I. The Isles Of My Portfolio In Literature

Chapter 1-Introduction tothe study of Philippine Literature
Chapter2-Ilocos
Chapter3-Cagayan Valley
Chapter4-Central Luzon
Chapter5-Southern Tagalog
Chapter 6-Bicol
Chapter7-Western Visayas
Chapter8-Central Visayas
Chapter9-Eastern Visayas
Chapter10-Western Mindanao
Chapter11-Northern Mindanao
Chapter12-Southern Mindanao
Chapter13-Central Mindanao
Chapter14-CARAGA
Chapter 15-CARCordillera Administrative Region
Chapter 16-ARMMAutunomous Region of Muslim Mindanao
Chapter 17-NCRNational Capital Region

II. Students Outputs Of E-Portfolio

Hapinat, Kristina Cassandra
Dagnaus, Cherry Mae
Calvo, Rona Mae
Isidro, Shiela Mae
Acain, Arlene
Florendo, Rhema
Necor, Nely May
Delos Reyes, Grace
Forro, Jellivee
Barrere, Queenie
Rosello, Ferden
Aliperio, Abby
Malapascua, Shena
Labtan, Ariane Mae
Torio, Michelle Anne
Solivio, Joan
Delos Santos, Cheryl
Gregorio, Joyzez Mae
Acero, Princess Mae
Caballero, Jeffty James
Braga, Ruston Jake Muriel

III. Literature As a Plotform In Education For Sustainable Development

Dickens believed that enriching people’s life with knowledge and enjoyment of the arts was key to building a fair society and creating opportunities. Dickens 2012 is committed to following Dickens’s educational mission by supporting learning activities around the world, from teachers’ conferences and family workshops to creative writing master classes and writing competitions.

WHY WE NEED LITERATURE

1. Literature offers the best way of teaching extensive reading skills. Non-literature reading programs, and especially programs for non-native speakers, focus on short passages. Big international surveys such as PISA (or tests of basic skills) are based on many readings of very short passages. Yet extensive reading is a different kettle of fish. To read something longer, you need to stay aware of macrostructures such as plot.

2. Literature offers a way of linking the emotional with the intellectual. If students are to learn reading effectively, they have to remember significant turns in plot, and this will only happen, in the first instance, if those turns have emotional impact. So it harnesses the emotional to the cognitive. When literature does what it should, though, it acts against the alienation of the emotional and the intellectual.

3. Literature teaches values with emotional force. To take an American example, To Kill a Mockingbird is at once a condemnation of America, and a celebration of an archetypal American hero: the man who stands up to defy his whole community in defence of what’s right (the same character as John Proctor of The Crucible, in  a way). Khaled Hosseini does something similar in A Thousand Splendid Suns when Mariam stands up to accept her death in defence of her co-wife and her co-wife’s children. Students need to feel the force of these things, or values will not be strong in their lives–but they also need to be able to defend themselves. There’s nothing about literature that says it always has to be moral. Many people think that the Yugoslav war comes down in part to poetry, to the sort of thing Serbian students learned in school. Karadzic is an expert on folk ballads.

4. Literature has the power to change destructive ways of thinking on many levels. In my life, poetry has been a wonderful thing. When your emotions bear down on you to see the world in a negative light, and believe that it’s not you, it’s just real, at a time like that, you need something as powerful as poetry. It can crystalize what you feel at that moment, or it can transform it into something better. I believe in memorizing poetry. If you memorize a poem, it will become a part of your emotional structure, and it can only do that because its structure is unyielding. It will not give, and that’s why it is worth it to you. When I was in teachers’ college in Montreal in 1983, I read George Gabori’s wonderful book When Evils Were Most Free.He was a political prisoner in Stalinist Hungary. When he was in solitary confinement, he exercised his mind by trying to remember all the poetry he ever knew. He says by the time he got out, he could recite for eight hours at a stretch without repeating himself. That is how important literature is.

5. Literature is about reality.  Some of you out there have probably read deconstructionist criticism from the eighties that goes on about literature being only about itself. What nonsense. Literature is about itself in so far as it is a self-contained system. But so is mathematics, and yet the bridges built by mathematical calculation stay up. “Poems are imaginary gardens with real frogs in them.” Who said that?

IV. Composition of Literature 

A. Haiku

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight—

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Lightning flash—

what I thought were faces

are plumes of pampas grass.

Yosa Buson

A summer river being crossed

how pleasing

with sandals in my hands!

Light of the moon

Moves west, flowers' shadows

Creep eastward.

In the moonlight,

The color and scent of the wisteria

Seems far away.

Kobayaski Issa

O snail

Climb Mount Fuji,

But slowly, slowly!

