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English
Quarter 3-Module 3
Influences of History, Culture,
Environment,
and Other Factors
in Literary Selection

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 What I Need to Know

Do you know that stories, articles, selections and the likes are results of the
various influences like environment, culture, social and economic aspects of the
author?

This module will help you explain and realize how the authors’ experiences
and present situations affect and influence their ways of writing.

At the end of this module, you should be able to explain how a selection may
be influenced by culture, history, environment or other factors (EN7LT-IV-h-3).

Specifically, you will be able to:

1. identify the various factors that may influence literary selections

2. be familiar with some Philippine literary pieces and the factors that may
have influenced them
3. write a paragraph explaining how a selection may be influenced by culture,
history, environment or other factors

What I Know

I. Directions: Read the text below taken from short stories. Identify how the
author’s human situations and experiences are moving him to write such lines.
Tell whether these could be influenced by culture, history, environment or
economic factors. Below is the pool or group of influences to choose from.
Write the letter only.

A. culture B. history C. economic D. environment

1. Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something good,
and the aroma of the food wafted down to us from the windows of the big house.

2. Dodong thought to himself he would tell his father about Teang when he got
home, after he had unhitched the carabao from the plow, and let it to its shed and
fed it. He was hesitant about saying it, but he wanted his father to know. What he
had to say was of serious import as it would mark a climacteric in his life.

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3. When the Americans recaptured the Philippines, they built an air base a few
miles from our barrio. Yankee soldiers became a very common sight.
(Source: We Filipino are Mild Drinkers, http://kathangpinoy.blogspot.com/2011/07/we-filipinos-
are-mild-drinkers-by.html)

4. "I am afraid. He may not like me."

"Does that worry you still, Maria?" my brother Leon said. "From the way you talk,
he might be an ogre, for all the world. Except when his leg that was wounded in
the Revolution is troubling him, Father is the mildest-tempered, gentlest man I
know."

5. The sight of the Señora’s flaccidly plump figure, swathed in a loose waist-less
housedress that came down to her ankles, and the faint scent of agua de colonia
blended with kitchen spice, seemed to her the essence of the comfortable world,
and she sighed thinking of the long walk home through the mud, the baby’s legs
straddled to her waist, and Inggo, her husband, waiting for her, his body stinking
of tuba and sweat, squatting on the floor, clad only in his foul undergarments.
(Source:http://kathangpinoy.blogspot.com/2012/03/love-in-cornhusks-by-aida-l-rivera.html)

6. When war was declared on 5 December 1941, Rosa was 14 years old. Her
mother’s family all fled to Bulacan to escape the Japanese troops landing in Manila.
While gathering wood, Rosa was snatched by three Japanese soldiers. She survived
the incident because a farmer brought her home to recover. Two years after, an
even more unfortunate incident happened to Rosa while she was passing a
Japanese checkpoint with members of the guerilla movement.

7. Life is beautiful.

Life is full of rosy tomorrows, life is long, life is all your own to spend in ways that
make you happiest—until it isn't. For 11 days, multifaceted personality Iza Calzado
laid in her hospital bed, looking up at a white ceiling with her labored breathing
echoing in her ears and her pulse throbbing with an intense cocktail of IV-delivered
medication sloshing in her weakened veins.

8. What I always say and think about the poor is this: the poor are about more than their
poverty. Poverty is awful and dehumanizing, but it’s what people do and how they act at
a given disadvantage that I find interesting and even inspiring as a person and as an
author, not the overwhelming odds themselves. I’ll leave the objective analysis of poverty
to the social scientists and its alleviation to the activists; my job as a fictionist is to see
and employ it as another means to understand why we do the things we do.
(Source: Penman No. 94: Poverty in Fiction https://penmanila.ph/tag/poverty-philippines-fiction)

9. New Yorker in Tondo is a play about a run-of-the-mill girl from Tondo named
Kikay. She visited New York and returned a very different person. Her new attitude,
mannerisms, outfits, and ideas stun her family and friends. This causes emotional

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unrest between all of them. She convinces her mom, Aling Atang, to change into
what looks like a high-society matrona and insists everyone call her mom.

