SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET IN CREATIVE NONFICTION

Worksheet No. 6 Quarter 4

Name of Learner: ______________________________ Grade Level/Section: ______________ Date: _________

ANALYZING AND PRESENTING A CREATIVE NONFICTION

I. LEARNING SKILLS
Competencies: Write an artistic presentation summarizing, analyzing, and commenting on a chosen creative
nonfictional text representing a particular type or form.
Specific Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you are able to:
1. read closely a creative nonfiction work and come up with a summary, analysis, and comments; and
2. create an artistic presentation of the summary and analysis of a creative nonfiction work.

II. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPT

With the previous presentations, you must have at least a clearer view now of what creative nonfiction
is, what characterizes this genre, and in what forms it can be written. In this lesson, you will focus on a
creative nonfiction work of your choice and look deeper into its form and content – it’s time for some critical
thinking! But it does not end there. You will also get to prepare a presentation about the work you have
read which you can share with the rest of your classmates.

Analysis and Presentation of a Creative Nonfiction Work

Summary – a synthesis of the key ideas of a piece of writing, restated in
your own words – i.e. You may write a summary as a stand- alone
assignment or as part of a longer paper. Whenever you summarize, you
must be careful not to copy the exact wording of the original source.

Artistic Presentation
of a Creative Nonfiction Work
Textual Analysis - a methodology that involves understanding language,
symbols, and/or pictures present in texts to gain information regarding how
–the literary appearance or people make sense of and communicate life and life experiences. Visual,
performance and staging of a written, or spoken messages provide cues to ways through which
creative nonfiction work communication may be understood.

Commenting a remark, criticism, or observation, talk or gossip. It is a note,

explaining or criticizing a passage in a text. It is an explanatory or critical
matter added to a text.

Your main goal is to make a creative presentation of your selected work of a specific creative
nonfiction form. You may choose from among the various creative nonfiction works available online, in
magazines, or in books. Here are some pointers to get you started.

1. Read the work thoroughly. You may do a second or third reading of the piece if you think you are
still missing some aspects of the text worth focusing on.
2. First, focus on content. What is the work about? Then move on to “What is the writer telling you?”
3. When you are done reading for content, you can start analyzing the writer’s technique. What
creative nonfiction form was used by the writer? Why do you think the writer chose this form over
other forms? Would it have made a difference if it was a reflective essay, or a travelogue, or a
biography?
4. From technique, move on to the writer’s style. What creative storytelling techniques were used by
the writer? How did he or she hook up the reader in the beginning part of the piece? Was it sufficiently
sustained? How did the writer cap the work? Was it an effective conclusion?
5. Finally, talk about the work’s overall impression. How did the work make you feel? What do you
think was the writer’s purpose in writing the piece? Do you think the work was able to fulfil that
purpose?

III. ACTIVITIES

Practice Task 1: Identify whether the statement is TRUE or FALSE.

1. Creative nonfiction cannot be presented artistically since it is based on reality.
2. A summary is a synthesis using the exact wordings of the original source.
3. Textual analysis deals with understanding language, symbols, images, etc. present in a text.
4. Remarks, criticisms, or observations are forms of comments.
5. A thorough reading of the work to be analyzed is the first step in understanding a creative nonfiction text.
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 6. Analysis need not involve going through the writer’s techniques and style.
7. Recommendations are not necessary in doing an analysis.

Practice Task 2: Read the selection and answer the questions that follow.
Urban Gardening
My mother, Tranquilin, persuaded me to plant vegetables- pechay, kangkong, tomato, bell pepper, even
cabbage- on our rooftop for there was no available place in our 40 square lot where our two-story house is
erected. I was so stubborn that I did not attend to her suggestion. I think that I could still eat my favorite
vegetables even I disobeyed her. She said that it would help me ease my boredom, to not lay on my bed,
watching my favorite movies in Netflix and to stay productive while I am robbed with my freedom to go to the
mall and eat the succulent Bunch of Lunch at my favorite pizza house in this time of pandemic.
I did not want that my loving mother be disappointed with me so I listened to her suggestion. I have with
me my garden soil, pots of different sizes, assorted seeds and seedlings. I begin to plant vegetables while I
hum my favorite song, “Stand up for love”.
I hope people would pause and think about the consequences of this CoVID scare. Is the pandemic
telling us to stop from our usual hectic schedules and care for more important things rather than spending hour
in front of the computers and rubbing elbows with faceless crowd just to be rich and famous? The pace of life
has become so wild and complicated that people have not noticed that there are other things to which money
or fame does not matter.
I pity for these people who do not notice the sprouting of a flower of a kankong or a squash. I pity them
that they will forget to appreciate the richness of the soil. I pity them that they will brush aside the joy of
strolling along the boulevard, seeing the wonders and grandeur of Mount Mayon, Mount Iriga or Mount
Bulusan. I pity them that they will forget the love of their parents, the concerns of their siblings and the value
of camaraderie.
I pray that this will not happen. I dream of someday being in a position to entice people to take a break
and relax for a hard day’s work in schools, in the market or at the office, without worrying if they’re going to get
high grades or fail in their subjects, to rake profits or not, or to be promoted or laid-off not. I would like to reach
as many people so that they have something worthwhile to work on or to stop and reflect. This may not be
easy, but I started working on it since the time my mother told me to plant trees.
It is not too late. I will be just like them. I will not fear because I plant the seeds of concern and love for
the environment. I know that I can breathe because I care.

