English1 DRAMA Module DepEd

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Distance Learning Module in English 1 2010 Secondary Education Curriculum

QUARTER 2 DRAMA

Module 4

Explore Your Understanding:

Welcome to module 4! In this module, you are yet to engage to various activities that would allow you to see yourself on the shoe of another person and express your thoughts regarding it.

I can sense the excitement in you, but first let us examine if you

have prior knowledge on the topics contained in this module. Are you ready for the test? You are indeed!

Activity 1: Think ahead – Diagnostic Test! Below are questions you have to answer. Each question represent a concept or idea which is about to be discussed in this module. Don‘t leave any unanswered item!

In this part of the module, you are to demonstrate understanding of the essence of Philippine drama and how it enhances our cultural heritage, literariness, and stage presentation skills.

You will also answer a diagnostic test to find out if you are familiar with any concepts related to Philippine drama and to check your readiness and competence on the prerequisite skills to the tasks at hand.

At the end of this module, you are expected to perform a drama presentation of an excerpt which will be graded based on criteria presented at the latter part of the module. As you do the following tasks, you will be guided by the essential question “Why does the learner study Philippine drama?‖

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1. It is a set of rules which both the audience and actors are familiar with and which act as a useful way of quickly signifying the nature of the action or of a character. A. Convention B. Elements C. Genre D. Satire

2. A form of drama that expresses a strong irony or sarcasm. A. Genre B. Melodrama C. Musical D. Satire

3. A playwright‘s style of writing that uses an object to represent an idea, a feeling, a

character or the drama itself. A. Imagery B. Satire C. Simile D. Symbolism

4. A style that uses sense perception to describe an object, an idea, a feeling etc.

A. Imagery B. Metaphor C. Satire D. Symbolism

5. A part of speech that describes a noun and a pronoun. A. Adjective B. Adverb C. Conjunction D. Interjection

6. Which line shows the use of adjective? A. Singing! I hear no melody! B. Mario what are you doing? C. The singing is inside me, Grandmother! D. Yes, your red shirt that your father thought was too frivolous!

7. Which of the following words appeal to the sense of hearing?

A. melody B. song C. singing D. all of the above

8. Which of the following words appeal to the sense of sight? A. Clothes B. song C. melody D. singing

9. The red shirt described as frivolous is a kind of _________.

A. symbolism B. imagery C. satire D. metaphor

From “With Patches of Many Hues” by Estrella Alfon

GrandMother: Mario what are you doing? Mario: I‘m singing myself, Grandmother. GrandMother: Singing! I hear no melody! Mario: The singing is inside me, Grandmother! GrandMother: Let me hear the song, then. So I will know you‘re really singing. Mario: You wouldn‘t understand my song, Grandmother. …. GrandMother: Yes, your red shirt that your father thought was too frivolous! Mario: You see, Grandmother. The clothes I wear, the words I use, my friends, my hair – everything about me is wrong!

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10. The red shirt as it appeals to the sense of sight is called_________. A. symbolism B. imagery C. satire D. metaphor

Processing points: This test will not be recorded. Your score in this test will be compared with the test that you are to take at the end of this module.

In this way, we can be assured that you have learned something from this module. Activity 2: Memory Game

Watch clips of various forms of drama. Identify and explain each form based on what they have previously learned.

Processing points: What they remember about each form of drama.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Give meaningful insights as guide to self exploration.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 3: The Broadcast Drama Game

Listen to a broadcast drama. Identify the characters based on the dialogs heard.

Activity 4: Making Sense

Read the quotation below:

“Theater is more concerned with communication between actors and audience while Drama is largely concerned with the experience of the participants”.-Brian Way Processing point: Explain the quotation

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Activity 5: Identify Skills

Below is a pool of words. Classify the words if they belong to creative skill or presentation skill.

Processing point: How do creative and presentation skills differ?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 4: Picto-question

Which of the following is the most relevant question about drama appreciation? Encircle the icon of your best answer.

Creative skill Performance skill

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Why study drama? How is drama filmed? Is there such a non voice drama?

What are examples of radio drama? How is drama presented on stage? Processing points: What are your bases in circling the most interesting question?

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 5: Check My Question!

You have selected the most important question in Activity 4, now it is time to make an evaluation of your chosen question using the checklist below: Write your question here: ________________________________________________________________________________________ Start evaluating your chosen question here:

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Processing points:

Are all the characteristics expressed in your chosen question? If so, then your question is an essential question!

If not, try selecting another question and repeat the

process enumerated in this activity. The correct answer is ―Why study Philippine drama?”

Do we have the same answer? Very good!

