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CreativeNonfictionGrade 12SHSRepublic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shallsubsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, priorapproval of the government agency or office wherein the work is createdshall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such ...

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Creative Nonfiction Grade 12

Republic Act 8293, section 176 states that: No copyright shall subsist in any work of the Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. Such agency or office may, among other things, impose as a condition the payment of royalties. Borrowed materials (i.e., songs, stories, poems, pictures, photos, brand names, trademarks, etc.) included in this book are owned by their respective copyright holders. Every effort has been exerted to locate and seek permission to use these materials from their respective copyright owners. The publisher and authors do not represent nor claim ownership over them.

This module was carefully examined and revised in accordance with the standards prescribed by the DepEd Region 4A and Curriculum and Learning Management Division CALABARZON . All parts and sections of the module are assured not to have violated any rules stated in the Intellectual Property Rights

for learning standards. The Editors

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Creative Nonfiction PIVOT IV-A Learner’s Material Quarter 1, Version 1.0 First Edition, 2020 Published by: Department of Education Region IV-A CALABARZON Regional Director: Wilfredo E. Cabral Assistant Regional Director: Ruth L. Fuentes PIVOT 4A CALABARZON

Guide in Using PIVOT Learner’s Material For the Parents/Guardian This module aims to assist you, dear parents, guardians, or siblings of the learners, to understand how materials and activities are used in the new normal. It is designed to provide the information, activities, and new learning that learners need to work on. Activities presented in this module are based on the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) in Creative Nonfiction as prescribed by the Department of Education. Further, this learning resource hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and circumstances. You are expected to assist the child in the tasks and ensure the learner’s mastery of the subject matter. Be reminded that learners have to answer all the activities in their own notebook.

For the Learners The module is designed to suit your needs and interests using the IDEA instructional process. This will help you attain the prescribed grade-level knowledge, skills, attitude, and values at your own pace outside the normal classroom setting. The module is composed of different types of activities that are arranged according to graduated levels of difficulty—from simple to complex. You are expected to answer all activities on separate sheets of paper and submit the outputs to your respective teachers on the time and date agreed upon.

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PARTS OF PIVOT LEARNER’S MATERIAL

Introduction

Parts of the LM

What I need to know

Development

What is new

What I know

What is in

Description

The teacher utilizes appropriate strategies in presenting the MELC and desired learning outcomes for the day or week, purpose of the lesson, core content and relevant samples. This allows teachers to maximize learners awareness of their own knowledge as regards content and skills required for the lesson

The teacher presents activities, tasks , contents of value and interest to the learners. This shall expose the learners on what he/she knew, what he /she does not know and what she/he wanted to know and learn. Most of the activities and tasks must simply and directly revolve around the concepts to develop and master the skills or the MELC.

What is it

Engagement

What is more

What I can do

Assimilation

What else I can do

What I learned

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What I achieve

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The teacher allows the learners to be engaged in various tasks and opportunities in building their KSA’s to meaningfully connect their learnings after doing the tasks in the D. This part exposes the learner to real life situations /tasks that shall ignite his/ her interests to meet the expectation, make their performance satisfactory or produce a product or performance which lead him/ her to understand fully the skills and concepts .

The teacher brings the learners to a process where they shall demonstrate ideas, interpretation, mindset or values and create pieces of information that will form part of their knowledge in reflecting, relating or using it effectively in any situation or context. This part encourages learners in creating conceptual structures giving them the avenue to integrate new and old learnings.

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WEEK 1

Theme and Techniques

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Focusing on formal elements and writing techniques, including autobiography and blogging, among others, the subject introduces the reading and writing of creative nonfiction as a literary form. The subject develops in you the skills in reading and critical and creative thinking that will help you to be imaginative readers and writers. Understanding the theme and techniques used in a literary piece is critical to deciphering an author's message. It serves as a jigsaw puzzle that should be arranged in order to attain the coherence and logical arrangement of the text. Theme serves as the golden thread that weaves the storyline and its elements. Learning the techniques and theme in nonfiction helps you weave your own nonfiction piece. In this lesson, you are expected to analyze the theme and techniques used in a particular text. Techniques and theme will be discussed in this lesson for you to be well-equipped in analyzing a given text.

D Writing about personal experiences, real people, or events focusing on facts instead of inventive substance, nonfiction can be a wellspring of instructive and real readings. Much the same as creative writing and other composing sorts, creative nonfiction drives you to find and get subjects and points being conveyed by writers utilizing their methods and styles recorded as hard copy. Try to activate your prior knowledge about the elements and techniques of creative nonfiction. Are they just the same with the elements and techniques that you have learned in your Creative Writing class? Learning Task 1: Using the the K-W-L chart, write down on the first column (K) the things you know about “Creative Nonfiction”, while on the second column, write the things that you want to learn about the said word. Leave the last column blank as you will do this on the latter part of the lesson. Do this in your notebook. CREATIVE NONFICTION What I Know

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What I Learned

Learning Task 2: Write your understanding on the elements below. Tell if you think that the elements are still part of creative nonfiction. Do this in your notebook. Elements of Fiction

Your Definition

Is it still present in Creative Nonfiction?

