http://lunaticadesnuda.blogspot.com

here's a cool website i found recently. it captures every man's imagination of wild art.
lunaticadesnuda.blogspot.com

summer 2011

How's my summer? You say!

First stop: BOHOL
Been to Bohol and Cebu with my family.
Enjoyed the five-day tour around and an extension: fully booked-so lovin' it.




It's my second time to be in Bohol, and everything still amazes me.
But this time, it seems like everywhere you go has an entrance fee. Even if you use the bridge to get to the other side of the place  is worth  ten bucks..for that! Though for only a minimal amount in stuff, it's still something...




I had my first python-wrapped around my neck (not as comfy as burberry nor hermes') but it was quite a scare..(it shows)(dramatically)


 - and this is with the cool-youtube-sensation-mother-of-the-longest-python, Marimar (doesn't she look like ...not a python, but Marimar. lol.. Well, she/he/it jumped and danced and swung around this nipa hut...and it was cool watching it.





I had to have this photo taken here since this is one of those things that amazes me...
it's a real cave painting according to the Boholanons (as what they are called)
...what's interesting- we can't see these paintings through our naked eye,.
it only appeared clearly behind us after this was taken




next destination: CEBU

 Cebu City-the second time around. At least, at this time I finally stayed overnight. Had to go to Cebu Normal University and inquire for some possibilities of having doctoral studies.Everything is delayed.

This photo was taken at Cebu's Taoist Temple.
Photos were also taken taken at Magellan's Cross and Lapu-Lapu's shrine,but can't seem to find it now. (hehehe) just check my Facebook account for more of these.

Photos below were taken inside Fort San Pedro. Well, Php30 as entrance fee for just a few artifacts and a garden of Koreans...hmmpp..They need to develop it...more!

 And don't mind these cans...they are not all mine...i think.:-)
Photo on the right most is the Birhen sa Regla, Opon, Cebu

Next bus: Lanao del Norte

With my bff's- we set the mood of laughter at Kolambogan, Lanao del Norte

Ms Gigi arrived from Camarillo, PA to spend three weeks in her hometown. After 2 years, she came home bringing my perfumes (nothing makes me the happiest with these gifts). All we had was shrimp, crabs and loads of laughter. I miss bonding with my girl friends. One more thing, she had the coolest-country house in the place.




back pack at: TALISAYAN
My dad's hometown..

 

This is my first time to attend the reunion of my dad's clan.
This is Talisayan...and the white beach should be part of the program..well, for ourselves.lol.

and here's Niña's first lechon rib:-)

...more of these photos in my Facebook account.

Landslide

I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
Till the landslide brought me down

Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Mmm, mmm, mmm

Well, I've been afraid of changing
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older and I'm getting older too

Awh, take my love, take it down
Awh, climb a mountain and turn around
And if you see my reflection in the snow covered hills
Well, the landslide bring it down


Songwriters: Nicks, Stevie

Silly Love Song by P.Mcartney

click here to listen

Semi-Final Exams- LIT 006

LIT 006- Mythology and Folklore

1.      What do you think is Odysseus' worst action of his wanderings and why? Limit your essay to less than 200 words. 20 points

2.      Why is Odysseus looked to as a powerful representation of the mythic hero? Identify instances or situations that made him represented this way. Limit your essay to than less 200 words. 20 points

3.      Using a diagram or map , compare and contrast the character of Achilles from Hector. 20 points

4.      Is the central conflict of the Iliad an internal or external one—that is, does the epic concern itself more with a conflict inside a person or more with a conflict outside of a person? What is your idea on this? Limit your essay to less than 300 words. 20 points

Rubric on Essay Writing for Blog

Organization  -5

Content          -8

Diction            -5

Mechanics     -2

                        20 points

 Last day of posting of your exams on your blogs will be on  February 28, 2010.

Semi-Final Exam LIT 004

LIT 004- Teaching of Literature

1.      Everyone has met Richard Cory. Someone who suffers inner turmoil but appears outwardly calm.How did you deal with such personality? Write a descriptive essay about this idea.  (There is no need to mention the person's name.) Limit to 300 words only. 35 points

2.      Compare and contrast Miniver with Richard Cory. Miniver Cheevy is the subject of another Robinson poem. Click here to read the poem of Edwin Arlington Robinson. Limit to 200 words only. 30 points.