Let‘s explore further and answer this question in the activity that follows: Activity 6: My Tentative Responses

Now it‘s time to examine what comes in your mind if the question is posted for you to answer. Answer the question below using the diagram.

Tentative answer 1: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tentative answer 2: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tentative answer 3: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Characteristics of essential question Expressed Not Expressed

1. It has no simple ‗right‖ answer.

2. It could be argued.

3. It provokes critical thinking.

4. It raises other important questions.

5. It is related to life.

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Processing Points:

Tentative responses are meant to be validated as we go to the next phase.

Activity 7: Amazing Maze What are your expectations in this topic? Are you curious to know what output is expected of you to accomplish at the end of this topic? Trace the correct route in the maze below to connect the clue to the expected performance.

Processing points: That‘s fantastic! The expected performance is a drama presentation from an excerpt.

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Are you a good actor? director? or props man? We‘ll see about that at the end of this module! You will receive instructions from your teacher on how to go about the schedule of practice together with the other cast.

You will be graded based on the following criteria:

Focus/ theme Accuracy Audience Contact Sequence Development of action Style

Language Delivery Voice Pacing

Are you enjoying the activities so far? Are you excited to learn more? I am so glad to hear that! But before we go further, let me remind you to bear in

mind the ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Bear in mind that this question will be your guide in FIRMING UP your understanding of Philippine drama. Think of all your tentative answers to this question and have them validated as you go on with the next phase. Good luck!

Why study drama?

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FIRM UP Your Understanding

Lesson 1: Link among the Features, Elements and Conventions of Drama

Activity 9: Word for Word Here are words extracted from the play. Do you know what these words mean? Try filling out the diagram below:

This part of the module will enable you to illustrate or crystallize your knowledge of strong link among drama features, elements, and conventions which are needed in performing a drama presentation.

This also highlights grammar lessons on the use of adjectives that enrich characterization, plot description, and imagery.

You may have all these things contained in the varied activities you are to

accomplish. You will be engaged in meaningful and challenging activities that will enrich what you have learned.

Let‘s start the discussion!

engage humiliate

civilized ruin

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Processing points:

While accomplishing the chart, I have learned that

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I felt

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I realized that

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New Yorker in Tondo By Wilfredo Ma. Guererro

Scene 1:

Mrs. M: Visitors, always visitors, nothing but visitors all day long. I‟m beginning to feel like a

society matron.

Mrs. M: Tony! I thought you were on the province.

Tony: Is that you aling Atang?

Mrs. M: of course. It‟s I, foolish boy. Why?

Tony: You don' look like Aling Atang.

Mrs. M: I had a haircut. Think it's horrible?

Tony: Oh, no, no.. You look just wonderful. Aling Atang for a moment, I thought you were

Kikay.

Mrs. M: Oh, you are so palikero as ever, Tony. But come in. Here, sit down. How is your

mother?

Tony: Poor mother. She is homesick for Tondo. She wants to come back here at once.

Mrs. M: How long have you been away?

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Tony: Only 3 months..

Mrs. M: Only 3 months!!! It's too long for a Tondo native to be away from Tondo. My poor

kumara. She must be bored out there.

Tony: Well, you know, we engineers are always on call. But as soon as I finish the bridge in

Bulacan, we‟ll be going here in Tondo.

Mrs. M: Yes, must bring her back as soon as possible. We miss her when we play mahjong..

Tony: That is what she misses most of all.

Mrs. M: I understand. Once a Tondo girl always a Tondo girl. I wonder if that‟s fit my Kikay

because after a year in America , she says she‟s not homesick at all..

Tony: When did Kikay arrive Aling Atang?

Mrs. M: Last Monday.

Tony: I didn‟t know it „till I read it in the newspaper.

Mrs. M: That girl only arrived last Monday and look what happened to me! She dragged me to

the parlor. My hair was cut, eyebrows shaved, nails manicured. And when I‟m going to the

market, I used lipstick! All my kumara are laughing. People think I‟m a loose woman. Because

of my age, but I can‟t do anything because it's hard to argue with Kikay. And she insists that I

should look like an Americana ..

Tony: You look just wonderful, and where is she now?

Mrs. M: Who?

Tony: Kikay? Is she at home?

Mrs. M: She‟s still sleeping!

Tony: Still sleeping?!

Mrs. M: She says, in New York , people don‟t wake up until 12:00 noon.

Tony: It's only 10:00 now.

Mrs. M: Besides, she's busy. Since she came home. Welcome parties here and there. Visitors all

day long. She's spinning like a top.

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Tony: Well, will you tell her I called to welcome her. And kindly give her these flowers.

Mrs. M: But surely you‟re not going yet?

Tony: I did want to see Kikay. But if she doesn‟t get up at 12 noon

Mrs. M: Wait a minute. I‟ll go and wake her up.

