SYLLABUS in

GROWING IN
CHARACTER 4
OBJECTIVES COURSE CONTENT STRATEGIES VALUES EVALUATION
 Explain the virtue A. Preliminary Activities Fortitude Deciding What to Do p.13-
of fortitude, and Unit 1 Becoming a Good Motivation 14
how it can help Member of the Family 1. Let the pupils look at Standing Tall p.15
one face through Personal the pictures on p.2. Ask
challenges Responsibility them the questions under
 Discover the need the pictures.
to verify the truth Lesson 1
about things that I Have Strength and 2. Read the story A on p.3-
one hears Courage 8. Ask the pupils if they
encountered that in real
life situation.

B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.9-10.
Discuss the answers as
class.
Act. A – serves as
homework (p.10)
Act. B – group work
Act. C – let the pupils
answer the activity on
p.11-13
 Explain the virtue, Lesson 2 A. Preliminary Activities Perseverance Deciding What to Do p.27
of perseverance, I Can Achieve My Goals Motivation
and how it can 1. Ask the pupils to think
help in achieving of a goal that they want to
one’s goal achieve.
2. Read the introduction
on p.16.
3. Read the story Patrick
and the Bike on p.17-21.
 B. Developmental
Activities

Act. A – ask the pupils to

answer the questions on
p.22
Act. B – let the pupils write
what they perceive to be
their fears and
unreachable dreams
Act. C – allow the pupils to
reflect on what they have
written in Act. B
 Explain what Lesson 3 A. Preliminary Activities Patience Deciding What To Do p. 39
patience means I Can Be Patient Motivation Standing Tall p. 40
and how it can 1. Ask the pupils to look at
contribute to the pictures on p.30.
maintaining good 2. Read the story Lolo and
relationship with Lola Come to Visit p.31-34.
others, especially
with those in one’s B. Developmental
family Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.35.
Discuss the answers as a
class
Act. A – as a class, go
through the words listed
on p.36
Act. B – let each pupil find
a partner to converse with
using the sign language
alphabet
 Act. C – let the pupils
answer the questions on
p.39
 Find out what Lesson 4 A. Preliminary Activities Critical Thinking Deciding What to Do p.47-
critical thinking is, I Can Think Motivation 48
and know how to 1. Read the introduction
apply it in real-life on p.41
situations, both 2. Read the story Diego
ordinary and Wants a Cell Phone p.41-
extraordinary 45.

B. Developmental
Activities
Thinking It Through
Act. A – ask the pupils to
make a one-minute
version of the story they
have just read
Act. B – group work. Let
them do the activity on
p.45-46
 Recognize that Lesson 5 A. Preliminary Activities Open-mindedness Deciding What To Do p.58
every person is There Is No Rainbow with Motivation Standing Tall p.58
unique, and that Only One Colour 1. Ask the pupils to
our diversity imagine what life would
makes life be like if
beautiful and - everything in our lives
interesting had the same colour
 Find out the value - everyone looked the
of open- same
mindedness, and - we only had one kind of
be able to put it food or clothing
into practice 2. Read the intro. on p.49.
Explain each paragraph to
 the pupils.
3. ask them to add
additional examples of
things which are different
from each other, but
which become beautiful
when put together.
Some examples:
a. a box of different-
colored crayons
b. a house made from a
combination of materials
c. fruit salad
4. Read the story When
Differences Unite and
Enrich on p.50-53.

B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.54.
Read the text under
Forming Your Values on
p.54-55.
Let the pupils go through
the situations on p.55-57.
Find out the value of Lesson 6 A. Preliminary Activities Truth Deciding What To Do p.67-
telling the truth The Truth Will Set Me Free Motivation 68
1. Ask the pupils if they
have heard the story of
Pinocchio. Recall the story
and bring out the salient
points.
2. Ask the pupils if they
 have heard the story of
The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Recall the story and bring
out the salient points.
3. Ask the pupils to point
out what the two stories
have in common.
4. Read the story Ena’s
New Pen on p.60-63.

