English: Third Quarter - Week 4 Critiquing A Literary Selection
English: Third Quarter - Week 4 Critiquing A Literary Selection
LEARNING ACTIVITY
Subject:
SHEETS (L.A.S)
Name: ____________________________________
English 10 Teacher:
Grade Level: 10
Mae Ann Serentas
10
Score: _______________
Date: ______________
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Type of Activity: Concept Notes Laboratory Individual Quiz
Exercise/Drill Art/Drawing Pair/Group Others
Lesson/Topic: Critique Activity No: _________
Learning Target: Critiquing a Literary Selection
Reference: GRADE 10 MODULE
Hello, Grade 10-Temperantia. Congratulations for doing your best during our class. Now,
let us continue to explore new things in our English class. In this week’s lesson, you’ll learn
more about critiquing and its approaches. So, get ready, brace yourself, and enjoy
learning!
Every day in our lives, we critique things may it be situation or person. Critiquing may help you to
think logically and create your own insight of the story. In this lesson, you will learn how to critique a
literary selection based on the following approaches: structuralist or formalist, moralist, Marxist, feminist,
historical, reader-response.
Happy learning!
Critical Approaches
(Literary Criticisms)
✓ Sometimes called “lenses”, are different perspectives we can consider in analyzing or
interpreting a text.
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Approaches:
1. Structuralist /Formalist
- Structuralism is a term embracing a family of theories that between them address all
phenomena of the human world – notably language, literature, cookery, kinship
relations, dress, and human self-perception. In all these domains, structuralists claim,
the observable, apparently separate elements are rightly understood only when seen
as positions in a structure or system of relations.
Example:
o 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)
2. Moralist
- A moralistic approach focuses individuals, couples, families, and professionals on a
moralistic definition of relationship, life, and family processes that presumes a moral
ascendancy of one value system over others. An individual, one member of the couple
or family, therapists, priests, pastors, rabbis, or ministers, authors, or other pundits
postulate a correct way to be in a relationship.
Example:
o 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. Humans’ belief that this is
immoral has no bearing on whether or not this practice occurs in nature.
(Gravador 2020)
3. Marxist
- Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly
influenced by Karl Marx’s materialist approach to theory or works written by Marxists.
Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew out of
various sources, and the official philosophy in the Soviet Union, which enforced a rigid
reading of Marx called dialectical materialism. Marxist philosophy is not a strictly
defined sub field of philosophy, because the diverse influence of Marxist theory has
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extended into fields as varied as aesthetics, ethics, ontology, epistemology, theoretical
psychology, and philosophy of science as well as its obvious influence on political
philosophy and the philosophy of history.
Example:
o The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an 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 fought for their rights
against the government. (Gasit, 2021)
4. Feminist
- It is the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes. Although largely
originating in the West, feminism is manifested worldwide and is represented by
various institutions committed to activity on behalf of women’s rights and interest.
Example:
o 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)
5. Historical
- Historical approach is a literary criticism in the light of historical evidence or based on
the context in which a work was written, including facts about the author’s life and the
historical and social circumstances of the time. This is in contrast to other types of
criticism, such as textual and formal, in which emphasis is placed on examining the
text itself while outside influences on the text are disregarded.
EXAMPLE:
o 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
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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)
6. Reader-Response
- A view of literary interpretation associated with the American critic Stanley Fish. It
holds that meaning does not reside in the text, but in the mind of the reader. The text
functions only as a canvass onto which the reader projects whatever his or her
reactions may be. The text is a cause of different thoughts but does not provide a
reason for one interpretation rather than another. The theory chimes in with much in
postmodernism but threatens to make a mockery of the fact that there is such a thing
as learning to read, also that a sign such as ‘sharp bend’ does not only cause some
people to expect a sharp bend but gives them good reason to do so. See also
indeterminacy of translation.
EXAMPLE:
o 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
"AngProbinsyano" was a literary text like a novel, it would have received a lot of
reader responses. (Gasit, 2021)
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Activity 1: Correct or not?
DIRECTIONS: Read each statement carefully. Identify if it is correct or not. If it is correct
write the word TRUE meanwhile if it is not, write the word FALSE.
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