21st Century Lit LAS Quarter 4 Week 1, Lecture notes of English

Download 21st Century Lit LAS Quarter 4 Week 1 and more Lecture notes English in PDF only on Docsity! 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET (Q4 Wk.1) Writing a Close Analysis and Critical Interpretation of Literary Texts Learning Competency from MELC: Writing 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, and Europe. EN12Lit-lla-22 Background Information for Learners Reading is a widely used approach to enhance reading comprehension. For the students to be able to engage in the reading of complex texts, close reading is important. Close reading is a method of analyzing literary works which gives focus on the particular details of a passage or text in order to have a precise and deep understanding of the text; its form, meaning and even the author’s style of writing. Assessments about writing a close analysis and critical interpretation of literary texts from representative texts and authors from Asia, North America and Europe will be the coverage in this Learning Activity Sheet. Critical analysis is a careful examination and evaluation of a text, image, or other work or performance while Close reading is deep analysis of how a literary text works; it is both a reading process and something you include in a literary analysis paper, though in a refined form. Fiction writers and poets build texts out of many central components, including subject, form, and specific word choices. Literary analysis involves examining these components, which allows us to find in small parts of the text clues to help us understand the whole. Close reading is a process of finding as much information as you can in order to form as many questions as you can. Here are the steps to do the close analysis and critical interpretation of literary text. Step 1: Read the passage. Take notes as you read. Step 2: Analyze the passage Step 3: Develop a descriptive thesis Step 4: Construct an argument about the passage Step 5: Develop an outline based on your thesis. Now that you have learned the steps on how to analyze the texts, you are going to write a close analysis and interpretation of a literary text from the continents of Asia, North America, and Europe. Look at the table below and see the representative texts and authors from these continents. 21st Century Representative Texts and Authors Activity Proper Exercise 1 Instructions: Write a close analysis and critical interpretation of the poem after reading the text written by the 21st Century Filipino writer, Eileen R.Tabios. Consider the given guide below to express your answers in paragraph form. Do it on your answer sheet. 1. Title of the poem under analysis 2. Author of the poem 3. Purpose or topic statement (Thesis statement that indicates your reaction to the poem) 4. Summary or brief description of the poem that you are analyzing critically. 5. Make your evaluation or/and interpretation of the poem. You may use the guide questions below in writing your evaluation. • How is the information organized (e.g., time topic, cause/effect compare/contrast, persuasion) • What genre does the selection represent? • Whose voice did the author choose as narrator? • From what point of view/perspective is this written? • What language is used—technical, dialect, variant spellings, archaic words, etc.? • What are the style, mood, and tone? • What word choice, imagery and figures of speech (e.g. simile, metaphor, alliteration, irony, repetition, personification, etc.) does the author use? I Do