Tony: Please don‟t bother Aling Atang. I can come back some other time.

Mrs. M: Wait right here. She‟ll simply be delighted to see her childhood friend. The flowers are

beautiful, how expensive they must be.

Tony: Oh, they‟re nothing at all Aling Atang.

Mrs. M: Oh, Tony..

Tony: Yes Aling Atang?

Mrs. M: You mustn‟t call me “Aling Atang”

Tony: Why not?

Mrs. M: Kikay says that it's more civilized to call me Mrs. Mendoza.

Tony: Yes Aling… I mean, Yes, Mrs. Mendoza..

Mrs. M: Wait a minute and I‟ll call Kikay.

Tony: Huh!!

Mrs. M: Oh! And Tony..

Tony: Yes, Aling…. I mean, Mrs. Mendoza?

Mrs. M: You must not call her Kikay.

Tony: And what shall I call her?

Mrs. M: You must call her Francesca..

Tony: Francisca?

Mrs. M: Not Francisca.. Fran-CES-ca..

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Tony: But why Francesca?

Mrs. M: Because in New York , she says that‟s the way they pronounce he name, it sounds like

“chi-chi” so Italian, be sure to call her Francesca and not Kikay.

Tony: Yes, Mrs. Mendoza .

Mrs. M: Now, wait right here while I call Francesca…. AIE DIOSMIO!!!

Tony: Never mind Mrs. Mendoza, I‟ll answer it.

Mrs. M: Just tell them to wait, Tony.

Scene 2:

Totoy: Tony!

Tony: Totoy!

Totoy: You old son of your father!

Tony: You big carabao!

Totoy: Mayroon ba tayo dyan?

Tony: You ask me that… and you look like a walking goldmine! How many depots have you

been looting, huh!!??

Totoy: Hey hey!! More slowly there.. It is you the police are looking for.

Tony: Impossible! I‟m a reformed character! Come in Totoy

Totoy: Okay Tony.

Tony: Good to see you old pal.. Here, have a smoke.

Totoy: I thought you were in the province, partner.

Tony: I am. I just came to say hello to Kikay.

Totoy: Tony. I‟ve been hearing the most frightful things about that girl.

Tony: So have I.

Totoy: People say she has gone crazy.

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Tony: No, she has only gone New York .

Totoy: What was she doing in New York anyway?

Tony: Oh, studying.

Totoy: Studying what?

Tony: Hair culture and Beauty Science. She got a diploma.

Totoy: Imagine that! Our dear old Kikay!

Tony: Pardon me, she's not Kikay anymore,.. She's Fran-CeS-ca..

Totoy: Fran-CeS-ca??

Tony: Our dear Kikay is now an American.

Totoy: Don‟t make me laugh! Why I knew that girl when she‟s still selling rice cakes.. Puto kayo

dyan!! Bili na kayo ng puto mga suki!!

Tony: Remember when we pushed her into the canal?

Totoy: She chased us around the streets.

Tony: She was dripping with mud!

Totoy: Naku! How that girl could fight!

Scene 3:

Nena: Why, Totoy?!

Totoy: Nena, my own.

Nena: And Tony, too.. What‟s all this? A Canto Boy Reunion ?

Totoy: We have come to greet the Lady from New York .

Nena: So have I. Is she at home?

Tony: Aling Atang is trying to wake her up.

Nana: To wake her up?! Is she still sleeping??

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Mrs. M: No, she‟s awake already. She's dressing. Good morning Nena and Totoy.

Mrs. M: Well, Totoy? Nena? Why are you staring me like that?

Nena: Is that you Aling Atang?

Totoy: Good God, it is Aling Atang!

Mrs. M: It's Kikay who prefers it.

Nena: How you used to pinch and pinch me Aling Atang, when I was a li‟l girl.

Mrs. M: Because you were all naughty, especially you! Always sneaking into our backyard for

mangoes

Totoy: Do you still have that mango tree?

Mrs. M: Yes. Come and help me carry something in the kitchen.

Nena: Aling Atang, don‟t you prepare anything for us. We‟re not visitors

Mrs. M: It's only orange juice. I was preparing some for Kikay.

Nena: Well. Tony.

Tony: You shouldn‟t have come today, Nena.

Nena: Oh, why not?

Tony: I haven‟t talked with Kikay yet.

Nena: Not yet! I thought you said it last night.

Tony: I lost my nerve.

Nena: Oh Tony, Tony!

Tony: Use your head. Nena it's not easy breaking off his engagement with Kikay or with the girl

for God sake!!

Nena: Are you in love with Kikay or with me?

Tony: Of course with you!! I‟m engage with you.