10. The life of Maria Rosa Henson or “Lola Rosa” classically depicts the cruelty of
poverty and powerlessness. In her autobiography, Lola Rosa, survivor of Japanese
war atrocity, leads the readers to visit her life through the book with her own
illustrations and vivid descriptions of people and events long gone. Her story begins
as the daughter of the landlord’s illiterate mistress, Julia. Rosa’s mother, Julia, is the
eldest of the children who began her ‘working’ life as Don Pepe Henson’s
housemaid, despite her protestations.

Directions: Read the following excerpts and answer the questions that follow. Write
only the letter of the answer.
…The most devastating impact of the Great Depression was human suffering. In
a short period of time, world output and standards of living dropped precipitously.
As much as one-fourth of the labor force in industrialized countries was unable to
find work in the early 1930s. While conditions began to improve by the mid-1930s,
total recovery was not accomplished until the end of the decade.

(Source: The Great Depression, https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Economic-

impact)

11. From the excerpt above, which of the following factors is being depicted and
emphasized?
A. cultural B. economic C. environmental D. historical

Maria Rosa Luna Henson was born on December 5, 1927. She grew up in poverty
in Pampanga with her single mother, Julia. Born the illegitimate child of Don Pepe,
a wealthy landowner, Henson saw her father sporadically throughout her
childhood. After World War II started, Henson became a member of the
Hukbalahap, a Communist guerrilla movement resisting the Japanese invaders. In
April 1943 while with her comrades, Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers and
led the local Japanese headquarters where she was forced to be a “comfort
woman.” In January 1944, Hukbalahap guerrillas attacked the building and freed
Henson. After nine months of being a comfort woman, Henson greatly suffered
psychologically and physically. She eventually married a young soldier named
Domingo and had three children:

(Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Henson#:~:text=Maria%20Rosa%20Luna%20Henso
n%20was,father%20sporadicoally%20throughout%20her%20childhood.&text=Starting%20in%201957
%2C%20Henson%20worked,factory%20for%20thirty%2Dfour%20years)

12. Given the life story she had been through, Rosa Henson was able to write a
book narrating what she had battled with.

Below are literary pieces of famous writers, which do you think was the book Henson
had authored?

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A. May Day Eve C. Laughter of a Father
B. To the Woman of Malolos D. Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny
13. What could have influenced the author to come up with this writing?
A. Personal experience C. peer pressure
B. Prejudices D. government negligence
14. Which of the following factors is being depicted in the selection?
A. cultural B. economic C. environmental D. historical
15. Answer the question below. Write your answer in your activity notebook
Iza was the 878th patient in the country to test positive for the novel coronavirus
(COVID-19) disease.
Today, she joins the hundreds of Filipinos who have made full, often miraculous,
recoveries. And like her fellow survivors, their loved ones, the healthcare workers
who cared for them, and everyone who has become deeply involved in this crisis,
she has much to teach us all about life.
"I am on a mission to get more iron in my body," Iza says with determination. If
there's a will, there's a way, and Iza will do everything she can to help. And she
encourages her fellow survivors to rise to the occasion as well. Everything happens
for a reason, and perhaps, they survived for a reason, too—and that reason could
be for them to become instruments of change even through the simple yet selfless
act of donating plasma to fuel lives anew.

Source: https://metro.style/people/digital-covers/iza-calzado-covid-19-recovery-cover-story/24542

From the excerpt above, how did the pandemic influence Iza Calzado to become
a better individual?

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 Lesson
Influences of History, Culture,
1 Environment, and Other Factors
in Literary Selection

What’s In

Activity 1: Pics ‘n Box

Many of the selections that Bulosan had produced were themed about poverty.
The pictures below are things which Carlos Bulosan is mostly deprived of, hence, he
used these stuffs as representation of himself and these are arrayed in his writings.

Directions: Fill out the boxes with correct letters to come up with the correct
description of the given picture. Write your answers in your English
activity notebook.

1. 4.

F O O D F A M I L Y

2. 4.