Trusting the Buddha, good and bad,

I bid farewell

To the departing year.

Everything I touch

with tenderness, alas,

pricks like a bramble.

Natsume Soseki

Over the wintry

forest, winds howl in  rage

with no leaves to blow.

The crow has flown away:

swaying in the evening sun,

a leafless tree.

Recent Poems

In the coolness

of the empty sixth-month sky...

the cuckoo’s cry. - Masaoka Shiki

Whitecaps on the bay:

A broken signboard banging

In the April wind. - Richard Wright

Lily:

out of the water

out of itself - Nick Virgilio

ground squirrel

balancing its tomato

on the garden fence - Don Eulert

As the wind does blow

Across the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

I walk across sand

And find myself blistering

In the hot, hot heat

Falling to the ground,

I watch a leaf settle down

In a bed of brown.

It’s cold—and I wait

For someone to shelter me

And take me from here.

I hear crackling

Crunch, of today’s new found day

And know it won’t last

Falling to the ground,

I watch a leaf settle down

In a bed of brown.

A cricket disturbed

the sleeping child; on the porch

a man smoked and smiled.

I'm turning over

look out and give me room there

you cricket, you

As the wind does blow

Across the trees, I see the

Buds blooming in May

I walk across sand

And find myself blistering

In the hot, hot heat

Falling to the ground,

I watch a leaf settle down

In a bed of brown.

It’s cold—and I wait

For someone to shelter me

And take me from here.

I hear crackling

Crunch, of today’s new found day

And know it won’t last

So I will leave it

At bay; and hope for the best

This bitter new day

The beaches waves hit

Sounding of flooding water
Soothes aches all over
Our watchful eyes hear the world
Hands do the talking
One must first dream then act out,
fulfillment is yours.
It is blowing very hard
I don't like the wind.
Winnie the Pooh loves to eat honey
Bees chase Winnie the Pooh.
 Reached the sky
 As on the grass I lie 
Brings no shade to the weary 
Then what good is it? 
Continues life from something
Small but strong, it grows.
He sneaks to the net untouched
With one swing he scores.
Big time effort for four hours
Game ends tied, zero-zero
It makes me feel good inside
It takes my breath away.
I like the colorful leaves.
Others like the fall too.
Different colors through the year
Fall is almost here!
Eating crisp, crunchy apples
A warm fire burning.
Munching on sweet red apples
A warm fire burning.
Blanketing the trees and road
Silence and beauty.
To grab the sunsets colours
Night is approaching.
patterns along the blank wall
brightening my day.

Silence around us

To be a leader,

The wind is blowing

I love Winnie the Pooh

 The flowers 

A broken tree cut 

Rain falls, seeds sprout

Gracefully slither

Slash, push, crush, swipe, skate

I like spring water

Fall is almost here.

Leaves down everywhere

Fall is leaves falling

Fall is leaves falling,

Snow falling slowly

Branches stretching out 

White light shining through

Who came before us ?

KLATU BARATA NICTO

Were they ancestors ?

Those who came before

shall forever be with us,

always remembered.

Children learn from us.

Teach them about ancestors.

Start a Family Tree!

Haiku softly sings

and a word picture is formed.

A feast for the mind. 

B. Turn Around poem

I used to eat bread at breakfast,

but now I prefer to eat rice at breakfast.

I used to hate you

but now I prefer to love you.

I used to watch movies  at night,

but now I prefer to sleep at night.

I used to sing when I woke up,

but now I prefer to dance when I woke up.

I used to call her in her first name,

but now I prefer to call her friend.

I used to like him with his good looks,

but now I prefer to like him with his golden heart.

I used to write a letter for you ,

but now I prefer to text you.

I used to tease her,

but now I prefer to comfort her .

I used to listen during class,

but now I prefer to take down notes during the class.

I used to eat sandwich during recess,

but now I prefer to eat bunwhich during recess.

I used to wait for your text,

but now I prefer to wait for your call.

I used to,

but now I prefer to.

I used to do assignment at home,

but now I prefer to do assignment at room.

I used to buy clothes every occasion,

but now I prefer to buy clothes every time I have money.

    I used to,

    but now I prefer to.

    I used to admire Coco Martin,

    but now I prefer to admire Chris Tiu.

    I used to like color pink,

    but now I prefer to like color green.

    I used to make friend with her,

    but now I prefer to make foe with her.

    I used to eat chocolates,

    but now I prefer to eat ice cream.

    I used to be with you,

    but now I prefer to be alone with you.

    I used to think about my problems,

    but now I prefer to forgot about my             problems.