Characters Setting Theme Point of View Plot

Learning Task 3: Among the stories, reading selections or films that you have read or watched, can you give the top three themes that you usually encounter? Do this in your notebook. 1. 2. 3. Nonfiction is a wide kind of compositions that incorporates all books that are not established in an anecdotal account. Creative nonfiction can be classified in history and biography; it might be instructional; it can offer publication and humor; and it can mull over philosophical requests. If a book is not delved in a made-up story, by then it is certified. The essence of originality are well-used in evident occasions, numerous true to life stories offer unequivocally obstinate editorial on those genuine occasions. In a short concept, nonfiction deals with reality. Moreover, nonfiction or literary narrative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses creative ways on utilizing literary styles and techniques with the springboard of factual and accurate narratives.

Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is likewise established in exact certainty however is not essentially written in support of its specialty. As a classification, imaginative true to life is still moderately youthful, and is just starting to be investigated with the equivalent basic examination given to fiction and verse. When you are reading or encountering stories that are based from reality or sources came from the truth, you can simply tell that it is creative nonfiction.

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◦Fact. The core of nonfiction is fact. Factual information shall be included in the piece and not a made up information. ◦Extensive research. Conducting and gathering information through research provide accurate and reliable information that you may use in writing your nonfiction write-up. ◦Reportage/reporting. Documenting the gathered information like interview and reports helps you keep records and files for future usages. ◦Personal experience and personal opinion. Since the main source of contents are based from the personal experiences and personal insights of the writer, it makes an easy way to write a piece.

◦Explanation/Exposition. Explaining the story to the reader is expected to attain the objectives of the piece. ◦Essay format. The outputs in creative nonfiction are often in essay format. Examples: Procedural Essay, Personal Essay, Literary essays, descriptive essay Creative nonfiction is the literature of fact. Yet, creative nonfiction writer utilizes many of the literary devices of fiction writing. The following is a list of the most common literary devices that writers incorporate into their nonfiction writing: ◦Storytelling/narration. The goal, challenges and obstacles, a turning point, and resolution of the story shall be delivered spontaneously to help the readers understand the flow of the story. ◦Character/Characterization. In a nonfiction story, characters are also important. The main character serves as the core or central idea of the storyline. The story revolves to the experiences of the main character with the help of the other characters. ◦Setting, atmosphere and scene. The writer creates scenes that are action -oriented; include dialogue; and contain vivid descriptions. ◦Plot and plot structure. These are the main events that make up the story. In a personal essay, there might be only one event. In a memoir, there are often several significant events. ◦Figurative language. The use of figurative languages helps the writer to provide aesthetics to the piece. It gives vibrant effect to the story. ◦Imagery. The use of different sensory images helps also to add color in writing a nonfiction piece. ◦Angle/Point of view. Most of the time nonfiction adheres with the use of First Person Point of View since the experiences are being told. ◦Dialogue. This can help to make the story run within the characters. ◦Theme. It is the central idea or universal truth presented in the work. PIVOT 4A CALABARZON

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The 5’Rs of Creative Nonfiction Lee Gutkind, who is a writer, professor, and expert on creative nonfiction, wrote an essay called “The Five R’s of Creative Nonfiction.” In this essay, he identified five essential elements of creative nonfiction. These include: 1. Creative nonfiction uses a real life elements. The writer creates concepts of a story using the vital and real information about the subject which can be associated on close attributes of the real experiences. 2. Creative nonfiction lets the writer to engage on his personal reflection about the subject. After gathering information, the writer needs to scrutinize and analyze the gathered information. Assessing and considering his ideologies and beliefs. Through this, it will help the writer to be more factual based. 3. Creative nonfiction instructs the author to do a complete research. The author needs to find out relevant and vital information about the subject. The writer needs to finish investigating and weighing information that will be included in the story. Finishing auxiliary examination will lead to create a complete and substantial contents. For an instance, looking into an individual diary, or meeting a companion or relative, to guarantee that the data is honest and genuine. 4. The fourth aspect of creative nonfiction is reading. Reading while conducting research is not enough. The writer must recall the components through reading to improve and make some modifications. 5. The final element of creative nonfiction is writing. Writing imaginative true to life is both a workmanship and specialty. The craft of inventive true to life necessitates that the essayist utilizes his gifts, senses, innovative capacities, and creative mind to compose paramount imaginative true to life.