C O I N S L A U G H T E R

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 What’s New
The life story of Carlos Bulosan is manifested in the story you are
about to read entitled “Father Goes To Court “.

Bulosan and his circle became active, first in the labor movement and
then in the Filipino rights movement. Their attempt to organize the workers
brought them into direct conflict with the large agricultural interests. Being a
peasant child, he spent his childhood farming in the countryside. He left for
America at age 17, in the hope of finding salvation from the economic
depression. Denied a means to provide for himself, his later years were of
flight, hardship and malnutrition.

Activity 2: 4 Pix 1 Word

Directions: The pictures below depict most of the theme of Bulosan’s writings based
on his life’s story. Guess the hidden word out of the collated pictures.
After which, write a single paragraph of at least 10 words to describe the
word you have come up to.

1.

P V T
2.

A T V S
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LITERARY SELECTION

Read the selection below and reflect how culture, history, environment and
other factors influence it.

Father Goes to Court

Carlos Bulosan

When I was four, I lived with my mother and brothers and sisters in a small
town on the island of Luzon. Father’s farm had been destroyed in 1918 by one of our
sudden Philippine floods, so for several years afterward we all lived in the town,
though he preferred living in the country. We had a next-door neighbor, a very rich
man, whose sons and daughters seldom came out of the house. While we and girls
played and sand in the sun, his children stayed inside and kept the windows closed.
His house was so tall that his children could look in the windows of our house
and watch us as we played, or slept, or ate, when
there was any food in the house to eat.
Now, this rich man’s servants were
always frying and cooking something good, and
the aroma of the food was wafted down to us
from the windows of the big house. We hung
about and took all the wonderful smell of the
food into our beings. Sometimes, in the
morning, our whole family stood outside the
windows of the rich man’s house and listened to the musical sizzling of
thick strips of bacon or ham. I can remember one afternoon when our
neighbor’s servants roasted three chickens. The chickens were young
and tender and the fat that dripped into the burning coals gave off an enchanting
odor. We watched the servants turn the beautiful birds and inhaled the heavenly
spirit that drifted out to us.
Some days the rich man appeared at a window and glowered down at us. He
looked at us one by one, as though he were condemning us.
We were all healthy because we went out in the sun every day and bathed in
the cool water of the river that flowed from the mountains into the sea. Sometimes
we wrestled with one another in the house before we went out to play. We were
always in the best of spirits and our laughter was contagious. Other neighbors who
passed by our house often stopped in our yard and joined us in our laughter.

Laughter was our only wealth. Father was a laughing man. He would go in to
the living room and stand in front of the tall mirror, stretching his mouth into
grotesque shapes with his fingers and making faces at himself, and then he would
rush into the kitchen, roaring with laughter.

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 There was plenty to make us laugh. There was, for
instance, the day one of my brothers came home and
brought a small bundle under his arm, pretending that
he brought something to eat, maybe a leg of lamb
or something as extravagant as that to make our
mouths water. He rushed to mother and through the
bundle into her lap. We all stood around, watching
mother undo the complicated strings. Suddenly a
black cat leaped out of the bundle and ran wildly
around the house. Mother chased my brother and
beat him with her little fists,
while the rest of us bent double, choking with laughter.
Another time one of my sisters suddenly started screaming in the middle of
the night. Mother reached her first and tried to calm her. My sister cried and groaned.
When father lifted the lamp, my sister stared at us with shame in her
eyes. “What is it?”
“I’m pregnant!” she cried.
“Don’t be a fool!” Father shouted.
“You’re only a child,” Mother said.
“I’m pregnant, I tell you!” she cried.
Father knelt by my sister. He put his hand on her belly and rubbed it gently.
“How do you know you are pregnant?” he asked.
“Feel it!” she cried.
We put our hands on her belly. There was something moving inside.
Father was frightened. Mother was shocked.
“Who’s the man?” she asked.
“There’s no man,” my sister said.
‘What is it then?” Father asked.
Suddenly my sister opened her blouse and a bullfrog jumped out. Mother
fainted, father dropped the lamp, the oil spilled on the floor, and my sister’s blanket
caught fire. One of my brothers laughed so hard he rolled on the floor.
When the fire was extinguished and Mother was revived, we turned to bed
and tried to sleep, but Father kept on laughing so loud we could not sleep any more.
Mother got up again and lighted the oil lamp; we rolled up the mats on the floor and
began dancing about and laughing with all our might. We made so much noise that
all our neighbors except the rich family came into the yard and joined us in loud,
genuine laughter.
It was like that for years.
As time went on, the rich man’s children became thin and anemic, while we
grew even more robust and full of fire. Our faces were bright and rosy, but theirs
were pale and sad. The rich man started to cough at night; then he coughed day
and night. His wife began coughing too. Then the children started to cough one after
the other. At night their coughing sounded like barking of a herd of seals.

