CNF Melc3 Final Field-Validated
CNF Melc3 Final Field-Validated
CNF Melc3 Final Field-Validated
Creative Nonfiction
Quarter 1 – Module 3:
Analyzing Factual/
Nonfictional Elements
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TARGETS
Activity 1
NEWS STORY
Directions: For a clearer understanding, read the news story below and answer the
questions found on the next page. Write your answers in your Creative
Nonfiction notebook.
Fatalities in Serendra
blast laid to rest
Published June 10, 2013, 7:37 am
The three fatalities in the blast at the Two Serendra condominium in Taguig City last
May 31 were laid to rest in their home provinces over the weekend.
Relatives of the three are not keen on filing charges against the condo's management
as they cited potential high legal costs, radio dzBB reported early Monday.
Sallymar Natividad was buried at a memorial park in San Jose del Monte in Bulacan
province, the report said.
Natividad, the driver of the delivery van crushed by debris from the explosion, left
behind a pregnant widow and two children.
The third fatality, Jeffrey Umali, was buried in Nueva Ecija province, the report added.
Last May 31, a blast hit the Two Serendra condominium, causing tension in the area,
including shoppers at a nearby commercial area.
An investigation showed the blast stemmed from a gas explosion and not a bomb.
—KG, GMA News
B. FREE RESPONSE
Directions: In your notebook, write in brief sentences your answers to the following
questions.
1. Recall your answer in Item No. 5 of the previous activity. What factors help you
arrive with your answer? What form of writing can be usually found in these
sources?
2. Recall your answer in Item No. 5 in the previous activity. What factors
influenced your answer? Why do you think the other choices are not the correvt
answer? Would you have written it another way? Explain your answer.
3. What were your thoughts and feelings while reading the news? What did you
think of these fatalities and their families?
4. If you were to write the material in a different form instead, what changes would
you make or what details would you incorporate?
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Activity 2
LABYRINTH OF ELEMENTS
Directions: Like Theseus, trace your way out of this labyrinth by passing through the
element that correctly corresponds to the clues provided. Write your
answers in your Creative Nonfiction notebook.
Activity 3
READING CREATIVE NONFICTION
Directions: The text below exemplifies literary journalism which is one of the most
definitive examples of creative nonfiction. It contains the elements
necessary to literary fiction but retains the journalistic foundation of news.
Read the text carefully and answer the activities in your Creative
Nonfiction notebook.
BULACAN, Philippines - The coffin is in kitchen. The red shirt comes off, the
the living room. The room is small, new shirt is pulled on.
eleven feet by six, just deep enough for
Lilibeth runs a hand over her Hope’s
the coffin to stand flush against the wall,
rumpled hair. She says she must smile
and wide enough to crowd half a dozen
and keep calm, because she is
mourners and one sleeping cat.
pregnant, and the baby is due in two
The widow comes in from the outhouse months.
bathroom. Her name is Lilibeth. Her hair
Sallymar is dead, and he is leaving
is wet, there is a towel over her
home for the last time.
shoulder. She smiles at the visitors, and
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says she is looking for Hope.
Sallymar’s brother Bong is standing
The priest reads from the Bible. Holy alone on the road, past the yard, under
water is shaken over the body of the tent sent by the local congressman.
Sallymar Natividad. The air smells of He is 34 years old, a skinny man in a
sweat and smoke and chicken boiling in white and green Rough Rider polo.
vinegar. There was a phone call, he says,
Abenson’s was on the line, saying there
Hope is outside, crouched on the street
had been an accident.
with four other boys, staring intently at
the spider crawling over the tip of his He didn’t know his brother was dead
finger. Someone calls out his name. He until four in the morning of the next day,
runs into the house, slips past the June 1.
crowd and their paper plates of rice and
Sallymar Natividad died at 8:10 in the
chicken.
evening of May 31, exactly two weeks
His mother is sitting beside the coffin. ago, died because the outer wall of Unit
There is a package on her lap. She rips 501 of Serendra 2 Building B went flying
away the cellophane, shakes off the outward just when Sallymar was driving
cardboard, cuts the tag off the crisp down 22nd Avenue in an Abenson’s
white T-shirt with a knife from the van.
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Activity 4
PIECE BY PIECE
Directions: Read each of the directions and questions carefully. Supply what is
being asked in each of the items to get a better understanding of the
elements of a narrative. Write your answers in your Creative Nonfiction
notebook
1. In which places did the story happen? What events transpire in these places?
How are these places described in the text? How did you feel as the author
narrated these events?
Places Events Description Feelings
1.
2.
2. Who are the people involved in the story? How does the author describe each
of them? What do you think of them or how do you feel towards them?
People Description Your Thoughts/Feelings
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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1. Hope
2. Lilibeth
3. Bong
4. Ursulita
5. The title of the story you have read is creatively made. Explain what you think
is the meaning behind the title.
6. The news article, Fatalities in Serendra blast laid to rest and the news story,
The Coffin in the living room share many similarities but are written in
completely different forms. Using a Venn diagram, compare and contrast the
two in terms of their content, language, style, form, etc.
