Preliminary Period

UNIT 3: No Walls, No Ceilings, No Floors:

Mapping a Space of Ones Own
Enduring Understanding:
Essential Questions
The individuals personal articulations
of desire for acceptance, intimacy,
commitment, and healing are still
current issues that affect the self and
the society.
Week

Content
Standards

Demonstrate
understanding of
the importance
of embracing
reality as one
experiences
epiphany

Why is it important to respect ones freedom of choice?

Why is ones choice/ decision sometimes rejected?
How far does the societys hold affect a person?

Essential Learning
Declarative
Functional
Knowledge
Knowledge

Articulating
oneself vis--vis
lifes ironies in
Revelations
by Katherine
Mansfield

Course Code: Lit 101

Coming to terms
with oneself
during a major
realization in life

Intended
Learning
Outcomes (ILO)

Discover and
recover (from
memory)
epiphanies that
reveal naked
truths and
Discerning the
sudden
larger essence
realizations
or meaning in
about oneself.
the storys turn
Write about this
of events and its by making a
connection with character sketch

Suggested
Teaching/
Learning
Activities
(TLAs)
Role
playing

Assessment Tasks
(ATs)

Reflective journal

Demonstrate
understanding of
making the right
decision when
confronted with
difficult choices
Demonstrate
understanding of
lifes array of
choices and
mans freedom
to choose

Demonstrate
understanding of
the importance
of finding a
space of ones
own in a society

Making choices
in
Stopping by
Woods on a
Snowy Evening
by
Robert Frost

the characters
epiphany

of ones own self.

Identifying the
figurative
language,
images, and
lines suggesting
freedom to
choose and act

Explain how the

lure of beauty
and pleasures
affect ones
choices through
an anecdote

Expository
writing

Comic strip

Group
sharing

Poster making

Relating how
devices are
utilized to
articulate the
theme of the
poem
Finding a room of
ones own in
Sandra
by
Barry Manilow

Describing the
plight of the
main persona in
the song
Making
comparison of
Sandra with the
contemporary
Filipino women

Recognize the
importance of
time for
oneself through
an understanding
of the plight of
women in the
society and
expressing it via
a reflective

Action
learning
Commentary
on the plight
of women in
the presentday society

Mis/preconception
check
Writing a poem

Song analysis

Editorial
2

journal

writing

Recognizing the
effectiveness of
a ballad in
revealing a
characters life
and her
frustration

Demonstrate
understanding of
the true
yearnings in a
womans heart
and mind in the
absence of rigid
societal norms

Reversal of
fortune in a tick
of the clock in
The Story
of an Hour
by Kate Chopin

Accepting lifes
inevitabilities/
ironies with
openness

Identify the
Confessional
Dramatization/Role
things that one
writinga
Playing
has yearned to
poem or essay
accomplish given
the freedom to
Examining the
decide by
true nature of
making a Bucket
ones own secret List
longing and
asserting what
the heart and
mind dictates

Demonstrate
understanding
that letting go is
an act that
liberates oneself
from the chain of
emotional

Holding on or
letting go: Loves
burning desire in
You Shall Be
Free by Trinidad
Tarrosa-Subido

Understanding
the complexities
and mysteries of
love especially
setting a
beloved free

Express the art

of letting go by
detaching
oneself from the
people or
material things
who/which are

Creation of a
symbol
expressing
that one has
completely
liberated
himself/herself

Poem/song
composition
Interpretative reading
of poem/song

oppression, i.e.
both the beloved
and the lover are
set free

Underscoring
the poetic
tension and
paradoxes in the
poem that
reveal the
personas true
feelings for his
beloved

causing one to
sin through any
artistic
composition

of a haunting
past