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 We hung outside their windows and listened to
them. We wondered what had happened to them. We
knew that they were not sick from lack of nourishing food
because they were still always frying something delicious
to eat.
One day the rich man appeared at a window and
stood there a long time. He looked at my sisters, who had
grown fat with laughing, then at my brothers, whose arms
and legs were like the Molave, which is the sturdiest tree in
the Philippines. He banged down the window and ran
through the house, shutting all the windows.
From that day on, the windows of our neighbor’s house were closed. The
children did not come outdoors anymore. We could still hear the servants cooking in
the kitchen, and no matter how tight the windows were shut, the aroma of the food
came to us in the wind and drifted gratuitously into our house.
One morning a policeman from the presidencia came to our house with a sealed
paper. The rich man had filed a complaint against us. Father took me with him when he
went to the town clerk and asked him what it was all about. He told Father the man
claimed that for years we had been stealing the spirit of his wealth and food.
When the day came for us to appear in court, father brushed his old army
uniform and borrowed a pair of shoes from one of my brothers. We were the first to
arrive. Father sat on a chair in the center of the courtroom. Mother occupied a chair
by the door. We children sat on a long bench by the wall. Father kept jumping up his
chair and stabbing the air with his arms, as though he were defending himself before
an imaginary jury.
The rich man arrived. He had grown old and feeble; his face was scarred with
deep lines. With him was his young lawyer. Spectators came in and almost filled the
chairs. The judge entered the room and sat on a high chair. We stood up in a hurry
and sat down again.
After the courtroom preliminaries, the judge look at father. “Do you have a
lawyer?” he asked.
“I don’t need a lawyer judge.” He said.
“Proceed,” said the judge.
The rich man’s lawyer jumped and pointed his finger at
Father, “Do you or do you not agree that you have been stealing the
spirit of the complainant’s wealth and food?” “I do not!” Father said.

“Do you or do you not agree that while the complainant’s servants
cooked and fried fat legs of lambs and young chicken breasts, you
and your family hung outside your windows and inhaled the heavenly
spirit of the food?”
“I agree,” Father said.
“How do you account for that?”

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 Father got up and paced around, scratching his head thoughtfully. Then he
said, “I would like to see the children of the complainant, Judge.” “Bring the children
of the complainant.”
They came shyly. The spectators covered their mouths with their hands. They
were so amazed to see the children so thin and pale. The children walked silently
to a bench and sat down without looking up. They stared at the floor and moved their
hands uneasily.
Father could not say anything at first. He just stood by his
chair and looked at them. Finally he said, “I should like to cross-
examine the complainant.”
“Proceed.”
“Do you claim that we stole the spirit of your wealth and became a
laughing family while yours became morose and sad?” Father asked.
“Yes.”
“Then we are going to pay you right now,” Father said. He walked over
to where we children were sitting on the bench and took my straw hat
off my lap and began filling it up with centavo pieces that he took out his
pockets. He went to Mother, who added a fistful of silver coins. My
brothers threw in their small change.
“May I walk to the room across the hall and stay there for a minute, Judge?” Father
asked.
“As you wish.”
“Thank you,” Father said. He strode into the other room with the hat in his hands. It
was almost full of coins. The doors of both rooms were wide open.
“Are you ready?” Father called.
“Proceed.” The judge said.
The sweet tinkle of coins carried beautifully into the room. The spectators
turned their faces toward the sound with wonder. Father came back and stood
before the complainant.
“Did you hear it?” he asked.
“Hear what?” the man asked.
“The spirit of the money when I shook this hat?” he asked. “Yes.”