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Nena: Yes, and with Kikay. Too!

Tony: That was a year ago! Nena, you know how much I love you.

Nena: How could you ask me if you‟re still engage with Kikay!

Tony: This is what I get from being honest!

Nena: Honest? Making me fall for you when you‟re inlove and engaged with Kikay!

Tony: I thought I didn‟t belong to Kikay anymore. It's only a secret engagement anyway. I

proposed to her before she left for America . But when she stopped answering my letters, I

considered myself a freeman again.

Nena: And so you proposed to me..

Tony: Yes..

Nena: Then, you tell me to keep it a secret!

Tony: Because I found out that Kikay was coming back.

Nena: I‟m tired of being secretly engaged to you!

Tony: Just give me a chance to explain to Kikay. Then we‟ll tell them.

Nena: Well, you better hurry. I‟m getting impatient.

Tony: How can I talk to Kikay?

Nena: Why not?

Tony: Because you‟re here and also Totoy. I don‟t wanna jilt Kikay infront of everybody.

Nena: You want Totoy and me to clear out?

Tony: No.. just give me a chance to be alone with Kikay for a moment..

Nena: I‟ll take care of Totoy..

Tony: That‟s good..

Nena: Just leave it to me..

Scene 4:

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Totoy: Puto kayo dyan.. Bili na kayo..

Mrs. M: Here comes Kikay, But she wants to call her Francesca.

Kikay: Oh hello darling people!! Nena my dear…… But how but you‟ve become.. and Tony, my

little pal… how are you? And Totoy… my raishing! You look goodness,, you look like a Tondo

Super Production in Technicolor!! But sit-down everybody and let me look at you.. Oh mumsy!!!

Mrs. M: What‟s the matter now?

Kikay: How many times I must tell you, never to serve fruit juices in water glasses?

Mrs. M: I couldn‟t find those tall glasses you brought home.

Kikay: Oh, poor li‟l mumsy.. she is so clumsy noh? But never mind, don‟t break your heart about

it. Here sit down.

Mrs. M: No, I must be going to the market.

Kikay: Oh, don‟t forget my celery. I can‟t live without it. I‟ like a rabbit, munch all day.

Mrs. M: Well, if you people will excuse me. Tony, remember me to your mother.

Kikay: And remember, a little bloom on the lips, a little bloom on the cheeks. Say mwah, mwah..

Mrs. M: Do I have to, Kikay?

Kikay: Again mumsy?

Mrs. M: Do I have to paint this old face of mine? Francesca, what am I going to do with you?

Kikay: But how dreadfully you put it. Oh mumsy, what am I going to do with you?

Mrs. M: I give up!

Kikay: Poor mumsy. How pathetic!

Nena: Tell us about New York .

Tony: How long did you stay there?

Kikay: 10 months, 4 days, 7 hours and 21 minutes.

Totoy: And she‟s still there…. In her dreams…

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Kikay: Yes, I feel as if I was still there, as though I had never left it, as though I lived there all

my life. But I look around me and I realized that no, no, I‟m not there. I‟m not in New York , I‟m

at home. But which is home for me, this cannot be home because here, my heart aches with

homesickness..

Nena: I don‟t think we ought to be here at all.

Tony: Yes, we shouldn‟t disturb her.

Totoy: Let‟s all just walk out very, very quietly.

Nena: And leave her alone with her memories.

Tony: Is that girl we used to go swimming with the mud puddles?

Kikay: Ah, New York , my own dear New York ..

Nena: Totoy, will you come with me..

Totoy: To the ends of the earth!

Nena: No darling, just out to our dear little backyard.

Totoy: Oh, the backyards of Tondo, the barong barongs of Mypaho, the streets of Sibakong..

Nena: Listen Idiot! Are you coming with me or not??

Totoy: Anywhere dream girl, anywhere at all!!

Scene 5:

Kikay: Apparently, out Totoy still has a most terrific crush on Nena. Do wake up, Tony. What

are you looking so miserable about?

Tony: Kikay, I don‟t know how to begin.

Kikay: Just call me Francesca… that‟s a good beginning.

Tony: There is something I must tell you… something very important.

Kikay: Oh, Tony, can‟t we just forget all about it?

Tony: Forget??

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Kikay: That‟s the New York way, Tony. Forget, nothing must ever too serious; nothing must

drag on too long. Tonight, give all your heart, tomorrow, forget. And when you meet again,

smile, shake hands… just good sports..

Tony: What are you talking about?

Kikay: Tony, I was only a child at that time.

Tony: When?

Kikay: When you and I got engaged. I‟ve changed so much since then, Tony.

Tony: That was only a year ago.

Kikay: To me, it seems a century. So much had happened to me. More can happen to you in just

one year in New York .