B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the exercise on p.64-65.
Discuss the answers as a
class.
Act. A – Who Stole the
Cookie from the Cookie
Jar? activity
Act. B – ask the pupils to
reflect on their work on
p.66-67
Act. C – ask the pupils to
think of the benefits of
telling the truth
 Recognize that Lesson 7 A. Preliminary Activities Self-control Deciding What To Do p. 72
controlling one’s I Can Control My Emotions Motivation Standing Tall p.75
emotions is 1. Read the situation on
beneficial to p.69.Ask the pupils to
oneself and one’s imagine themselves in
relationship with these situations.
others 2. Read the poem When I
 Enumerate the Lost My Temper on p. 70-
practical ways to 71.
 control oneself in
tan upsetting
situation B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.72

Forming Your Values

1. Ask the pupils to read
the text under Forming
Your Values on p.73.
2. Ask the pupils to find a
partner and role play an
upsetting situation, and
counting from one to ten
in order to control one’s
emotions.
 Explain the Lesson 8 A. Preliminary Activities Calmness Deciding What To Do p.
positive effects of Calmness Motivation p.74-75
knowing how to 1. Read the quotation and Standing Tall p.75
be clam and the the intro. on p.76.
negative effects of 2. Read the story of Lola
not knowing how Belen’s Purse on p.76-80.
to be calm
 State the practical B. Developmental
ways to calm Activities
oneself Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.80-81.
Discuss the answers as
class.

Forming Your Values

1. Read the text under
Forming Your Values on
p.81-82
2. Give the pupils to
practice the breathing
exercise to calm oneself.
3. Ask the pupils to find
the partner and role play
an upsetting situation,
depicting how to control
one’s emotions by
counting from one to ten
and willing oneself to be
calm through the
breathing exercise. Ask for
volunteers to show to
class the scenarios they
have role-played.
 Find out the Unit 2 Building A. Preliminary Activities Empathy Deciding What To Do p.96-
difference Relationships with Others Motivation 97
between empathy, 1. Read the introduction Standing Tall p. 99
empathy, and Lesson 9 on p.86. Allows the pupils
apathy I Know How I Feel to respond and briefly talk
 Show empathy for about their experiences.
others and be able 2. Read the story From
to put it into Victims to Helpers p.86-91.
practice
B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to form
groups with about five
members each. Let them
do the activity on p.91-93.

Forming Your Values

1. Read the text under
Forming Your Values on
p.93-94.
2. Let the pupils analyse
the situations on p.94-96
 Recognize the Lesson 10 A. Preliminary Activities Generosity Deciding What To Do
value of being I Can Share What I Have Motivation p.106-107
generous 1. Let the pupils look at
 Realize that the pictures on p.100. Ask
generosity does their opinions about what
not only involve is happening in the
money or pictures.
material, 2. Read the story Jane’s
possession, but Birthday Party on p.100-
also time, and 106.
other nonmaterial
things
 Put the value of B. Developmental
generosity into Activities
practice Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p. 106-
107. Discuss the answers
as a class.

Forming Your Values

Read the text under
Forming Your Values on p.
107-108. Explain each
paragraph further, and
encourage inputs from the
pupils.
 Find out the Lesson 11 A. Preliminary Activities Sincerity Deciding What To Do p.
importance of I Am Sincere in Word and Motivation 108-111
being sincere in Deed 1. Read the quotation on
one’s words and p.113. Encourage the
actions pupils to give their
opinions on what it
means. Explain further if
their opinions are not
enough to capture the
meaning of quotation.

2. Read the story of Nene

and the Pancit on p.113-
117

B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.117-
118. Discuss the answers
 as class.

Forming Your Values

1. Read the reflection

under Forming Your
Values on p.118-119.
Explain each paragraph
and encourage inputs and
questions from the pupils.
2. Ask the pupils to do the
activity on Sincerity and
Insincerity on p.119-120.
Discuss the answers as a
class afterwards.
 Explain the value Lesson 12 A. Preliminary Activities Respect Deciding What To Do
of showing respect I Give Value When I Motivation p.134
 Enumerate the Respect 1. Let the pupils look at Standing Still p. 135
concrete ways of the situations on p.124.
showing respect in Let them express how they
different feel and react in the said
situations situations.
2. Read the story Carl’s
New School on p.125-129.

B. Developmental
Activities
1. Read the text under
Thinking It Through on
p.129-130. Explain what it
means and encourage the
pupils to give their inputs.
2. Ask the pupils to do the
exercise on p.130-131.
 Discuss the answer as a
class.

Forming Your Values

1. Act. A – do the exercise
on p.132
2. Act. B – discuss the
meaning of the words in
Activity A
3. Act. C – do the exercise
on p.133
 Find out how Lesson 13 A. Preliminary Activities Kindness Deciding What To Do
being kind Kindness Motivation p.114-115
positively impacts 1. Read the quotation on Standing Still p.146
oneself, the p.136. Ask the pupils how
people around they understand this
him or her, as well quotation.
as nature 2. Read the story An
 Explain the virtue Afternoon in the Park on
of kindness in p.136-141.
oneself and
practice it B. Developmental
concretely Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.142.
Discuss the answers as a
class.
 Discover the Unit 3 Nationalism and A. Preliminary Activities Appreciation of the Deciding What To Do
different elements Globalism Motivation Filipino culture p.156-157
of our Filipino 1. Ask the pupils to look at Standing Still p.158
culture Lesson 14 the pictures on p.148. Ask
 Show and increase I Am a Filipino and I Am them if they are familiar
the love that one Proud to Be One! with these aspects of the
has for the Fil. culture.
Philippines 2. Read the lyrics of
Lupang Hinirang on p.149.

