GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)

Lesson #19

Name: __________________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________

Lesson title: Materials:

Personal Freedom and Responsibility White Board Marker, White Board
Laptop, or Cellphone, Internet
connection

Lesson Objectives: At the end of the lesson, Students are References:

expected to: Sioco & Vinzsons: Introduction to
1. Determine how personal freedom affects our life. the Philosophy of Human Person,
2. Critically apply freedom with morality and responsibility Vidal Group Inc. Quezon City,
3. Interpret a song in relation to personal freedom. 2016
https://discoveringtherealme.wikisp
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1. +Freedom+and+Responsibility
Gazzingan,L., et.al. (2018),
Understanding the Self, Panday.
lahi Publishing

What a pleasant day to everyone!! Our topic for today is about Personal freedom and Responsibility,
which is very important especially we live in a Democratic country.

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW
�� Does happiness equate to freedom?
�� How important freedom is for you?
�� Can we practice freedom without any accountability?

Today’s lesson is all about Personal freedom and Responsibility.

1) Activity 1: What I Know Chart, part 1

This is to measure your before and after knowledge about Personal freedom and Responsibility
Answer the questions below by writing your ideas under the first column What I Know. It’s okay if you
write key words or phrases that you think are related to the questions.

What I Know Questions: What I Learned (Activity 4)

Answer this now (Answer this after you learn
something in the lesson)
What do you understand about
Freedom?
Do we need freedom at home?

In school, office, church,

government, do we need
freedom?
Why is freedom important and
needed by people?

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MAIN LESSON

Freedom is the ability to set your schedule, to decide on the work you do, to make
decisions. Responsibility is being held accountable for your actions. It might involve figuring out how to get
paid for your work, owning your mistakes or having others count on you.

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote; “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes
responsibility.

Balance your freedom and responsibility by managing your time. After figuring out your class (and/or work,
internship, volunteering, etc) schedule, go through your calendar and set aside a specific time just for studying
and homework.

Ultimately, it means considering how your actions will affect people and situations around you. The Recipe
for Responsibility. Responsible behavior is made up of five essential elements—honesty,
compassion/respect, fairness, accountability, and courage.

Personal Freedom
 The power or right of an individual to act, speak, or think
without hindrance or restraint.
 The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
 Unrestricted use of something.

Responsibility
 A duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or complete a
task (assigned by someone, or created by one's own promise
or circumstances) that one must fulfill, and which has a
consequent penalty for failure.

Relationship of Personal Freedom and Responsibility:

Responsibility assumes that the individual can have freedom of action and decision. Therefore, freedom
necessarily leads to responsibility.

Freedom is the power of choice that individuals have in society, while responsibility is the attitude of the
person to respond for the actions he chooses freely.

Freedom makes people responsible for their actions to the extent that they are voluntary, even if the
immutability and responsibility for an action can be diminished or sometimes cancelled by ignorance,
inadvertence, duress, fear, inordinate attachments, or habit.

So, in other words, Freedom means you will have to be responsible for every act, for every breath;
whatever you do or don't do, you will be responsible. Freedom is inseparable from responsibility.

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Activity No 2

Exercise No. 1

Directions: Give at least five kinds of personal freedom with its corresponding responsibility. An example is
already given.

FREEDOM RESPONSIBLE FREEDOM

Ex. To speak Ex. Speak properly and with meaning
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Exercise No. 2

Directions: Read carefully the lyrics, What the song is trying to imply. Write its interpretation as well as its
meaning in relationship to personal freedom. Answer questions below.

