YZRA MELLE GALIZA DOMINGCIL BSA-3

LEARNING TASK 2

I. PRE-COLONIAL ( –BC TO
1564)
A. Characteristics
1. Based on oral traditions
2. Crude on ideology and
phraseology

3. Folk Tales
2. Folk Songs—a form of fold lyric B. Literary Forms a. Myths—explain how the world was
which expresses the hopes and 1. Oral Literature created, how certain animals possess
aspirations, the people’s lifestyles as well a. Riddles (bugtong)—battle of certain characteristics, why some places
wits among participants have waterfalls, volcanoes, mountains,
as their loves. These are often repetitive
tigmo—Cebu paktakon—Ilonggo flora or fauna.
and sonorous, didactic and naïve. patotdon—Bicol

b. Legends—explain the origin of

a. Hele or oyayi—lullaby PRE-SPANISH things
b. Ambahan (Mangyan) —7-syllable per c. Fables—used an animal characters
line oen that are about human PERIOD OF and allegory
relationships and social entertainment. PHILIPPINE d. Fantastic Stories—deal with
underworld characters such as
LITERATURE “tiyanak” “aswang” “kapre” and
others.

c. Kalusan (Ivatan) —work songs that

depict the livelihood of the people b. Proverbs (salawikain) —wise
d. Tagay (Cebuano and Waray) — saying that contain a metaphor
drinking song used to teach as a food for 4. Epics—these are narratives of
e. Kanogan (Cebuano)—song of thought. sustained legth based on oral tradition
lamentation for the dead revolving around supernatural events or
heroic deeds.

c. Tanaga—a mono-riming
heptasyllabic quatrain
expressing insights and lessons
on life is “more emotionally
charged than the terse proverb
and thus has affinities with the
folk lyric”.
RIDDLES
A. What month of the year has 28 days?
Answer: All of them
B. What goes up but never comes down?
Answer: Your age

FABLES
A. The Tortoise and the Hare: (Never Give Up!)

First on on our list of  Life Lessons From Aesop’s Fables is the one that everyone knows!
The Story: A Hare is boasting about his speed in front of the other animals and challenges any
one of them to race him. A Tortoise accepts his challenge. At first the Hare thinks it’s a joke, but
the Tortoise is being serious. So, soon after they begin the race. The Hare runs full speed ahead
and to make fun of the Tortoise, he decides to take a nap. The Tortoise keeps slowly going and
going. When the Hare wakes up, he notices that the Tortoise is near the finishing post and fails
to win the race.
The lesson: Slow and steady wins the race. Sometimes in life, it might look like other people are
racing ahead of you. But you never know what obstacle could stop them in their tracks. It is
important to keep moving forward and one day you will get there.

B. The Ants and the Grasshopper: (Work Hard and Play Hard!)

Next, on our list of Life Lessons From Aesop’s Fables is the one that I like!
The Story: A Grasshopper spends his summer singing and dancing, while a team of Ants have
worked hard all summer collecting food for the winter. He doesn’t understand why the Ants
work so hard. When winter comes, the Grasshopper finds himself dying of hunger and see’s the
ant serving up food to survive. He then understands why the Ants were working so hard.

FOLKSONGS
A. Sitsiritsit

Sitsiritsit, alibangbang
Salaginto, salagubang.
Ang babae sa lansangan
Kung gumiri’y parang tandang.
Santo Niño sa Pandacan
Puto seco sa tindahan
 Kung ayaw kang magpautang
Uubusin ka ng langgam.
Mama, mama namamangka
Pasakayin yaring bata
Pagdating sa Maynila
Ipagpalit sa manika
Ale, aleng namamayong,
Pasukubin yaring sanggol
Pagdating sa Malabon,
Ipagpalit sa bagoong.

B. Bahay kubo

Bahay-kubo, kahit munti

Ang halaman doon ay sari-sari
Singkamas at talong
Sigarilyas at mani
Sitaw, bataw, patani

Kundol, patola, upo't kalabasa

At tsaka mayro'n pang
Labanos, mustasa
Sibuyas, kamatis, bawang at luya
Sa paligid-ligid ay puno ng linga

FOLK TALES
A. Abadeha: The Philippine Cinderella (Myrna J. Dela Paz)

Abadeha: The Philippine Cinderella is the story of a girl who wept and prayed, and alas she
saw a beautiful woman, bathed in radiant light, who appeared to take her worries away.

So go the blessings of Cinderella’s fairy godmother throughout the struggles and eventual
triumphs of a young girl against her oppressors.

Set in the exotic islands of the Philippines, this tale captures the mystical charm of the
indigenous culture of the Filipinos.