“Then you are paid.” Father said.

The rich man opened his mouth to speak and fell to the floor without a sound.
The lawyer to his aid. The judge pounded his gravel.
“Case dismissed,” he said.
Father strutted around the courtroom. The judge even came
down to his high chair to shake hands with him. “By the way,” he
whispered, “I had an uncle who died laughing.”
“You like to hear my family laugh, judge?” Father asked.
“Why not?”
Did you hear that children?” Father said.

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 My sister started it. The rest of us followed them and soon the spectators
were laughing with us, holding their bellies and bending over the chairs. And the
laughter of the judge was the loudest of all.

What is It

Hey! Did you enjoy the story? Did you notice that the story you have read is
reflecting various influences? Identify if these are found in the story.
Are you ready? Here we go…
VARIOUS INFLUENCES OR FACTORS IN LITERARY SELECTION
1. Cultural influence– may be demonstrated through human behavior, vocabulary
or language used, human emotions or perspectives, and material items.

2. History– branch of knowledge that records and explains past events,

connected with studying or representing things from the past: It is about what
has happened in the life or development of a people, country, institution, etc.

3. Environment– the circumstance, object or condition by which one is

surrounded: aggregate of social and cultural conditions that influence the life of
an individual or community. The environment can facilitate or discourage
interactions among people. It can influence peoples’ behavior, mood, and
motivation to act.

4. Economic – giving good value or return in relation to the money, time, or

effort expended.

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Note the tabular presentations here:
Various Influences Sample Selection Author’s Background
or Factors in and its Synopsis/Brief Summary
Literary Selection
How My Brother Leon Brought Manuel E. Arguilla
Home A Wife
 
recollection of an afternoon most of his stories depict
adventure in the barrio with a life in Barrio Nagrebcan,
brother’s fiancé Bauang, La Union, where

story of a man introducing his he was born

city-born wife to his more his bond with his
1. Cultural provincial family birthplace, forged by his

influence main idea is Maria is being tested dealings with the peasant
with Leon’s family specially his folk, remained strong
father, if she will be able to live a even after he moved to
simple life in province away from Manila
the city
March of Death Bienvenido N. Santos
 
expresses the suffering of scholar of the Philippine
many Filipino in Bataan Death Commonwealth
March by the time of Japanese government

occupation. when war in the Pacific

refrain of the poem shows came to the Philippines, he
2. History sympathy and motivation feared he would never see
his family again

leading to a transformation
in his sense of national
consciousness and
identity.

crisis changed the nature
of his writing into a less
carefree style to one
mixing laughter and pain
New Yorker in Tondo Marcelino Agana Jr.
 
about a girl who grew in Tondo was a playwright in 1958
and went to New York for a year who wrote one of the more

she was able to adopt the life of popular Filipino comedies
New York with a short span of that have been produced
time. New York was a free and many times through the
liberated country; comprised of years
so many different, eccentric
neighborhoods

she changed everything about
her, the way she dressed, she
talked and mingled with others,

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3. Environment she even tried to change
everything about her mother

describes what kind of life was
there in Tondo, and how was it
living in New York
Fathers goes to Court Carlos Bulosan
 
depicts the typical Filipino family. most of his youth was
It has the characteristics of being spent in the countryside
simple, poor, hardworking as a farmer
 
4. Economic in this story, the rich family and it is during his youth that he
the poor family are having conflict and his family were
with each other economically

rich man in the story was very impoverished by the rich
selfish and does not want to and political elite, which
socialize with the poor people would become one of the
in the community so he ended up main themes of his writing

being sick because he only cares he left for America on at
about was his wealth and money age 17, in the hope of
finding salvation from the
economic depression of
his home

in 1936, Bulosan suffered
from tuberculosis

he underwent three
operations

INFLUENCES/FACTORS EXAMPLES from

“Father Goes to Court”

 Culture Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying
and cooking something good, and the aroma of
the food was wafted down to us from the
windows of the big house.

