The document outlines the core principles of the Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics (UCSP) subject for Grade 12 students, detailing lesson objectives and performance expectations. It emphasizes the social construction of identity influenced by cultural and political contexts, illustrating how historical events shape individual identities. The document also includes guidelines for behavior, assessments, and a performance task requiring students to explore and reflect on their societal identity through visual representation.

1. Understanding Culture,
Society, and Politics
APRILAINE A. FERRERAS
SUBJECT TEACHER

2. Prayer
• Almighty loving Father, we praise you, we give you thanks.
• As we are about to tackle this subject today, may you bless us with
an open mind and heart to grasp fully the things that we need to
understand.
• May light shine upon us that we may learn new skills to empower
us in our daily endeavor.
• Guide our thoughts and actions that we may be an inspiration to
our classmates, friends and loved ones.
• Thank you for providing us our daily needs, and waking us to savor
the goodness of life each day and everyday
• In Jesus’s name
• Amen

3. • UCSP – core subject
• Written Work – 25%
• Performance Task – 50%
• Quarterly Assessment - 25% Total – 100%
• SHILA – SELF HOME-BASED INDIVIDUAL LEARNING
• ACTIVITY – INCLUDED IN WRITTEN
• WORK OR PERFORMANCE TASK

4. 1. Secure excuse letter if you will be absent signed by your parents or guardians prior to
the day of absent.
2. Special test is not allowed if you are absent unless the reason is valid.
3. Five consecutive late, parents/ guardian will be called.
4. Wear complete uniform to be identified that you are a bonafide students of NOHS.
5. Maintain cleanliness inside and outside the classroom.
6. Do not allow your friends from other strand or section to stay outside the room if
classes are on going.
7. Respect each other.
8. Wear your sweetest smile.
House Rules

5. • When you are absent, and you miss a summative test, be
responsible to approach your teacher for the schedule
when you can take the special test
• Remediation will only be given to those who deserves
to be given.
• Remember, you are already a grade 12 student, and you
are about to finish the race.. DON’T WASTE YOU TIME,
YOUR EFFORT, AND THE OPPORTUNITIES GIVEN TO
YOU. YOU ARE THE AUTHOR OF YOUR OWN STORY.

6. WEEK 1
Nature, Goals and Perspectives of
Anthropology, Sociology and Political
Science.

7. • Week 1 – Most Essential Learning Competencies
 Discuss the nature, goals, and perspectives
in/of anthropology, sociology and political
science

8. Lesson Objectives At the end of the lesson, the
student is expected to be able to:
• ● Describe themselves according to their cultural, social,
and political backgrounds;
• ● Analyze how their backgrounds influence their identity
(values, beliefs, behavior);
• ● Recognize the concepts of culture, society, and politics
and their respective elements; and
• ● Examine how the cultural, social, and political
phenomena happening around them continuously
influence or change them as individuals.

9. Key Concepts
• ● Agency - the power of an individual to change
society or form a new one.
• ● Beliefs - specific ideas that society holds to be true
• ● Identity - the set of perceived qualities that make
an individual unique from the rest
• ● Norms - rules and expectations by which a society
guides the behavior of its members
•

10. • Key Concepts
• ● Power - the ability to influence others
• ● Symbols - anything that carries a particular meaning
recognized by people who share a culture
• ● Values - culturally defined standards that people use to
decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful

11. • What do you already know about your
identity?
• What do you want to know more about
yourself?

12. Lesson 1: Shaping My Identity
• Do we create our own identities?
○ Our identities are said to be socially-constructed.
○ According to the social-constructionist view, one’s identity
is formed through our interaction with others and in relation
to social, cultural, and political contexts.
Our identities are influenced by our society (Rice, 2021).

13. Lesson 1: Shaping My Identity
• ○ Biodata, resume, and curriculum vitae tell much about
our personal information. It contains our given name
(sense of identity), surname (lineage), gender/sex (roles
we conform to),
• the names of our parents and their jobs (social interaction
and socioecnomic status),
• educational attainment (social status and mobility),
religion (religious practices),
• ethnicity (language and culture),
• political beliefs (exercise of power and inclinations).

14. How does society influence individuals (identities)?
• ○ Social groups and norms - the social groups that an
individual belongs to also affect one’s creation and
maintenance of identity as social groups and their
members practice specific norms (family, ethnolinguistic
group, churches, schools, fraternal relationships,
organizations)

17. ○ Cultural and sociopolitical changes/phenomena -
events that happened in history have been
continuously shaping the society and subsequently,
the individuals in it.
• ■ History - The Philippines’ colonial past molded and
changed the Filipino culture, mixing together Spanish,
American, and indigenous cultures

18. The Philippine Political Circus

19. Can you cite some historical events that influence
individuals?
○ National political events
■ Example 1: Filipino-American ties kept politically
and culturally strong since the start of the American
colonization through US Military bases in the
Philippines
● the intermarriage of Filipino and Americans
● Filipinos’ undying love for “imported goods” and
Duty-Free

20. ■ Example 2:
ABS-CBNs shutdown after the denial of franchise
● the passing of the Anti-Terror Law
● Martial Law and People Power

21. ■ Can you give other national political events that
influence individuals?
○ Local events
■ Example 1: Lumads evacuating from their
communities because of militarization and armed
conflict.
■ Example 2: New policies enacted by school
administrators changing students’ level and practice
of freedom—stricter regulations on uniforms, the
creation of more student-led clubs and organizations,
and the practice of academic freedom.

22. NOHS
General Rules and Regulations

23. ■ Example 3: Barangay and SK officials involving the
locals in policy-making through consultations, or
electoral frauds and violence during local elections
■ Can you give other examples of local events that
influence individuals?

24. SHILA ( 1 whole)- Individual
HARSH REALITY OF TODAY’S WORLD

25. Questions:
1.Analyze each picture.
2.How it is related as NOHSian? Explain
your answer.

26. Performance Task # 1- My Identity is My Society
• Paste at least 3 pictures that
best describe today’s society.
Explain why you choose that
pictures.
• Put it on a short size bond paper
• Deadline: Next week monday
Rubrics for scoring:
Concept 5
Visual impact 3
Explanation 5
Timeliness/ 2
Neatness
15 points
GUIDE QUESTIONS: Write a short reflection using the guide
questions.
1.What does the pictures tell about the society where you belong
right now?
2.If given a chance, would you like to change “your society”? Why
or why not?