Types of Creative Nonfiction Creative nonfiction always deals on reality. Reality can be about using the topics like the use of individual encounter, occasion, or issue in the open eye. There are different classes or categories to consider in creative nonfiction such as the individual article, journal, and life account.

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Personal Essay. The writer uses information that is based on personal experience or a single event, which leads in significant personal meaning or a lesson learned that he encountered. The writer uses the first person “I.” Memoir. The writer creates a real story within a time or period of life, one that contributed a significant personal meaning and truth. The writer uses the first person “I” in the story. Literary journalism essay. The writer creates an output on an issue or topic using the understood literary devices, such as the elements of fiction and figurative languages. Autobiography. The writer writes his/her own life story, from birth to the present, using the first person “I.” Travel Writing. The writer creates article narration about travel using literary devices and figurative languages. Food writing. The writer crafts stories about food and cuisine using literary techniques that mat lead to a review and recommendation. Profiles. The writer constructs life stories of people using literary devices.

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Green (2018) defined theme as a thread that runs throughout a whole book. When done well, the theme relates to every subject and story and piece of advice. It ties everything together. Sometimes, themes are obvious. In Harry Potter, there are treats battling baddies, and the primary subject is acceptable versus evil. It likewise has subjects of bigotry and correspondence. In a literary text, theme is the broader message of the story. In nonfiction informational texts, the central ideas are the most essential ideas. Central Ideas. These are the most essential ideas of a text; the key points the author wants to make! The BIG idea.

Nonfiction works use supporting details to develop central ideas. Details within the text support and develop the central idea in the following ways: 

Prove the concept since you must consider reality;

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Explain the central idea of the story;

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Define the concept;

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Show some examples and illustrations; and

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Give additional information.

Determining Central Ideas Often, the central idea is directly stated near the beginning of the text. However, readers may also have to infer the central idea by determining what point (message/idea) all the details come together to support. The main ideas of individual paragraphs will lead to the central idea of the whole text.

Constructing Paragraphs in Nonfiction Text Each paragraph has its own main idea. The main idea of each paragraph is used to support the central idea of the whole text. The main idea of a paragraph must be associated with supporting information and evidences to strengthen the main idea.

The details of the piece shall go along with the central idea to attain unity and coherence. Delivering paragraphs shall consider the strength and weakness of the ideas being imparted in the story. Reviewing the central idea will lead you to paragraphs that are substantial and purposive.

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Ponder with Ideas Writing creative nonfiction is tied in with recounting to genuine stories. You can recount to an anecdote about yourself, making expositions about close to home encounters. You can likewise expound on others, spots and occasions on the planet. In nonfiction, you compose valid and verifiable stories, not fiction. You will need to introduce reality and realities in a convincing, engaging, and noteworthy way with the goal that others will be enlivened to peruse your story. To compose any of these types of imaginative true to life, you have numerous procedures to look over, e.g. scene, synopsis, individual reflection.

In a blog of Hood (2012), he identified the toolbox of techniques that writers are expected to use when writing creative nonfiction. 

Topic and Question. In prewriting, you need to choose a topic and then try to link possible questions to be answered. In doing this, it helps you to focus on the areas that you intend to highlight, For instance, in choosing a topic on a travelogue, you need to formulate questions like How to get there? What are the amenities or activities that can be done? The transportation fares and routes.

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Narrative Structure or Shape of a Story. Narrative structure lets you to discover within the way on delivering the story through narration, meaning that you discover the details of the story and its structure as you write. In creative nonfiction, there are five popular narrative structures or shapes Narrative structure: Telling the story chronologically, from beginning to end.

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Braided Structure: Telling a story by weaving or combining two, sometimes three, narratives or stories.

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Collage: Using a thematic and segmented approach that combines a quotation or two, poem, scene, metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, image, vignette, anecdote, a short, short, true story, with an epiphany.

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Frame: Telling a story by opening with a particular scene or reflecting and closing with a particular scene or reflection.

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Narrative with Flashback: Telling a story using scene, summary, reflection, and flashbacks.

As well, the you can experiment with the narrative structure, resulting in a new structure or shape.

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Distinctive Voice, Style, and Intimate Point of View. All good writers have a distinctive voice, which is the persona of the writer expressed on the age. Good writers also have a unique style. Additionally have a one of a kind style. An author's style is his/her demeanor of persona on the page. It incorporates decision of expression, sentence assortment, and tone, perspective, utilization of illustration, and other abstract gadgets. The tone of the keeping in touch with itself is in every case well disposed, conversational. Stories are regularly told utilizing the main individual perspective.

Detail and Description. Creative writing is often a form of ...