Task for Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

Thematic Assessment Task for Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences (DISS)

Target Learning Competency/ies
Recognize multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary as an approach to looking at society (HUMSS_DIS 11-IVh-7)

Title of Output:
Words from the Heart (Poem Writing)

Theme;
Lining Up to the Front: A Tribute to the Frontliners

Main Task:

You are going to compose a poem dedicated to frontliners. Practice delivering this poem as a spoken poetry. Let us then put you in an imagined spotlight where you are chosen to represent the school to deliver a poignant tribute to all the frontliners, your chosen audience, that will inspire them to continue serving us amid the uncertainties and threats of Covid-19. 

The following must be noted before you set out with this task:

1. Only ONE POEM should be composed for all your subjects, following the mechanics provided by your respective teachers.
2. This will be video- recorded while you deliver (because you have to imagine to be delivering this in front of an audience). The video should at least last for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. The type of frontliners to whom you will dedicate your poem will change according to your strand: 

STEM: medical practitioners and all allied health professions, and engineers

ABM: business allied professions

HUMSS: teachers, policemen, lawyers and all social sciences allied professions

TVL: as per specialization

Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

Task for Introduction to Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

1.Write a poem depicting COVID 19 as a worldwide phenomenon
2. The poem’s content must be dominated by concepts on how multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary approaches of frontliners in helping people to mitigate the pandemic’s effects to their lives.
3. Apply the intersections of the interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches in understanding the COVID 19.
4.Record yourself delivering the poem in a short video format with two to three minutes duration

Criteria:

Voice Impact-10% (10 PTS.)
Content-60%  (60 PTS)
Originality-30% (30 PTS)
TOTAL-100% (100 PTS)

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ALTERNATIVE TASK for Disciplines and Ideas in the Social Sciences

In case you do not have the gadget or smart phones (internet- ready phones), to video- record yourself while delivering your spoken poetry, you may do the following alternatives:

• Alternative 1. Provide printed/handwritten copy of your poem.
• Alternative 3. Personally, deliver your spoken poetry during the retrieval/distribution of your modules Applicable for extreme case only where the learner’s situation does not conform to option no. 2. Subject teachers may sit together, following strictly the health protocols for a one-time delivery of the learner.

Reference: Thematic Assessment Workshop 2-5 and LAS for Thematic Assessment