Grade 12 Contemporary Literature 2

Content standard

The learner understands literature as a conversation across time, culture, and form, where texts are adapted and reinterpreted to reflect changing values, audiences, and mediums.

Performance standard

The learner demonstrates understanding and appreciation of literature by analyzing and producing responses to adaptations, remixes, and reinterpretations of texts, including film or TV series, that reflect dynamic cultural and textual conversations.

Learning competencies (10)

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-01

  Discuss the concept of literature as a conversation across texts, contexts, and time periods.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-02

  Explore adaptations of canonical or historical literary texts into contemporary forms, including film or TV series.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-03

  Identify how global and local media adaptations reflect evolving values or social norms.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-04

  Demonstrate understanding of how composers use forms and features (e.g., film/TV language) to transform, repurpose and recontextualize original texts for new audiences.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-05

  Compare and contrast original literary texts with their adapted versions (e.g., Shakespearean play and film, novella and TV series) Identify how techniques of transformation (e.g., intertextual references, narrative shifts, motifs or symbols, updated setting, or character changes) establish connections between the original work and the adaptation.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-06

  Respond creatively and critically to adaptations (e.g., rewriting scenes, storyboard pitches, comparative written or video essays).

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-07

  Explain how adaptations can open new interpretive possibilities, challenge dominant readings, and raise ethical considerations (e.g., plagiarism or borrowing).

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-08

  Participate in collaborative analysis and interactive activities (e.g., panel discussions, genre re-imaginings) around interpretations of adapted works.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-09

  Reflecting on the impact and value of literature along one’s personal li terary journey Reflect on how the comparative study of original texts and their adapted versions enhances understanding and appreciation of both texts.

• CONLI2-G12-Q1-10

  Review one’s interaction with literary texts, identifying strengths and areas for growth to cultivate awareness of intertextuality and changing norms and values.

Content standard

The learner understands literature as a dynamic and evolving form of human expression that innovates through emerging digital platforms and experimental formats to reflect future possibilities and ongoing transformations in society and self.

Performance standard

The learner demonstrates understanding and appreciation of literature by engaging with and producing thoughtful and innovative responses to digital and experimental literary texts, showcasing creativity, interactivity, and forward-thinking interpretation.

Learning competencies (11)

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-01

  Discuss the emerging purposes and value of digital literature (e.g., hypertext fiction, interactive storytelling, social media poetry).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-02

  Explore the works of contemporary literary innovators pushing genre or form boundaries, especially from the Philippines and Asia-Pacific.

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-03

  Identify how technological and social changes influence the evolution of literary forms.

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-04

  Demonstrate understanding and appreciation of how creators purposefully use textual innovations (e.g., multimodality, hybridity, user interactivity) in digital texts to engage and reach contemporary audiences.

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-05

  Engage with digital and experimental literary texts using interactive platforms (e.g., webcomics, augmented narratives, text-based games).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-06

  Identify key themes in innovative literature (e.g., AI, surveillance, virtual identity, gender, climate futures).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-07

  Explain how digital storytelling adapts traditional literary elements (e.g., plot, character, setting, time), challenges dominant narratives, and raises ethical considerations (e.g. AI-generated texts).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-08

  Respond creatively and critically to digital and experimental texts (e.g., school-based lit fest, creative essay forms, adapting the adaptation).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-09

  Participate in multimodal critiques (e.g., podcast reviews, screen recordings with commentary, digital annotation), considering alternative perspectives of literature (e.g., digital humanities, ecocriticism, queer theory).

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-10

  Reflecting on the impact and value of literature along one’s personal literary journey Reflect on how new literary forms shape one’s role as reader, viewer, and creator in a digital age.

• CONLI2-G12-Q2-11

  Review one’s interaction with digital literary texts, identifying strengths and areas for growth to cultivate new ways of thinking, imagining and expressing.