Tony: Listen, I don‟t want to talk about New York … I want to talk about our engagement.

Kikay: And that‟s what we cannot do Tony. Not anymore.

Tony: Why not?

Kikay: Tony, you got engaged to a girl named Kikay. Well, that girl doesn‟t exist anymore. She's

dead. The person you see before you is Francesca. Don‟t you see, Tony, I‟m a stranger to you. I

hate to hurt you, but surely you see that there can be no more talk of an engagement between us.

Imagine, a New York Girl, marrying a Tondo Boy!!! It's so insane!!

Tony: Now look here..

Kikay: I‟m sorry if I‟ve hurt you, Tony.

Tony: I‟m not going to sit here and be insulted.

Kikay: Hush! Tony! Hush! Don‟t shout, don‟t lose your temper. It's so uncivilized. People in

New York don‟t lose their temper.

Tony: What do you want me to do? Smile, say thank you for slapping my face?

Kikay: Yes, Tony. Be a sport, let‟s smile and shake hands, and be just friends, huh?

Tony: If you weren‟t a woman, I‟d I‟d…

Scene 6:

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Totoy: Hold it Tony. You must never, never hit a woman.

Nena: What‟s all this?

Kikay: Nothing,,, nothing at all..

Totoy: What were you two quarrelling about?

Kikay: We were not quarrelling. Tony and I just decided to be good friends and nothing more

Nena: Tony, is it true?

Tony: Yes!

Nena: Now, we can tell them!

Kikay: Tell us what?

Totoy: What‟s going on here?

Nena: Tony and I are engaged!!

Kikay: Engaged!!

Totoy: Engaged! Engaged!!

Nena: Yes! We‟ve been secretly engaged for a month!

Kikay: A month!? Why you….you…

Tony: I did try to tell you Kikay, I was trying to tell you…

Kikay: You unspeakable cad!!

Nena: Hey, carefully there!! You‟re speaking top of my fiancé..

Kikay: He‟s not your fiancé!

Nena: Oh No!! And why not, huh!!??

Kikay: Because he was still engaged to me when he got engaged to you!

Nena: Well, he's not engaged to you anymore, you just said it yourself.

Kikay: Ah, but I didn‟t know about all this..

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Tony: Now remember, Kikay… it's so uncivilized to lose one‟s temper, People in New York

don‟t lose their temper.

Kikay: I‟ve never felt so humiliated in all my life!! You beast, I‟ll teach you!!

Nena: I told you to leave him alone. He‟s my fiancé!!

Kikay: And I tell you he's not!! He's engaged to me until I release him… and I haven‟t release

him yet.

Nena: You ought to be ashamed of yourself! You‟re just being a dog in the manger!

Kikay: You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Stealing my man behind my back!

Nena: What? What did you say!!??

Tony: Totoy, pull them apart!

Kikay: You keep out of this or I‟ll knock your head off!

Totoy: Naku lumabas din ang pagka Tondo!

Nena: Shameless hussy!!

Kikay: Man eater!!

Tony: How dare you suck her??!!

Nena: She hit me first!

Tony: Look what you‟ve done to her!

Nena: Are you trying to defend her? You never defended me!

Tony: Shut up!!

Nena: I hate you! I hate you

Tony: Shut up or I‟ll bash your mouth off!!

Totoy: Hey, don‟t you talk to Nena that way.

Tony: You keep out of this!

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Nena: He‟s more of a gentleman than you are. He defends me!

Totoy: You take your hands off her!

Tony: I told you to keep out of this!

Nena: Oh, Totoy, you‟ve save my life

Kikay: Tony! Tony, open you eyes!

Tony: Oh, get away from her!

Nena: Take me away from her!

Totoy: Are you still engaged to him?

Nena: I hate him! I never want to see him again in my life!

Totoy: Good! Come on, and let‟s go!

Tony: Hey!

Nena: Don‟t you speak to me, you brute!

Tony: I wasn‟t talking to you!

Totoy: Don‟t you speak to me either! You have insulted the woman I love!

Nena: Oh, Totoy, why have you never told me?

Totoy: Well, now you know.

Tony: Congratulations!!!

Nena: Let‟s go darling; I don‟t want the smell around here.

Scene 7:

Tony: Now, you‟ve ruined my life! I hope you‟re satisfied.

Kikay: I…. have ruined your life??? You…. Ruined mine!!

Tony: What you need is a good spanking!

Kikay: Don‟t you come near me, you,,, you Canto Boy..

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Tony: Don‟t worry, I wouldn‟t touch you with my ten foot pole.

Kikay: And I wouldn‟t touch you with my twenty foot pole.

Tony: Just one year in New York and you forgot your old friends.

