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PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT
LEARNER'S ACTIVITY SHEET
Quarter 1 – Week 4:
The Challenges of Middle and
Late Adolescence
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT – Grade 11
Learner's Activity Sheet
Quarter 1 – Week 4: The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence
First Edition, 2021

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LEARNER’S ACTIVITY SHEET IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT (G11)
QUARTER 1, WEEK 4

Name:__________________________________ Grade & Section: ______________________

School: _________________________________ Teacher: ______________________________

The Challenges of Middle and Late Adolescence

“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people
are always asking: “What’s in it for me?”
– Brian Tracy

Competencies:
Identify ways that help one become capable and responsible adolescent prepared for
adult life. EsP-PD11/12CA-Ie-4.3

General Reminders: Use this activity sheet with care. Ask your subject teacher for
specific instructions on where to put your answers for this specific LAS. Read the
directions carefully before doing each task. Make sure to accomplish all the tasks provided
herein to facilitate learning.

Explore

Activity: Challenges and Issues Checklist. Read the list carefully and make a check next
to each issues/ challenges that you are now having. Remember that there are no correct
or incorrect answers. Do your best to answer each item as honestly as you can.

____ being shy ____ having to do household chores

____ not having close friends ____ wanting to run away from home
____ feeling taken advantage of by friends ____ feeling out of place in school
____ feeling different from everyone else ____ getting trouble in school
____ feeling uncomfortable when talking to people ____ worrying about future job or college
____ feeling clumsy and awkward ____ depending on others for money
____ having an unattractive face ____ feeling depressed or sad
____ parents being too strict ____not having a boyfriend or a girlfriend
____ parents fighting or arguing ____ not having money to buy clothes
Direction: Based on the above activity, answer the following questions:

1. Are you certain that you are honest with yourself in terms of your struggles as
adolescent? How would you like to make these weaknesses clearer for you so you
could solve them? _______________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

2. Have you analyzed the why’s of your struggles as an adolescent? How can you
change them into wiser choices? _________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

Learn

Ways to Become a Responsible Adolescent Prepared for Adult Life

Becoming responsible and being able to make good choices are very important traits
no matter what developmental stage you are in. It holds true for adolescents especially
that they are just beginning to internalize and imbibe virtues, values, and other essential
qualities.
It may not be easy to be a teenager. There may be lots of things going on in various
facets of their lives. The demands and expectations of their parents and other people
around them can also be stressful. But the good news is, they can treat these ‘difficulties’
as ‘challenges’ which can make their life exciting. Having that mindset is also an indication
of becoming a responsible and mentally mature adolescent.
The following are eight (8) simple rules which could help you, teenagers, to become
a responsible adolescent prepared for adult life:

 Focus on your studies and do well in all of your endeavors. There is time for
everything.

 Take care of your health and hygiene. Healthy body and mind are important as you
journey through adolescence.

 Establish good communication and relation with your parents or guardian. Listen
to them. This may be easier said than done at this stage, but creating good
relationship with them will do you good as they are the ones you can lean on
especially in times of trouble.

 Think a lot before doing something. Evaluate probable consequences before acting.
Practice self-control and self-discipline.
  Choose to do the right thing. There are plenty of situations in which it is better to
use your mind rather than your heart.

 Do your best to resist temptations, bad acts, and earthly pleasures and commit to
being a responsible adolescent.

 Respect yourself. You are an adult in the making. Do not let your teenage hormones
get into you. If you respect yourself, others will respect you too.

 Be prepared to be answerable or accountable for your actions and behavior. It is a

part of growing up and becoming an adult.

Practice Exercises/Activity
Activity: What about You Can Be You?
In a clean sheet of bond paper make a write-up on identifying ways that help one become
capable and responsible adolescent prepared for adult life.

Engage

THE POWER OF PERSONAL DECLARATIONS

by: Dr. Emily De Carlo

So often we accept the declarations that others have made concerning our own lives,
well-being or fate. It is imperative that we recognize that in order to achieve what we want
in life; we must not give our power away to others by accepting their declarations
concerning our affairs. When one decides that he or she will boldly declare good fortune,
wellness, joy, etc. relative to his or her life, all of heaven will break loose! Goodness and
mercy shall surely follow. From birth, we are often told what we are going to be.

