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ARTS
Fourth Quarter – Module 4
Philippine Festivals in a
Unique Visual Presentation

Department of Education ● Republic of the Philippines

Arts – Grade 7
Alternative Delivery Mode
Fourth Quarter – Module 4: Philippine Festivals in a Unique Visual
Presentation
First Edition, 2020
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Arts
Fourth Quarter – Module 4
Philippine Festivals in a
Unique Visual Presentation

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Introductory Message

For the learner:

Welcome to Arts 7 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on Philippine
Festivals in a Unique Visual Presentation.
Do you love fiestas? Do you know that our county is dubbed as the Festival
Island of the pacific? It is a home of rich, colorful, and lively festivals. Festivals are
delightful events for the Filipinos since we are art-loving and fun-loving people.

This module is designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. It will help you to
process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as
a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener,
an activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or
skill into real life situations or concerns.

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 Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given

to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of
the lesson learned. This also tends to the
retention of learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module, you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing

this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the
module. Written activities will be answered in your MAPEH activity notebook
while outputs will be in a short bondpaper to be made into a portfolio.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the directions carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.

If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not
alone.
We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and
gain a deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 Table of Contents

What I Need to Know ------------- -1

What I Know

Part I. IDENTIFICATION -------------- 2

Part II. TRUE OR FALSE -------------- 4
What’s In

Activity 1: Picture Analysis -------------

What’s New

Activity 2: Picture Comparison --------------- 5

What is It

Religious Festival --------------- 6

Non- Religious Festival -------------- 8
What’s More

Activity 3: Identification --------------- 9

What I Have Learned

Activity 4: Paragraph Completion ------------- 10

What I Can Do

Activity 5: Draw It Out! ---- --------- 11

Rubric ------------- 12
Assessment

Part I. TRUE OR FALSE -------------- 13

Part II. MULTIPLE CHOICE -------------- 13
Additional Activities

Activity 6: Festival Hunt -------------- 14

Rubric -------------- 15
Answer Key -------------- 16

References -------------- 17
 What I Need to Know

In this module, you will learn and understand the different festivals in the
Philippines. It is something that Filipinos look forward every year. If you are not
from the Philippines, it is better to visit during our festivals since it is the perfect
time to discover and witness how colorful and unique the Philippine culture is,
and how different we are from all others.

After going through this module, you are expected to define what makes
each of the Philippine festival’s unique through a visual presentation. (A7PL-
IVh-1)

Specifically, you are expected to:

1. identify the uniqueness of each festival in the country;
2. draw a prop or a headdress used for visual presentation of
a chosen festival; and
3. value the importance of the props and costumes used in
the celebration of the festival.

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 What I Know

Part I: IDENTIFICATION

Directions: Identify what Philippine festival is being referred by the following

pictures in the table below. Choose your answers from the
choices inside the box. Write the letter of the correct answer.

A. Ati-Atihan festival F. Moriones Festival

B. Dinagyang festival G. Pahiyas festival
C. Kaamulan festival H. Panagbenga festival
D. Kadayawan festival I. Santa Cruzan
E. Masskara festival J. Sinulog festival

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Part II: TRUE OR FALSE

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is

wrong.
1. Sinulog comes from the root word “sulog” which means river current.
2. Panagbenga is a festival celebrated with flower offerings for the
blessed Virgin Mary in catholic churches.
3. Masskara is a festival that wore like the native Atis, covered with
charcoal all over their skin to darken it and sometimes wearing wigs
to make it seem like they have curly hair.

4. Dinagyang is a festival that showcases the rich heritage, colorful history,

and fun-loving spirit of the Ilongo people.
5. Kaamulan festival is a type of festival characterized by colorful
and realistic Roman costumes.

What’s In

Activity 1: PICTURE ANALYSIS

Directions: Below is a picture of Ati-atihan festival. Check (/) the elements and
principles present in the picture.

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 What’s New

Activity 2: Picture Comparison

Directions: Observe the pictures of the two festivals in the Philippines.

What similarities and differences do you observe in the two pictures below?

Picture A Picture B

Sinulog festival Kadayawan festival

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 What is It

Philippines is the Fiesta Island of the Pacific since it is the home of rich,
colourful and lively religious and non-religious festivals.

Religious Festivals

Sinulog festival

• shows the acceptance of Filipino people

to Christianity.
• shows a variety of colorful and well-
made costumes of the dancers.
• Dancers are wearing dressed like angels
with different kinds of accessories. Sinulog

• Music is brought by the drums, trumpets, and the native gongs.

Ati-Atihan festival

• consists of religious processions and

street-parades, showcasing theme
floats, dancing groups while wearing
colorful costumes, marching bands, and
people sporting (athlete) face and body
paints.
• known as "Sadsad" (way of dancing)
• wear costumes that usually made up of Ati-Atihan
broom, hair, or tiger grass, and other indigenous materials.

