Linggo, Setyembre 25, 2011

I. The Isles of My Portfolio in Literature 111

II. Students Outputs of E-Portfolio

III.Literature as a Platform in Education for Sustainable Development

                  The purpose of teaching literature in schools has often been debated especially during the recent concern of our "failing educational system" and the importance placed on high stakes tests. However, teaching literature not only improves reading fluency through the expansion of vocabulary, but also increases students' reading comprehension skills. Comprehension skills not only include retelling main events, but also include the ability to identify the author's choice or words, central themes, character development, symbolism, irony, etc. 
Including literature expecially classical literature supports the idea of teaching a truly integrated curriculum.  For example, classical literature can be used to teach history and language arts.  One does not need to have a specific course designed solely around reading classical literature.  It can be used in history and writing classes to encourage higher level thinking skills.
                    Today it seems that students need to not only learn from literature, but also understand how it applies to their lives.  Instead of having students read the whole of a "literary classics", teachers should begin to incorporate newer texts and excerpts from the classics can teach them the same lessons is becoming vitally important.  Students need to feel they can relate to what they’re reading; otherwise English and literature teachers will find themselves losing their audiences. Turning students off from literature is doing them a disservice, teachers need to ensure that their students cannot only read but can analyze and question the texts they are reading. 

IV. Reflection in Literature


The things that I have learned in Literature, is that all things is possible, when it comes to writing you can express  the emotions, ideas, and feeling through poems, songs and etc.  To make other feels what you want to share with them.
                Like the following poems, and short stories below.
Cactus
Tita Lacambra Ayala
           
Tita Lacambra Ayala was born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte and was married to Jose V. Ayala.Among her volumes of poetry were “Sun Flower Poems” (1960) and “Ordinary Poems” (1917). She was not only a writer of poems but was also a writer of essays and fiction. Her selection, “Everything”, won third price in 1966-67 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.



Excuse the Cactus                                        
Thirsting on the sill
Stuck out:
They’re only an attempt
At self-defense.
See how it bleeds
To fossils the old sand
Itself looking to be such
A fussy fossil
Not quite futile.
           



It should require
 some sort of guile
some genius
to subsist on sun
some lake sand
(have both for free)
And come out looking
Freshly green,
(juicy even)
As if in spite of
As if in fun




Interpretation of the Poem
            The poem want to emphasized of what are the environment of cactus compare to other plants and how it does survive despite of all the obstacles that the cactus encountering.
           
The Quarrel
                                        Andres Cristobal Cruz
 Andres Cristobal Cruz was born in Dagupan City, Pangasinan. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Arts major in English at the University of the Philippines. He joined the staff of Liwayway Publishing after his graduation. He was chosen one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYU) for his contributions to Philippine Literature. He received the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1964 for his short stories. His selection “The Quarrel” won first prize in 1952-53 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
He portrayed the character of his wife, Nina as a good housewife and a fast housekeeper. However as good as she was, she often got into conflict with their landlady because of her inhuman attitude toward the couple.
It is a Short Story, which is a kind of Prose. Short Story is an artistic form of prose fiction which centered on a single main incident whose aim is to produce a single dominant impression. Its qualities are economy, compression, brevity and emphasis.
·         Elements or Ingredients of Prose
1.      Characters/Characterization
Nina- a good housewife and fast housekeeper
Ismael- a good husband
Missis Smith-cruel lady
2.      Setting
Apartment
3.      Plot
a.      Beginning Action
Ismael had a nightmare and her wife comfort him and they did not sleep until morning came. On the second floor, Mrs. Smith, their landlady was up there and had her rheumatism, the couple talked about Mrs. Smith.
b.      Rising Action
As usual Mrs. Smith was barking out order to the men who were to take out her jeeps for the routes. Imael had his breakfast and they talkd about of what they are facing. The mother of Nina decided to live her daughter with Ismael when she found out about the baby that Nina going to have, while listening to the music through the radiophono that they bought after their child died.
c.       Conflict
Mrs. Smith came in by the backdoor, her care tapping against the polished rungs of the low stairs, and asking for the rent because it was due on that day, but Nina and Ismael apologized for they cannot pay for the rent and they are asking for an extension. But Mrs. Smith insisted that they should pay, and she did not listen to any reasons of the couple.
d.      Climax
Until it came to physical hurting between Nina and Mrs. Smith, all the people around them appeared.
e.      Denouement
Mrs. Smith realized what she did to the couple, in a violent way just only to pay the rent.
f.        End
D. Theme
            Quarrel
                                                Sentence Outline
I.                    Ismael had nightmare
1.      With a half shut eyes he tried in his mind to make out other things of the objects in the still dim room.
2.      He heard the first trip dragging itself in the distance, leaving three tortured shrill whistle blasts and the irregular rumbling of iron wheels to echo in whose consciousness lay listening.
II.                  The couple backfight Mrs. Smith.
1.      “She’s not very old nor very ugly “Ismael said “forty or forty-five?”
2.      “I wonder if her husband still remember her, “Nina said in a sarcastic voice.
III.                The jeeps of Mrs. Smith
1.      Ismael stood out in the sunlight , wiping his face with a towel in his mind reciting the word “Too much”.
2.      He could hear the jeeps warning up on the small street in front of the Accessoria.
3.      As usual Mrs. Smith barking out orders to the men who were to take out her jeeps for the routes.
IV.                Ismael had its breakfast
1.      He likes the eggs to be his breakfast.
2.      He took up the clean shirt lying on the already made up bed.
3.      He smiled, Nina was such a fast housekeeper.
V.                  Mrs. Smith asking for the rent
1.      Nina apologized and seconded by Ismael for they don’t have yet the mone.
2.      Mrs. Smith insisted.
3.      Mrs. Smith start to have her oral defamation.
4.      Mrs. Smith realized her violence approach to the couple.

