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School Concepcion L. Cazeñas Memorial School Grade Level 10

Lesson Plan
Student Teacher Carla Chin Marie P. Dollopac Subject ENGLISH
Date and Time March 09, 2022 Quarter III

CONTENT STANDARD
The learner demonstrates understanding of how world literature and other text types serve as
source of wisdom in expressing and resolving conflicts among individuals, groups and nature; also
how to use evaluative reading, listening and viewing strategies, special speeches for occasion,
pronouns and structures of modification.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD
The learner skillfully delivers a speech for a special occasion through utilizing effective
verbal and non-verbal strategies and ICT resources.

LEARNING COMPETENCY
Critique a literary selection based on the following approaches:
 Structuralist/Formalist
 Moralist
 Marxist
 Feminist
 Historical
 Reader-response

I. OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
1. Identify the approach used in a literary selection

II. SUBJECT MATTER

Topic: Critiquing a Literary Selection Based on Different Approaches
References:Learner’s Module
Materials: PPT presentation, handouts, pictures

III. TEACHING PROCEDURE

A. Pre-Activity
1. Greetings
2. Prayer
3. Checking of Attendance
B. Presentation of the Objectives
C. Motivation
The teacher shows the students a simple illustration that they have to analyze.
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Let the students analyze the scenario on their own by asking these questions:
1. How will you interpret the illustration?
2. Why do you think the girl fell off her bike?

D. Lesson Proper
1. Activity
The teacher will tell students to participate in a guessing activity called “One Picture, One Word”.
The student who can arrange the jumbled letters quickly and correctly gains an extra point.

1. D R E A 2. SCUTERTRU 3. O M L A R

4. I Y R O S H T 5. M I S M N E F I

After the activity, the teacher tells the students that the terms they mentioned earlier are in
relation to their topic on “Critiquing a Literary Selection Based on Various Approaches”.

2. Analysis and Discussion

What is Literary Criticism?
It is the comparison, analysis, interpretation, an/or evaluation of works of literature. It usually
includes discussion of the work's content and integrates your ideas with other insights gained from
research.
What are Literary/Critical Approaches?
 sometimes called “lenses”, are the different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or
interpreting a text.

Here are the different approaches you can use in writing a critique:

 Structuralist/Formalist
The Structuralist school of thought stems from linguistics theories of structure, which posit that
there is underlying structure that organizes language and the way language expresses our thoughts.
Thus, a structuralist reading a story will pay attention to the underlying elements that the text has in
common with similar texts.
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Structuralists believe that there is a deep structure that is universal to all members of a particular
genre: structural elements that are seen in all poems, all short stories, and so on. For example,
structuralist may hold that all novels are expected to have a plot, characters, a setting, a core conflict,
and etc.
Formalism, for its part, is another classical school of criticism that examines a work’s intrinsic
features. Unlike approaches that would follow, Formalism, as its name suggests, focuses on the form
of the work, assuming that the text itself contains keys to understanding the text.

 An example of structuralism is describing an apple. An apple is crisp,

sweet, juicy, round and hard.
 Another example is describing your experience at the ocean by
saying it is windy, salty, and cold but rejuvenating. (Niazi, 2014)

 Moralist
Another way of analyzing a text and determining its worth is Moralist Criticism, which involves
examining how a text deals with the issue at its center.

Under moralist, criticism, a literary text is expected to reinforce traditionally held moral values.
Courage, maturity, sensitivity, honesty, and so on are all expected to be upheld by the text, and
literature that challenges or erodes these values is less valued. When reading a text from the moralist
lens, it helps to focus on the text’s core conflict and its climax. The conflict usually puts a particular
value to the test, and the climax-together with its impact on the characters- will end up supporting
either the value or the idea it is in conflict with.
 Humans consider it wrong to kill one another. This can be seen when
looking to laws society has put in place on the subject. A fallacious belief
would be that because humans deem killing one’s own species to be wrong,
this practice does not occur in the animal kingdom. However, it happens all
the time. There are many species that kill one another in the wild. Human’s
believe that this is immoral has no bearing on whether or not this practice
occurs in nature. (Gravador 2020)

 Marxist
Marxist literary criticism, for its part, examines how the text represents and treats the power
dynamics between social classes. This is because it operates based on the perspective and principles
of its namesake, itself a movement based on the theories and social examinations of Karl Marx.
Marxist literary criticism examines economic and other class differences in a text, as well as the way
that the economic and the power hierarchy in the world of the text in structured.

 The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include assessment of

the political ‘tendency’ of a literary work, determining whether its social
content or its literary form are ‘progressive’. It also includes analyzing the
class constructs demonstrated in the literature. One of the examples is the
movie entitled “Ka Hector” a 1980’s movie which depicts how the NPA
fough for their rights against the government.(Gasit, 2021)
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 Feminist
Another critical approach to reading literature that focuses on the dynamics of different social
groups is feminist literary criticism. Unlike Marxist literary criticism, the focus of Feminist literary
criticism is the dynamics between genders in a text. Feminist literary criticism follows the broader
perspective of feminism, which identifies and challenges the ways in which women are marginalized
in a patriarchal (male-dominated) society, as well as how this marginalization and dominance are
resisted.

