Gr.10 English module 1 lesson 1

MODULE 1
LESSON 1: DISCOVERING
PERSONAL CHALLENGES

YOUR JOURNEY
 Echkart Tolle once said, When
you lose touch with inner stillness,
you lose touch with yourself.
When you lose touch with
yourself, you lose yourself in the
world. Your innermost sense of
self, of who you are, is
inseparable from stillness. I am
that is deeper than your name

ENDURING QUESTION
“How does discovering
personal challenges create
a deeper understanding of
your innermost sense of
self?”

YOUR INITIAL TASKS
Task 1: BLOCKS THAT BLOCK
Direction: Each block represents a
saying or well-known phrase.
Identify what is asked in each
block.

Chicken
Late R
O
Roads
D
S
T t r o u b l e t
R r
O o
U I’m u
B
b
L l
E t r o u b l e
e
History
History
History
forgotten

Processing Questions:
1. What is your overall
impression about the phrases
above?
2. How do they reflect realities
in life?

Task 2: YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND
Remember the time when you
were weak and low. Fill out the
balloons with your experiences in
life that have to do with your
responses in Task 1.

Task 3: WATCH AND LEARN
Watch the video carefully and
answer the questions that will be
given after.
INSPIRATION TO LIFE

Processing Questions:
1.Who is the main character in the
story?
2. What is the story all about?
3. What are the personal challenges
of the character highlighted in the
video?
4. How would you compare yourself
to the character in the video?
5. What insights have you gained
from the video?

Task 4: I THINK
Answer the following questions using
the chart below:
I THINK . . . . .
Oral report writing is . . . . .
It is used in . . . . .
It can be organized by . . . . .

Greek Mythology
Documentary
How the world was created

YOUR TEXT
Task 5: GUIDE FOR READING
Answer the questions given below.
1. What are usually made of wax?
2. What are the benefits of wax?
3. Wax is susceptible to what?
4. In what way can wax be harmful?

THE GUIDING PATH:
Read the succeeding text
carefully. Let the chart
below be your guide in
reading the text.

ORAL
TRADITION
A MYTH is an ancient story created
to explain natural events. Gods,
goddesses, and heroes are among
the characters in myths. In addition
to explaining events in nature, some
myths also present a lesson on how
to live, or serve as a warning to
follow society’s rules.
THE TEXT
“Daedalus and Icarus” is a myth. It
discusses adventures and mistakes
of heroes or characters.
LOOK FOR
How does Icarus get himself into a
difficult situation? As you read this
myth, look for what Icarus did to

Anticipation-Reaction Guide
Accomplish the story ARG below:
Disagree Agree Statement
Were you
right?
Daedalus is a famous architect and
inventor
Daedalus created King Minos a
maze so complex that nobody could
escape from it.
To keep Daedalus from revealing
the secrets of the maze, Minos
imprisoned him and his son Icarus
Icarus flew too close to the sun
Icarus drowned in the sea

TASK 8: FACTS AND DETAILS
1. Who hired Daedalus?
2. What did Daedalus design to hold the
Minotaur?
3. What did Daedalus invent to help them
escape from the Labyrinth?
4. What did he warn Icarus not to do?
5. What happened to Icarus?

TASK 9: WHAT’S GOING ON?
1. Why did Minos imprison Daedalus in the
Labyrinth?
2. Why did Minos think that, if Daedalus can’t
find his way out, “so much the better?”
3. Daedalus tells Icarus that the plan is
dangerous. Why does he want them to take
this risk?
4. Why did Daedalus leave his wings on the
altar of Apollo? Why wouldn’t he want to fly

TASK 10: DIGGING DEEPER
1. In a short paragraph, describe how Daedalus
planned to escape from the island prison of
Crete.
2. Do you think Daedalus’s plan to escape will or
will not work? Explain your answer.
3. Which events in the myth could have happened
in real life?
4. If you had access to building resources and
materials, how would you design a flying
machine to help you escape from the island

TASK 11: FACT OR NOT
Tell whether the statement is a fact or not.
Draw WINGS before each number if the
statement is a fact and SUN if otherwise.
_______ Daedalus was an inventor.
_______ King Minos wanted to kill the
Minotaur.
_______ It would be easy to find your way out
of
the Labyrinth.
_______ Icarus design his own wings.
_______ The wings were made of chicken

TASK 12: AGREE OR DISAGREE
State whether you agree or disagree with the given
statements and find evidence from the text to support your
claim
1. King Minos was cruel.
Evidence:
__________________________________________
2. Daedalus was talented.
Evidence:
__________________________________________
3. Icarus was foolish.
Evidence:
__________________________________________
4. Daedalus and Icarus should have stayed in the island after
escaping from the Labyrinth.
Evidence:
__________________________________________

TASK 13: IMAGINE IN MY MIND
Illustrate the images in your mind as you
encountered the following in the story.
GROUP I : THE LABYRINTH
GROUP 2: ICARIAN SEA
GROUP 3: MINOS’S SHELL
GROUP 4: MINOTAUR
GROUP 5: ICARUS’S WINGS

TASK 14: TIMELINE
Create a graphic organizer of what happened
in each of the following places.
I.The Palace of Minos
2. In prison
3. Icarus in the sea
4. Sicily

GRAMMARIAN FOR A DAY
INTENSIVE PRONOUNS
The pronouns myself, ourselves,
yourselves, himself, herself, itself,
oneself, themselves are called
intensive pronouns when they are
used to emphasize the substantive
(noun or pronoun) to which they refer,
in other words, they may be used as
appositives.

