Final Period

UNIT 12: OF HYPHENATED IDENTITIES: WAVES OF MIGRATION AND DIASPORA Course Code
(LIT 101)
Enduring Understanding
Essential Questions
How do separation and migration affect how people interact with society?
Separation and migration affect how people
How do migrants face the challenges of migration?
interact with society.
How does travelling measure mans capabilities?
Week

Content
Standards

Demonstrate
understanding of
mishaps, setbacks
and losses that
may accompany
ones journey
Demonstrate
understanding of
the epic and its
qualities
Demonstrate
understanding of
allegory in the
poem

Essential Learning
Declarative
Functional
Knowledge
Knowledge

The maturation
of the hero in his
journey in
Odyssey
(An Excerpt)
by
Homer

Identifying
personal qualities
that one must
possess to
overcome
obstacles in a
journey
Recognizing the
epic and its
conventions

The importance
of journey in
Ithaca
by
Constatine

Intended Learning
Outcomes
(ILO)

Suggested
Teaching/
Learning
Activities (TLAs)

Assessment
Tasks (ATs)

Describe the
characteristics of
Odysseus and the
other characters of
the epic. Compare
and contrast
characters based on
their dialogues,
actions, and
behaviour using a
chart.

Contrastive matrix

Scrapbook of
characters

Buzz session

Essay

Drafting the emagazine article

Reflection paper

Argue on the idea

Realizing the
that either the
importance of
destination or the
persistence while
journey is more
in a journey and
important by writing a
possessing the will persuasive article for

Uploading the final

e-magazine article in
a free hosting
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Demonstrate
understanding of
the role of figures
of speech in the
correct
interpretation of
the poem

Demonstrate
understanding of
how
experiences shape
the character of a
migrant to survive
the challenges of
separation or
migration

to reach the
destination

publication in an
e-magazine

site/class blog

Express the
challenges in
migration in a small
group discussion.
Synthesize the
findings.

Storyboarding

Reflection paper

Creation of mock
video-documentary

Letter to the
Migrants

Trace the

Conversing/chatting

Synthesis

Setting the poem

in the right
mythological
context for a more
correct or
accurate
interpretation

Challenges of
migration as
mirrored in
The World of
Our
Grandmothers
by
Connie Young

Empathizing with
the migrants
emotional
dislocation and
making sense of
the migrants
experience for
personal
maturation
Recognizing the
need to link the
migrants past
with their present
for better
acclimation

Demonstrate

The emergence

Affirming the

understanding of
the change in the
individual brought
about by
separation or
migration

of a new hybrid,
a new creation, a
new self
in Border Lover
by
Merlinda Bobis

Demonstrate
understanding of
the migrants
loyalty to their
country of origin

Identity crisis in
A Question
of Loyalty
by
Mitsuye Yamada

changes or
adjustments
necessary among
the migrants as a
consequence of
crossing border

transformation of the
migrants thoughts
and speech through
an analysis of a livechat conversation or
transcript analysis of
a chat print-outs

with
migrant
relatives
using Report
Yahoo Messenger or
Skype (No Video
option)

Accepting the
need to adjust or
compromise
when crossing
border

Develop the loyalty to

ones country and
recognize the reasons
for remaining in the
Philippines. Through a
mock survey, find the
results.

Developing a survey
questionnaire

Recognizing the
need for a healing
process among
migrants so as
cushion the
impact of
migration or
crossing border

Printing the
conversation

Data gathering

Data analysis
Data
presentation
Reporting