Community

Engagement
Solidarity and
Citizenship
Learning Activity and Enrichment Exercises
Lesson 1- Importance
of Understanding
Community Dynamics
and Community action

Learning Activity 1

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A. Definition of Terms

Direction: Give the meaning of the following terms according to your own point of view.

1. Community Dynamics

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2. Community Action

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3. Community Development

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4. Community Development Worker

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5. Career option

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B. Differentiation

Direction: Differentiate the following terms based on your understanding.

1. Community and barangay

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2. Communities of interest and community shared interest

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3. Communities of common culture heritage and aboriginal communities

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C. Critical Thinking

Direction: Answer the following questions by using your critical and analytical thinking
skill.
1. As a senior high school student, why should you work in a community

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2. What is an animator or mobilizer? What is the role of an animator in the community?

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3. Do you belong to more than one community? Support your answer.

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4. What is meant by a statement that a ‘’society is a superorganic system’’?

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5. As a student – animator, how do you promote community participation and development
in your own community? Justify your answer.

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D. True or false

Direction: If the statement is write X; otherwise write Y.

_____1. A city is a community

_____2. Defining communities in terms of geography is the only one way of looking at them.

_____3. A community is a superorganic organism.

_____4. A community is a harmonious unity.

_____5. A community can talk and feel.

_____6. A census enumerator is a community development worker.

_____7. Community work is challenging, exciting and at times frustrating.

_____8. Coping with social disadvantages and disaffected members of the community can be
stressful.

_____9. A community is full of factions, struggles and conflicts.

_____10. An individual human being is not subject to a different set of forces.

E. Reaction

Direction: React favorably or unfavorably to the following statements. Be able to support or

defend your answer.
1. A community does not act like a human being.

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2. Community development workers work with individual, families and whole community
to empower them.

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3. A community lives and functions even though its human members come and go, or born
or die.

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4. As a student, you are considered as community animator or mobilizer.

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5. Only few students in the Philippines work as community development workers.

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F. Essay

Direction: Write as essay consisting of 150-300 words on the topic below. Use this space for
your essay.

I AM A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER