Creative Writing

SPECIAL PROGRAM IN THE ARTS 7

Quarter 1
Module 3
Connecting Literature to
Art, Culture and History
SPA-Creative Writing 7
Quarter 1 – Module 3: Connecting Literature to Art, Culture and History First
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Creative Writing 7
Module 3
Quarter 1
Connecting Literature to
Art, Culture and History
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the SPA Creative Writing 7 Self-Learning Module on Connecting

Literature to Art, Culture and History.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and

independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims
to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely:
Communication, Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while
taking into consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the SPA Creative Writing 7 Self-Learning Module on Connecting

Literature to Art, Culture and History.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an
active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module. 

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

Most Essential Learning Competencies

 Associates literature to art, culture and history.

Specific Objectives
 Define Literature
 Differentiate art, culture and history
 Connects literature to art, culture and history

PRETEST

Direction: Write True if the statement is correct and False if it is not.

_______1. Ancient people engraved upon stone tablets and wall carvings to
deliver a story.

_______2. Literature is the foundation of humanity’s cultures, beliefs, and

traditions.

_______3. Literature not an art because art is for artist and its viewers while
literatures are for writers.

_______4. Literature uses language as a means to shape an image to reflect

social life and express the author’s thoughts and feelings.

_______5. Literature can exist from nothingness.

 RECAP

In your previous lesson, we studied about commonality and

distinguishing Principles of Artistic Organization.
The principles of design are how those building blocks are arranged:
contrast, rhythm, proportion, balance, unity, emphasis, movement, and
variety. They are the ways an artist can organize the elements of art to
create a wide range of effects.
Now we are going to study about Connecting Literature to Art, Culture
and History

LESSON

What is LITERATURE?
Long before human civilization started in this world, stories are found
among the constellations, beneath the depths of the oceans, and within the
woodland realm. Long before language was invented, stories were told and
engraved upon stone tablets and wall carvings. Long before humans began
to know how to read and write with the words that our ancestors created,
literature already existed.
Literature is the foundation of humanity’s cultures, beliefs, and
traditions. It serves as a reflection of reality, a product of art, and a window
to an ideology.
Literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been
applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the
intentions of their authors and the perceived excellence in their work.
Literature may be classified according to a variety of systems, including
language, national origin, historical period, genre, and subject matter.
Deriving from the Latin littera, “a letter of the alphabet,” literature is
first and foremost humankind’s entire body of writing; after that it is the
body of writing belonging to a given language or people; then it is individual
pieces of writing.
Through Art
Literature is art. Art can be defined as communication between an
artist and the audience. When an author writes, he takes words to create a
story to communicate to us. Through this story, we are able to create a
picture of the characters, visit new places, and find meaning in what could
be seen as simple events. An author's writing style is her platform for
sharing art.
It is important to see how literature is art by itself, but also as a form
of art that connects to other types of art. It can be seen in music,
photography, and painting. These arts influence each other.
As an art, literature might be described as the organization of words
to give pleasure. Yet through words literature elevates and transforms
experience beyond “mere” pleasure. Literature also functions more broadly
in society as a means of both criticizing and affirming cultural values.
Art and Literature allows us to learn about other cultures through its
people’s observations, beliefs and self- expression. It encompasses many
genres such as painting, drama, music, poetry, photography and novels. By
exploring the world of arts and literature you also discover mankind’s
fascination with portraying life through various medias as diverse as life’s
experience itself.

Through Language and Culture

Literature is an art that uses language as a means to shape an image
to reflect social life and express the author’s thoughts and feelings.
Originated from human productive labor. The first appeared was oral
literature, which was generally linked to music as lyrical poetry that could
be sung. Modern literature usually divides literature into four categories:
poetry, fiction, prose, and drama.
Culture is a social phenomenon and it is the product of long-term
creation. At the same time, it is also a historical phenomenon. It is the
accumulation of social history. Culture refers to the history, geography,
customs, traditions, ways of life, literature and art, behavioral norms, modes
of thinking, and values of a country or a nation.
Literature arises, in part, out of a culture, may record or illustrate
some aspects of that culture, but is not a reliable or complete summation of
that culture. It is a big part of all cultures. Different countries study books
that shape their nations and children and adults will read them so that they
understand what made their home how it is.
 Literature can inform people, it can share history and it becomes the
history of a certain place or the world. The documentation of an event or
even a story made up can change a culture.
Through History
Literature and history are closely related, in discovering the history of
a race, feelings, aspirations customs and traditions of a people are surely to
be included and these feelings, aspirations, customs, and traditions, that
are written is literature. No literature exists from nothingness. It is
influenced by history, and it is also influenced by the present.