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Activity 5
GIST OF THE STORY
Directions: Using your own words, retell in five events Patricia Evangelista’s The
Coffin in the Living Room. Use the guide questions to pick out which
events will glean the gist of the story.
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There is a thin line that differentiates fiction from nonfiction. That thin line is
called FACTS. Works of nonfiction are factual accounts and encounters that have truly
transpired somewhere at some time. Autobiographies and memoirs are two of the
many examples there are. Meanwhile, fiction is a literary genre that features a
narrative that is not real or has not happened. These works may be purely imaginary
but they may draw inspiration from real events. Novels and short stories are
categorized under this literary genre.
Despite the difference however, fiction and nonfiction are literary genres whose
primary goal is to tell a story whether real or imagined, factual or fictional. Therefore,
creative nonfiction will have to contain all the essential elements of a short story so the
message it wants to convey can get across to its audience.
In this part of the lesson, you will identify the fundamental elements found in
a narrative, nonfiction and otherwise. As the concepts are defined and explicated,
you will have to recall the story you have just read as well as your answers in the
previous activities as they will guide you in identifying the specific elements.
Element: Setting
It is the surroundings and time in which events of a story take place.
Settings can include the era or period, date and time of the day,
Definition:
geographical location, weather and natural surroundings, immediate
surroundings of a character, and social conditions.
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Element: Dialogue
Definition: These are the utterances that the characters say to each other.
Element: Atmosphere
Also known as mood, it is the dominant emotion/feeling that pervades
a story. It is less physical and more symbolic, associative, and
suggestive than the setting, but often akin to the setting. Every story
Definition: has some kind of atmosphere, but in some, it may be the most
important feature or, at least, a key to the main points of the story.
Atmosphere is created by descriptive details, dialogue, narrative
language, and such.
1. The first person point of view is used when the narrator of the story is
also a character in the story and tells it from her point of view. The pronoun
“we” or “I” is frequently used here.
Definition:
2. The second person point of view tells a story as if the story is happening
to the reader himself. The pronoun “you” or “yours” is commonly used.
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Definition:
Example: The following events form the plot of The Coffin in the Living Room.
Exposition: The people in the life of Sallymar are introduced and shows how they
are coping with his death.
Rising They are faced with the predicament of having to deal with the death
Action: of someone very important in their lives.
Falling The funeral is over and they wonder what they will now do with
Action: Sallymar gone from their lives.
His children will for the first time in their lives celebrate father’s day
Resolution:
without a father.
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Ex. You know pink is this year’s black! (Black stands for the new fashion trend.)
“Let me give you a hand.” (Hand means help.)
11. Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers
to the whole of something or vice versa.
Ex. Door clicks while his wheels start spinning on the pavement.
(Wheels are a part of a car. In the sentence, wheels stand for car.)
12. Litotes is when an affirmative is conveyed by the negation of the opposite, the
effect is to suggest a strong expression employing a weaker one.
Ex. After a decade long battle with the disease, he now finally has met
his maker. (To meet someone’s maker means to die.)
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Directions: Choose from the options the meaning of the sentences below.
Write the letter of your answer in your creative nonfiction notebook.
11. “Wherever I walk, my shadow is a marriage of flags.”
A. I am a product of many cultures.
B. My shadow is covered with flags.
C. I am a shadow of flags.
12. “Before the sun rises, you see the glimmer of its rays.”
A. Dawn comes before sunrise.
B. Our future is foreshadowed by our present inclinations.
C. If you see a chance take it so that you will be successful.
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Before doing so, one has to be aware of the literary elements that make fiction
storytelling worth reading and take note of these elements. As soon as one realizes
that the elements in fictional literature are not so far or so different from the events in
real life, one will find it easy to navigate his way through the process of composing
creative nonfiction.
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Figures of speech are very much an example of figurative language. There are
many classifications of figures of speech including but not limited to simile, metaphor,
personification, hyperbole, irony, allusion, apostrophe, oxymoron, paradox, metonymy
synecdoche, litotes, euphemism, and etc.
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Activity 7
ANALYZING FOR UNDERSTANDING
Directions: Read Patricia Evangelista’s The Coffin in the Living Room once
more. Scrutinize the details of the story with your newly acquired
learning to achieve a deeper understanding of the text. The
following are questions that you need to answer to completely
analyze the material at hand. Answer each set of questions
individually in the boxes provided below. Come up with a critique of
the text afterward. Write your answers in your activity notebook.
1. How is the work structured or organized? How does it begin? Where does it
go next? How does it end? What is the work's plot? How is its plot related to
its structure?
2. What is the relationship between each part of the work to the work as a
whole? How are the parts related to one another?
3. Who is narrating or telling what happens in the work? How is the narrator,
speaker, or character revealed to readers? How do we come to know and
understand this figure?
4. Who are the major and minor characters, what do they represent, and how
do they relate to one another?
5. What are the time and place of the work—its setting? How is the setting
related to what we know of the characters and their actions? To what extent
is the setting symbolic?