        Ink
        Guillermo Castillo
Pangasinan
          I
        Ink
  Bottled in a glass prism
    Meaningless in itself
  Black and mute without a language
Silent but strongly-urged
            To speak
                  2
                Ink
          Chance-impressed on white
     Inarticulate unintelligible chaotic
    Welcome on the bareness of white
                  But still foreign
                 Excommunicate
                          3
                      But ink
         Pen-lifted pen-impressed
            On blank white paper
                   Will-ordered
       Interprets intensifies clarifies
                     Expresses
                        Life

Interpretation:
            At 1st stanza of the poem, it expresses that the ink if it will not remove on his bottle, it is useless.
            At 2nd stanza, when the ink is poured into a white paper it has already its life but it cannot be understood.
            At 3rd stanza, but if the ink will put into pen, it can already expressed, clearly interpretation of what the holder of the pen want to write.
           
                                                            People of Consequence
                                                            Ines Taccad-Cammayo
                                                                         Isabela
            Ines Taccad-Cammayo was born in Isabela and became a university scholar during her College days. She took up a degree in AB Journalism and MA in her selection” People of Consequence” was a first prize winner in the Carlos Memorial Awards for Literature in 1969. Some of her articles were published in the former Sunday Times Free Press, Graphics and focus.
·         Elements of the story
I.                    Characters
Camus- houseboy of a German haciendero
Meding- lived in the Capitolyo for almost four years as servant of the of the Mayors family.
II.                  Settings
III.                 Plot
Beginning Action
            When Camus was a young man, he has been the houseboy of a German haciendero. The German is a Bachelor and he often told Camus that his punishments were for his own good became he must learn to shed his indolent and clumsy ways if he ever hoped to amount to anything. Camus and his wife were themselves becoming people of consequence. They now owned best in the barrio which other lakeside Village lay at the base of a high chit which the people called Munting Azul because a perpetual haze clung to its summit. Meding, his wife leaved the hard driving manners of towns folk. It constantly amazed her how she could make idle time yield profit, and even more astonishing, how having made profit she held on to it.
                                    Rising Action
                                                All their life sentiment had very little meaning perhaps because
Love had never figured in the courtship. Camus married Meding because his father and her father had agreed on the union.
Conflict
The superintendent meet camus as Cook. It was insult for the part of camus, but he continue to disguised as cook even if he’s not.
                                    Denouement
Every step was taking him nearer to the Superintendent’s house  and how could he go to him without the chuckins of his throat was parched the vendors thrust their wares at him again. Pinipig, kroopek, Balut, Mais Laga above the voices a tinkling bell now attracted him. He turned around, an ice cream, they exchanged a look of understanding.
                                   