Kikay: Just one year that I‟m in New York … and what did you do? But when we got engaged,

you swore to be true, you promised to wait for me. And I believe you!! Oh, you‟re a fickle,

fickle..

Tony: What are you crying about? Be brave…..forget….. That‟s the New York way.. Nothing

must ever be too serious, nothing must ever drag on too long..

Kikay: Oh Tony Please, please!

Tony: Besides, there could be no more talk of an engagement between us. Imagine a New York

Girl, marrying a Tondo boy!!

Kikay: Oh Tony, I‟ve been such a fool.. I‟m sorry, Tony..

Tony: Well, I‟m not! I‟m glad I found out what kind of a person you are!

Kikay: Oh Tony, you‟re wrong, you‟re wrong! I‟m not that kind of person at all..

Tony: Oh. “person” is just a relative name, huh!?

Kikay: Yes Tony, that was Francesca saying all that. But Francesca exist no more, Tony, the girl

standing before you now, is Kikay.

Tony: In that silly dress?

Kikay: Oh this is just a gift wrapping, Tony.

Tony: Well, well, well..

Kikay: It's true Tony. I‟m Kikay….remember me??

Tony: If I remember it right, I was right, I was engaged to a girl named Kikay.

Kikay: Yes, and you‟re still engaged to her Tony!

Tony: Welcome home Kikay!!! How was the trip?

Kikay: Horrible!! I couldn‟t wait to get back.

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Tony: Like it in New York ?

Kikay: Uh-uh! Give me a Tondo anytime!

Tony: Why didn‟t you answer my letters?

Kikay: Francesca wouldn‟t let me write, Tony.

Tony: That nasty girl. I‟m glad she's dead!

Mrs. M: Frances ……. Oh, Tony, are you still here? Francesca, don‟t be angry but I couldn‟t find

any celery..

Kikay: Oh, never mind, Inay, I hate celery!

Mrs. M: Hate celery? Why? You said, you couldn‟t live without it!

Tony: That was Francesca. Aling Atang and Francesca is dead. The girl standing before you is

Kikay!

Mrs. M: But Kikay is Francesca..

Kikay: Oh, no, Inay, I‟m not Francesca……I‟m Kikay!

Mrs. M: I give up!!

Kikay: That tune! What memories it brings back! I first heard it in New York , at Eddie

Candon‟s..

Tony: uh-uh..

Kikay: Sorry darling. May I have this dance with you partner?

Tony: Delighted, madame..

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Activity 10: Understanding the Text

New Yorker in Tondo is a classic satirical play in one-act, written by Marcelino Agana Jr. in 1958. First staged by the Far Eastern University (FEU) Drama Guild at the FEU, Manila. This is one of the more popular Filipino comedies that have been produced many times through the years.

This play in Tagalog is about Kikay who is a balikbayan or a newly arrived from New York. The girl acquires the style, manner, and culture of New York and thus forgets her roots and one true love in Tondo. It also tells how she gets back to being the Kikay of Tondo that her friends and love ones knew.

1. Where did the story happen?

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2. Who are the characters in the story?

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3. What is the conflict?

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4. Describe how the characters resolved the conflict.

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5. Could we say that Kikay is not a good example? Why?

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6. How did Kikay feel when she realized she lost her friends because of the

changes in her attitude?

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7. If you were Kikay, would you change your attitude? Why or why not?

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8. What form of drama is ―New Yorker in Tondo‖? Explain your answer.

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Activity 11: Fusing the Link

Based from the four plays we have discussed, can you point out the fuse

between and among their conventions, elements and feature? Complete the chart

below:

Elements/Features /Conventions

The World is an Apple

Call Me Flory The Wedding Dance

New Yorker in Tondo

Character

Setting

Conflict

Dialog

Plot

Processing points:

Based from the similarities you have noticed, what generalization can you make

about Philippine drama‘s convention, elements and features?

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Does the link/connection reveal a certain identity about Filipino culture? Explain

your answer and provide evidence.

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Activity 12: Anticipation

Fill out the columns and complete the anticipation guide.

Famous dramatic lines Reader‘s Interpretation Playwright‘s Explanation

1.Beauty is a form of wealth.

2.Loving means taking a risk.

3. Rich women are difficult to please.

4. Fathers are very protective of their

Processing points: What do these dramatic lines reveal about drama conventions?

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How is anticipation and convention connected?

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What do the differences or similarities between reader‘s interpretation and

playwright‘s explanation tell about Philippine drama?

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Activity 13: Love Similes

Simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two objects or concepts using the words ―like‖ or ―as‖. For instance, your smile is as sweet as honey.

In this activity, write similes for love.