6. What kind of language does the author use to describe, narrate, explain, or
otherwise create the world of the literary work? More specifically, what
images, similes, metaphors, symbols appear in the work? What is their
function? What meanings do they convey?
Adapted from: Diyanni, R. (1995). Critical Theory: Approaches to the Analysis and
Interpretation of Literature. McGrw-Hill, Inc.
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Activity 8
JOURNAL WRITING
Directions: One exercise to improve one’s writing ability is through journal
writing. Journal writing allows you to jot down your thoughts with
honesty and carefreeness. Your journey through this chapter has been
loaded with so much learning and information. Write your thoughts
away about this experience. Write what you find the easiest and the
most difficult to understand as well as how this new learning will impact
your life.
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Activity 9
DOWN MEMORY LANE
Directions: Recall a particular experience in your life that you can vividly remember.
Think of this memory as the springboard for the first creative nonfiction
piece you will be writing. List the elements of a narrative that corresponds
to this particular experience in the table. Write your answers in your
Creative Nonfiction notebook.
Element Response
1. Setting
2. Characters
3. Atmosphere
4. Point of View
5. Plot
A. Exposition
B. Rising Action
C. Climax
D. Falling Action
E. Resolution
6. Symbols
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Directions: Read and understand each excerpts below and answer the questions
that follow. Write your answers in your creative nonfiction notebook.
1. “Bombs fall from the sky. Blood spatters like rain. A small boy is killed with a
bullet in his head. His name was Eithan Ando, and this is his story.”
- Blood from the Sky, Patricia Evangelista
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What atmosphere is being exuded by the excerpt?
A. joy and happiness C. sadness and gloom
B. fear and terror D. mystery and mysticism
He said the fishes will feed fat on the corpses of criminals. He said morticians
will grow rich with the deluge of dead. He said the police will be protected from
punishment, and his chief of police suggested the burning of houses. He said
to kill the addicts; it will be a kindness to their parents.
3. “His two wives are as different as fire and water. The first is some twelve
younger than he – very girlish, pretty, fair-skinned, dainty of build, and
passionate of temper. The second is the same age as he – a larger, darker,
cooler-looking, young woman of great poise.”
- The Mystery of the Murdered Bigamist, Quijano de Manila
What figure of speech is most likely employed by the author in the
excerpt?
A. simile C. personification
B. metaphor D. paradox
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A. speech C. thoughts
B. looks D. actions
5. “In Camp Batalla, Jeorge is excited, happy. He sees his wife, across the room,
answering questions from investigators. He mouths the word. “Eithan?”
She shakes her head. “Gone.”
“Gone?”
“He’s gone.”
- Blood from the Sky, Patricia Evangelista
What element is employed by the author to depict the realistic events that
transpired?
6. “The barbershop isn't much of a shop. There is a floor. There is a roof. There is
a thin wooden wall. There is a plastic tray and an old man in a bright blue cape
sitting on a plastic chair.”
- After Yolanda: The barber of Guiuan, Patricia Evangelista
7. “Alan Alcantara is a barber, has always been a barber, the same as his
grandfather and his uncles before him.”
- After Yolanda: The barber of Guiuan, Patricia Evangelista
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A. exposition C. resolution
B. climax D. falling action
9. “After Yolanda, they said they wanted haircuts. Alan said the barbershop was
gone. They said it didn't matter. Their houses may fall, their businesses may be
lost, but, by God, the men of Guiuan will look good.”
- After Yolanda: The barber of Guiuan, Patricia Evangelista
10. “Once there was a boy and a girl who fell in love. The girl was young when she
met the boy, one day 11 years ago when she was a teenager in high school.
She is not sure why she was drawn to him, only that he was kind. Perhaps they
would have married, but it wasn’t very important, with money tight and jobs
scarce.”
- Blood from the Sky, Patricia Evangelista
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What part of the plot is the excerpt most likely from?
A. exposition C. resolution
B. climax D. falling action
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6. C
1. In which places does the story happen? What events transpire in these
places? How are these places described in the text? What feelings did you
feel as the author tells these events?
Places Events Description Feelings
The room is small,
eleven feet by six, just
deep enough for the
Pre- coffin to stand flush Answers may
Living
Funeral against the wall, and vary.
Room
wide enough to crowd
half a dozen mourners
and one sleeping cat.
Everybody in the family
Cemetery was crying over the Answers may
Funeral
(Possibly) coffin of their dead loved vary.
one.
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3. Who do you think is telling the story? Whose perspective is the story told from?
Is she witnessing all these events? Is the storytelling limited from the
perspective of one person?
Possible Answer:
A narrator is telling the story. She is an omniscient narrators as she
is able to access the events that have transpired even before the present
event. The storytelling is not limited to the perspective of one person as she
is able to tell the accounts of the different people.
4. The ‘coffin’ is a mental image repetitively used in the story. The word however
operates differently depending on the character in focus. Write down what the
‘coffin’ represents for each of the characters. Provide a brief explanation after.
5. The title of the story you have read is creatively made. Explain what you think
is the meaning behind the title.
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Fatalities in Serendra blast laid to rest The Coffin in the living room
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6. B 7. A 8. B 9. C 10. A
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