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Info Sheet g10 Qrtr 3 Lesson 4 Moralist

The document provides a guide for teachers on the moralist approach to literature, emphasizing the evaluation of literary works based on their moral and ethical teachings. It outlines the objectives for students, characteristics of the moralist approach, and includes an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 127. Additionally, it proposes performance tasks that encourage students to apply different literary criticism approaches to Robert Frost's poem 'The Road Not Taken.'

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Info Sheet g10 Qrtr 3 Lesson 4 Moralist

The document provides a guide for teachers on the moralist approach to literature, emphasizing the evaluation of literary works based on their moral and ethical teachings. It outlines the objectives for students, characteristics of the moralist approach, and includes an analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 127. Additionally, it proposes performance tasks that encourage students to apply different literary criticism approaches to Robert Frost's poem 'The Road Not Taken.'

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DIVISION OF GEN.

TRIAS CITY
ENGLISH 10 CURRICULUM & CONTENT: A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS

INFO SHEET #4: MORALIST APPROACH

Competency

MELC: EN10WC-IIIg-14- Compose an independent critique of a chosen selection.

Objectives

After the learners have finished answering this activity sheet, they will be able to:
1. explain moralist approach in literature;
2. determine the characteristics of moralist approach in literature; and
3. evaluate a piece of literature using moralist approach.

Key Information

MORALIST APPROACH
It is a type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature based on its morals or ethical teachings. It is
judging literary works by their ethical teachings and by their effects on readers. This lens focuses on moral rules, rights,
principles, and duties. In simpler terms, it determines the worth of literature by seeing if it encourages good out of the
reader.
This approach focuses individuals, couples, families, and professionals on a moralistic definition of relationship,
life and family processes that presume a moral ascendancy of one value system over others. In the moralist approach
to analyzing literature, you can look into the humanistic values of the text—equality, tolerance, social justice, and
cultural sensitivity—and evaluate its impact on society.

CHARACTERISTICS OF MORALIST APPROACH:


 Its concern is not only to discover meaning but also to determine whether works of literature are both true and
significant.
 It is used to determine whether a work conveys a lesson or a message and whether it can help readers lead
better lives and improve their understanding of the world.
 Using this approach, literature that is ethically sound and virtuous is praised while literature that misguides and
corrupts is condemned.

LET US STUDY AGAIN SONNET 127:

Sonnet 127 Remember:


William Shakespeare
“True Beauty must come in an honest
In the old age black was not counted fair, package.”(refer to lines 5-8 of Sonnet 127)
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; The standard “beauty” has lost its naturalness,
But now is black beauty's successive heir, probably because of the use of wigs, and hair dye,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame: rouges, lipsticks, and mascara
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face, “Fake cannot reflect beauty.” (refer to lines 8-11 of
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower, Sonnet 127)
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace. Her beauty represents honesty. Her beauty
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black, demolishes that notion that the fake blonde is more
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem beautiful than the natural brunette.
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
The speaker also believes that nature is slandered
Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:
when attempts are made to crush naturalness into a
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
false concept of beauty. He disdains such actions
That every tongue says beauty should look so.
and will condemn them at every opportunity.

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DIVISION OF GEN. TRIAS CITY
ENGLISH 10 CURRICULUM & CONTENT: A GUIDE FOR TEACHERS

Proposed Performance Tasks:

Let Me Explain!
Directions: Please refer to “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost for you to answer this part. You have
learned about the approaches in literary criticism such as STRUCTURALIST, FORMALIST and MORALIST
approach. Explain “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost using the three (3) approaches based on your
understanding of the lesson by completing the diagram below.

The Road Not Taken

by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And both that morning equally lay

And sorry I could not travel both In leaves no step had trodden black.

And be one traveler, long I stood Oh, I kept the first for another day!

And looked down one as far as I could Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

To where it bent in the undergrowth; I doubted if I should ever come back.

Then took the other, as just as fair, I shall be telling this with a sigh

And having perhaps the better claim, Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

Though as for that the passing there I took the one less traveled by,

Had worn them really about the same, And that has made all the difference.

STRUCTURALIST APPROACH

FORMALIST APPROACH

The Road Not


Taken
MORALIST APPROACH

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