson

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LOCAL COLOR
- the presentation of the features and
peculiarities of a particular locality and its
inhabitants in nature.
- It is a unique trait of a community, country or
nation.

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Riddles (Bugtong)
- play with words that will make a person think
or analyze.
- it is also a creative manner of imparting
wisdom from older generations

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Riddles (Bugtong)
- it could be about any aspect of life
- usually rhymed
- used sensory images
- used various figures of speech

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Riddles (Bugtong)
- presents an object indirectly by stating its
characteristic features or peculiarities,
providing just enough information to call it to
mind without naming it.
- the hearer or reader then has to identify the
object described.

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Riddles (Bugtong)
Mahaba ang bituka at ito'y lumilipad Kapag
hindi mahangin ito -ay tinatamad (Its entrails
are long and it can fly But then becomes lazy
when no wind goes by)
ANSWER: KITE

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Riddles (Bugtong)
May'dila nga ngunit ayaw namang magsalita Kambal
sila't laging kasama ang isa't isa Itali o igapos kahit
higpitan mo pa Tiyak silang sa iyo ay sasama (They
have tongues but don't have speech Always together,
identical to each Tie them up, bind them even tight
They'll still be faithful and leave you not)
ANSWER: SHOES

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Riddles (Bugtong)
Mayroong araw, mayroong buwan hindi naman langit
Mayroong katapusan ngunit muling nagbabalik
Tumatanda ngunit isang taong gulang lagi Wakas niya
ay ipinagbubunyi. (It's not heaven but has days and
months It stops but then right away resumes Grows
older but stays always a year in age Its life's end is
celebrated with fun and homage)
ANSWER: CALENDAR

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Riddles (Bugtong)
Lumuluha walang mata Lumalakad walang
paa (It has no eyes, but it can cry It has no
feet but can walk by)
ANSWER: PEN

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Proverbs
- pithy sayings that contain advice or state a
basic truth.
- They reflect folk wisdom as to how to act and
live.
- they show the cultural values and the
physical environment of the region where they
originated.

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Proverbs (SALAWIKAIN)
- wordings are easy to remember
- passed on orally
- used various grammatical and rhetorical
devices
- extol values similar to those in proverbs of
another culture
- enjoyed for the wit and humor they contain

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Assignment: (Yellow Paper)

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Noting Filipino CuIturaI Values to Affirm or Modify
One's Value System
Our proverbs reflect our nation's philosophy of life.
One proverb Filipinos often quote and which appears
in almost all languages spoken in the country is: "Ang
siyang 'di lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay 'di
makararating sa paroroonan" (Whoever does not
look back at the past will not arrive at the intended
destination). What value is emphasized by this
proverb and what does it say about Filipinos as a
people? Do you think the lesson it teaches still
applies to the Filipino way of life in the modern
times?

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Values: Life Connection
After carefully reading the Filipino
proverb on looking back to the past, do
you agree or disagree with the saying?
Explain your stand.

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Remember:
There is so much in the future to look forward
to, but there is also wisdom in looking back to
the past and in recognizing the lessons and
values that we can learn from our forebears.

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Noting the
Characteristics
of Folk
Narratives

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- These narratives present simple
characters and farfetched situations.
- They often use personification, a figure
of speech giving human characteristics
to non-human objects.
- The situations presented are not true to
life.
- entertaining.

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- include myths and legends that involve
religion and Gods of old.

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MYTHS
Myths recount happenings
of long ago. The main
characters in mythical
stories are not human
beings, but deities, giants,
nymphs, satyrs, and the like,
though they are portrayed
with human attributes.

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LEGENDS
Legends are about
creation and tribal
beginnings, but they
focus on human
characters involved with
divine beings.

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FABLES
Fables are types of
animal tales that teach a
moral using animal
characters that human
personalities.

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Folk Narratives Using Personification:
● The Cycle of the Sun and Moon
● The Monkey and the Turtle (Fable)
● Legends
● Tungkung Langit at si Alunsina
● Mount Makiling
● Legend of the Pineapple

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Identifying
Figures of
Speech

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Identifying Figures of Speech
● A figure of speech is a word or
phrase used to other than the
literal meaning.

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Three Common Figures of Speech
● Simile
● Metaphor
● Personification

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Three Common Figures of Speech
● Metaphor
A metaphor compares two unlike things
by is the other thing. It does not use like or as.
Example: The Philippine is the pearl of the
orient Seas

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Three Common Figures of Speech
● Simile
A simile uses the words like or as to
compare two unlike things.
Example: Lumnay danced like a bird, graceful
and light as in flight.