    I used to watch showtime,

    but now I prefer to watch eat Bulaga.

    I used to be afraid wuth monters,

    but now I prefer to not believe on monsters.

   I used to answer my own assignments,

    but now I prefer to copy assignments.

    I used to eat,

    but now I prefer to cook.

    I used to like boxing,

    but now I prefer to like basketball.

    I used to watch cartoons,

    but now I prefer to watch drama.

I used to hate you

but now I prefer to kill you.

I used to bake cakes,

but now I prefer to eat cakes.

I used to comb my hair,

but now I prefer to bounce my hair.

I used to angry with my sister,

but now I prefer to be friend with my sister.

I used to plant trees,

but now I prefer to plant waters.

I used to hate vegetables,

but now I prefer to love vegetables.

I used to sung a rap songs,

but now I prefer to sing love songs.

I used to travel around the world,

but now I prefer to stay at house.

I used to miss you,

but now I prefer to hate you.

I used to kiss kids,

but now I prefer to bite kids.

I used to play dolls,

but now I prefer to decorate dolls.

I used to run,

but now I prefer to walk.

I used to shout,

but now I prefer to talk.

I used to I used to wear slippers,

but now I prefer to wear shoes.

I used to eat apples,

but now I prefer to eat oranges.

I used to idolized Robin,

but now I prefer to idolized Paulo.

I used to absent,

but now I prefer to be present.

I used to eat at restaurants,

but now I prefer to eat at carenderias.

I used to go to net cafe,

but now I prefer to net at home.

I used to borrow money,

but now I prefer to to let them borrow my money.

I used to drink coffee,

but now I prefer to drink choco.

I used to bake cakes,

but now I prefer to eat cakes.

C. Contrast Poem

I am not a dress so you cannot iron me,

I am not a dress so you cannot wear me,

I am not a dress so you cannot sell me,

I am not a dress so you cannot hang me,

I am not a dress so you cannot fold me.

I am not a keyboard so you cannot change me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot press me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot scratch me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot dictate me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot judge me.

I am not a movie so you cannot pay me,

I am not a movie so you cannot judge me,

I am not a movie so you cannot play me,

I am not a movie so you cannot direct me,

I am not a movie so you cannot buy me.

I am not soap so you cannot use me,

I am not soap so you cannot buy me,

I am not soap so you cannot wash your hands by me,

I am not soap so you cannot smell me,

I am not soap so you cannot rub me.

I am not a phone so you cannot press me,

I am not a phone so you cannot sell me,

I am not a phone so you cannot pawn me,

I am not a phone so you cannot bought me,

I am not a phone so you cannot share me.

I am not a jewelry so you cannot decorate me,

I am not a jewelry so you cannot pawn me,

I am not a jewelry so you cannot use me,

I am not a jewelry so you cannot borrow me,

I am not a jewelry so you cannot afford me.

I am not a facebook status so you cannot share me,

I am not a facebook status so you cannot just comment on me,

I am not a facebook status so i cannot tag me you,

I am not a facebook status so i cannot update you,

I am not a facebook status so i cannot like you.

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot break me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot sell me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot snatch me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot stole me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot wash me with oil.

I am not a balloon so you cannot let go off me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot hang me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot decorate me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot explode me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot sit on me.

I am not a wood so you cannot chop me,

I am not a wood so you cannot cut me,

I am not a wood so you cannot axed me,

I am not a wood so you cannot burn me

I am not a wood so you cannot paddle me.

I am not a letter so you cannot wrote me,

I am not a letter so you cannot scratch me,

I am not a letter so you cannot throw me,

I am not a letter so you cannot cry on me,

I am not a letter so you cannot sent me,

I am not a letter so you cannot respond on me.

I am not a flower so you cannot offer me,

I am not a flower so you cannot cut me,

I am not a flower so you cannot pick me,

I am not a flower so you cannot buy me,

I am not a flower so you cannot sell me.

I am not a coat so you cannot use me,

I am not a coat so you cannot buy me,

I am not a coat so you cannot sell me,

I am not a coat so you cannot borrow me,

I am not a coat so you cannot hang me.

I am not a pillow so you cannot hug me,

I am not a pillow so you cannot sleep on me,

I am not a pillow so you cannot cover me,

I am not a pillow so you cannot change me,

I am not a pillow so you cannot buy me.

I am not a note so you cannot take down me,

I am not a note so you cannot write me,

I am not a note so you cannot scratch me,

I am not a note so you cannot buy me,

I am not a note so you cannot fold me.

I am not a tv so you cannot control me,

I am not a tv so i cannot entertain you

I am not a tv so you cannot louder me,

I am not a tv so you cannot watch me,

I am not a tv so you cannot waste your time on me.

