GOOD CITIZENSHIPModular Unit 2

WHAT IS

GOOD CITIZENSHIP?

• To grow in awareness of the 4 clusters of 17 basic values of good citizenship embodied in the Constitution

• To appreciate the meaning and significance of these basic values

• To be motivated to do our best, using our particular positions, resources, and capabilities, to nurture these basic values among all within our sphere of influence

OBJECTIVES

Meaning of PREAMBLEThe Good Citizenship Values Clusters:

THE BASIC VALUES OF THE FILIPINOS

a. Maka-Diyos Clusterb. Maka-Tao Clusterc. Maka-Bayan Clusterd. Maka-Kalikasan Cluster

Input No. 2

1 A preliminary statement, especially the introduction to a formal document that serves to explain its purpose.

2 An introductory occurrence or fact; a preliminary

PREAMBLE

Philippine Constitution (1987)

Preamble

We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty God, in order to build a just and humane societyand establish a Government that shall embody our ideals

and aspirations, promote the common good, conserveand develop our patrimony, and secure to ourselves and our

posterity the blessings of independence anddemocracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth,

justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain andpromulgate this Constitution.

The Good Citizenship Valuesand Its Learning Outputs

1. Faith in the Almighty (Paniniwala)2. Respect for Life (Paggalang)3. Order (Pagsunod sa mga alituntunin)4. Work (Paggawa ng Marangal)5. Concern for Family (Pagkalinga)

and Future Generation

A. PAGKAMAKA-DIYOS (Spirituality)

1. Faith in the Almighty (Paniniwala)

Jesus said to them,“Have faith in God.Whatever says to the mountain,‘Be lifted up and thrown to the sea,’and does not doubt in his heart but believesthat what he says will happen,it shall be done for him”

(Mark 11:22-23)

Learning Outputs:• To enable the students to recognize their unique Faith in God • To affirm the students unique gift and illustrate to them how

they can continue to live a life of faith in God.

2. Respect for Life (paggalang)

“Life is raw material.We are sculpting our existenceinto something beautiful,or debase it into ugliness.It’s in our hands” (Cathy Better)

Learning Outputs: • To enable students to realize the relevance of human dignity in their lives • To inspire students to be stewards of life

“Order is the sanity of the mind,the health of the body, the peace for the City, the security of the State.As thebeams of the house,as the bones of the body,so isorder to all things,”(Southey)

3. Order (pagsunod sa mga alituntunin)

Learning Outputs: • To identify the significance of the value of order in the lives of

the students and in nation-building • To apply orderliness in health of body and mind of the people for

unity and peace of the community

“If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”(2Thassloman 3:10)

“Give fish to a man and he will have food to eat a day;Teach him how to fish and he shallhave food to eat throughout his lifetime.” (Confucius)

4. Work (paggawa ng marangal)

Learning Outputs: • To appreciate the value of work • To identify the significant of work and labor I one’slife

“When His parents saw Him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, ‘Son, why have you done this to us? Your Father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety..” He went down with them to Nazareth and was obedient to them; and His mother kept all these things in her heart.”(Matthew 19:4-7)

Learning Outputs: • To identify ways by which the people can promote

the value of peace in their homes, workplace, communities and country

5. Concern for the Family (pagkalinga)and Future Generation

A. PAGKAMAKA-TAO (shared being/bayanihan)

1. Love 2. Freedom 3. Peace 4. Truth 5. Justice

“Love is patient…It never fails, its eternal…There are faith,hope and loveand the greatest of these is love.”(1 Corinthians 13)

Learning Outputs: • To illustrate the real essence of love and how can truly be applied

1. Love

“Freedomconsists not in doing what we like,but in having the rightto do what we ought.” (Pope John Paul II)

Learning Outputs: • To raise the interest and appreciation of the value of freedom in our life

2. Freedom

“Glory to God in the highestand on earth peaceto men of goodwill” (Luke 2:14)

3. Peace

Learning Outputs: • To identify ways by which the people can promote

the value of peace in their homes, workplace, communities and country

“The truth can be hidden for a timebut it cannot be overcome” (St. Augustine)

“If it is not right do not do it;if it is not true, do not say it” (Marcus Aurelius)

4. Truth

Learning Outputs: • To highlight the basic importance of truth in one’s life, its role in national development and in building a more just and humane society

“You, Lord, are just in all your ways, faithful in all your works” (Psalm 145:17)

“Treat others the way youwant to have them treat you.”(Matthew 7:12)

5. Justice

Learning Outputs: • To identify the relevant social issues that highlightthe value of justice