Culminating Activity

3rd Quarter
Week 1

Development and Quality Assurance Team

Developer: Mayshel P. Corilla

Evaluator:
Learning Area Supervisor: Edna E. Trinidad

Illustration Credits:
Title Page Art: Marieto Cleben V. Lozada
Title Page Graphics: Bryan L. Arreo
Visual Cues Art: Ivin Mae M. Ambos

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 Competency: Formulate a plan that will demonstrate the key concepts,
principles, and processes of humanities and social sciences

Objectives: At the end of the week, you shall have

o defined and identified the concepts of the learning areas in humanities
and social sciences;
o created a concept map that visualize the connections of the learning
areas; and
o Appreciated the impacts of the overall concept that integrates in the
community

Learner’s Tasks

Lesson Overview

THE CONCEPTS IN EACH LEARNING AREAS OF HUMSS

The humanities and social sciences studies refer to the examination and analysis of
human conduct, including relations and interactions in political, sociological,
ecological and economic context. These areas of studies focus on both the past and
present milieus and face future challenges. These studies also cover local and world
perspectives. The student’s ability to react and act on social issues depends on the
depth of their awareness and appreciation of the related areas of learning.

HUMANITIES
This term refers to the study of the way humans manage and sort out and record their
experiences. According to Stanford (2015), to understand and record the world, we
have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language and these
modes of expression have become some of the subject that traditionally fall under then
Humanities umbrella. Hence, an appreciation of the chronicles of human experience
provides some kind of link with a “sense of connection” to past and present
generations.

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Generally, social science is a major classification of educational fields related w/
civilization and the interactions among people in a society. It is the study of the way
people act and impact their environment. According to ESRC (2015), the social
sciences speaks of mattes concerning the “world beyond our experiences “and aids in
elucidating “how our own society works”.

Let us review the EIGHT ESSENTIAL LEARNING AREAS and their expected performance
standards.
CREATIVE WRITING Understand and discuss fundamental techniques in
writing short stories, poems and plays applied by
known writers in the said field.
Expected Performance Standards
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  Develop a scene/segment for a one-act play
CREATIVE NONFICTION Understand and apply formal elements and writing
techniques, including autobiography and blogging,
and be introduced to creative nonfiction as a literary
form.
Expected Performance Standards
 Deliver an artistic presentation summarizing
and analyzing the form, theme, and
techniques of a chosen creative nonfictional
text.
INTRODUCTION TO WORLD Understand the main tenets and practices of the
RELIGIONS world religions: Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto.
Expected Performance Standards
 Conduct a group activity that demonstrates
the influence of a religion in a certain culture.
 Conduct a group research on the doctrines of
the various religions and compare their origins
and views on morality, purpose, destiny, and
views on women.
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE Understand the basic concepts, subjects, and
SOCIAL SCIENCES methods of inquiry in the disciplines that comprise the
social sciences.
Expected Performance Standards
 Illustrate situations and contexts in which social
science can be applied.
 Interpret personal and social experiences using
relevant approaches in the social sciences
PHIL. POLITICS AND Understand the basic concepts and vital elements of
GOVERNANCE politics and governance from a historical-institutional
perspective. Explain the important features of the
country’s political structures/institutions, processes
and relationship.
Expected Performance Standards
 Explain the roles of different political
institutions.
TRENDS, NETWORKS, AND Discover patterns and extract meaning from
CRITICAL THINKING emerging trends and develop critical thinking skills for
decision-making and understanding “ethics of care”
Expected Performance Standards
 Create a social map that traces the various
roles that students play in the community and
rank the significance of these roles.
DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE Understand and utilize applied social sciences,
APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES namely, counseling, social work, and communication
drawing foundation from theories and principles of
psychology, sociology, anthropology, and other
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 social sciences.
Expected Performance Standards
 Demonstrate a high level of understanding of
the basic concepts of counseling, social work,
and communication work through a group
presentation of a situation in which
practitioners of counseling work together to
assist individuals, groups or communities
involved in difficult situations.
 Participate in a one-day exposure trip to an
existing development program and write a
sincere reflection on the effects of the
processes on the clientele.
 Submit a portfolio of output from the course
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, Apply ideas and methods of social sciences to
SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP understand, investigate and examine challenges of
contemporary community life.
Expected Performance Standards
 Explain the importance of studying community
dynamics and community action in relation to
applied sciences and the learners future
career options.

The discussion below provides a brief review of the related concepts per discipline.