3.      Suppose you have already discussed the poem Miniver Cheevy in your class. Construct 4 questions that would process students understanding about the theme of the poem. 20 points.

Last day of posting of your exams on your blogs will be on  February 28, 2010.

Richard Cory By Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

Miniver Cheevy

Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson

 Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn, 
  Grew lean while he assailed the seasons; 
He wept that he was ever born, 
  And he had reasons.


 Miniver loved the days of old        
  When swords were bright and steeds were prancing; 
The vision of a warrior bold,
Would set him dancing.

Miniver sighed for what was not,   And dreamed, and rested from his labors;     He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,   And Priam’s neighbors.

Miniver mourned the ripe renown 
  That made so many a name so fragrant; 
He mourned Romance, now on the town,          
  And Art, a vagrant.

Miniver loved the Medici,   Albeit he had never seen one;  He would have sinned incessantly    Could he have been one.        

Miniver cursed the commonplace 
  And eyed a khaki suit with loathing; 
He missed the mediaeval grace 
  Of iron clothing.

Miniver scorned the gold he sought,       
  But sore annoyed was he without it;  Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,    And thought about it.

Miniver Cheevy, born too late,    Scratched his head and kept on thinking;          Miniver coughed, and called it fate,    And kept on drinking. 

Infinitives

What Is an Infinitive?

An infinitive is a word that look like a verb but doesn't act like a verb.
They are actually made up of two words: to + a verb. These two words act together as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs.
(Words that are made of verbs but don't act like verbs are called verbals. There are two other types of verbals: gerunds and participles.)
Examples:
I love to swim. The person to call is Jeff.I can't wait to see!

---

Where's the To?

Sometimes, finding infinitives can be tricky because the word to is omitted. That's not very nice is it?
This usually happens when it follows certain verbs like feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch.
Here are some examples of infinitives that are missing the word to.
I'll underline the special verbs so that you can see where they are.
They watched the ship sail. I heard the doorbell ring. When Margo slammed the door, she made the painting fall. 

 more discussions and exercises at www.english-grammar-revolution.com

 

Participles & Participial Phrases

Participles & Participial Phrases

Participles are words that look like verbs and act like adjectives.
You could say that they have identity issues.
Words that are made of verbs but don't act like verbs are called verbals. There are two other kinds of verbals: gerunds and infinitives.


A participle is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. The term verbal indicates that a participle, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being. However, since they function as adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns. There are two types of participles: present participles and past participles. Present participles end in -ing. Past participles end in -ed, -en, -d, -t, or -n, as in the words asked, eaten, saved, dealt, and seen.

• The crying baby had a wet diaper.
• Shaken, he walked away from the wrecked car.
• The burning log fell off the fire.
• Smiling, she hugged the panting dog.

A participial phrase is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle, such as:

Removing his coat, Jack rushed to the river.

 

more discussions and exercises at  www.owl.english.purdue.edu

Gerunds

Gerunds (-ing)

When a verb ends in -ing, it may be a gerund or a present participle. It is important to understand that they are not the same.
When we use a verb in -ing form more like a noun, it is usually a gerund:

• Fishing is fun.

When we use a verb in -ing form more like a verb or an adjective, it is usually a present participle:

• Anthony is fishing.
• I have a boring teacher.

 Gerunds are sometimes called "verbal nouns".
 more discussions and exercises at www.grammar-quizzes.com

Literary Theory and Teaching English

This examines the historical relationships between literary theory, literature curriculum, and classroom practice. Clearly, theory has played a role in the development of our thinking about curriculum and teaching. At the same time theories have come into prominence in certain periods as part of or a response to particular historical moments and movements. The contexts listed continue...

Current Approaches and Practices 

Cultural Studies 

Integrates a variety of approaches with an emphasis on addressing social inequality. Origins in British social theory (Birmingham School), European socialism (Frankfurt School), American popular culture, and multicultural, postcolonial, and feminist movements. continue... 

Deconstruction

Derrida, the founder of deconstruction, challenges universal ideals, metaphysical certainties, or claims to unchanging truths about the human condition. "Truths" when examined closely, when "deconstructed," turn out to be fictions created by language and particular systems of meaning situated in time and place.continue ...

