GRADE 7 ENGLISH

2. - English was first taught
merely as a subject
because the Spanish
system of Education
existing in the Philippines
was allowed to continue

3. 1900
- English became the
official medium of
instruction in Philippine
schools
- Army men and their wives
(1st teachers)

4. 1901
- Philippine Normal School was
founded to train the Filipino
teachers to take charge of
elementary education
- Thomas (army transport) brought
600 American teachers to the
country. They introduced English
and American Literature to the
Filipinos

5. - These teachers introduced English and American
literature to the Filipinos
- Irving Holmes Wordsworth
- Bryant Whitman Shelley
- Poe Lowell Keats
- Hawthorne Chaucer Byron
- Emerson Shakespeare Coleridge
- Thoreau Milton Lamb
- Longfellow Pope
- Models of our early writers in English

6. 1910-1935
PERIOD OF
APPRENTICESHIP
OR IMITATION

7. - The Filipino writers imitated
American and English writers
- Early writers were college
students or young graduates
whose literary education had
been largely confined to
American and English authors

8. - The University of the
Philippines (UP) was
founded in 1908
- It became the center
of literary effort

9. 1910
- The first issue of the UP
Folio came off the press
- This publication was
recognized as embodiment
of the early attempts at self-
expression in English

10. - Philippine Collegian replaced UP
Folio
PUBLICATIONS THAT INTRODUCED
PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN
ENGLISH TO THE PUBLIC
- Philippine Review
- Independent
- Rising Philippines
- Citizens

11. 1920
- The Philippine Herald (the 1st
Filipino Daily in English) was
founded
- It gave financial reward to
writers in English, especially
in the short story

12. 1921
- The American Folkrole
society published Filipino
Popular Tales, edited by
Dean Fansler
- The collection included the
work of fansler’s students

13. 1925
- Marked the inauguration
of the period of
apprenticeship
- A.V.H Jartendorp became
the editor-publisher of the
Philippine Education
Magazine

14. - The Philippine Education
Magazine became the Philippine
Magazine (the most influential
literary magazine of its time)
- The Manila Tribune was
established (it began publishing
a Sunday supplement featuring
original short stories and poems
written in English

15. - Other journals followed
and there was a market
for Filipino literary
output in English (but
still limited)

16. 1927
- The UP writers club was
founded and began
publishing the Literary
Apprentice (became the
most prestigious college
literary publication in the
country)

17. 1927 CONTINUED
- The Bureau of
Education published
Philippine Prose and
Poetry (prescribed as a
high school textbook)

18. SHORT STORY
- The Philippine Free Press
(1st literary contest in the
field of short story)
- Short story became the
favorite form among
Filipino writers

19. 1927 CONTINUED
- The Free press published the 1st
anthology of Philippine short
stories written in English
- Romantic Tales of the past with
legendary figures
- Imitations of plots and themes
from American and other
foreign sources

20. - Dead Stars by Paz
Marquez-Benitez
- Published in the
Philippines Herald on
September 20, 1925

21. POEM
- Sentimental love lyrics
- Sursum Surda (1st known
Philippine poem in
English
- Appeared in the Philippine
Free Press in 1907

22. ESSAYS
- Thinking of Ourselves, 1924 (compiled
and edited by Vicente M. Hilario and
Eliseo M. Quirino
- 1st notable collection of Philippine
Essays in English
- Dealt with Philippine traditions and
history, religion, philosophy, ethics,
literature and the arts, politics and
government

23. PLAY
- Highly emotional not intellectual
experiences
- Melodramas or broad comedies
- American influence on the Filipino
drama was less discernable
- Contact with American plays was
extensive and foreign plays were
often staged in Manila

24. - however, drama
had difficulty in
presenting Filipino
experiences

25. NOVELS
- Sentimental
- Cultural basis for literature was
too weak to support the making
of a novel
- Zolio M. Galang’s “Child of
Sorrow,” the 1st Filipino novel in
English published in 1924