Sometimes, this is a good thing, but suppose you have been told time and time again
that "you will not amount to anything just like your mother or father"? This is a dangerous
declaration because it sets into motion the actualization of an unwanted occurrence. All
of us want to amount to something! In order to counteract this and all of the negative
declarations with their destructive potential, one must consciously replace them with one's
own declarations. In so doing, you are now in control of setting into action what you really
want to occur. You can declare that goodness and mercy shall surely follow you all the
days of your life!
 The following are some declarations that you may want to make concerning your
life:
I declare:
that I am totally free of all addictions.
that I will survive any attempts of others to control my life.
that I am free in my mind, body, and emotions.
that I am free to set goals and reach them.
that I am a loving individual with the capacity to give love.
that I am a child of God with all rights and privileges thereof.
that I will contribute to the welfare of others.
that I will be an ambassador of goodwill to all I meet on the journey.
that I will be a good example for others to follow.
that I will help all that I can to reach their goals.
that I will speak words of encouragement to others.
that I will find the goodness in life and focus on it.
that I will not succumb to the negative influences of others.
that I will read the information that will encourage my personal,
and spiritual growth.
that I will commit to being the best I can be.

These declarations are meant to encourage you to take control of the influences in
your life. They are suggestions as to what positive things you can speak about your own
life instead of accepting whatever has been said about you in the past. You now have the
authority to plant the seeds of love, encouragement and victory in your garden, thereby
crowding out the weeds of negativity that may already have taken root! Just as in a garden,
you may have to pull and pull until you get some weeds out. Sometimes, the negative
comments and declarations of others have taken such a stronghold in our lives, that we
must persist until we see the bough not only fall, but break into pieces. Don't be
discouraged if you don't reach your goals overnight. Just remember that even a small
stream of water will crack concrete eventually!!

Activity: My Personal Declaration.

Direction: In a ¼ cartolina create your own personal declaration on becoming capable

and responsible adolescent prepared for adult life. Be creative.

Apply

BEING HAPPY

You may have defects, be anxious and sometimes live irritated, but do not forget
that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can prevent it from going
into decadence. There are many that need you, admire you and love you.
 I would like to remind you that being happy is not having a sky without storms, or
roads without accidents, or work without fatigue, or relationships without
disappointments.

Being happy is finding strength in forgiveness, hope in one’s battles, security at the
stage of fear, love in disagreements.

Being happy is not only to treasure the smile, but that you also reflect on the
sadness. It is not just commemorating the event, but also learning lessons in failures. It
is not just having joy with the applause, but also having joy in anonymity.

Being happy is to recognize that it is worthwhile to live, despite all the challenges,
misunderstandings and times of crises. Being happy is not inevitable fate, but a victory
for those who can travel towards it with your own being.

Being happy is to stop being a victim of problems but become an actor in history
itself. It is not only to cross the deserts outside of ourselves, but still more, to be able to
find an oasis in the recesses of our soul. It is to thank God every morning for the miracle
of life.

Being happy is not being afraid of one's feelings. It is to know how to talk about
ourselves. It is to bear with courage when hearing a "no". It is to have the security to
receive criticism, even if is unfair. It is to kiss the children, pamper the parents, have
poetic moments with friends, even if they have hurt us.

Being happy means allowing the free, happy and simple child inside each of us to
live; having the maturity to say, "I was wrong"; having the audacity to say, "forgive me". It
is to have sensitivity in expressing, "I need you"; to have the ability of saying, "I love you."
So that your life becomes a garden full of opportunities for being happy...

In your spring-time, may you become a lover of joy. In your winter, may you become
a friend of wisdom. And when you go wrong along the way, you start all over again. Thus
you will be more passionate about life. And you will find that happiness is not about having
a perfect life but about using tears to water tolerance, losses to refine patience, failures to
carve serenity, pain to lapidate pleasure, obstacles to open the windows of intelligence.
Never give up ... Never give up on the people you love.

Never give up from being happy because life is an incredible show. And you are a
special human being!
Activity: Slogan on Being Happy.
Direction: In a ¼ cartolina create a slogan on being a happy adolescent.

Post Test

Activity: Issues and Challenges: My Ways.

Direction: Fill out the table below by writing down the issues and challenges that you are
going through as an adolescent and the ways that you are going to do as a capable and
responsible adolescent prepared for adult life.

ISSUES AND CHALLENGES WAYS TO COPE UP ISSUES AND

CHALLENGES