Simile 1:

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Simile 2:

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Simile 3:

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Simile 4:

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Simile 5:

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Activity 14: Illumination

Illuminate for a while. Prove whether “New Yorker in Tondo” is real or imaginary.

Evidences that NYIT is real Evidences that NYIT is imaginary

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Processing point:

What is the implication of the material, being real or imaginary, to the over-all performance of the play?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lesson 2: Meaning Making in Dramatic Presentation using Adjectives

Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence. Examples:

the tall professor the lugubrious lieutenant a solid commitment a month's pay a six-year-old child the unhappiest, richest man

Degrees of Adjectives The degrees of comparison are known as the positive, the comparative, and the superlative. (Actually, only the

comparative and superlative show degrees.) We use the comparative for comparing two things and the superlative for comparing three or more things. Notice that the word than frequently accompanies the comparative and the word the precedes the superlative.

The inflected suffixes -er and -est suffice to form most comparatives and superlatives, although we need -ier and -iest when a two-syllable adjective ends in y (happier and happiest); otherwise we use more and most when an adjective has more than one syllable.

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Order of Adjectives in a Series

Adjectives follow a certain order if used in a series. The categories in the following table can be described as follows:

I. Determiners — articles and other limiters. II. Observation — postdeterminers and limiter adjectives (e.g., a real hero, a

perfect idiot) and adjectives subject to subjective measure (e.g., beautiful, interesting)

III. Size and Shape — adjectives subject to objective measure (e.g., wealthy, large, round)

IV. Age — adjectives denoting age (e.g., young, old, new, ancient) V. Color — adjectives denoting color (e.g., red, black, pale)

VI. Origin — denominal adjectives denoting source of noun (e.g., French, American, Canadian)

VII. Material — denominal adjectives denoting what something is made of (e.g., woolen, metallic, wooden)

VIII. Qualifier — final limiter, often regarded as part of the noun (e.g., rocking chair, hunting cabin, passenger car, book cover

Source of image: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm

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Activity 15: Adjective Association

Define the following adjectives: esteemed impudent haughty prized conceited

Construct sentences using these adjectives.

Activity 16: Completion Task

Imagery may be defined as the representation through language of sense experience.

Reflect on the visual picture of the characters, setting, and action in the play “New Yorker in Tondo”

Complete the set of adjectives in each row below. Sight

Sound

Smell

Taste

Touch

How important is imagery in a drama presentation?

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Activity 17: Enhancing Descriptions

View the video clip of a stage drama below:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jg6JsF7Eg

Reflect on the technical aspects of the drama. Choose an aspect of a drama to be described.

theater costumes props lighting scenic elements the sound

Formulate the do‘s and don‘ts of the aspect you have chosen.

Processing points: What UNDERSTANDING can you draw out of the activities you have

accomplished, the learning you have gained and the realities about life represented by drama you have read?

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That‘s fantastic! How about making your UNDERSTANDING more ESSENTIAL? Rearrange the

words in the box to reveal the hidden understanding.

Write the Essential Understanding here: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ That‘s impressive! You have completed the FIRM UP phase! I‘m sure the next phase will be a lot more fun and exciting!

DEEPEN Your Understanding

Welcome to the Deepen Phase!

In this phase, you are provided with thought-provoking questions that will make

you reflect, revisit, rethink, and revise your earlier assumptions about Philippine drama.

You are also expected to deal with authentic situations to highlight the grammar structure of the dramatic texts discussed herein. The differentiated instruction will address your uniqueness, strengths and weaknesses and will reinforce what you have learned.

At the end of the phase, you will be engaged in meaningful self –evaluation of learning through a short summative test.

Are you ready to deepen your understanding further? What are you waiting for? Start at once!

enhances our cultural heritage,

Studying Philippine drama

literariness and stage presentation skills.

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Always bear the ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING in mind as you answer the

succeeding activities. Good luck!

Activity 18: The Beauty of Philippine Drama

Remember the story of any of the following dramas we have discussed.

The World is an Apple Call Me Flory The Wedding Dance New Yorker in Tondo

Review the play convention and production used in the play. Activity 19: Speak and Listen

Prepare a monologue taken from a scene in a drama or a play we have studied. Internalize the character you have chosen. The character may either be a protagonist or antagonist. Rehearse how to deliver the lines of the character in front of a mirror.

Processing points:

Why did you choose to be a protagonist? antagonist?

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Activity 20: Design the Set

Assume the role of being the set designer for the production of a drama you wish to perform.

Design and draw the set for each scene. Details not appearing in the sketch must

be plotted on a checklist. How does it feel to be a set designer?

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Activity 21: In the Beginning

Think of themes for play production.

