This document contains a lesson on Tinguian myths from the Philippines. It includes an illustration showing a storytelling activity. The lesson has students listen to a Tinguian myth about how the sea and sky came into existence. It asks comprehension questions about the myth. The events of the myth are then broken into parts and shuffled, having students rearrange them in chronological order. Finally, students are asked to retell the myth to the class following the proper sequence of events.
4. Story telling is one of the oldest arts
of man. It is common to all civilizations.
The earliest known stories were Egyptian
and dated from 4,000 B.C.E. there are a
lot of collections of stories as you go from
one country to another. When you were
children you loved to listen or to read
these stories about how the world came
to be, of how the first man and woman
were created, and of some warriors
fought to save kingdoms or even just
young and pretty maidens in distress. Our
5. You will listen to a
Tinguian myth.
What is a myth? Can you
recall one?
6. Activity 2
Listen closely as your teacher
reads a Tinguian myth.
Listen again, more carefully this
time as your teacher reads it a
second time. You will answer
questions about it.
7. Answer the following questions.
1. What two things existed in the
beginning according to the belief
of the Tinguianes?
2. What came to make the sea
declare war against the sky?
3. Which of the two won? Which
lost?
4. What did the sky do to get back
at the sea? How did it do this?
Was the sea able to rise again?
8. Activity 3
When retelling a story, we observe the
chronological sequencing of events.
This means arranging the events
according to the time they occurred,
from the earliest to the latest or
according to logical sequencing, that is,
the reasonable arranging of events,
one following the other.
9. Arrange the following events in the
âStory of Creationâ chronologically
or logically as they happened in the
story. The story has been divided
into two parts. Use numbers only.
Write your answers in your Module.
10. 1. The sea declared war against the sky.
2. The sky showered islands on the sea
so it could not rise again.
3. There were only the sea and the sky.
4. The sky made a treaty of peace with
the sea.
5. The kite found no place to alight.
6. The sea threw her waters upward.
7. The kite made the sea declare war
against the sky.
11. 1. They returned through the sea.
2. They hid in different places.
3. The chief hid in the most hidden rooms.
4. From the reed came the first man and
woman.
5. The blacks hid in the fireplace.
6. Cavahi gave birth to a great number of
children.
7. The Spaniards fled out to the sea through
the open door.
8. The children were frightened and fled.
12. Activity 4
Following the sequencing of
events in Part I and Part II of
Activity 3, retell the myths to
the class.