1.1 THE HUMANITIES

The humanities as a discipline started in the West. It was conceived as a response to the
theology-centered education of the Middle on humans apart from their sociohistorical
context. The term “humanities” itself was taken from the Latin words studia humanitatis,
which means “studies of humanity”.

CREATIVE WRITING is a piece of any kind of writing at any time that is chiefly in the
service of such requirements as “keeping records of significant experience, sharing
experience with an interested group and for free individual expression w/c contributes to
mental and physical health”.

POEMS
“A poem is a rhythmical composition of words expressing attitude, designed to surprise,
delight, and to arouse an emotional response”. In ancient times, the Greeks believed
that poems were made only through divine inspiration. It was part of the dramas stage
for the people. In the Philippines, poems have been very much a part nof our ancestors
lives even before colonization. Early dictionaries mention various forms of poetry existing
during those times. Theses types of poems reflect the kind of life they had before. These
include the diona (wedding song), dolayinin (rowing song), hila (Boating song) hilirao

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(Song when drinking) oyayi (lullaby), indolain (street song) and soliranin (Navigation
song).

Essential Elements of Poetry

1. Expectation and Surprise- Poems have a way of surprising the reader. Themes,
topics, and events may have a sudden twist.
2. Speaker- There is always a person, real or not, speaking as the voice of the
poem.
3. Figurative Language- Poems are most often metaphorical. The words mean
more than what they literally mean.
4. Symbol- Poems use various object, person and even events to represent what
the author really means. This is done to make the poem more comprehensible.
5. Structure-Poems have a ceratin structure in its stanzas and lines.Structure poems
have the same number of syllables per line. They also have the same number of
lines per stanza.
6. Tone and Rhyme- In Western literature, there is almost always a sing-song tone to
poems. In tagalog poems, the tone or sound is determined by the emotions
expressed by the words.
Poem types
1. Traditional- Poetic pieces that were written following the strict rules of poetry
such as syllabic count and rhyming fall under this type.
2. Nontraditional- Poetic pieces do not necessarily follow strict rules in poetry.

Creative Nonfiction- is the new term for what has been previously called personal
journalism or literary journalism. Those who venture in creative nonfiction must have the
“skill of the storyteller and the research ability of the reporter” (Cheney, 1991).
The following types of writing are considered creative nonfiction:
1. Magazine Feature Article 2. Newspaper Cultural Commentary 3. Review 4.
Interview Story 5. Character Sketch 6. Biographical profile

Strategies of Creative Nonfiction

1.Approach- it deals with how the writer handles the topic at hand- objective or
subjective. Objective writing focuses on facts while subjective focuses on the personal
experience of the writer covering the event.
2. Point of View- From whose perspective is the story best told?
3. Tone- it has to do with the writer’s attitude toward his/her subject.
4. Voice- this deals with the writer’s style. It includes preferences on words, length of
sentences, use of images, metaphors and allusion.
5. Structure- how the writer organizes the story. It may be chronological or it may
employ techniques such as a procedural explanation structure, flashback, parallel
account, diary type.
6. A strong Beginning- it must have a dramatic or action-packed beginning. It can start
with a striking statement, in media res (jumping right in the middle of things) or with a
quotation.

COMPARATIVE RELIGION- Also termed as Religious studies, is concerned with all

aspects of religion, with all religions and with the fundamental role they
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 engage in, specifically in human culture. This learning area delves into the
main tenets and practices of major world religions and belief systems:
Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto. It aims to help learners
understand the historical contexts of nine religions, appreciate their
uniqueness and similarities, and promote mutual understanding among
believers of different faiths.

1.2. DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Social science is the study of the society we live in and the relationships people
have within that society. It is a branch of science that deals w/ human behavior in its
social and cultural aspects. The disciplines within the social sciences include
anthropology, economics, geography, history, linguistics, political science,
psychology, and sociology.

 Anthropology- the study of past and present humans. It derives and

constructs knowledge from the biological and social sciences and also from
humanities and physical sciences.
 Economics- is about choices amidst different aspects of life. According to UTS
(2015), it is the social science that looks into the choices that people make- as
individuals, businesses, and governments deal with scarcity and the
enticements that sway those choices.
 Geography- the study of life on the surface of the earth.
 History- is the study by of the past conducted by looking at evidences, asking
questions about those evidences, and formulating explanations that make
meaning of what the evidences pronounce concerning the people,
occurrences, places and time.
 Linguistics- is an academic discipline that deals with the observation of
language phenomena.
 Political Science- is the study of government, political processes, institutions,
and behavior. The study of “persistent patterns of human relationships that
involves power, rule, or authority, study of who gets what, when and how.
 Psychology- seeks to define, appreciate, and forecast the behavior of living
organisms.
 Sociology- it is the study of humans social life, relationships, and institutions
with various areas of focus: from crime to religion, from the family to the state,
from the divisions of race and social class to the shared beliefs of a common
culture, and from social stability to radical change in whole societies.
1.3 Applied Social Sciences- application of existing knowledge to resolve
practical problems in social life.