He looked at my sisters, who had grown fat with
laughing, then at my brothers, whose arms and
legs were like the Molave, which is the sturdiest
tree in the Philippines.

 Economic “Then we are going to pay you right now,” Father
said. He walked over to where we children were
sitting on the bench and took my straw hat off my
lap and began filling it up with centavo pieces
that he took out his pockets.

His house was so tall that his children could look
in the windows of our house and watch us as we
played, or slept, or ate, when there was any food
in the house to eat.

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 
 Environment “We were always in the best of spirits and our
laughter was contagious. Other neighbors who
passed by our house often stopped in our yard
and joined us in our laughter.”

“Bring the children of the complainant.” They
came shyly. The spectators covered their mouths
with their hands. They were so amazed to see
the children so thin and pale. The children
walked silently to a bench and sat down without
looking up.

 History Father’s farm had been destroyed in 1918 by one
of our sudden Philippine floods, so for several
years afterward we all lived in the town, though
he preferred living in the country.

What’s More
Most of Carlos Bulosan’s youth was spent in the countryside as a farmer.
It is during his youth that he and his family were economically impoverished by the rich
and political elite, which would become one of the main themes of his writing like the one
he manifested in the story “Father Goes To Court”.

ACTIVITY 3: Take It Essay!

Given the above-mentioned connection, answer the questions below in a form

of an essay. Write your answer in your English activity notebook.

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 What I Have Learned ACTIVITY 4: Match Me

After familiarizing the characters in the story, let us see how much you’ve
understood the story you have just read.
As you know, the author of the story had introduced some influences in the
selection.
Below are some excerpts from the selection you have just read. The excerpts
depict how the story is influenced by the author’s life experiences and also by
various aspects mentioned.
Match the situation in column A with the response in column B. Choose the
letter of your answer and write it in your English activity notebook.
COLUMN A COLUMN B
SITUATION RESPONSE
1. The rich man’s servants were frying A. The family has the natural knack of
and cooking something good and the joking, everyone was made to laugh with
room of the food was wafted down to them.
us from the window of the big house.
2. Father’s farm had been destroyed in B. The poor family was forced to transfer in
1918 by one of our sudden Philippine town though they would have preferred in
floods. the countryside.
3. “May I walk to the room across the hall C. The poor neighbors enjoyed the smell
and stay there for a minute, Judge?” and huddled near their window to savor
Father asked. them imaginatively.
This made the rich father mad, thinking they
stole the spirit of their food.
4. My sister started it. The rest of us D. The judge was curious so with
followed them and soon the everyone what plans the poor father has.
spectators were laughing with us, This was his way of paying their stealing of
holding their bellies and bending over the spirit of the food.
the chairs and the laughter of the
Judge was the loudest of all!

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ACTIVITY 5: Sum It Up

Give brief summary of the lesson that you learned in this module. Sum it up by
using the graphic organizer below. Copy the illustration and write your answer in your
English activity notebook. In each box, write the corresponding influence. Then, add
a brief description.

Based on the module, I have learned that there are five (5) different influences
being mentioned that somehow affect the story. These are the following:

What I Can Do

ACTIVITY 6: HIS STORY Repeats Itself

The story Father Goes to Court did not just discuss about neighbors and
families but it also touches how it is moved by history, tracing back to the calamity
that the poor father had encountered years ago.
The next step that you are going to do is to relate the connection of the story
to your family’s experiences. Shall we share some incidents here?
Since Philippines is known to be the gateway of many disastrous typhoons in
the Pacific, try to interview your parents and ask them to name at least three
typhoons they have had experienced.
On the cloud caricatures shown below, write at least one sentence or two about
the unforgettable moments they can recall during the occurrence of the said typhoon.

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Follow the same format shown below, and write your answers on your English
activity notebook.

