Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region I
La Union Schools Division Office
DAMORTIS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Damortis, Sto. Tomas, La Union 2505

COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT,
Teacher: MICHAEL B. CEPILLO Subject:
SOLIDARITY and
CITIZENSHIP
Date: JANUARY 06, 2025 Grade & 12-HUMSS
Section:
Time: 1:00-2:00 Quarter: FIRST

I. OBJECTIVES
A. Content The learners demonstrate an understanding of the
Standard integration of social science perspective and community
action initiatives
B. Performance The learners shall be able to synthesize the integrative
Standard experience of implementing community-action initiatives
applying social sciences’ ideas and methods
C. Learning compare and contrast the definitions of community using
Competencies various perspectives, e.g., social sciences, institutions, civil
society, and local/grassroots level HUMSS_CSC12- IIa-c-2
SUBJECT MATTER: Concepts and Perspectives of Community
A. References Self-Learning Module
Personal Development Quarter 1 – Module 2: Functions of
Community in Terms of Structure, Dynamics, Processes and
Typologies of Communities
B. Learning
PowerPoint Presentation, Laptop, TV, chalk,
Resources
C. Curriculum
English, and Social Science, Science, ICT
Link
II. PROCEDURE
A. Preliminary 1. Prayer
Activities 2. Establish class norms and expectations that promote a
learning-focused environment.
3. Checking of attendance
B. Activity 5-minute Reading Activity:
The Many Faces of Community
( please see the attached file)
C. Analysis Analyze the Activity
Ask the following questions:
1. How do you feel about the activity?
2. What are the strategies you used during the activity?
3. Based on our activity, what do you think is our topic for
today?
D. Abstraction Discussion
The teacher will explain the following concepts and will ask
several questions.
Social Sciences and Community
As you have learned in your Disciplines and Ideas in the
Social Sciences back in Grade 11, when you talk of social
sciences, you are referring to the different disciplines under
its wings like Anthropology, Economics, History, Political
Science, Psychology, and Sociology. For purposes of
discussion, we shall be taking Political Science and Sociology,
separately. From the general social science perspective, a
community is a group of people who are connected and
related by virtue of their historical and cultural beginnings
and experiences, and identified through their geographical
and ethnical attributes. Considering this definition, it could
be seen as a historical and an anthropological perspective
because the community involves the beginnings of the
people as well as the traditions and practices which are
common to them. A classic example of which is the entire
community (society) of the Filipino people as we are bonded
by a common history and culture.

Institutions and Community

When we talk of institutions, we are referring to the social
institutions, the religious, educational, economic, even the
medical institution and the mass media. From their
perspectives, community is described as an aggrupation of
people, but they just vary on the objectives for coming
together and what binds the members. In the institutions of
religious faith, the members are bonded together because of
the shared creed, as well as their commitment towards their
faith. They also go by the norms, roles and values which
accompany their shared faith. Their common objective is to
empower people through religion.

Civil Society and Community

“Civil society commonly embraces a diversity of spaces,
actors and institutional forms, varying in their degree of
formality, autonomy and power.” (Kamensky 2008) Basing
from this definition of civil society, it is understood that it
includes people’s organizations, charities, nongovernmental
organizations, women’s organizations, professional
aggrupation, community-based organizations and others.
Civil society adherents view community as “being largely
comprised of voluntary civil and social organizations and
institutions that act collectively or individually on behalf of
their larger community.” (Kamensky, 2008). Taking it from
the micro perspective, according to the civil society
perception, a community then brings together voluntarily
individuals who share the same interests, sentiments, or
needs, bound by common values, roles and norms in the
pursuit of shared objectives for the members.

The Grassroots Level and the Community

According to Oxford Languages and Google, grassroots refer
to the “ordinary people regarded as the main body of the
 organization’s membership.” And as per Vocabulary.com
Dictionary, grassroots “is at the most basic level of
something, down there in the dirt with the roots of an idea or
activity.” As suggested by the aforementioned definitions,
grassroots level should be understood as referring to the
lesser fortunate members of a community, or the common
people or the farmers or the fisher folks who seem to just be
identified with the plow or the fishing net because they are
the people considered as the ones literally down there and
gets to be dirtied as they toil with what they best do. Aside
from those identified with the agricultural sector, we could
also identify those people engaged in the blue-collar jobs as
they are a well branded as ordinary beings.

Process Question:
1. To you, what is community?
2. Do community action and dynamics pose any significance
to a
communications practitioner?
E. Application Activity. Name It, Write It!
Directions. Enumerate what is asked. Use a separate sheet
of paper for your
answers.
1. Name five (5) organizations identified with civil society.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
2. Give examples of the so-called grassroots.
a.
b.
3. Give three (3) Social Science disciplines which were
mentioned earlier as
having different perspectives about community.
a.
b.
c.
III. ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
Direction. Identify what is asked. Use a separate sheet of paper for your
answers
__________ 1. They are the members of the bigger society who perceive the
community as more than a mere network of socialization because it is a relationship
among people which will allow dependence and support for each other.
__________ 2. This discipline of social sciences perceives the community to bean
aggrupation of closely bonded persons because of kinship.
__________ 3. This refers to the primary binding factor of the members of an
institution of religious faith.
__________ 4. What is this institution which is perceived to cater to the needs of
consumers and the other clientele?
__________ 5. The La Union Vibrant Women Incorporated is an example of what civil
society aggrupation?
__________ 6. Which of the institutions mentioned earlier is perceived as the kind of
community which nurtures the learners by honing their skills and enhancing their
 knowledge?
__________ 7. Aside from the promotion of child growth and welfare, what is the
other objective of LUVWI?
__________ 8. It is the social science discipline which perceives the community as
such because of its polis-like characteristic.
__________ 9. This institution perceives the community to be an aggrupation of
practitioners who are wont on catering to the medical needs and issues of the
people.
__________ 10.It is perceived differently by different entities, depending on the
objectives and purposes it serves.

For this activity, we will establish rules and agree on consequences for not following
them. Also, a reward will be given to the learner with the highest score.
IV. ASSIGNMENT
Activity. Acrostic! Directions. Write an Acrostic Poem. Choose between A and B
which best describe of your perspective to the word community. Use a separate
sheet of paper for your answers. The activity shall be evaluated using the rubric
below. Answer sheet for the Acrostic Poem
A. Community in relation to the perspective of social sciences.
C-
O-
M-
M-
U-
N
I-
T-
Y-
B. Community in relation to the perspective of nongovernmental organizations.
C-
O-
M-
M-
U-
N
I-
T-
Y-
For this activity, the students will use a 1 whole sheet of pad paper.

Prepared by:

MICHAEL B. EPILLO
Teacher I

Checked by: NOTED:

MIKE T. FERNANDEZ FLORANTE LACHICA

Head Teacher III Principal III
OIC – Office of the Assistant Principal II