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Three Common Figures of Speech
● Personification
Personification is giving human attributes
to objects that are' not human.
Examples: Flowers on the mountainside
danced as Aliguyon and Bugan passed by.

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Exercise 5, page 18
Decide whether the figure of speech used
in the sentence is a metaphor, a simile, or
a personification. Write your answer on
the line. Then, be able to explain the
figure of speech.

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Pronouncing
Words with
the Correct
Word Stress

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Stress
● It is characterized by force or
intensity (loudness), pitch or tone,
and duration.

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Generalizations about Stress
● Most two - syllable nouns and
adjectives are stressed on the first
syllable.
ALways BETter BAby SUREly
HOly DRIver LAdy DAIly
PRETty

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Generalizations about Stress
● Intensive and reflexive pronouns
receive the stress on the second
syllable.
mySELF themSELVES
himSELF yourSELF
ourSELVES yourSELVES

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Identifying the
Common
Purposes for
Writing

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Identifying the Common Purposes for Writing
● To narrate/recall a story
● To explain
● To express emotions
● To request or command
● To express agreement or disagreement
● To argue
● To inquire

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The Cycle of
the Sun and
the Moon
(A Manobo Folktale)

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A long time ago, only the Sun rode to the sky. His wife,
the Moon, stayed at home and tended the children and
their farm. The Moon loved their two children and went
about her tasks happily—fetching water, gathering gabi
leaves, and digging camote for supper. One cloudy day
when the Sun was home, the Moon had to go to the river
for water. She crooned the children to sleep and called to
her husband. "Dear husband, I am going to fetch water.
Watch over the children, but do not go near them
because you know what will happen if you do." And after
the warning, she left. The Sun looked lovingly at his
children.

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He had never before been able to really know them
or even get near them. Overcome with love and
affection, he kissed them. To his horror, they
shrivelled up before his eyes and crumbled to ashes.
His anguish was great. He moaned and cried.
Suddenly he remembered what her wife had told—
not to touch the children! Not knowing what to do, he
hid in the forest. Soon after this the Moon returned. A
water jar was balanced on her head and she carried
a bundle of freshly cut gabi leaves in her arms.

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Laying down the jar and leaves, she turned to look for her
children. Wild was her grief to find only ashes where her
lovely brown babies had once been. Her screams and
lamentations reached her husband in the forest, and his
pity overcoming his fear, he went home. However, as
soon as the Moon saw him, her wailing became louder.
"My husband, why did you do it? Did I not tell you never to
touch or even draw near our children? Why did you
disobey me?" I couldn't help kissing them, O wife; they
looked so sweet. I have never seen anything so sweet
before. Forgive me, O Moon! Forgive me, But the Moon
would not be comforted. Her reproaches increased in
intensity. In the end, the sun got angry. “Mang-gad!” he
shouted.

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"Did you say that I disobeyed you? How dare you
think that you are superior to me, that you can order
me what to do. Mang-gad! Slave! How dare you say
that I disobeyed you!" Il "Ail" she moaned. "l am
nothing, nothing at all! Then, my children are nothing
tool" And with one defiant sweep of her arm, she
scattered their ashes to the four winds. Horrified and
enraged, the Sun seized the gabi leaves and threw
them in his wife's face and dashed out of the house.
When he returned very late that night, his ill temper
was gone.

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He regretted having shouted at his wife. He found the
house dark and empty. His wife had fled, but
pinpoints of glimmering light in the distance told him
where she was, for he knew the lights were his
children following their mother in her flight. So
started the endless cycle of the Sun chasing the
Moon and the Moon fleeing from the Sun. The Moon
.is forever with her children, the many tiny lights we
call the stars. Now and then a shooting star breaks
across the path of the Moon. It is nothing more than
an attempt from her husband to make her and their
two children return to him.

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But the Moon speeds away faster, sometimes
leaving the sky altogether, with only her star-babies
there. This happens when the marks of the gabi
leaves on the Moon's face swell, and she remembers
the pain and humiliation of her husband's anger
when he threw the gabi leaves to her face and called
her mang-gad (property) and binotong (slave). The
narrative you have just read is the famous Manobo
folktale about the origin of the heavenly bodies,
specifically the sun, the moon, and the stars.

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Notice that even though it explained the origin of
the heavenly bodies, it also pointed implicitly to
one value that is important to all of us:
faithfulness to one's promises. Had the Sun not
disobeyed his wife, the children would not have
crumbled to ashes. Symbolically, the crumbling
of the children to ashes represents how trust can
be shattered because of broken promises.

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