1. Typhoon Name : ___________________

Year it happened : ___________________
Experience : ___________________
2. Typhoon Name : ___________________
Year it happened : ___________________

3. Typhoon Name : ___________________

Year it happened : ___________________
Experience: ___________________

Read the selection below:

COVID -19 PATIENT 878
Iza Calzado ,The Heart of a Survivor
(an excerpt)

Life is beautiful.

Life is full of rosy tomorrows, life is long, life is all your own to spend in ways that
make you happiest—until it isn't. For 11 days, multifaceted personality Iza
Calzado laid in her hospital bed, looking up at a white ceiling with her labored
breathing echoing in her ears and her pulse throbbing with an intense cocktail of
IV-delivered medication sloshing in her weakened veins. As her body struggled to
keep itself alive, her spirit went through its own calvary; from the moment her
doctors considered to intubate her, she knew. She came to terms with how death
could be waiting for her right around the corner.

She allowed herself to confront her mortality. After all, each good night could have
turned out to be a goodbye.

Iza was the 878th patient in the country to test positive for the novel coronavirus
(COVID-19) disease.

Today, she joins the hundreds of Filipinos who have made full, often miraculous,
recoveries. And like her fellow survivors, their loved ones, the healthcare workers
who cared for them, and everyone who has become deeply involved in this crisis,
she has much to teach us all about life.

"I am on a mission to get more iron in my body," Iza says with determination. If
there's a will, there's a way, and Iza will do everything she can to help. And she

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 encourages her fellow survivors to rise to the occasion as well. Everything
happens for a reason, and perhaps, they survived for a reason, too—and that
reason could be for them to become instruments of change even through the
simple yet selfless act of donating plasma to fuel lives anew.

Source: https://metro.style/people/digital-covers/iza-calzado-covid-19-recovery-cover-story/24542

ACTIVITY 7: PHILAN-THROPHY in YOU

After Iza’s ordeal in life, she continues her acts of kindness by joining Non-
Government Organization which advocates helping the poor especially COVID -19
patients. Amongst the many philanthropic deeds she had shared was becoming an
instrument of change even through the simple yet selfless act of donating her plasma.
Iza shared her life’s story not to gain popularity but to give awareness and hope.

Direction: On your English activity notebook, answer the question written inside the
box.

What was the selfless act of kindness you have done to your fellow?
What influenced you to do such?

Assessment

So how did it go? Let’s have some self-assessment to try.

Now, that you are about to finish accomplishing the module, let us check what
you have remembered. Here we go…
I. A. Directions: Below are the jumbled plotted excerpts or lines from Carlos
Bulosan’s story and also his life’s situations that influenced and
reflected his ways of writings. Match Column A and Column B by
writing the letter of the correct answer.

CARLOS BULOSAN’S …
A B.
…Life situations that …Lines/ Excerpts from his story
influenced and reflected
his way of writings.
1. Most of his youth was A. The rich man’s children became thin and anemic,
spent in the countryside as pale and sad. The rich man started to cough at night;
a farmer then he coughed day and night. His wife began
coughing too. Then the children started to cough one

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 after the other. At night their coughing sounded like
barking of a herd of seals
2. His family were B. When I was four, I lived with my mother and
economically brothers and sisters in a small town on the island of
impoverished by the rich Luzon where father has small farm.
and political elite,
3. In 1936, Bulosan C. The rich man’s servants were always frying and
suffered from tuberculosis cooking something good, and the aroma of the food
and was taken to the was wafted down to us from the windows of the big
hospital. There, he house. We hung about and took all the wonderful
underwent three smell of the food into our beings
operations and spent two
years mostly in the ward
4. He left for America on at D. Father’s farm had been destroyed in 1918 by one
age 17, in the hope of of our sudden Philippine floods. .So for several years
finding salvation from the afterward, we all lived in the town, though he preferred
economic depression of living in the country.
his home
5. His other quality was E. His other novels include The Laughter of My Father
an obstinate quality which were originally published as short sketches and
who laughs at the posthumously published.
adversities being
resilient as a person.