Colorful images of pre-colonial Philippine scenes, costumes, architecture, and folkways

vividly enhance the enchanting narratives.
 This retelling of lasting value and universal appeal conveys the deep respect and reverence
for nature and the earth inherent in the forever-loved story that will never grow old.

B. Ang Pambihirang Buhok ni Lola (Rene O. Villanueva)

Ang Pambihirang Buhok ni Lola is a story about a violent storm that threatens an old town
and an old grandmother attempts to save everybody.

How will she do this? This folktale is not so much about Lola’s extraordinary hair as it is
about the Filipina’s extraordinary strength of character.

MYTHS
A. “Wala pang 5 seconds!”

If you’ve ever dropped a piece of food on the floor or your table, chances are you went
ahead and picked it up as if nothing happened, saying something along the lines
of “Wala pang five seconds!” (“Five seconds haven’t passed yet!””)

This is one of those trickier myths to debunk, simply because conflicting research about
it exists. Some researchers have said that this practice is perfectly safe, and that
contamination does depend on the amount of time a substance spends exposed or in
contact with potential contaminants. On the other hand, recent research reveals that this
practice isn’t as soon as we’ve been led to believe, and that following the 5-second rule
may actually put your health at risk.

B. “Pampaganda ng boses ang langgam!”

We’re not quite sure where or how this bizarre story started. Basically, it involves
straight-up drinking or eating any ants you find swimming in your coffee or crawling on
your plate. Unfortunately, there’s no scientific evidence whatsoever that eating ants will
help you hit those high notes.

However, this story’s probably just the brainchild of someone who, long ago, felt too
lazy to just pick the poor insects out of their food with a fork.
Learning Task 3

1. How does spanish period affects the philippine literature?

The impact of spanish colonization in the philippines was massive and it affects the
philippine literature by, first the imposition of the roman catholic faith upon the filipino
population permanently influenced the culture and society of the philippines. By
christianizing the filipinos, the spanish catholic missionaries were in effect remodelling
filipino culture and society according to the hispanic standard. They would be
hispanizing the filipinos, teaching them the trades, manners, customs, language and
habits of the spanish people. This influence is evident even in the way we tell time ("alas
singko y media"), in the way we count ("uno, dos, tres"), and in the family names we
carry ( de la cruz, reyes, santos, etcetera). The influences from spain have become
permanently embedded in filipino culture. The filipino people themselves have
internalized them.they cannot be undone anymore. For good or bad, they have
catapulted the filipinos into the world of spanish culture, into the world of spanish
civilization and its products.nevertheless, it must be said that the filipinos did not receive
the cultural influences from spain sitting down.they responded in a way that
demonstrated their capacity to master the new and to balance the new against the old,
in a way that called for their capacity to bring values and principles to bear with a critical
and informed judgment, and in a way that called for them to be able to sift what is
essential from what is trivial.thus they responded selectively to the novelties the
spaniards brought with them to the philippine islands. The filipinos accepted only those
that fitted their temperament, such as the "fiesta" that has become one of the most
endearing aspects of life in these islands, and made them blend with their indigenous
lifestyle to produce a precious philippine cultural heritage.

2. How was early filipino society and culture like before the spanish colonization

The early filipino society and culture before the spanish colonization have also a culture.
But there was no united Filipino culture and , but rather dozens of fractured Filipino
cultures who were divided along ethnic and geographical lines. But I like to divide those
precolonial fractured cultures into three groupings. There were 1. Nomadic hunter-
gatherer tribal communities. Negrito people fell into this category as for the past 70,000
years and counting, were nomads who relied totally on nature to feed themselves. Their
lifestyle is the most simple of all precolonial “Filipino” lifestyles. Systems of governance
were not necessary as tribes are small groups of people and trade with other groups
was only ever conducted sparsely as they never had a fixed place of habitation, and on a
small scale because of the size of the tribes compared to full-on kingdoms and empires.
2. Sedentary land-based agricultural and rural societies. They include the Ifugao peoples
of Luzon and the Lumad peoples of Mindanao. Their lifestlyes and economies revolve
around agriculture and the produce of livestock, but unlike the Tagalogs who lived in
the lowlands that allowed for an urban lifestyle to evolve alongside it, the Lumads and
Ifugao lived in highlands that limited the size of settlements. Plus, the systems of land
ownership and property rights were simpler than those used by Tagalogs because of the
geographical difficulties of doing so. So yes, there was already culture in the Philippines,
but there were multiple cultures and the Philippines before Spanish colonization was as
diverse as it always was.