Making Connections

between Texts to
Particular Social
Issues
Connections
 It is the action of linking or
connecting one person or one
thing with another.
You can connect…
 to the characters
 to the plot
 to the setting or place
 to visualize, taste, smell, feel or hear the text
 to predict or infer what will happen in the text
 to what you know about the topic or word
 to help feel emotions related to the text
 to what you know about the text organization or text
structure
Connections and Comparisons
What’s your text-to-self connection?
Text-to-Self Connection
 It is a highly personal connections that
a reader makes between a piece of
reading material and the reader’s own
experiences or life.
Text to Self
 What does this text remind me of?
 Did I have a similar experience in any way?
 What did I see and hear?
 How did I feel?
 Am I bringing meaning to the words to help me
read better?
Text-to-World Connection
 It is the larger connections that a
reader brings to a reading
situation.
 How text connections helps the readers
 It helps readers understand how characters and the motivation
behind their actions.
 It helps readers have a clearer picture in their head as they
read thus making the reader more engaged.
 It keeps the reader from becoming bored while reading.
 It sets a purpose for reading and keeps the reader focused.
Social issue
 is a problem or concern
connected to a larger issue
that affects society in
general.
Common Social Issues
 Examples of social issues are
oppression, political dynasty,
extrajudicial killing, poverty, social
injustice, and discrimination.
Oppression
 refers to relations of domination and
exploitation - economic, social and
psychologic — between individuals; between
social groups and classes within and beyond
societies; and, globally, between entire
societies (Gil, 1994, p. 233
Examples:
 racism
 sexism
 heterosexist/heterosexism
 ableism
 classism
 ageism
 anti-Semitism
Political dynasty
 refers to traditional political families or the
practices by these political families of
monopolizing political power and public
offices from generation to generation and
treating the public elective office almost as
their personal property.
Notable Philippine political dynasties
include the Marcos, Aquino, Binay,
Macapagal, Duterte, Roxas, and Villar
families.
Extrajudicial killing
 is the killing of a person by
governmental authorities or
individuals without the sanction of any
judicial proceeding or legal process.
Examples:
 If a prisoner is executed without an official trial in a
court, it's extrajudicial, and if police officers shoot
and kill a suspect instead of arresting him, that
would also be extrajudicial. Both examples happen
outside of the legal process, and without the checks
and balances that the law provides.
 Poverty
 is a state or condition in which a person or
community lacks the financial resources
and essentials for a minimum standard of
living.
 Examples:
 Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick
and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not
having access to school and not knowing how to
read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the
future, living one day at a time.
 Different Types of Poverty
1. Situational poverty is very common and something you or
someone you know may have experienced. There may have
been a job loss, a divorce, or maybe a health crisis that caused
you to be economically unstable. We've seen a lot of families
who have experienced this during the pandemic, specifically
families who are in service and tourist industries. There are so
many families that were living paycheck to paycheck then had
an event like a job loss and became so much more economically
unstable.
 2. Generational poverty
 is defined as being part of a family that has been living in poverty for
more than two generations. This is different because if you have grown
up in poverty, there are certain thought processes, ways of being, and
ways of knowing that will differ from if you have been brought up say
in the middle-class. What we see is you are constantly in survival
mode and rather than being able to plan for your future and problem
solve, oftentimes you are living in a toxic stress kind of environment
where you are in survival mode. This can shape a generation and
become a cycle that is very hard to get out of.
3. Absolute poverty
 is defined as an absolute lack of
resources, including food
insecurity.
 4. Relative poverty
 is defined as living at about 50% or below the average
income. You may not be wealthy and might be living
paycheck to paycheck, but you have food on the table.
However, in comparison to others around you, you are
certainly struggling. Relative poverty usually is not as
detrimental to the health and brain development of a
young child, but the emotional aspects can take a toll.
The final two types of poverty are urban poverty and rural
poverty. I live in Mississippi, for example, and rural poverty looks
a little different than it does in urban areas. In rural poverty, one of
the main issues is there isn't access to high-speed Internet. When
the pandemic took children out of schools, I would see parents
lined up at schools picking up giant packets of worksheets for four
and five-year-olds. If you were in an urban center, you might
be meeting on Zoom with your teacher online instead of doing the
worksheet packets. People in rural areas are often isolated
and lack access to technology, childcare, and education. In urban
areas, you may have more structural issues such as housing and
safety issues, overcrowding, and sanitation.
