Assignment: English 17 (7:30-9:00)

Scan and identify the rhyming schemes of the following excerpts. You will present your work on Tuesday, January 24, 2011. In your report, you need to give a backgrounder on the poet and the poem. The group must also need to present a visual aid of the scanned excerpt. Please make sure that your visual aid’s text is large enough to be read by everyone in the classroom.

Notes on Scansion

rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.

meter: the number of feet in a line.
scansion: Describing the rhythms of poetry by dividing the lines into feet, marking the locations of stressed and unstressed syllables, and counting the syllables.

Notes on the Literary Forms of the Pre-colonial Period

Pre-colonial inhabitants of the Philippines have a rich oral tradition of literature, which is composed of folk speeches, folk songs, folk narratives, and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances.

Notes on Pre-Colonial Philippines

Early Philippine History

• Little is known about Philippine history before the Spaniards arrived.
• Written records made by the inhabitants of the Philippine islands were made of perishable bamboo or leaves.
• For a long time, Philippine history started with the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in 1521.

Notes on the Philippines

Geographic Facts

The Philippines is a country located in Southeast Asia. It is an archipelago that has about 1,700 islands.The Philippines has three major groups of islands: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.