 Social Work- a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that

promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the
empowerment and liberation of people.
 Guidance and Counseling- is the profession that uses the application af “an
integrated approach to the development of a well-functioning individual”
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 through the provision of support that aids an individual to use his/her
potentials to the fullest in accord with his/her interests, needs and abilities.

Activity 1. Find Me!

Direction: Read carefully the sentences below and identify the learning areas in
humanities and social science employed in each definition. Choose your
answers from the pool of words inside the box.

a. Humanities f. Introduction to World Religion

b. Creative Writing g. Philippine Politics and Governance
c. Community Engagement, Solidarity and Citizenship
d. Social Science h. Disciplines and Ideas in the Applied Social Science
e. Creative Nonfiction i. Disciplines and Ideas in Social Sciences

j. Trends, networks, and Critical Thinking in Twenty-First Century Culture

1. It is a historical effort to treat literature as a creative activity rather than an object

for interpretation.
2. It understands the main tenets and practices of the major world religions.
3. It talks about the basic concepts and vital elements of politics and governance
from a historical perspective.
4. Discover patterns and extra meaning from emerging trends and develop critical
thinking skills for decision- making and understanding “ethics of care.”
5. It applies formal elements and writing techniques, including autobiography and
blogging.
6. Understand and utilize applied social sciences, namely counseling, social work
and communication drawing foundation from theories.
7. Apply ideas and methods of the social sciences to understand, investigate, and
examine challenges of contemporary community life.
8. The basic concepts, subjects, and methods of inquiry in the disciplines that
comprise the social sciences.
9. It refers to the study of the way humans manage and sort out and record their
experiences.
10. It is major classification of educational fields related with civilization and the
interactions among people in a society. It is the study of the way people act and
impact their environment.

Activity 2. Create a concept map that visualize the connections of the key concepts in
each learning areas.

Learning Learning
Areas in Areas in
HUMSS HUMSS
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Activity 3.
Write a reflective essay on the impacts of the overall concept and principles in
the Humanities and social sciences that integrates in your community.

CRITERIA PROFICIENT Nearly Proficient Attempted

(8-10 pts) (5-7pts) Proficiency
(0-4pts)
Clarity All ideas are Some ideas are Many ideas are
expressed clearly. expressed clearly. confusing.
Vividness All ideas are Some ideas are The manner in
articulated articulated convincingly which ideas are
convincingly articulated is not
convincing enough.
Organization All details are Details mostly evince a Details are not
presented in an sense of organization. organized property.
organized way.
Correctness Grammar, syntax, Grammar, syntax, and The composition is
and mechanics are mechanics are largely riddled with errors (
correct, with just one correct, with three to six or more).
or two errors. five errors.

Formative Test

Answer the following questions. Write only the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is the use of figurative language to create visual representations of actions, objects

and ideas in our mind in such a way that they appeal to our physical senses.
A. Literary techniques C. Imagery
B. Literary elements D. Symbols

2. A worldview is similar to __________________.

A. understanding about life C. belief system
B. opinion D. A & B

3. Etymologically it comes from a Latin word, “relegere” which means to “bind

or tie”
A. Spirituality C. Culture
B. Religion D. Theology

4. Which statement is not a belief system?

A. I believe I can fly.
B. “An examined life is not worth living for.” Socrates
C. “Si Malakas at si Maganda”, the Filipino version of Creation story.
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 D. The West Philippine sea belongs to Filipinos as affirmed by as an
arbitrary tribunal in Hague, Netherland.

5. From the given statements below, consider the most appropriate behavior o
attitude if one is a member of a religious group?
A. Argue that his/her God is the real one.
B. Criticize other religious beliefs.
C. Respect the freedom of religion
D. Proselytize and convert other people to join your religion.

Answer Key
Activity 1.

1.b 6. h
2. f 7. c
3. g 8. i
4. j 9. a
5. e 10. D

Activity 2.

Answers may vary.

Activity 3.
Answers may vary.

Formative Test

1. C
2. C
3. B
4. A
5. C

References

Culminating Activity” (Phoenix Publishing House 2015)

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