B. From your answers in Test I A, identify what kind of influences do they belong.
Choose your answers from the word pool below. Write the letter of the correct
answer in your English activity notebook.

A. culture B. economic C. health D. history E. environment

6. ____ 7. ____ 8. ____ 9. ____ 10. ____

II. Directions: Answer the questions given below by choosing the letter of the
correct answer and write it on your English activity notebook.

11. As a response to the excerpt provided in the box, which of the following
statements depict how the story is influenced by cultural aspect in the selection
Father Goes to Court?
Now, this rich man’s servants were always frying and cooking something
good, and the aroma of the food was wafted down to us from the windows of the
big house.

A. We turned to bed and tried to sleep.

B. The judge even came down to his high chair to shake hands with him.

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 C. I can remember one afternoon when our neighbor’s servants roasted
three chickens.
D. Our whole family stood outside the windows of the rich man’s house
and listened to the musical sizzling of thick strips of bacon or ham.

Footnote to Youth
Jose Garcia Villa
The sun was salmon and hazy in the west. Dodong thought to himself he
would tell his father about Teang when he got home, after he had unhitched the
carabao from the plow, and let it to its shed and fed it. He was hesitant about
saying it, but he wanted his father to know. What he had to say was of serious
import as it would mark a climacteric in his life. Dodong finally decided to tell it, at
a thought came to him his father might refuse to consider it. His father was silent
hard-working farmer who chewed areca nut, which he had learned to do from his
mother, Dodong’s grandmother.

I will tell it to him. I will tell it to him.

Source: Footnote to Youth, https://ischoolsericsonalieto.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/footnote-to-

youth-jose-garcia-villa/

12. Which influence is mostly depicted in the excerpt above?

A. cultural B. economic C. environment D. psychological

13. Which of the following author’s way of writing has influenced the story?
A. Villa’s writing style was too timid.
B. Villa’s writing style was too patriotic.
C. Villa’s writing style was too defensive
D. Villa’s writing style was considered as aggressive.

New Yorker in Tondo

Marcelino Agana Jr
(SUMMARY)
This story was about a girl who grew in Tondo and went in New York for a
year, she was able to adopt the culture of the country with a short span of time.
New York was a free and liberated country; New York City is comprised of so
many different, eccentric neighborhoods.
Many of aspects can be experienced in this country maybe that is the
reason why the main character Kikay was acting such things in this story.
The characters of the story were Aling Atang or Mrs. Mendoza who is the
mother of Kikay, Nena, Totoy and Tony. Kikay or Francesca who is the girl from
New York and was referred to the title “The New Yorker in Tondo”. Kikay was
raised from Tondo who just went to New York for a year to study, and then when
she went back to her town, she had in her the culture of New York, She changed
everything about her, the way she dressed, she talked and mingled with others,

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 she even tried to change everything about her mother. After a year she
just forgot everything while she is in Tondo, including her friends.

Source: https://literaryanalysisphillit.weebly.com/new-yorker-in-tondo.html

14. The story, having a character portrayed by Kikay, is a good example that it
is influenced by _________.
A. economic B. environment C. health D. history
(For item numbers 15)
II. Directions: Read the following excerpt below and answer the questions that
follow. Write the letter of the correct answer in your English
notebook.
…The most devastating impact of the Great Depression was human suffering. In
a short period of time, world output and standards of living dropped precipitously.
As much as one-fourth of the labor force in industrialized countries was unable to
find work in the early 1930s. While conditions began to improve by the mid-1930s,
total recovery was not accomplished until the end of the decade.
Source: The Great Depression, https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression/Economic-impact

15. From the excerpt above, which of the following factors is being depicted and
emphasized?
A. cultural B. economic C. environmental D. historical

Additional Activities

ACTIVITY 8: Me and My Story

Considering the pandemic the world is experiencing today, write a

story about your personal experience/reaction relating to the present
situation you are facing today.

Write your story in your English activity notebook.

Congratulations! You have successfully completed Quarter 3- Module 3. You

may now proceed to Module 4 and learn about expressing one’s beliefs and
convictions based on material viewed