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Pahiyas festival
• houses are decorated with fruits,
vegetables, and colorful Kiping (shaped,
multi-colored rice- paste,) during the
celebration.
• They brought their farm produce at the
church in honor of the town’s patron St.
Isidro the Laborer Pahiyas

• The face of each participating house also put commercial products such
as hats, abaniko or hand-held fans, mats, bags, the famous Lucban
longganisa (Filipino-style sausages) to showcase their products.

Moriones festival
• classified by colorful and realistic Roman
customs, painted masks, and brightly
colored history.
• The festival is dedicated to Longinus, a
half-blind Roman soldier that supposedly
pierced (pointed object) Christ in his side.
• used indigenous materials for the making Moriones
of armor

Dinagyang festival
• comes from “dagyang”, an Ilonggo term
for revelry or merrymaking - a point of
Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival.
• a showcase of the rich heritage, colorful
history, passionate devotion, and fun-
loving spirit of the Ilonggo people.
• has colorful costumes, booming drum Dinagyang

beats, and energetic dances of the performers while the tribes perform a
street dance routine

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 Non-Religious Festivals

Panagbenga festival
• a word from the local Kankanaey language,
which means “blooming.”
• Most featured in the celebration is the
beautifully arranged flowers atop (on the top)
floats and are showcased in a parade.
• includes street dancing, presented by
Panagbenga
dancers dressed in flower-inspired costumes.

Kadayawan festival
• celebrate abundant crops, performing rituals
that paid tribute to the nature gods
• comes alive every year in August when the
festival begins, showcasing different dances,
floats, tribal costumes, and jewelry
• decorated streets with local fruits, vegetables,
and other harvests while people dance with Kadayawan
abundance for several days

Kaamulan festival
• from Binukid word “Amul” which means
“to gather”.
• celebrates the customs and traditions of the
seven tribal groups that originally inhabited
the Bukidnon region, namely, the Bukidnon,
Higaonon, Talaandig, Manobo, Matigsalug,
Tigwahanon, and Umayamnon.
Kaamulan
• celebrate a festival by telling legendary stories,
relieving ancient rituals, playing and listening to ethnic music, and doing
traditional dances.

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 What’s More

Activity 3: Identification

Directions: Identify what makes Ati-atihan festival unique. Write in one or two
sentence/s or phrase/s in the box below.

Example: Sinulog Ati-Atihan

-shows the acceptance of

Filipino people to
Christianity.
- shows some colorful and
well-made costumes of
the dancers, to the
beautiful dances and to
the music brought by the
drums, trumpets, and the
native gongs.

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 What I Have Learned

Activity 4: Paragraph Completion

Directions: Complete the paragraphs by filling in the blanks with the

appropriate words.

The native dance of Sinulog shows the acceptance of Filipino people to

______ in a way that makes our beliefs stronger. People coming from different
parts of the globe also came to witness the ______, because aside from their
colorful designs, some are dressed like an angel with different types of
accessories.
Ati-Atihan consists of religious processions and street-parades,
showcasing theme floats, dancing groups wearing ______ costumes, marching
bands, and people with sporting face and body paints.
Pahiyas festival shows the unique and fantastic designs of their houses
with ______ products produced like vegetables, fruits, and flowers.
The ______ festival is characterized by colorful and realistic Roman
costumes to imitate the suffering of Jesus Christ as he was crucified. Panagbenga
festival is a word from the local Kankanaey language, which
means “______”.

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 What I Can Do

Activity 5: Draw It Out!

Directions: 1. Draw a prop or a headdress used for visual presentation of your
chosen Philippine festival. Then, answer the question that follows.

2. How do the props and costumes help in creating a good visual

presentation in a festival?

Example:
headdress Moriones Festival
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Rubric
Category 5 4 3

Creativity and Shows an original Shows an artwork Shows a pure

idea of an artwork inspired from imitation of
Craftsmanship
and displays effort in others with a other artworks
designing combination of
own ideas and
designs
Resourcefulness Artwork clearly Artwork shows Artwork does
shows the use of less use of easily not display
easily found natural found natural any natural
materials in a materials. materials.
detailed and specific
way.
Content The design of the The design of the Not related
prop/headdress prop/headdress
drawn is related to drawn is somehow
the chosen festival. related to the
chosen festival.

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 Assessment

Part I: TRUE OR FALSE

Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is wrong.
1. Kadayawan is a festival of thanksgiving for the gifts of nature.
2. During Kaamulan festival celebration, houses are decorated with fruits,
vegetables, and colorful kiping.
3. Ati-Atihan festival dancers wear costumes that usually made up of broom,
hair, or tiger grass, and other indigenous materials.
4. Dinagyang Festival is the showcase of the rich heritage and colorful history
of the Cebuano’s people.
5. Panagbenga festival is a celebration to tribute the City in its beautifully
grown flowers and is celebrated in February.

Part II: MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Read and answer the following items below. Choose the letter of the
correct answer.

