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2. -English was first taught
merely as a subject
because the Spanish
system of Education
existing in the Philippines
was allowed to continue

3. 1900
-English became the
official medium of
instruction in Philippine
schools
-Army men and their wives
(1
st
teachers)

4. 1901
-Philippine Normal School was
founded to train the Filipino
teachers to take charge of
elementary education
-Thomas (army transport) brought
600 American teachers to the
country. They introduced English
and American Literature to the
Filipinos

5. -These teachers introduced English and American
literature to the Filipinos
-Irving Holmes Wordsworth
-Bryant Whitman Shelley
-Poe Lowell Keats
-Hawthorne Chaucer Byron
-Emerson Shakespeare Coleridge
-Thoreau Milton Lamb
-Longfellow Pope
-Models of our early writers in English

6. 1910-1935
PERIOD OF
APPRENTICESHIP
OR IMITATION

7. -The Filipino writers imitated
American and English writers
-Early writers were college
students or young graduates
whose literary education had
been largely confined to
American and English authors

8. -The University of the
Philippines (UP) was
founded in 1908
-It became the center
of literary effort

9. 1910
-The first issue of the UP
Folio came off the press
-This publication was
recognized as embodiment
of the early attempts at self-
expression in English

10. -Philippine Collegian replaced UP
Folio
PUBLICATIONS THAT INTRODUCED
PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN
ENGLISH TO THE PUBLIC
-Philippine Review
-Independent
-Rising Philippines
-Citizens

11. 1920
-The Philippine Herald (the 1
st
Filipino Daily in English) was
founded
-It gave financial reward to
writers in English, especially
in the short story

12. 1921
-The American Folkrole
society published Filipino
Popular Tales, edited by
Dean Fansler
-The collection included the
work of fansler’sstudents

13. 1925
-Marked the inauguration
of the period of
apprenticeship
-A.V.HJartendorpbecame
the editor-publisher of the
Philippine Education
Magazine

14. -The Philippine Education
Magazine became the Philippine
Magazine (the most influential
literary magazine of its time)
-The Manila Tribune was
established (it began publishing
a Sunday supplement featuring
original short stories and poems
written in English

15. -Other journals followed
and there was a market
for Filipino literary
output in English (but
still limited)

16. 1927
-The UP writers club was
founded and began
publishing the Literary
Apprentice (became the
most prestigious college
literary publication in the
country)

17. 1927 CONTINUED
-The Bureau of
Education published
Philippine Prose and
Poetry (prescribed as a
high school textbook)

18. SHORT STORY
-The Philippine Free Press
(1
st
literary contest in the
field of short story)
-Short story became the
favorite form among
Filipino writers

19. 1927 CONTINUED
-The Free press published the 1
st
anthology of Philippine short
stories written in English
-Romantic Tales of the past with
legendary figures
-Imitations of plots and themes
from American and other
foreign sources

20. -Dead Stars by Paz
Marquez-Benitez
-Published in the
Philippines Herald on
September 20, 1925

21. POEM
-Sentimental love lyrics
-Sursum Surda(1
st
known
Philippine poem in
English
-Appeared in the Philippine
Free Press in 1907

22. ESSAYS
-Thinking of Ourselves, 1924 (compiled
and edited by Vicente M. Hilario and
Eliseo M. Quirino
-1
st
notable collection of Philippine
Essays in English
-Dealt with Philippine traditions and
history, religion, philosophy, ethics,
literature and the arts, politics and
government

23. PLAY
-Highly emotional not intellectual
experiences
-Melodramas or broad comedies
-American influence on the Filipino
drama was less discernable
-Contact with American plays was
extensive and foreign plays were
often staged in Manila

24. -however, drama
had difficulty in
presenting Filipino
experiences

25. NOVELS
-Sentimental
-Cultural basis for literature was
too weak to support the making
of a novel
-ZolioM. Galang’s“Child of
Sorrow,” the 1
st
Filipino novel in
English published in 1924