B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to reflect on
the lyrics of our national
anthem and answer the
questions on p.150-152.

 Realize that the Lesson 15 A. Preliminary Activities Discipline Deciding What To Do

progress of our What I Do Is Important to Motivation p.166-170
country is not My Country’s Progress 1. Ask the pupils to look at Standing Still p.172
dependent on the signs on p.159. Ask
other people them if they have seen
alone, but on each signs like this. Ask what
one of us the signs mean, and what
 Enumerate the they think there are signs
concrete ways to like these.
contribute to the 2. Read the situations
progress of our described in Starting Right
country, and put on p.160
these into action
B. Developmental
Activities
Ask the pupils to answer
the questions on p.161.
 Discuss the answers as a
class.

 Realize that one is Lesson 16 A. Preliminary Activities Globalism Deciding What To Do p.

not just part of the I Show Concern for the Motivation 183-185
family, school, World I Live in 1. Read the introduction
community and on p.173. Let the pupils
the country that reflect on the questions at
he or she is from, the end of each
but also of a paragraph.
bigger world 2. Read the story Building
 Show interest and a Mosaic of a Better and
concern for people More United World on
and issues in other p.174-177.
places of the
world, as well as B. Developmental
those that affect Activities
humanity as a Read the text under
whole Thinking It Through on
p.178-179. Explain each
paragraph. Ask questions
to see how much the
pupils have understood.
 Describe the Unit 4 Faith In and Love A. Preliminary Activities Spirituality Deciding What To Do p.
concept of for God Motivation 194-197
spirituality 1. Read the introduction
Lesson 17 on p.188. Explain the text.
Beyond 2. Read the story of
Creating a World on p.188-
193

B. Developmental
Activities
 Thinking It Through

Read the text under

Thinking It Through on
p.193-194. Explain each
paragraph and encourage
the pupils to give inputs
and ask questions.

Forming Your Values

Let the pupils reflect on

the points of Thinking It
Through and do the
exercise under Forming
Your Values on p.194-197.
 See the love of Lesson 18 A. Preliminary Activities Love for God Deciding What To Do p.
God for oneself God Loves Me and I Love Motivation 210-213
through the many Him 1. Ask the pupils to look at
expressions of this the pictures on p.202. Ask
love around him them the questions under
or her each of the pictures.
 Discover how one 2. Read the story Harold’s
can respond to Bedtime Prayers on p.203-
this love, not only 206.
in big ways, but
also in the B. Developmental
ordinary, everyday Activities
things
Thinking It Through

Ask the pupils to answer

the questions on p.206-
207. Discuss the answers
 as a class.

Forming Your Values

Read the text under

Forming Your Values on
p.207-209. Let the pupils
reflect on it. Then give
them the chance to talk
about what they have
understood.
 Realize the Lesson 19 A. Preliminary Activities Hope Deciding What To Do
importance of I Have Hope Motivation p.223-225.
having hope in 1. Read the quotation on
every situation hope by Thich Nhat Hanh
 Recognize that on p.215. Ask the pupils
hope should be what they understand
also be about the quotation. Ask
accompanied by them how they describe
concrete action hope in their own words.

B. Developmental
Activities

Thinking It Through

Ask the pupils to answer

the questions on p.206-
207. Discuss the answers
as a class.

Forming Your Values

Read the text under

 Forming Your Values on
p.207-209. Let the pupils
reflect on it. Then give
them the chance to talk
about what they have
understood.
 Explain the Lesson 20 A. Preliminary Activities Charity Thinking It Through p.232-
meaning and I Must Value Charity Motivation 233
importance of Above All Things 1. Read the quotation on
charity p.226. Ask the pupils what
 Know how to put they understand about it.
charity into Ask them if they know
practice Mother Teresa and what
she did in her lifetime. Tell
the pupils more about
Mother Teresa.
2. Read the story Angel
Kim on p.226-231.

B. Developmental
Activities

Thinking It Through

Ask the pupils to answer

the questions on p.232-
233. Discuss the answers
as a class.

Forming Your Values

Read the text under

Forming Your Values on
p.233-234.