1. Kadayawan Festival is celebrated every August in the place of ____.

2. Kaamulan festival celebrates the customs and traditions of the

Seven tribes in __________.
A. Bukidnon B. Cebu C. Lucban D. Marinduque
3. Dinagyang is being represented in a form of_____.
A. Ati face C. Masskara
B. Colorful costumes D. Tattoos of the body
4.Sinulog festival shows the acceptance of _____________ in the City of Cebu.
A. Animalism B. Christianity C. Islam D. Hinduism
5. People celebrate Ati-Atihan to honor_________.
A. Mama Mary B. San Antonio C. Santo Niño D. ancient people
6.Panagbenga is celebrated during _________ season.
A. Blooming flower B. Harvest C. Plant D. None of the above
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 7. Pahiyas is for San Isidro Labrador while Dinagyang is for____.
A. San Antonio B. Santa Cruz C. Santo Niño D. San Pablo
8. Moriones is a festival celebrated during_______Season.
A. Christmas B. Fiesta C. Lenten D.Souls day
9. Sinulog is a dance step being similar to an____.
A. Ocean B. Mountain C. Rice field D. River current
10. The main highlight of the Sinulog festival is____
A. Agricultural display C. Flower offerings
B. Colorful costume parade D. Street dance

Additional Activities

Activity 6: Festival Hunt

Directions: Select a Philippines festival that you’ve known well. Draw
the costume of the selected festival used during the
celebration as a symbol of their uniqueness. Color your work .

Materials: Bondpaper, Pencil, Watercolor/ Crayons

Example: Sinulog Festival.

Costume

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Rubric:

Excellent Satisfactory Needs

10 pts 7pts. Improvement
5 pts.

Neatness -The drawing is clean -the drawing is -The drawing has

-coloring is in one colored in one eraser marks
direction -has messed up
direction places
- the appearance is - the appearance is
-Overall appearance clean dirty
gives a finished, -an effort has not
beautiful look -it is obvious that been made to keep
the student has the materials alive
-the student had given and beautiful
worked on it
time and effort to his -The student did not
work -The student gives
give the reason for
-The students give the its reason but not using the material.
so accurate.
reason of having the
materials accurately.
Creativity -The drawing is well- -The drawing is -The drawing doesn’t
colored. colored but limited. have colors.
-It is clearly -emphasized -not emphasized
emphasized. -there is an edging
- edging is very clear added -no edging added
that adds beauty to
the artwork.
Likeness The drawing has The drawing The drawing costume
A likeness established a likeness costume uses does not alike from
to the original design. some color, design, the original design.
to the and style to create
original a likeness to the
picture you original design.
copied.

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 Answer Key

.15 False balance, contrast, unity

Principle: pattern, rhythm,

True.14 line,form, texture
False.13 Element:color, shape,
True.12 Ati-atihan Festival
True.11 What’s In
C.10
I.9
A.8 costumes, gender
D.7
Differences: Props and
B.6
dance
F.5 dancing, Festival
G.4 Similarities: Street
E.3 What’ New
H.2
J.1
Pre-Assessment
indigenous .materials
or tiger grass, and other
usually made up of broom, hair,
wear costumes that Ati-atihan –
What’s More

.6 Blooming
.5 Moriones
.4 Agricultural
.3 Colorful
.2 Sinulog
.1 Chritianity
What I have Learned

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 References

Book Reference

Lourdes R.Siobal, Ma Honeylet A. Capulong,Ledda G. Rosenberger, Jeff Foreene M.

Santos, Jenny C. Mendoza, Cherry Joy P. Samoy, Rabboni C. Roxas, and Johanna
Samantha T. Aldeguer- Roxas. Music and Arts Learner's Material. Department of
Education, 2017.

Electronic References

AsiaSociety. “It's More Fun in The Philippines: The Sinulog Festival Fever.”
Asia Society, Asia Society Philippine Foundation, Inc.,
asiasociety.org/philippines/it%E2%80%99s-more-fun-philippines-sinulog-
festival-fever.

Photo Credits

Abola, Jay. “Dinagyang Festival 2008.” CC Search, Flickr, 28 Jan. 2008,

ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/89970d75-46c9-47ba-a557-
1cd9c29d0d86.

Agustin, Constantine. “Sinulog Festival 2012 Photos.”CC Search, Flickr, 15 Jan. 2011,
ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/de15c7ce-8008-4410-8714-
571014501a09.

Alba, James. “Santa Cruzan - A Filipino Tradition.” CC Search, Flickr, 13 May 2009,
ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/5f66d686-1218-4926-922d-
97299a5a48dd.

Fabella, Bar. “Moriones in Gloria, Or. Mindoro.”CC Search, Flickr, 31 Mar. 2010,
search.creativecommons.org/photos/0f434dc9-1f25-43d8-b5e3-e3ea926b86c3.

Lozañes, Christian Evren. “Ati-Atihan Festival 2011.”CC Search, Flickr, 15 Jan. 2011,
ccsearch.creativecommons.org/photos/26859968-3e27-4885-8157-
b0d5baeaa318.

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