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    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!

    Critiquing a Literary Selection

    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!

    What is Critiquing a Literary Selection?

    According to Crews, F. of University of California, it is the reasoned consideration of


    literary works and issues. It applies, as a term, to any argumentation about literature, whether or
    not specific works are analysed. Plato’s cautions against the risky consequences of poetic
    inspiration in general in his Republic are thus often taken as the earliest important example of
    literary criticism. Criticism will here be taken to cover all phases of literary understanding, though
    the emphasis will be on the evaluation of literary works and of their authors’ places in literary
    history.

    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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