Preliminary Period

UNIT 9: BY VIRTUE OF BEAUTY: TOWARD A DEFINITION

Enduring Understanding

Essential Questions

Physical beauty may age with the

passing of time, but inner beauty
endures.

Week

Content
Standards
Demonstrate
understanding of
the appreciation
for ode as an
artistic creation

Demonstrate an
understanding of
the African tribal
traditions
pertaining to

Course Code
(Lit 101)

How does our concept of the beautiful change as we advance in age and
maturity?
In this age of cosmetic surgery/enhancements, in what way can permanent
beauty be achieved (if there is such)?
Why is physical beauty a necessary/not a necessary requirement to succeed
in life?

Essential Learning
Declarative
Functional
Knowledge
Knowledge
Exploring the
timelessness of
art as reflected
in
Ode on a
Grecian Urn
by
John Keats
Defining the
subjectivity of
love and beauty
as reflected
inNew Life at

Appreciating art
through their
various
objectifications

Identifying the
African context
of beauty,
especially of
women

Intended
Learning
Outcomes (ILO)
Explain the
characteristics as
well as the
importance of art
by making an
analyzing of the
poem using basic
literary standards
Determine the
various African
tribal traditions
regarding marriage
and compare them

Suggested
Teaching/Learnin
g Activities (TLA)

Assessment
Tasks (AT)

Short research of
the different
characters/ scenes
in literature which
are etched and
glorified in the urn

Poetry writing
(ode)

Group presentation
of different styles of
wedding proposals
in Africa and other
countries

Dramatization
(African tribal
wedding)

Illustration of the
urn

marriage

Kyerefaso
by
Efua Sutherland

with the existing

Filipino practices
through group
presentations

Demonstrate an
The
understanding of commercializatio
the significance
n of art and
and
beauty as seen
representations
in
of material things At the Auction
in the story in
of Ruby Slippers
connection with
by
the theme of
Salman Rushdie
possession
obsession

Explaining how
an auction is
done and
interpreting the
meaning of
auction and the
symbolism
behind the
things which are
usually auctioned

Demonstrate an
understanding
and appreciation
of oral history or
personal
account as a

Analyzing and
making sense
out of an oral
history or a
biographical
account of

A womans
attitude towards
the great
American Dream
as shown in
Miss USA:

Clarify how beauty

may be
commodified and
how people put a
tag price to almost
everything by
collecting
anecdotes about
the lavish lifestyle
of rich celebrities

Situation analysis

Discover the
authors perception
of the American
Dream and the
misconceptions
about beauty

Research on the
various peoples/
personalities who
have searched for
the American
Dream and how

Characterization of
the important
personas in the
story, and their
allusion to the
present time

Re-enactment of
an auction (of
objects no longer
used)

Recognizing the
materialistic
tendencies of
people as shown
in their desire to
possess or own
Dramatization (Q
& A portion in a
pageant)
A narrative/An
account of an

literary genre

Demonstrate
understanding of
narcissism as a
natural tendency
of an artist
Demonstrate
understanding of
the artists
obsession to
perfect his craft

Emma Knight
by Studs Terkel

famous celebrity
or interesting
personality

pageants by
explaining the
striking statements
found in the essay

they have lost or

found it

individuals dream
to be a beauty
titlist

The path to an
artists creativity
in
The Tattooer
by
Junichiro Tanizaki

Recognizing the
artists obsession
to perfect his art
leading to the
birth of his
masterpiece

Discuss how
passion becomes
central to the work
of art by citing a
creative artist
whose fame is
attributed to a
muse-- man or a
woman, whose
impact to the artist
catapulted him to
immense
popularity.

An interview with
an artist/ tattooer
and discover his
motivations and
passions that lead
him to create a
particular artwork

Painting

Establishing how
emotion
becomes a
catalyst to the
creation of
phenomenal art
Setting the
fiction to the Edo
period of
Japanese history
and
understanding
the connection of
the milieu to

A report on the sitz

im leiben (historical
background) in
Japanese history
reflecting the time
setting of the text

Research on the
development of
tattooing in the
Philippines

the story