I am not a hair so you cannot fix me,

I am not a hair so you cannot comb me,

I am not a hair so you cannot design me in anything you want,

I am not a hair so you brush me,

I am not a hair so you cannot put pins on me.

I am not a slipper so you cannot step on me,

I am not a slipper so you cannot walk with me,

I am not a slipper so I cannot carry you,

I am not a slipper so I cannot fit with you

I am not a slipper so you cannot buy me.

I am not a star so you cannot stare on me,

I am not a star so you cannot wish on me,

I am not a star so you cannot dream of me,

I am not a star so I cannot shine like diamond,

I am not a star so you cannot reach for me.

I am not a clock so you cannot check me,

I am not a clock so you cannot ask for me,

I am not a clock so you cannot problem me,

I am not a clock so you cannot rush for me,

I am not a clock so I cannot alarm you.

I am not a door so you cannot open me,

I am not a door so I cannot let you in,

I am not a door so I cannot welcome you,

I am not a door so you cannot close me,

I am not a door so you cannot lock me.

I am not a mirror so we are not the same,

I am not a mirror so you cannot face with me,

I am not a mirror so you cannot symmetric with me,

I am not a mirror so you cannot break me,

I am not a mirror so I cannot clown you.

I am not a doll so you cannot play me,

I am not a doll so you cannot control me,

I am not a doll so I cannot make you feel good,

I am not a doll so I cannot make entertain you,

I am not a doll so you cannot dictate me.

I am not a fan so I cannot comfort you,

I am not a fan so I cannot gave air to you,

I am not a fan so you cannot plug me,

I am not a fan so you cannot turn me on,

I am not a fan so you cannot move me faster.

I am not a song so you cannot rhyme on me,

I am not a song so you cannot relate with me,

I am not a song so you cannot tune me,

I am not a song so I cannot inspire you,

I am not a song so I cannot give you motivation.

I am not a water so I cannot go with the flow,

I am not a water so I cannot take away your thirst,

I am not  a water so you cannot pour me,

I am not a water so you don’t have to need me,

I am not a water so you cannot froze me.

I am not a money so I cannot gave you power,

I am not a money so I cannot be the root of evil,

 I am not a money so I cannot be serve as payment,

I am not a money so I cannot be on your wallet, 

I am not a money so you cannot gave me.

I am not a paper so you cannot write on me,

I am not a paper so you cannot throw me,

I am not a paper so you cannot trash me,

I am not a paper so you cannot burn me,

I am not a paper so you cannot crumple me.

I am not a phone so you cannot press me,

I am not a phone so you cannot sell me,

I am not a phone so you cannot pawn me,

I am not a phone so you cannot bought me,

I am not a phone so you cannot share me

I am not a flower so you cannot offer me,

I am not a flower so you cannot cut me,

I am not a flower so you cannot pick me,

I am not a flower so you cannot buy me,

I am not a flower so you cannot sell me.

I am not a balloon so you cannot let go off me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot hang me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot decorate me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot explode me,

I am not a balloon so you cannot sit on me.

I am not a wood so you cannot chop me,

I am not a wood so you cannot cut me,

I am not a wood so you cannot axed me,

I am not a wood so you cannot burn me

I am not a wood so you cannot paddle me.

I am not a pen so you cannot use me,

I am not a pen so you cannot buy me,

I am not a pen so you cannot sell me,

I am not a pen so you cannot barrow me,

I am not a pen so you cannot forget me.

I am not a beer so I cannot let you forget,

I am not a beer so you cannot drink me,

I am not a beer so you cannot open me,

I am not a beer so you cannot tell me your problem,

I am not a beer so I cannot be with you in times of problems.

I am not a store so you cannot bought on me,

I am not a store so you cannot look for something on me.

I am not a store so I am not a variety,

I am not a store so I don’t have what you need,

I am not a store so you cannot demand on me.

I am not a dance so I don’t have a beat,

I am not a dance so don’t have fun on me,

I am not a dance so I cannot entertain you,

I am not a dance so you cannot sweat on me,

I am not a dance so you cannot jump with me

I am not a note so you cannot take down me,

I am not a note so you cannot write me,

I am not a note so you cannot scratch me,

I am not a note so you cannot buy me,

I am not a note so you cannot fold me.

I am not a movie so you cannot pay me,

I am not a movie so you cannot judge me,

I am not a movie so you cannot play me,

I am not a movie so you cannot direct me,

I am not a movie so you cannot buy me.

I am not an alcohol so I cannot disinfect you,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot protect you,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot take away pain,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot take away pain.