End
            He watched the vendor ,pat layers  of muti-colored ice cream into the cone yellow, violet, white. A final, careful pat of chocolate. He waved away the insistent hands and wares of the other peddlers. . Slow he drew  the money from his pocket, picked the bill most frayed and gave it to the vendor. As he licked the ice cream savoring the taste, he stretched out his hands  for the change, all was quiet in the plaza now, and suddenly he realized that he had almost twenty pesos to spend  as he pleased.  He squinted craftly about him, seeing for the first time the loud speakers talking to him alone. Yes he must tell his wife how pleased the good lady had been, how truly live a gentlemen and friend the superintendent was.
                                                                           
The Rural Maid
                                                    Fernando M. Maramag
                        Fernando M. Maramag was born on January 21, 1893 in Ilagan, Isabela. He was a well known-poet and a newspaperman during his time.
Thy glance, sweet maid when first we met
Has left a heart that aches for thee
I feel the pain of fond regret
Thy heart, perchance  is not for me

We parted: though we met no more,
My dreams are dreams of thee fair mad
I think of thee, my thoughts implore
The honor my lips on  thine are laid

Forgive thee words that love impart,
And pleading, bare the poets breast
And if a rose with thorns thou art
Yet on my breast that rose may rest

I know not what to name thy charms
Thou art  half human, half divine
But if I  would hold thee in my arms
I know both heaven and earth were mine
Interpretation
                        At the 1st stanza, the writer saw a rural maid. And at their first met, he fall in love at their first  sight and he know that the rural maid is already taken.
                        At the second stanza, they departed each other and meet no more, his fantasy  to the rural maid is just only a dream that it can’t possibly happen.
                        At the third stanza ,the writetr ask for forgiveness for the love that he feels to the rural maid and the rose that he refers in the rural maid and if that rose thorns in his breast he can now take his rest.
                        At the fourth  stanza, the writer describes the rural maid like a Goddess, and if he will be given a chance to hold in his arms, he feels that he owns the heaven and earth.
                                                            Frustrated Wish
                                        Translated by Prof. Carolina A. Arceo
                        Carolina A. Arceo is an assistant professor of English and Filipino at the Tarlac State University. A  former coordinator of the Office of Public Affairs of the same University and a translator of Panrehiyong Sentro ng Wikang Filipino. (PSWF) Region III.
So happy and trusted
These people in love
                        For their sorrow they have
                        Somebody to share

                        My destiny that’s so lonely
                        Am I alone with this
                        For I said I wont think twice
                        Because suffering I am now

                        If ever I fall in love to a lady
                        There’s nothing I could see
                        That I have my counterpart
                       
                        Time I shall forget when I was born
                        Better is a thousand years
                        If at any birth was gone

                        I should have tried to explain
                        But tongue-tied I was
                        For I could clearly see
                        That I won’t be lucky

                        And it really please me much
                        That my love for you know
                        So  I swear and promise you.



Interpretation
                        At the 1st stanza, the lucky are the persons which is inlove, and when they feel sorrow or sadness, there are some people around them, that ready to listen with them.
                        At the second stanza, the writer emphasized that the man in the poem is lovely being alone and he is blaming himself that in making decision, she is only think once not twice.
                        At the 3rd stanza, if there  will be a chance that the man will fall in love to a lady, he will grab the chance and make their relationship strong.
                        At the fourth stanza, he forget already the time that he was born, and he wants during his birth he will that he already  gone.
                        At the fifth stanza, he tried to explain, but he can’t because he already foresee that he will not be lucky.
                        At the last stanza, the man is pleasing the girl that he loves is only the girl that he want to love and offered his life.
                                                   
       Ridiculous Welcome
                                        Translated by Prof. Carolina A. Arceo


Fro whatever you’d like to do
To prevent it from weakening
It is destined to fall
For its luster withered

Very soon you should avoid
This attitude that’s vile
Transparent you should be
Especially to lovers S & B.
So forget about your anger
For it will make you  older
Particularly when your deceived
By the very Stupid G.

Be happy all the time
When sweetness in then you see


The old D. and also M.
Who are to a funnel likened

So if you continue doing this
There’s no doubt you’ll receive
The seventh sacrament
Which Don Domingo will send

Interpretation:
            The poem want to emphasized that they are joking of Don Domingo situation, they are advicing Don domingo to forget his anger and instead be happy for it will be easier for Don Domingo to go to the seventh sacrament which is death.



V. Integration of Education for Sustainable Development to Literature





We write to express our ideas, emotions or feelings that touched everyone’s heart in fantasy and maybe in reality. An essential element of this approach is to reflect the values and interests of the communities. This helps us to imagine our composed to the people.

In developing new composed of any kind of literatures with partners by talking with the communities. These participatory consultations are conducted by Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            And determine the appropriate interventions for dealing with the specific artworks through literatureCarlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature then work with other composer and writers to develop new ideas through the use of literature that relates to our way of living