Theme

Choose which among the themes would be interesting to write about. Prepare an introductory scene based on the theme. The introductory scene must include the description of the setting, and the

introduction of the characters.

Activity 22: Quota on Quote

The morale of ―New Yorker in Tondo‖ is summarized in this quotation

“Simplicity is the nature of great souls”. Explain this quotation in your own

words.

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Processing points:

What similarities between your life and the characters in all the plays we have

discussed have you discovered? How did you feel about it?

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What realities about life have you realized from these plays?

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Do you see the value of studying Philippine drama? Why do we study Philippine

drama?

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Congratulations for completing the DEEPEN phase! But to ensure your

understanding, please try answering the test below:

Remember your Essential Understanding:

Studying Philippine drama enhances our cultural heritage, literary and stage presentation skills.

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SUMMATIVE TEST

1. Which of the following is an adjective? A. Back B. together C. always D. hearts

2. Which of the following word expresses imagery?

A. Kiss B. conceive C. truth D. duty

3. What action supports the emptiness in the heart of Rizal‘s mother? A. The mother kissed Rizal. B. The mother bade goodbye to her son. C. The mother‘s steps are reluctant and faltering as she goes out of the cell. D. The mother becomes powerless.

4. Which of the following maybe used as symbolism?

A. Rizal C. light slowly dims B. Gasping emptiness in his mother‘s heart D. mother‘s loss

5. Which of the following is the comparative form of reluctant?

A. reluctantest B. more reluctant C. reluctanter most reluctant

6. Which of the following tag along the order of adjectives in a series? A. Small, intelligent, Spanish-Filipino boy. B. Intelligent, small, Spanish-Filipino boy C. Spanish-Filipino, small, intelligent boy D. Small, Spanish-Filipino, intelligent boy

From “Versions of the Dawn” by Azucena Grajo-Uranza

RIZAL: Mother, it is not given to everybody to tell the truth and be heard. I have done

my duty. I owe it to you. Mother, so don‘t grieve.

MOTHER: How powerless a mother is! She conceives a child and he grows up to

proportions she cannot comprehend. Then he goes away, and her voice and her arms

are too frail to hold him back. Let me kiss you my son. I have lost you.

RIZAL: You have not lost me, mother. We shall be together for always – in the hearts

of the people.

MOTHER: I only know a mother‘s loss, my child. There is a big and gasping

emptiness in my heart, which I shall carry to my grave. Goodbye my son, may God be

with you. (Her steps are reluctant and faltering. It is a very old woman that goes out of the cell. RIZAL

stands unmoving where the MOTHER has left him as the light slowly dims.)

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7. Which of the following is in charge of giving instructions to actors and other staff about how the play will run? A. Props men B. lights men C. director D. supporting actor

8-10 Which of the following are creative skills needed in a play presentation?

A. Sequence B. Direction C. Gestures D. Facial expression E. Masks and other props F. Lighting dynamics

Processing points:

Congratulations! You have made it to the last phase.

TRANSFER Your Understanding

Activity 37: DRAMA REVIEW

Activity: GRASPS your Performance

You will need the guidance of your teacher in performing this activity. This is because you will need to work with a technical and human resources for your performance.

You can be (1) required to practice with a group or (2) choose a character you will assume, master/memorize his/her lines or (3) part of a technical/production staff and just be present during the actual performance.

Welcome to the Transfer Phase!

This part of the module will allow you to make independent applications of the various processes (scene extension, script modification, simulation activities) you have learned. This will enable you to do independent performance or project using varied and complex assessment procedures and most importantly, see the connections between tasks in this module and the real world.

Are you ready to transfer your understanding?

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G - Your GOAL is to apply the principles, conventions, elements and features of a

drama presentation in your performance. R - Your ROLE is a character or a production/technical staff.

A - Your AUDIENCE will be your other activities. S - The SITUATION is that the classroom is transformed into a theater house and

you are to present a stage play.

P - The PERFORMANCE required of you to do is a drama presentation from an

excerpt. S - The STANDARD for grading include:

Focus/ theme Accuracy Audience

Contact Sequence Development

of action

Style Language Delivery Voice Pacing

Activity: Critic Circle

Prepare an assessment of the drama performance of the other group you have watched.

Single out the best part of the presentation and the parts which need to be

improved. ---------------- Resources: Books, Internet, Multimedia materials, Computer, DVD, CD, Graphic Organizer, pictures, drawings, art materials, film clips, e-journals, Philippine Drama books

Acknowledgement:

1. Dr. Nilda Sunga for the indicators used to evaluate an essential question which appeared in activity 5 of explore phase.

2. Mr. Larry T. Diaz for providing the graphics/visuals in this module. 3. Mr. Mark Troy Reyes for technical assistance.

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