Analyzing Madeline Miller’s Novel Circe from a sociological lens: Highlighting value formation through worksheets

In the Philippines, ensuring gender equality in schools is a crucial task. It involves addressing deep-rooted cultural norms and fostering inclusive educational settings. By embracing the country's diverse cultural tapestry, initiatives focused on gender equity aim to dismantle long-standing stereotypes and offer equal chances for all students. This descriptive-qualitative research analyzed Madelline Miller’s Circe from a sociological lens highlighting value formation. Descriptive-qualitative research was used in combination with reader response, social constructionism, and feminism approaches to literature to complete the objectives of the research. With the use of content analysis, the researcher examined family as a dominant factor that affects one’s gender role as embodied in the novel, character as the literary element greatly conveying gender stereotyping. Similes and metaphors were used by the author to show gender stereotyping. The author’s life experiences were reflected in the novel through the characters’ specific thoughts. Finally, the researcher created worksheets that build up value formation with the concepts of gender equality. The proposed worksheets on gender equity valuing in the teaching of English may be put into evaluation and validation to determine possible enhancements that can be done for its improvement before proposing it to be used in schools. Future researchers may look at other works of literature that address gender related concepts.