1. What creative nonfiction form is the above passage?

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2. What is the writer trying to convey to his readers?
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3. How did the writer convey his message? What approach did he use to do this?
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4. Identify some nonfictional elements used by the writer in the text? Give examples from the passage to
support your answer.
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5. If you will write about the same message but from a different perspective or angle, how will you write
it?
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Practice Task 3: Thoroughly read the following selection. Complete the table by supplying necessary responses.
Use the pointers/guide provided in the discussion in accomplishing this task.

CoVID-19 and Me
I have been to me for six months now. Though it was not my choice, I literally have stuck myself at home
and reflect. Lockdown, social distancing, hygiene, face mask and shield have been the words of the day. The
scenario was not known to me until I found out that it was and is for real. I was excited to going back to my senior
high school friends on June 2020 but it went ppffffft. August 24 was again an anticipated day to be the start of
classes but President Rodrigo Duterte stated otherwise. The opening of classes was again rescheduled on
October 5.
Concepcion Pequeña National High School will not be my home beginning October 5. There is no going
back to school for now. The place looks like a ghost town until vaccine for CoVID-19 is known or available.
Classes will be modular. I cannot see my classmate face-to-face. I will be confronted by lessons with no
teacher who will explain to me the directions, processes and intricacies of learning. Though my parents may
facilitate my learning but there is no substitute for my dear teachers who fortify my knowledge, skills and character 2
and who understand my inadequacies of not knowing the minute details of my learning.
 This pandemic, the CoVID-19, has brought the new normal of teaching, of learning but I am afraid that a
student like me will maximize education although the absence of physical interaction between students and
teachers minimizes the opportunity of honing one’s talent and intelligence, of building character, of integral
development.
Though I am techie, I am still for a face-to-face encounter with truths, beliefs, philosophy and logic with my
teachers and fellow students. With them, I become learned. With them, I actualize myself as a student and as a
human being who is capable of becoming a better individual in a community of learners.
Now it’s time to summarize, analyze, and leave some comments.

Title
Summary

Technique

Writing Style

Overall Impression

IV. ASSESSMENT

Directions: Follow the instructions below.

1. Choose from one of these creative nonfiction forms.

 Autobiography/Biography
 Literary Journalism/Reportage
 Personal Narrative
 Travelogue
 Reflection Essay
 True Narrative
 Vlog/Blog
 Testimonio

2. Select a text that falls under this chosen form. You may look from online sources, newspapers,
magazines, books, and the like. Cite your source(s) in your output.

3. Read closely and come up with a summary, conduct an analysis, and provide comments. Use the
pointers presented in coming up with your analysis.

4. Write an outline of your presentation of the creative nonfiction of your choice following the format:
a. Title
b. Summary

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 c. Analysis
d. General Comments
e. Recommendations

5. Employ creativity in presenting your output so that both content and appearance would be aesthetically
pleasing. For this, you may present through a booklet, brochure, portfolio, audio-visual presentation,
video, and the like.

6. You will be rated using this rubric:

Appropriateness of Selected Text to the Chosen Creative Nonfiction Form (5 pts)

Completeness of Required Parts of Creative Nonfiction Analysis (5 pts)
Comprehensive Content (Summary, Analysis, Comments) (20 pts)
Creativity in Presentation (7 pts)
Promptness of Submission (3 pts)
30 pts

Reference: De Guzman, Joyce T., Creative Nonfiction Quarter 2 – Module 2: Analyze and Present a Creative Nonfiction. DepEd, ROV.

Prepared by: RHEA J. DOLLESIN, Teacher III, Sorsogon NHS

Quality Assured by: ANNE E. MANCIA, Assistant Principal II for Academics, Sorsogon NHS
CLEOFE D. ARIOLA, EPS, Sorsogon City