HUMALIT READINGS

Prof. Timothy R. Montes

Term 1, AY 2015

Alfred Yuson, Dream of Knives

(poem) 12
Robert Hayden, Those Winter
Sundays (poem) 13
Theodore Roethke, My Papas
Waltz (poem) 14
Jayne Anne Phillips, The Heavenly
Animal (story) 15
Film Showing:

Numbers correspond 01-44 correspond to

the soft/digital copy of the selections.
Please download/copy or print from your
class online group.
I

THE SEARCH FOR SELF

B

MEN AND WOMEN: Love, Passion &

Desire
A Casebook of Love Poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, How
Do I Love Thee? 16
e.e. cummings, somewhere i have
never travelled 17
Wislawa Szymborska, True Love
18
Carlos Angeles, Landscape II 19
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Love is
Not All 20
Bryn Terfel sings The First Time
Ever I Saw Your Face (audio)
Negotiating Relationships:
F. Sionil Jose, Tong (story) 21
Anton Chekhov, The Boor
(drama) 22
Jhoanna Cruz Daliling, Sapay
Koma (essay) 23
Film Showing:

A. PERSONAL REMINISCENCES / THE

LANGUAGE OF MEMORY
Russell Baker, Summer Beyond
Wish (essay) 01
Truman Capote, A Christmas
Memory (story) 02
Gregorio C. Brillantes, The Light
and the Shadow of Leaves (story) 03
Rene Estella Amper, Letter to
Pedro, U.S. Citizen, Also Called Pete
(poem) 04
Edith Tiempo, Bonsai (poem) 05
Film Showing: Cinema Paradiso,
Giuseppe Tornattore, director [Italian]
1988
Sample Reaction/Reflection Paper:
Paradise Lost by Seneca Pellano (BACA)
5a
B. INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE
William Stafford, Fifteen (poem)

III

ART, BEAUTY AND LIFE: Fantasy

vs. Reality
Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods
on a Snowy Evening (poem) 24
Charles Johnson, Moving Pictures
(story) 25
Archibald McLeish, Ars Poetica 26
W. H. Auden, Musee des Beaux
Arts (poem) 27
Mario Vargas Llosa, Why
Literature? (essay) 28
Film Showing:

06
Myrna Pea Reyes, The River
Singing Stone (poem) 07
William Trevor, The Wedding in the
Garden (story) 08
David Benioff, The Affairs of Each
Beast (story) 09
Film Showing:
II
A

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
PARENTS AND CHILDREN
Joyce Maynard, Four Generations
(essay) 10
Myrna Pena Reyes, Breaking
Through (poem) 11

IV

SELF AND SOCIETY: WAR AND

ISSUES OF LOYALTY
Thomas Hardy, The Man He
Killed (poem) 29

Henry Reed, The Naming of

Parts (poem) 30
Jaime An Lim, On the Eve of
the Execution 31
Guy de Maupassant, La Mer
Sauvage (Mother Sauvage) 32
Tim OBrien, On the Rainy
River (story) 33
William Manchester, Okinawa:
The Bloodiest Battle of All 34
Film Showing:
V

4. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar

Wao (2007) by Junot Diaz (with
audiobook version just give your
teacher a 4 gb usb flash drive for
this option) epub 45

MODUS: for thematic discussion and

activities
1. Students are expected to READ the
assigned selections under each particular
theme/topic.
2. The teacher usually gives a
check-up objective quiz on the assigned
readings before discussing them. No
make-up for missed quizzes. Come
promptly if you do not want to miss it.
3. The teacher then gives a lecture
to synthesize the ideas from the different
selections. He focuses, for reasons of time,
on the poems for analysis.
4. A film related to the theme is
screened in the subsequent meeting/s.
5. After the screening, the student
submits a 1-2 page reflection essay
on the film. For a model paper, see
Seneca Pellanos Paradiso 5a

THE LONG VIEW: CHANCE,

FATE& DESTINY
William Butler Yeats, The Wild
Swans at Coole (poem) 35
Gregorio Brillantes, The Cries of
Children on
an April
Afternoon in
the Year
1957 (story)
36
Somerset Maugham, Appointment
in Samarra
37
Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle
Into That Good Night (poem) 38
Albert Einstein, Religion and
Science 39
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot 40
Film Showing:

GRADING:
1. Quizzes 20%
2. Reflection Essays 40%
3. Focus Group Discussion (FGD)
and/or Final Paper on the Novel
20%
4. Midterm/Final Exams 20%

NOVELS TO CHOOSE FROM FOR THE FINAL

PAPER:
1. The Easter Parade by Richard Yates
(about women/sisters) EPUB 42
2. Call Me By Your Name by Andre
Aciman (gay novel) EPUB 43
3. Aura by Carlos Fuentes (men) epub
44

N.B. Please be reminded of the policy on

absences as stipulated in the student
handbook.