Enrichment Activity

Activity: Gauging Historical Significance of the Past

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“Not all past is History.” Persons, events, and places of the past must have historical
significance to be considered history. They must tell us something important about the past.
They have to create changes in the lives of the peoples and societies and they must still be
relevant in contemporary times. In short, they have no significant shape in how the past is
remembered and represented.

Directions:

1. Each team has to choose a significant person, place, or event in the past either in the
Philippines or in their locality.

2. Guided by the rubric below, answer the following questions.

Success Indicator Descriptor Allotted Points

Completeness All questions are answered. 10
Quality Answer for each question is 15
derived from the video
content. Each answer is
explained well with
elaborations and/or examples.
Miscellaneous The worksheet is erasure-free 5
and cleanly accomplished. No
grammatical lapses are
incurred.

Questions Answers
What do you think about the person, event,
and place that you have chosen?
What do you feel about it?
What is unique or exceptional about it?
Why is this significant and why do you feel it
is significant
What is its revelatory significance?

( What does it significantly tell us about the

past?)
What it is the contemporary significance?

(Why is it considered significant at the time it

happened or when it was contemporary?)
What is its causal significance?

(Did it causes dramatic changes in the

people’s lives as well as the community,
country, world or not?)
What is its present significance?

(How relevant it is to our contemporary

concerns now ( or in the future?)