I am not an alcohol so you cannot bring me.

I am not a dress so you cannot iron me,

I am not a dress so you cannot wear me,

I am not a dress so you cannot sell me,

I am not a dress so you cannot hang me,

I am not a dress so you cannot fold me.

I am not a keyboard so you cannot change me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot press me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot scratch me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot dictate me,

I am not a keyboard so you cannot judge me.

I am not a rose so I cannot let you feel well,

I am not a rose so I don’t have thorns,

I am not a rose so you cannot pick me,

I am not a rose so you cannot offer me’

I am not a rose so I cannot fresh you.

I a m not a motorcycle so you cannot break me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot sell me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot snatch me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot stole me,

I am not a motorcycle so you cannot wash me with oil.

I am not a toothbrush so you cannot brush me,

I am not a toothbrush so you cannot use me,

I am not a toothbrush so you cannot taste me,

I am not a toothbrush so you cannot put paste on me,

I am not a toothbrush so I cannot clean you.

I am not a calculator so you cannot click me,

I am not a calculator so you cannot sum me,

I am not a calculator so you cannot add me,

I am not a calculator so you cannot subtract me,

I am not a calculator so you cannot divide me.

I am not a class card so you cannot fail me,

I am not a class card so you cannot pass me,

I am not a class card so I cannot forget you,

I am not a class card do you cannot check me,

I am not a class card so you cannot be hard on me.

I am not a dance so I don’t have a beat,

I am not a dance so don’t have fun on me,

I am not a dance so I cannot entertain you,

I am not a dance so you cannot sweat on me,

I am not a dance so you cannot jump with me.

I am not an alcohol so I cannot disinfect you,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot protect you,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot take away pain,

I am not an alcohol so I cannot take away pain.

I am not an alcohol so you cannot bring me.

I am not an exam so you cannot have to pass me,

I am not an exam so you cannot correct me,

I am not an exam so you cannot check me,

I am not an exam so you cannot be fear of me,

I am not an exam so you cannot be nervous.

I am not chair so you cannot sit on me,

I am not a chair so you cannot sell me,

I am not so you cannot sleep on me,

I am not a chair so you cannot stay on me,

I am not a chair so I cannot carry you.

                               People of Consequence

                                    By Ines Taccad-Cammayo 

   Ines Taccad-Cammayo was born in Isabela and became a university scholar during her College days. She took up a degree in AB Journalism and MA in her selection” People of Consequence” was a first prize winner in the Carlos Memorial Awards for Literature in 1969. Some of her articles were published in the former Sunday Times Free Press, Graphics and focus.

                                                                

Elements of the story

          

 I.     Characters

Camus- houseboy of a German haciendero

Meding- lived in the Capitolyo for almost four years as servant of the of the Mayors family.

           

II.    Settings

       

III.  Plot

          

Beginning Action

            When Camus was a young man, he has been the houseboy of a German haciendero. The German is a Bachelor and he often told Camus that his punishments were for his own good became he must learn to shed his indolent and clumsy ways if he ever hoped to amount to anything. Camus and his wife were themselves becoming people of consequence. They now owned best in the barrio which other lakeside Village lay at the base of a high chit which the people called Munting Azul because a perpetual haze clung to its summit. Meding, his wife leaved the hard driving manners of towns folk. It constantly amazed her how she could make idle time yield profit, and even more astonishing, how having made profit she held on to it.

 Rising Action

                  All their life sentiment had very little meaning perhaps because

Love had never figured in the courtship. Camus married Meding because his father and her father had agreed on the union.

Conflict

The superintendent meet camus as Cook. It was insult for the part of camus, but he continue to disguised as cook even if he’s not.

 Denouement

Every step was taking him nearer to the Superintendent’s house  and how could he go to him without the chuckins of his throat was parched the vendors thrust their wares at him again. Pinipig, kroopek, Balut, Mais Laga above the voices a tinkling bell now attracted him. He turned around, an ice cream, they exchanged a look of understanding.

                                                     

 End

He watched the vendor ,pat layers  of muti-colored ice cream into the cone yellow, violet, white. A final, careful pat of chocolate. He waved away the insistent hands and wares of the other peddlers. . Slow he drew  the money from his pocket, picked the bill most frayed and gave it to the vendor. As he licked the ice cream savoring the taste, he stretched out his hands  for the change, all was quiet in the plaza now, and suddenly he realized that he had almost twenty pesos to spend  as he pleased.  He squinted craftly about him, seeing for the first time the loud speakers talking to him alone. Yes he must tell his wife how pleased the good lady had been, how truly live a gentlemen and friend the superintendent was.