INTENSIVE PRONOUNS
1. I myself will do the work.
(in apposition with the pronoun I)
2. He met the bishop himself.
(emphasizes the pronoun he to which
it
refers)
3. Leo managed the project himself.
(emphasizes the substantive Leo to
which

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
The pronouns myself, ourselves,
yourselves, himself, herself, itself,
oneself, themselves are called
reflexive pronouns when they are used
as objects of the verbs or prepositions
or as a predicate nominative or
complement.

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS
1. I hurt myself.
(object of the verb hurt)
2. They benefit themselves.
(object of the verb benefit)
3. Marco can think for himself.
(object of the preposition for)
4. I am not myself today.
(predicate nominative/complement
after the linking verb am)

Pick out the personal pronoun in each number
then tell whether the function is reflexive or
Intensive.
1. I myself will give you the signal.
2. Alex, can’t you give yourself more time for
this project?
3. They braced themselves for the decision of
the board of judges.
4. They have only themselves to blame for
their defeat.
5. The children hurt themselves by playing on
the flooded streets.

6. The feat itself was praiseworthy.
7. Lenny admitted she made the
error
herself.
8. They braced themselves for the
decision of the board of judges.
9. After his defeat, Miguel has not
been himself.
10. Pete hated himself for bungling
the job.

DISCOVERING PERSONAL
CHALLENGES

DAEDALUS
and
ICARUS
MEN UNDER THE LENS

A. MAKE A LIST OF ALL PERSONAL CHALLENGES
ICARUS AND DAEDALUS NEEDED TO OVERCOME IN
THE TEXT.
ICARUS’ PERSONAL
CHALLENGES
DAEDALUS’S PERSONAL
CHALLENGES
B. PICK OUT SIMILAR PERSONAL CHALLENGES YOU
HAVE EXPERIENCED, AS THE TWO CHARACTERS.
My PERSONAL CHALLENGES
ICARUS
DAEDALUS

1. What do the similarities of
your personal challenges in life
and those of Daedalus and
Icarus TELL? What new
discoveries did you find?
2. What do these discoveries
reveal about myths and realities
of life?
ANSWER
ME!

DEALING WITH PERSONAL
CHALLENGES
ABUSE OF POWER
SELF-
DESTRUCTION
FOOLISHNESS
LACK OF
CONTENTMENT
AGGRESIVENESS
HARD
HEADEDNESS
ENVY
IMPETUOUSNESS
COMPULSIVENES
S
PRIDE
EGOCENTRICITY
PROCRASTINATIO
N
BOASTFULNESS

SLOGAN-
MAKING
ADVISING
DRAWING
SINGING

READY TO MOVE
TO THE NEXT
ACTIVITY

BULLYING
DOCUMENTARY
(Philippine Setting)
KAPUSO MO JESSICA SOHO
Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho Bully
learns his lesson!

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10627 or the
ANTI-BULLYING ACT OF 2013
Bullying- refers to any severe, or repeated use
by one or more students of a written, verbal or
electronic expression, or a physical act or
gesture, or any combination thereof directed at
another student. It shall include:
a. Social bullying
b. Gender-based bullying
 Bully
 Bullied or victim

 Physical Bullying- Any unwanted,
hurtful and sudden physical
contact between the bully and the
victim, with the victim having no
means to defend themselves.
Forms of Bullying

 Psychological Bullying- Any act
that causes damage to a victim’s
psyche and/or emotional well-
being and any similar acts that
create adverse impact on the
psychological well-being of the
victim.
Forms of Bullying

 Sexual Bullying- The act that
embarrass, annoy, irritate, threat
and torment the mind of the child,
which results in an intimidating,
hostile or offensive environment
for the child.
Forms of Bullying

 Emotional Bullying- An act that
causes the victim undue emotional
distress like directing foul
language or profanity at the target.
Forms of Bullying

 Cyber Bullying- any conduct
resulting in harassment, intimidation or
humiliation through electronic means
or other technology such as, but not
limited to texting, email, instant
messaging, chatting, internet, social
networking website or other platforms
or format.
Forms of Bullying

A DAY IN A LIFE
GROUP 1: A NEWSCASTER
GROUP 2: A SCHOOL
JANITOR
GROUP 3: A PARENT
GROUP 4: A TEACHER
What would you do to stop or at
least minimize the case of bullying if
you would be any of the following
for a day?

MY PERSONAL
MISSION
1.What do I value
most in life?
2.What is my life’s
purpose?
3.What legacy do I
want to leave?
I can - Janella

YOUR FINAL TASK
• A short but persuasive
text.
• A concise oral report
on the causes / effects
of cyber bullying

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