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Republic of the Philippines

Region IV-A CALABARZON


Department of Education
LAGUNA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Santa Cruz District
Province of Laguna

Quarter 1 Reading Material: Development Through the Help of Significant People


Week 5: Reading and Focused Group Discussion
PART I: READING

Significant/Influential Their Roles/Functions


People in One’s Life
PARENTS  Parents are the first people who introduce you to life.
 They provide shelter, protection, and sense of security no matter what
happens.
 The concept of home is formed coupled with love and much sacrifices that
either your mother or father is willing to give.
 When you want to hear honest opinion about the things you need to
improve, they would never hesitate to tell exactly what needs to be done.
 Parents play the largest role in a person’s mental, emotional, physical, and
social development.
 They teach you the first valuable lessons in life that became an integral part
of your personality as you continue to discover the world.
 They get involved with your education and happy to see you achieve and
discover potentials.
 Parents’ advices are far more important than any other people’s advices in
terms of making sound decisions in life.
SIBLINGS  Siblings are friends within a family.
 They extend valuable help whenever you are in need of assistance.
 They teach you the concept of socialization, mutual understanding, and
respect.
 Like friendship, your relationship with your sister or brother requires
communication and acceptance.
 As you grow older you realize their significant part in your life and continue
to establish close ties among them.
 Although disagreements are normal part among siblings, it is important to
understand that all of you have sets of differences.
 Sibling bond is nothing compared with any other bonds in the world as long
as its foundation is anchored with much love and appreciation.
FRIENDS  Friends are like extended siblings who came from different families.
 They give us a sense of belongingness for an individual would always want
to be part of something.
 Friends also teach us the value of love, respect, understanding, and
acceptance.
 They help us improve in our social connection, emotional stability, and
inspires our intellectual capacity.
 True friends support only what is good and reject what is not. They refuse to
tolerate unacceptable behavior and seek to correct your shortcomings.
 Friends bring out the best in a person and they share mutual interest,
hobbies, and aspirations.
TEACHERS  Teachers are the second parents in school.

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 They help you improve your intellectual and emotional capacity to handle
difficult situations in life.
 They guide you to understand the valuable lessons about life that would last
for a lifetime.
 Their influence does not fade because they provide exceptional impact
towards self-realization and self-discovery.
 Teachers walk along the progress of the leaners; that makes it more
memorable and enduring for life.
 Good teachers inspire learners to do better in making decisions.
 Being the role model in class, they set example to learners who need much
guidance in school.
COMMUNITY LEADERS  Community leaders provide network connections and linkages among other
parts of the community.
 They inspire adolescents to get involved with community services through
outreach programs, social activities, and volunteer works.
 They model innovation to help improve the community whom they serve.
 Effective leaders set inspiration to others by setting a good example by
following the policies that they try to implement.
 Using their charisma, they tend to persuade others to follow them; thus, they
can generate many programs to address the needs of the people.
 Adolescents like you can learn from their accomplishments and may get
inspired to become servant-leaders in the future.

Additional Information:
Intercultural Understanding – a combination of knowledge about the other cultures at a cognitive level, combined
with a set of attitudes at the affective level.

Cognitive Level – refers to the ability to recall learned things from simple facts to complete theories.

Affective Level – refers to the ability of an individual which involves feelings, attitudes, and emotions.
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Examples of Intercultural Understanding
 International schools
 A Christian living with a Muslim
 A woman receiving an order from a man
 A Tagalog and Visayan sharing their views

As long as people with different cultures comprehend and accept one another in a single community, it also equates
to intercultural understanding.

PART II: FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSION


Direction: Group the section with 5-6 members. Read the material silently then draw out the important information.
After that, pick a moderator who will facilitate discussion and make sure that everyone is facilitating. (10 minutes for
reading the material)

Questions to be answered:
1. How and why grateful are you for the following people: parents, siblings, friends, teachers, and community
leaders?
2. What can you do for your community so it will have intercultural understanding?
3. Suggest things that you can do to prevent the spread of diseases.

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