The history of literature is the historical developments of writings in

prose and poetry which attempts to entertain, enlightens, or instruct the
reader. Some books that have influenced the world are;
a. the Bible
b. Koran or Qu’ran
c. the Iliad and Odyssey
d. One Thousand and One Nights or the Arabian Nights

Literature is also a tool for the foundation of a religion. The Holy Bible,
one of the oldest written scriptures, is a compilation of tales, beliefs, and
accounts that teach about Christianity and about Judaism (for some
selected books in the Old Testament). Within a span of more than a
thousand years from the Prophet Moses to the Apostle Paul, the Bible was
written by numerous authors believed to be inspired by God’s divine wisdom
and tries to explain about the mysteries of life as well as setting rules for
one’s personal faith. The same goes with the Qu’ran for Muslims, Torah for
the Jews, and the Bhagavad-Gita, Ramayana and Veda for the Hindus.
Literature explains human values. The works of Plato, Socrates, and
Aristotle (the most famous Greek philosophers) contain virtues that promote
perfection to a society if only human beings have the willingness to uphold
and practice them. Through these philosophers’ contributions to literature,
not only did they craft an artistic convergence of words, but exposed logic
and ideas as well.
Life is manifested in the form of literature. Without literature, life
ceases to exist. It is an embodiment of words based on human tragedies,
desires, and feelings. It cultivates wonders, inspires a generation, and feeds
information.
 ACTIVITIES

DAY 1
ACTIVITY 1 – Literature and its Meaning

DIRECTION: Fill in the diagram with the different meaning of literature.

Literature

DAY 2

ACTIVITY 2 –Connecting to Literature

DIRECTION: Complete the table below.

Information Connection to Literature

Art

Culture

History
DAY 3
ACTIVITY 3 – Analyze
DIRECTION: Analyze one book that you have read, write a detailed account
of that piece of literature have any connections to art, culture or history.

WRAP–UP

The content of literature is as limitless as the desire of human beings

to communicate with one another. Each element overlapped each other. One
cannot be formed without the other. Whole civilizations have a life pattern
that repeats itself through history. Themes of literature can be taken from
myth, from history, or from contemporary occurrence, or they can be pure
invention.
 VALUING

It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.”

–Rabindranath Tagore

POSTTEST

MULTIPLE CHOICE

DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the correct answer.

________1. The following books have influenced the history of the world
EXCEPT:
A. Bible
B. Si Maganda at Si Malakas
C. One Thousand and One Nights

________2. Literature was derived from the Latin word “littera”, which means
_____?
A. Alphabets of writers
B. Summoned by above through letters
C. A letter of the Alphabet

________3. It is a social phenomenon and it is the product of long-term

creation.
A. History B. Culture C. Language

________4. Modern literature usually divides literature into four categories:

_______, ________, ________, and ________.
A. Prose, Poetry, Art and Poems
B. Novels, Poems, Drama and Comedy
C. Poetry, Fiction, Prose, and Drama

________5. The study of the human past as it is described in written

documents left behind by humans.
A. History B. Culture C. Art
 KEY TO CORRECTION

PRE TEST ACTIVITY 1 ACTIVITY 2 ACTIVITY 3 POST TEST

1. True Answers may Answers Answers may 1. B
2. True vary. may vary. vary. 2. C
3. False 3. B
4. True 4. C
5. False 5. A
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
_____________________________________________
EDISON P. CLET
Illustration

ELINETTE B. DELA CRUZ

Project Development Officer II (LRMS)
 Lay-out Artist

MELANIE G. LOGDAT /DEMOSTHENES B. SORIANO

Validator

MARIVIC D. LISING
MAPEH Department Head

GILBERT O. INOCENCIO
Rizal High School
School Head

NORLYN D. CONDE
MAPEH Education Program Supervisor

RODOLFO B. MANUEL/ROLANDO C. JULIAN

Public Schools District Supervisor