Preliminary Period
(Lit 102)
Enduring Understanding
Migration which breeds a myriad of sentiments, brings about life-changing
experiences to the individual and society
Week Content
Standards
Demonstrate
understanding of time,
memory, and distance as
villains in a Filipino
migrant’s life
Demonstrate
understanding of the
ordeal of Filipino migrants
as they materialize their
dreams and aspirations of
UNIT 13: IMAGING THE FILIPINO MIGRANT Course Code
Essential Questions
What is a Filipino migrant?
Why is “Filipino American” a preferred Filipino identity?
How does nostalgia become a hindrance to the pursuit of the
“American dream”?
Essential Learning
Declarative Functional Intended Suggested Assessment
Knowledge Knowledge Learning Outcomes (ILO) Teaching/Learning Tasks (ATs)
Activities (TLAs)
Alienation and Articulating nostalgia, Explain how time, memory and Videotaped Portfolio (of blogs
Nostalgia in “The alienation and the “longing distance become antagonists in interviews of real-life or letters that
Day the Dancers for home” as grave effects the characters' and personas’ life accounts by students narrate
Came” by of migration in America by describing their whose family expatriate
Bienvenido thoughts, feelings, and actions members are sentiments
Santos and “The migrants
Sorrow of Describe how the characters and
Distances” by the persona cope with their
Jaime An Lim expatriate sentiments by
interpreting relevant passages in
the texts
The Emotional Articulating the Filipino’s Describe the persona’s diasporic Group sharing of Human Tableau/
Dislocation in sense of identity despite experiences by interpreting the diasporic sentiments Picture Perfect
“Confessions of a being uprooted from home lines through journal by students whose depicting OFW’s
Green Card writing/diary family members sentiments
Bearer” migrated due to
having economic
abundance
Demonstrate
understanding of gender
and sexuality as the cause
of “otherness “ in the life
of a Filipino migrant
Demonstrate
understanding of the
concept of home,
homeland and nation as
the Filipino migrant forges
her exilic identity and
diasporicexperiences
by Fatima Lim economic reasons
The “Otherness” Articulating the issue of Discuss the “Filipino angst” by Intertextuality: Critique of gay
and “Queerness” ethnicity and looking into how the character Discussion of other anthologies
in “Rolling the homosexuality while the tries to assert his ethnicity and similar texts and
R’s: Kalihi in Filipino migrant establishes sexuality notwithstanding the summary of how the
Farrah” by R. his identity in his adoptive culture of the society (where he gay individual
Zamora Linmark country is in) as a form of resistance and struggles with his
hostility through a confessional “otherness”
letter
Double Articulating the angst of a Explain how the persona Oral History Video
Consciousness in Filipino migrant who is struggles as she assimilates (of Filipino migrants documentary of
“Filipino trapped between two and/or resists the Filipino and but are American accounts from
American Barbie” cultures American cultures and values by born) American-born
by Ma. Luisa analyzing the poetic tension Filipinos
Aguilar (Carino) through an essay highlighting their
conflicts in
coming to terms
with their
(Filipino
American)
identity