 Social injustice
 is described as a situation in which dominant population is made
known of the inequity that leads for others due to their relative
position in the structure of power (Maus n.p.).
 Social injustice is also the way unjust actions are done in the
society.
 Social injustice occurs in a situation where the equals are treated
unequally and the unequal is treated equally.
 Three common examples of social injustice include: discrimination,
ageism, and homophobia (Farooq n.p.).
Examples:
 Education
Homophobia
 Economic inequality Ableism
 Discrimination
Child Labour
 Environmental injustices Human
Trafficking
 Racial equality
Employment Discrimination
 Institutional racism Gender
Violence
 Ageism
 Discrimination
 is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of
people and groups based on characteristics
such as race, gender, age or sexual
orientation (APA, 2020).
 Examples:
 pay discrimination, e.g. when a woman is paid less than a man for doing a
comparable job;
 disability discrimination, e.g. if a workplace doesn’t have disabled facilities,
making it impossible for someone with a disability to work there;
 discrimination based on an employee’s sexuality, e.g. refusing to employ
someone because they are gay.
 However, discrimination can be a complex subject; it may not always be
easy to identify.
 Discrimination in the workplace does not have to be intentional or deliberate
to breach your rights. It is also possible for you to be discriminated against
directly and indirectly.
Direct discrimination if you are someone with a protected characteristic, but
you are treated less favorably because of that characteristic, this amounts to
direct discrimination.
An example of this would be a situation in which an employee wasn’t offered
a job or promotion because they’re a woman.
 Indirect discrimination occurs where there is a policy, rule or requirement
at work that unjustifiably puts you and other people sharing your protected
characteristic at a disadvantage compared to others. In other words,
although you are treated the same as everyone else, you are put at a
disadvantage or it has a negative effect on you.
An example of indirect discrimination is an employer stating that all
employees must work on Saturdays – even those of the Jewish faith, for whom
it is a religious day.
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Making Connection between
Texts to Particular Social
Concerns
Social Concern
 is any issue, problem, or
conflict that is a high
priority for a society to
solve or prevent.
Examples of Social Concerns
 are depression, poverty,
homelessness, crime, corruption,
overpopulation, climate change,
abortion and bullying.
Depression
 is a common and serious medical
illness that negatively affects how
you feel, the way you think and how
you act.
 What are examples of
Depressive Behavior
 Not going out anymore.
 Not getting things done at work or school.
 Withdrawing from close family and friends.
 Relying on alcohol and sedatives.
 Not doing usual enjoyable activities.
 Unable to concentrate.
Poverty
 is a state or condition in which a person or
community lacks the financial resources and
essentials for a minimum standard of living.
Poverty means that the income level from
employment is so low that basic human needs
can't be met.
Homelessness
 is defined as living in accommodation that is below the
minimum standard or lacks secure tenure. People can be
categorized as homeless if they are: living on the streets
(primary homelessness); moving between temporary
shelters, including houses of friends, family and
emergency accommodation (secondary homelessness);
living in private boarding houses without a private
bathroom and/or security of tenure (tertiary
homelessness); or marginal caravan park residents who
are renting.
Crime
 is an unlawful act
punishable by a state or
other authority.
 Examples of Crime
 Illegal drug trade Identity
theft
 Robbery
Murder
 Human Trafficking Domestic
Violence
 Kidnapping
Sexual Assault
 Arson
Rape
 Bribery
Corruption
 is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense
which is undertaken by a person or an
organization which is entrusted in a position
of authority, in order to acquire illicit
benefits or abuse power for one's personal
gain.
 Examples;
 It can include fraud, bribery,
extortion, and other forms of
corruption where the position of
power can be used to cover such
activities.
 Overpopulation or Overabundance
 the state whereby the human population rises to an
extent exceeding the carrying capacity of the
ecological setting. In an overpopulated environment,
the numbers of people might be more than the
available essential materials for survival such as
transport, water, shelter, food or social amenities.
Examples of overpopulated countries
include India, China, Nigeria, Indonesia,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Brazil, which
have large populations relative to their
available resources.
Climate Change
 is the significant variation of
average weather conditions
becoming, for example, warmer,
wetter, or drier—over several
decades or longer.
Abortion
 is when a pregnancy is
ended so that it doesn't result
in the birth of a child.
 Bullying
 is an ongoing and deliberate misuse of power
in relationships through repeated verbal,
physical and/or social behaviour that intends
to cause physical, social and/or psychological
harm.