Perdev Topic 3
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Christian BehilUnderstanding Oneself during Middle and Late
Adolescence
Lesson 2:
Directions: According to the symbol
that you have in our first activity,
answer the following questions in your
journal.
1. What do you consider as your
weakness, abilities and talents?
2. What are the remedies you will
take to improve or compensate
for your weakness?
3. How can you further enrich
your assets and strengths?
4. Where and how do you use it
to your best advantage?
Directions: The following list of words is group of strengths and weaknesses. Write
each of them in the following appropriate columns that follow after the list.
Strengths VS Weaknesses
1. Which from your list under
the columns for strengths and
weaknesses are true to you?
2. Do they affect the way you
relate with others?
3. Which from the columns for
strengths or weaknesses has
the majority of the items
which is true to you?
4. What are you going to do with
those strengths and
weaknesses?
5. What are your ways to be able
to do this?
BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES
Instead of giving up or indulging in
self-pity, take action. Go for speech
lessons, get skills upgrading, attend
personality development sessions or
whatever appropriate remedies to your
perceived weakness. Instead of simply
focusing on your weaknesses,
recognize your own talents and
abilities, build on them, utilize them
to your greatest advantage. This is
where you can build your name and
popularity.
BUILD ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND
WORK ON YOUR WEAKNESSES
Handicapped
people like Jose
Feliciano and
other blind
singers did not
brood over their
physical handicap.
Story: YOU The Moviegoer
NEED TO TAKE - This person watches the movie of their lives
admires some parts and criticizes others. Aside
CHARGE OF from that, they do nothing else. All she says the
YOUR FUTURE whole day is, “I like this thing and but I don’t like
that thing.” The Moviegoer feels she has absolutely
no control of their lives --- except to comment
about it.
Story: YOU NEED TO
TAKE CHARGE OF
YOUR FUTURE
The Actor
- This person does not
only watch the movie of
her life. She actually
realizes she’s the Actor
– and can control a big
part of her life. She
can actually make or
break the movie – by
how well she delivers
her lines and how she
portrays her character.
Story: YOU NEED TO
TAKE CHARGE OF
YOUR FUTURE
The Scriptwriter.
- This person does not only
watch, and she doesn’t only act,
but she actually creates the
entire movie from her mind.
- She determines what she will
say, what she will do, and how
the movie will end. She realizes
she has enormous control over
her life, and sees to it that the
movie of her life will turn out
beautiful.
Activity I : Directions: Copy the table below in your journal. Answer what
is asked from you in each column.
1. How to focus on my strengths for me to become productive?
2. How can I develop my weaknesses, for them to become my strength?
3. Why I should have to develop my weaknesses to become my strength?
Activity II
Directions: Now that you know
yourself in your journal, trace
your right hand and in each
finger you are going to write
a word/phrase the steps to
make your weaknesses into a
strength that will help you
become an effective member
of the family/community.
Directions: Enlightened with the learning’s you have in
this lesson; write your insights and realization about
the importance of knowing oneself.
Directions: Answer the following practical questions in
order to form an essay about
“Understanding Myself Better Now”.
1. What have you 2. What are your 3. What are the
discovered in core strengths that qualities you want to
yourself during this you develop during perfect and improve
time of pandemic? this time? for the future?
ASSESSMENT
Directions: Below are situations that need your
affirmation. Put this emoticons ☺ if you are
happy with it and this emoticons if you are
sad.
Test I
1. Your classmate is a very good communicator and
it's easy for him/her to relate to other people.
2. One of your siblings wants to continue for
further studies.
3. You are good in anything when you are thinking
alone.
4. You have a classmate who is good in sense of
humor.
5. Your neighbor’s wife died last month. The
surviving spouse manages to continue his life
normally.
6. After taking the test you found out that
your score is very low. It disappoints you
to the extent that you did not make all
your requirements in the subject.
7. During the time of the corona virus
pandemic, one of your classmates was
able to manage his/her time to become
one of the front liners.
8. Your mother is a front liner and she is
happy of what she is doing.
9. Your teacher is willing to extend his/her
time doing paper works even beyond
office hours.
10. During the lock down your friends manage
to go out unnoticed by the authorities.
Test II: Essay
1. What is the
significance of
understanding oneself
in developing your
weakness into
strengths?
Additional Activities
At this point, you are going to encourage
yourself to step forward despite all the
unpleasant experiences that you encounter in
life. Write an encouragement letter addressed
to your own self, fold it and paste it in your
journal.