Freedom Take back your picture in a frame

By: The Bellas (Pitch Perfect)
I won't let you down
I will not give you up
Gotta have some faith in the sound
It's the one good thing that I've got
I won't let you down
So please don't give me up
'Cause I would really, really love to stick around, oh
yeah
Heaven knows I was just a young boy
Didn't know what I wanted to be (Didn't know what I
wanted to be)
I was every little hungry schoolgirl's pride and joy
And I guess it was enough for me (said I guess it
was enough for me)
To win the race? A prettier face!
Brand new clothes and a big fat place
On your rock and roll T.V.
Don't think that I'll be back again
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man
All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me, yeah yeah
Freedom! (I won't let you down)
Freedom! (I will not give you up)
Freedom! (Have some faith in the sound)
You've gotta give for what you take (It's the one good
thing that I've got)
Freedom! (I won't let you down)
Freedom! (So please don't give me up)
Freedom! ('Cause I would really, really love to stick
around)
You've gotta give for what you take
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But today the way I play the game is not the same,
no way
Think I'm gonna get myself happy
I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I told you so
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone else I've got to be
Take back your picture in a frame
Take back your singing in the rain
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man
All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me yeah yeah
Freedom! (I won't let you down)
Freedom! (I will not give you up)
Freedom! (Have some faith in the sound)
You've gotta give for what you take (It's the one
good thing that I've got)
Freedom! (I won't let you down)
Freedom! (So please don't give me up)
Freedom! ('Cause I would really, really love to stick
around)
You've gotta give for what you take
Heaven knows we sure had some fun, boy
What a kick just a buddy and me (what a kick just a
buddy and me)
We had every big-shot good time band on the run,
boy
We were living in a fantasy (we were living in a
fantasy)
We won the race, got out of the place
I went back home, got a brand new face
For the boys on MTV
But today the way I play the game has got to
change, oh yeah
Now I'm gonna get myself happy
I think there's something you should know
I think it's time I stopped the show
There's something deep inside of me
There's someone I forgot to be
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Well it looks like the road to heaven
But it feels like the road to hell
When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I took the knife as well
Posing for another picture
Everybody's got to sell
But when you shake your ass
They notice fast
And some mistakes were build to last
That's what you get (That's what you get)
That's what you get (I say that's what you get)
That's what you get (for changing your mind)
That's what you get for changing your mind
That's what you get
That's what you get (And after all this time)
I just hope you understand
Sometimes the clothes do not make me, oh yeah
All we have to do now
Is take these lies and make them true somehow
All we have to see
Is that I don't belong to you
And you don't belong to me, yeah yeah
Freedom!
Freedom! (oh freedom)
Freedom! (my freedom)
You've gotta give for what you take
Freedom! (hold on to my freedom)
Freedom!
Freedom! (my freedom)
You've gotta give for what you take
Give for what you, give for what you take yeah
Yeah, you've got to give for what you, give for what
you, give
May not be what you want from me
Just the way it's got to be
Lose the face now
I've got to live, I've got to live, I've got to live
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Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________

Interpretation and meaning in relation to personal freedom:

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Questions:
1. Have you ever made a decision that was entirely your own? Describe it.
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2. Is freedom necessary to live a good life in a good society? Why? Why not?
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3. How free are you? What are the chief limitations on your freedom?
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4. Are there any freedom that you are willing to die for? If so, what are they?
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5. At what point do people become responsible for their actions?

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Exercise No. 3

Directions: Comment on the following statement: “As we get older we naturally desire more freedom.
With that freedom comes greater responsibility. However, many people want freedom
without the responsibility.”

In the first column write the decisions you were able to make as a small child. In the second column write the
decisions you are presently able to make. Finally, in the third column, write decisions which you plan to be able
to make as an independent adult. Write at least five for each column.

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Decisions you were able to make when Decisions you are Decisions which you plan to be able to
you were in your high school years presently able to make. make as an independent adult.

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To be truly free means to be completely responsible for your life. You determine the outcome of your life and no
one else. If someone else takes responsibility for you, to that degree you are not free. Discuss the statement
and prepare a response to the class: “Freedom and responsibility are tied together. A truly free person
makes his own decisions and accepts the results of those decisions, whether good or bad. A person
who is not free allows someone else to make the decisions that will shape his life and is bound by those
decisions.”
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Activity 4: What I Know Chart, part 2 (2 mins)

It’s time to answer the questions in the What I Know chart in Activity 1. Log in your answers in the table.

Activity 5: Checking for Understanding

Directions: Imagine that you are unjustly accused of a serious crime and put in prison. You have no one to
talk to and your freedom is restricted to your cell. How could you exercise your freedom in the
situation that you are in?

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C. LESSON WRAP-UP

Congratulations for finishing this module! Shade the number of the module that you finished.

Thinking about your learning

Give three (3) positive things that you’ve learn from the lesson?
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From the learning that you get, what are your plans to change for the better “YOU”
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What more do you want to know and learn?

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FAQs

1. Is there such a thing as “Total Freedom”?

Ans. There is no such thing as Total Freedom because people all over the world are covered by rules and
regulations. Laws to control us in our overuse of freedom and power. Freedom always connotes
responsibility.

KEY TO CORRECTION

All exercises requires opinionated answers. Answer may vary from person to person.

Thank you for your cooperation!!

God Bless…
Stay Safe always!!!