LEARNING COMPETENCY Analyze a literary text as an expression of individual or communal values within biographical and historical contexts.
In this lesson: a. define the biographical and historical approaches to reading a literary text. b. note and discuss historical and biographical data about a given topic, person, author, or experience. c. relate the author’s history and biography with the literary elements (i.e., setting, characters, and POV) of his/ her text.
Scent of Apples by Bienvenido N. Santos
Show and Share! Direction: Look at the picture and tell anything that you have observed.
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Show and Share! What do you think is shown in the picture?
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Look and Describe! What can you see in Picture A? in Picture B? 2. How does it feel like to live in the barrio? in the city? 3. Is there a difference in living and culture between the two places? Give specific examples. . ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Show and Share! Have you ever experienced leaving home to live in another place temporarily or permanently, such as having a vacation, staying in your relative’s house for an occasion, moving to another place for family reasons, etc.?
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Look and Describe! What can you see in Picture A? in Picture B? 2. How does it feel like to live in the barrio? in the city? 3. Is there a difference in living and culture between the two places? Give specific examples. . ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Show and Share! 2. How did you feel while you were in another place? Did you enjoy it? Did you feel like you wanted to go home because you felt homesick? Or did you feel like you never wanted to go home anymore?
Observe and Discuss! Direction: Let’s all watch a video about the experiences of Filipino immigrants in the United States of America.
Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary Direction: Put the letters to form each correct word through the definition as a clue.
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary G Y O H B A R Definition: This is a detailed description of a person’s accounts and life experiences. I P
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary B I O G R A P Definition: This is a detailed description of a person’s accounts and life experiences. H Y
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary S A I N S A Y Definition: This refers to the process of reading a story or poem by identifying the literary elements. L
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary A N A L Y S I Definition: This refers to the process of reading a story or poem by identifying the literary elements. S
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary R A O U H T Definition: S/he is the writer or producer of the literary work.
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary A U T H O R Definition: S/he is the writer or producer of the literary work.
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary O P D E A N N Definition: This pertains to Filipino students who are sent abroad as government scholars to study or specialize a field. S O I
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary E N S I O N A Definition: This pertains to Filipino students who are sent abroad as government scholars to study or specialize a field. D O P
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary I N M A M R I Definition: This refers to people who go abroad to live permanently. G T
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary M M I G R A N Definition: This refers to people who go abroad to live permanently. T I
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary N I O G S L T Definition: This refers to the feeling of being homesick, the desire to return home, or the idea of thinking about the past. A A
. ANALYSIS 1. What is the “label” attached to the woman in the video? Unlocking Content Area Vocabulary O S T A L G I Definition: This refers to the feeling of being homesick, the desire to return home, or the idea of thinking about the past. A N
DAY 2
Read and Annotate! Direction: In this activity, Let’s all read the short biography of Bienvenido N. Santos. After reading, we will accomplish the worksheet
Bienvenido N. Santos
Biography Bienvenido Nuqui Santos (March 22, 1911 – January 7, 1996) was a Filipino-American fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. He was born and raised in Tondo, Manila. His family roots are originally from Lubao , Pampanga, Philippines. He lived in the United States for many years where he is widely credited as a pioneering Asian-American writer.
Santos received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines where he first studied creative writing under Paz Marquez Benitez. In 1941, Santos was a government pensionado (scholar) to the United States at the University of Illinois, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He had arrived in San Francisco on October 12, 1941, aboard the Ruth Alexander leaving his wife and three daughters in the Philippines. When war in the Pacific came to the Philippines on December 8 (December 7 Hawaii time) he feared he would never see his family again—a reality that "not only interrupted his study of realism; it was overwhelming it" leading to a transformation in his sense of national consciousness and identity. That crisis changed the nature of his writing into a less carefree style to one mixing laughter and pain; described by Florentino Valeros as "a man hiding tears in his laughter."
During World War II, he served with the Philippine government in exile under President Manuel L. Quezon in Washington, D.C., together with the playwright Severino Montano and Philippine National Artist Jose Garcia Villa. Santos left for home on January 17, 1946, aboard the Uruguay arriving in early February. In 1967, he returned to the United States to become a teacher and university administrator. He received a Rockefeller fellowship at the Writers Workshop of the University of Iowa where he later taught as a Fulbright exchange professor. Santos has also received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, a Republic Cultural Heritage Award in Literature as well as several Palanca Awards for his short stories. Scent of Apples won a 1980 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Santos received an honorary doctorate degrees in humanities and letters from the University of the Philippines, and Bicol University (Legazpi City, Albay) in 1981. He was also a Professor of Creative Writing and Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Wichita State University from 1973 to 1982, at which time the university awarded him an honorary doctorate degree in humane letters. After his retirement, Santos became Visiting Writer and Artist at De La Salle University in Manila; the university honored Santos by renaming its creative writing center after him.