HOMEROOM GUIDANCE MODULE 14

Let’s Try This

“Me and My Responsibilities”

Suggested Time Allotment: 23 minutes

Ask somebody from your family to help you in accomplishing the chart indicating different
categories of Life like SELF, FAMILY, FRIENDS/NEIGHBORS, ORGANIZATIONS,
COMMUNITY/SOCIETY and ENVIRONMENT. Copy the chart below on a clean sheet of
paper and write what you perceived as your duties and responsibilities in each category.

Chart
Category of Life Duties and Responsibilities
Self Learn from every mistake that I made,
work hard, and become a better person.

Family Instill value in them and keep them in

touch.

Friends/Neighbors Help them in every possible way and give

them unconditional love and support.

Organizations Be good in decision-making and be

considerate.

Community/Society Maintain healthy relations and be

empathic.

Environment Engage myself in activities that help our

environment.

Processing Questions:
1. How do you find the activity?
- I find the activity easy because I know all my duties and
responsibilities in every category of my life.
2. Was it difficult to write down your responsibilities? Why? Why not?
- It’s not difficult to write down my own responsibilities because I know
what my responsibilities are by understanding the aspects of my life
that are within my control.
3. In which category do you feel you have the most responsibilities? Explain.
- I have the most responsibilities in myself. Taking responsibilities in
myself helps me take control of my choices and my own perceived
reality. It also helps me regulate my life properly and prevents me from
derailing my mental and physical health.
 Let’s Explore This
Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes
Activity 1

“Responsibili-TREE”

You are going to rank the posted categories on each branch of the tree. The
category for which you feel the greatest should be written on the highest branch and the
least should be on the lowest branch of the tree. Lastly, you identify and write down
below how they demonstrate and fulfill their duties and responsibilities for each
category.

Self

Family

Friends/neighbors

Environment

Community/society
Processing Questions:

1. How did you feel while ranking the different categories of life?
- Ranking the different categories of life gives me difficulties
because they are all important to me but I was happy because I’m
finally done ranking them.
2. Which experiences related to performing one’s responsibilities helped in
shaping who you are at present?
- Being a student leader is one of my experiences related to
performing one’s responsibilities that helped me shaping who I am
right now. Being a student leader allows me to communicate with
other people and set an example to the members.
3. Why is it important to perform one’s responsibilities?
- It is important to perform one’s responsibilities because it is a
necessary aspect of life. It provides a sense of purpose, in addition
to building resilience amidst adversity on an individual. Its also a
defining trait in building a person’s character.

Activity 2
Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes
The Responsible I am
You are going to complete the table below by filling in the three columns, first is the
challenges met in life, how these challenges are solved and try to evaluate yourself and
then identify what are the positive skills developed which are very helpful in dealing with
more responsibilities in life in the future.
Challenges Met in Life Strategies in Solving Positive Skills Developed
Challenges
Exams Study/Review Thinking Skills
Stress Stress Elimination Stress Management Skills
Distractions Practice Meditation Physical Relaxation Skills

Processing Questions:
1. Have you internalized how tough and positive a person you are?
- Yes, being tough and positive are fundamental to living our best life. It also
aids in our ability to take risks, try new things, and cope with any difficult
situations that life may throw at us

2. Do you think that the life challenges that you will encounter will be easier to deal with
because of what you have learned and with the positive skills developed in solving them?
Why?
 - Yes, the things that I learned in terms of positivity helps me because
positivity influence the way I am thinking. It helps me remove stress and think
of a better way or solution in a particular moment.

3. Are you willing to share and help others to conquer their challenges in life? How?
- I am more than willing to help others to conquer their challenges in life in
any possible ways that I can. I can help them by expressing concern, give
them reassurance, and offering them my time to listen.

You Can Do It

My Model Citizen
Suggested Time Allotment: 35 minutes
Identify one person in your family whom you think has good characteristics in
becoming successful in his/her studies. It could be your parent, guardian, sibling,
grandparent, aunt/uncle, cousin, neighbor, teacher/ school personnel, fellow learner or
someone in your community.

- I think my second brother has good characteristics in becoming successful in his

studies. He takes responsibility for himself and for his actions. He knows how to focus on
his studies when it matters while also taking breaks when needed. My brother can also
manage his time wisely, stick to meaningful study schedules, have a good time, and love
gaining knowledge as much as he enjoy getting stellar grades despite this new normal
learning that is quite difficult.

Processing Questions:

1. What can you say about the three inspiring citizens in the activity as well as
your model citizen in your family?
 - The three inspiring citizens in the activity as well as my model citizen
in our family are good in handling any difficult situations while also
working hard in achieving their goals. They are facing a lot of
challenges in life, but that didn’t stop them in doing the things they like
and showing their talents and skills.
2. What characteristics do you think that they have that enabled them to be
successful even during a difficult situation?
- The characteristics I think they have that enabled them to be
successful even during a difficult situation are drive, self-reliance,
willpower, patience, integrity, passion, optimism, and self-confidence.
3. Do you want to be like them? Why or why not? If yes, how?
- I want to be successful like them despite the hardships in life. They
have their own talents and goals to achieve and as for me, one of my
goals is to become a successful business owner or businesswoman
someday. It requires a good education in the field so I’ll work hard and
study everything I need to know about business.

What I have learned

“Bridging the Gaps”

Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes

You will design ways of becoming a responsible learner by accomplishing the
worksheet below on a clean sheet of paper/bond paper.

Bridging the Gaps

What are my responsibilities? What have I done to fully perform my
responsibilities?
 Keep learning new things.  Have a good understanding of
 Take responsibility for my myself, accept my
thoughts, feelings, words, responsibilities, and devote
actions, inactions and my full attention to it.
intentions.
 Live in the present moment.
 Feel calm and confident.
  Avoid negative thinking.
What should I improve to become a How will I do these improvements (for
responsible person who responds to self and others)?
life’s challenges positively?
 I need to put myself into a
 I think I should improve my calm confidence and try to
positive thinking to avoid look for the intentions behind
stress. people’s behavior because it
will allow me to understand
the person means.

Share your Thoughts & Feelings

Suggested Time Allotment: 10 minutes

On a sheet of paper/coupon bond, answer the given question below.

How did your experience about the COVID-19 pandemic become beneficial to you?

We experienced an unprecedented change in the wake of the COVID-19

pandemic. All of us struggled to adapt with this situation, but this pandemic taught us
many things from the experiences that we encountered. This situation changed my life,
from my morning routine to my goals and priorities. Having difficulties in the new normal
learning caused me to have an emotional breakdown often and it was hard to deal with.
But as the pandemic goes by, I learned to focus on myself and stop any distractions and
negative thinking. I also learned to make lifestyle changes that helps me to cope with
any challenges that I might face. In addition, my experiences during the COVID-19
pandemic brought some benefits to me. As stated, it helps me to become the better
version of myself.