Contrary to misconceptions that have surfaced due to people misunderstanding its name, feminism is
not about believing that women are superior to men, or desiring to tear down men, or wanting women
to dominate society instead of men, It does, however, involve identifying ways in which equality
between the sexes is not realized, and how this is sometimes treated as part of the “default” way that
things work.

 A Filipino movie entitled “Ang Tanging Ina” where the protagonist with 3 dead
husbands and 12 children to take care of, fights to be both a provider and
homemaker. Frustrated between staying out to earn a living and staying in to take
care of her children, she desperately hides her hardships. She was able to raise 12
children without the presence of their father. A representation that woman can
stand and do things what a man can. Truly a very feminist movie!
(Derramas, 2003)

 Historical
New Historicism is a school of criticism influenced by structuralist and post-structuralist theories
that assumes that a work is influenced by by the culture and era that created it. Each text is thus
viewed as a sort of ‘time capsule’ that captures some aspect of the text’s historical roots.
While structuralism focuses inwardly on the text itself, historical criticism leverages external bases
for interpretation or critical reading: the text’s historical context. Along with the historical time
frame, historical criticism also considers the social, cultural,and intellectual environment that
produced the author and the text, as well as the text’s audience.

 In the Philippine context, the movie “Heneral Luna” is one of the best historical
movie ever created by the Filipinos. It shows complete details and information
that Heneral Luna and his men did before.The message that the filmmaker want
us to know is that Heneral Luna didn’t give up the fight until the end even
though other Generals or high ranks in the government did not help him at all.
(Gonzales, 2016)
 Reader-response
A reading text may also be understood in terms of its personal significance to you, the reader,
rather than through any external principles or ways of interpretation. This is called Reader-response
criticism, which leverages your own experiences, principles, and beliefs in deciding what a text is
saying. Lois Tyson notes that Reader-response critics believe that a reader cannot be separated from
the experience of reading the text. Thus, a reader does not passively consume the text but instead
actively engages in reading it, negotiating its content against what he or she knows to make meaning.

 At its most basic level, reader-response criticism, considers readers

reactions to literature as vital to interpreting the meaning of the text. If the
teleserye “ Ang Probinsyano” was a literary text like a novel, it would have
received lot of reader responses. (Gasit, 2021)
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3. Abstraction
The teacher asks the students this question:
 Why is there a need to know the various approaches used in critiquing a literary selection?

4. Application
The students will be tasked to have a short writing activity by pair.

Direction: Read the summary of the story “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez-Benitez. Identify the
aproaches used in the selection. Choose one and write a one paragraph-essay explaining how the
literary approach is applied in the selection.

RUBRIC
CRITERIA 5 4 3 2
FOCUS Touches on every Covers the Covers a majority of Contains only some
important fact critical facts facts related to the of the obvious
related to the topic related to the topic facts.
topic

APPLICATION The critique arrives The critique Judgement of the Apparent

OF CRITICAL at a clear judgement incorporates text slightly concide misconception or
LENSE of the text according multiple with the chosen knowledge gap.
to the chosen lens. judgement that lense.
apply to the
chosen lense.

WRITING AND Evident control of Sufficient control Limited control of Minimal control of
MECHANICS grammar, of grammar, grammar, grammar,
mechanics spelling, mechanics,spelli mechanics,spelling, mechanics,spelling,
usage and sentenc ng, usage and usage and sentence usage and sentence
formation. sentence formation. formation.
formation.

SCORE
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IV. ASSIGNMENT
Choose a reading selection that interests you the most, and produce a five to eight paragraph-
written critique, using one of the critical lenses/literary approaches that you have learned. Your
critique must include a summary of the reading selection. Your critique must use the critical lens’
terminology and approach correctly.

Rubrics

CRITERIA 5 4 3 2
Touches on Covers the critical Covers a Contains only
FOCUS/CONTENT every important facts related to the majority of facts some of the
fact related to the topic related to the obvious facts.
topic topic

The critique The critique Judgement of the Apparent

arrives at a clear incorporates multiple text slightly misconception or
APPLICATION judgement of the judgement that apply concide with the knowledge gap.
OF CRITICAL text according to to the chosen lense. chosen lense.
LENSE the chosen lens.

Sophisticated Functional Confused or Minimal control of

arrangement of arrangement of inconsistent content
ORGANIZATION content with content that sustains arrangement of arrangement.
evident and/or a logical order with content with or
subtle transitions some evidence of without attempts
transitions. at transition.

WRITING Evident control Sufficient control of Limited control Minimal control of

AND of grammar, grammar, of grammar, grammar,
MECHANICS mechanics mechanics,spelling, mechanics,spelli mechanics,spelling,
spelling, usage usage and sentence ng, usage and usage and sentence
and sentenc formation. sentence formation
formation. formation.

Prepared by:

CARLA CHIN MARIE P. DOLLOPAC

Student Teacher