New Historicism

New Historicism incorporates the insights from multicultural studies, gender studies, political criticism, media studies, popular culture, cultural studies, etc. as it looks literature of the past. New Historicists distrust expressions like "in the eyes of the later middle ages" and tend to see historical periods not as consistent or coherent, but as made up of different social groups in contest with one another. Literature should not be thought of as transcending the time continue ...

Post-marxism

Breaking with certain more rigid marxist ideas such as the necessary determination of a social system by its economic structure, the inevitability of revolution, or the justice of a one-party state, many postmarxist scholars continue to draw insight and inspiration from socialist continue...

Postmodernism

Postmodernism foregrounds the concept of difference, the jarring, collage-like existence of contemporary life The world is seen as a cartoonesque Disneyland, an unremitting play of striking cultural difference, the overflow of an uneven and diverse globalism where African slum dwellers watch the Cosby show, continue ...

Poststructuralism

Consciousness resides in language and is socially made, not uniquely individual or divinely given. English courses can address the discourses from which identity (subjectivity, subject positions) arise. No escape from the "stereotype" only richer and richer explorations of roles and possibilities. Poststructuralism can take different forms, such as postmodernism, deconstruction, post-marxism. 

Read more about these theories of teaching literature at the the Western michigan website or at  teachingliterature.org.

LIT 006 Exams

You are to choose two topics and compose essays based from it. Your essays should consist of 300-400 words per topic. Construct your own title and post them on your respective blogs before December 25, 2010. You will be graded using this criteria; CONTENT-15  ORGANIZATION-10  DICTION &MECHANICS-10.   Topics 1.What do myths  tell us about love? 2. Male dominancy in Greek literature. 3. The Role of Women in Greek Mythology 4. The Influence of Mythology on Literature and Society 5. The Relationship between Gods and Mortals in Mythology

LIT 006

Pygmalion & Galatea

Mythology 

Choose one of the Eight Brief Tales of Lovers in Chapter 6. Read the story and choose one scene or event from the story that you like most. Create a one-page script based from the chosen scene/ event.(500-600 words) Post your script on your blog on or before Dec. 10, 2010.

LIT 004

LIT 004- Teaching of Literature

Share your own view of Vygotsky’s Principle of Social Constructivism. Choose only 2 of the 4 principles. Post it on your blog on or before Dec. 10, 2010.

1. Learning and development is a social, collaborative activity.
2. The Zone of Proximal Development can serve as a guide for curricular and lesson planning.
3. School learning should occur in a meaningful context and not be separated from learning and knowledge children develop in the "real world.".
4. Out-of-school experiences should be related to the child's school experience.

ENG 40

LIT 004

LIT 004- Teaching of Literature

First blog entry 

Write an essay about the topic, “My Philosophy As An Educator?

Click below for some guidelines to write an effective philosophy essay

Guidlines 1 

Guidelines 2

You will be scored using the following ;

ORGANIZATION-10

CONTENT-15

DICTION-10

MECHANICS-5

Post your essays on your blog on or before Dec. 07, 2010.

LIT 006

Mythology

Choose one version on the stories of How the World and Mankind Were Created. Identify two specific scenes from the version and be able to identify and explain the symbolism while relating it to real life situation.

Post your activity on your blog on or before Dec. 5, 2010.

LIT 004- Teaching of Literature

Topics for Shared-discussion

 Different Theories of Teaching Literature

A. Transmission Theories

Bacal

Namocot

Besas

Ortiz

Pacleb

Tago

B. Student Centered

Panal

Tagapulot

Gonzalez

Bacor

Brua

Aquino

C. Socio-Cultural Learning Theory

Letchejan

Lagahit

Enriquez

Del Rosario

Salcedo

D. Modelling and Scaffolding Practices

Mancawan

Bayon

Pasco

Dacutanan

Lopez

E. Engaging Students based on Collective Experiences

Gil

Rabago

Serina

Ng

Josol

Magno

You may search at the library on Teaching Literature books or browse online for your topics. Here’s also a helpful link for you, teachingliterature.org. By group, prepare a one-page cheat-sheet (hand-out) on your topic which you will then distribute to each of your classmates on Wednesday. November 24, 2010.

Story Ladder

Assignment for LIT 004