Lesson Plan in Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship (CESC)

Grade 12 HUMMS

I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, 95% of the students should be able to:
a.) Identify the major issues affecting poor and marginalized communities
b.) Acknowledge interrelationship of self and community in undertaking community
action
c.) Identify opportunities to contribute to community development through solidarity

II. Subject Matter

a. Topic: Community Action Overview Community engagement, Solidarity,

Citizenship
b. Materials: Power Point Presentation and Laptop
c. Reference: https://www.slideshare.net/kazekage15/overview-of-community-action-v2?
from_action=save
d. Code: HUMSS_CSC12-IIId-g-7, 8, 9
III. Procedure

A. Preliminaries
a.1 Checking of Attendance
a.2 Setting of standards
“Good afternoon class! How are you today?”
a.3 Review
“Who can remember our topic yesterday?”
“That’s correct”
“What is community?”
“Please give the types of communities”
“Very good”

B. Presentation
b.1 Motivation
The teacher will flash a short video about Solidarity.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RNNOYQoFB1I
The teacher will asked these following questions:

“What did you observe in the video?”

“What would happen if there’s one don’t help?
“What if the group don’t have unity?”
“What if the group doesn’t take action?”

b.2 Activity

The Teacher will play a video titled “RePLAY, ReLIVE, ReCREATE - Community
Engagement through Sports”.

He will ask the students these following questions:

“Based on the video, how will you define community action and community
engagement?”
“What is the benefit of community engagement?”
“Why community action is important?”
“What if there is no community action within the society?”

b.3 Analysis

He will ask the students these following questions:

“Based on the video, how will you define community action and community
engagement?”
“What is the benefit of community engagement?”
“Why community action is important?”
“What if there is no community action within the society?”
 b.4 Abstraction

COMMUNITY ACTION
 It is a campaign undertaken by people living in a particular place.
 It is an action undertaken by members of the community for that community’s own
improvement

Community Action Encompasses:

A. Community Engagement
B. Community of Solidarity
C. Citizenship Building

A. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The process by which community benefit organizations and individuals build ongoing,
permanent relationship for the purpose of applying a collective vision for the benefit of a
community.

Origin of Community Engagement

 Community benefit
concept in English common law
-1891 legal decision defined types of charitable organizations

Example:

 Community organizing - is a process where people who live in proximity to each other
come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.

Example:

Core Principles of Community Engagement

 1. Careful Planning and Preparation
2. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
3. Collaboration and Shared Purpose
4. Openness and Learning
5. Transparency and Trust
6. Impact and Action
7. Sustained Engagement and Participatory Culture

B. COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY
- is a mutual commitment to one another’s well being.

Example:

Core Principles of Community Solidarity

1. Dignity of the Human Person

2. The Common Good
3. Subsidiary and Participation
4. Solidarity Regardless of Ideological Differences
5. Preferential Option for the Poor
6. Economic Justice
7. Stewardship of Creation
8. Promotion of Peace

C. CITIZENSHIP BUILDING

Ways of Acquiring Citizenship

1. Jus sanguinis – parents are citizens

2. Jus soli – born within a country
3. Jure matrimonii – marriage to a citizen
4. Naturalization – process by which a non-citizen of a country may acquire citizenship or
nationality of that country.

Citizenship Building
Processes that can increase capacity of the citizens to respond intelligently to the
changing environment around them:
1. Servant leadership – either initiative from top or bottom
2. Regularity – periodic intervals
3. Complementarity – using processes together
Generalization

“Now, based on our discussion, how do you define community action?”

Valuing

“As a young citizen, how can you engage yourself in community action?”
“Why collaboration is important within a community?”
“What community engagement and community action you can do or join with as a
student?”

b.5 Application

Direction: Create a comical skit/comics about a community action. Show how it made
impact to lives within the community.

RUBRIC
Content/Understanding of Topic 50%
Creativity, Relativity and Cleanliness 20%
Organization and Presentation 30%
Total: 100%

IV. Evaluation

Directions: The teacher will flash different characters from Among Us game. Each
character has its corresponding questions. He will count three seconds, whoever says
their last name first will be the player. If the player answers the wrong answer, any of
them can steal and say the correct answer. Whoever gets the high score will have a
reward to be given after the class.

The questions are the followng:

1.________ is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together
into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.

2. ________– born within a country

3.__________ the process by which community benefit organizations and individuals

build ongoing, permanent relationship for the purpose of applying a collective vision for
the benefit of a community.

4. _________It is a campaign undertaken by people living in a particular place.

 5. _________ it is an action undertaken by members of the community for that
community’s own improvement

6. What are those three Community Action Encompasses?

7. Give at least three Core Principles of Community Engagement.

V. Assignment

Directions: A4 size paper, Arial, font of 12, write at least 5 sentences in paragraph form
about the opportunities you can contribute to community development through solidarity.