Learning Objective/ s :
Explain why life is meaningful.
Develop important personal skills that can help in decision making.
Enhance relationship skills that can facilitate personal growth and development.
Discuss why the family is a primary relationship.
Be able to carefully and seriously study and review the various life options when making decisions, most especially those concerning family issues found in the different media forms such as news articles, films, TV programs, social networks, etc.
Initiate family activities where relevant family concerns and issues can be shared.
Success Criteria:
At the end of the lesson, the students are able to:
- Explained why life is meaningful.
- Developed important personal skills that can help in decision making.
- Enhanced relationship skills that can facilitate personal growth and development.
- Discussed why the family is a primary relationship.
- Carefully and seriously studied and reviewed the various life options when making decisions, most especially those concerning family issues found in the different media forms such as news articles, films, TV programs, social networks, etc.
- Initiate family activities where relevant family concerns and issues can be shared.
DISCUSSION:
Critical thinking is not simply intended to develop skills in reasoning and logic. It does not only refer to a measure of one's intellectual capacities. Rather, it is an attitude that a person can develop and nurture in one's self to help him or her understand the various personal issues he or she encounters and to appropriately respond to him or her in ways that are productive.
Vocabulary:
disposition - one's mental attitude or outlook.
autumn - one of the four temperate seasons, marks the transition from summer into winter
depict - portray in words; describe
rural- relating to the countryside rather than the town / city.
crossroad - an intersection of two or more roads.
Read the poem silently and answer the questions.
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
1. If you were to summarize the poem using your own words, how would you do it? Write atleast one sentence each stanza.
2. What difficulty was the character experiencing? Why do you think it was hard for him / her to make a choice?
3. What do you think the two roads symbolize or represent? What type of choices do you think this two in the road represent for the character?
4. Do you think he regrets his choice ,or is he happy about it? Why?
5. What do you think are the chances the character will come back and try out the other road? Discuss briefly.
6. Does this remind you of any similar situation in your life ? What personal choices have you made that this poem reminds you of ? Explain briefly.
7. If you were to think of three major choices you have made this past week, what were these? Write them down, with the first as the most important and the last , the least important.
8. What message has the poem made you realize about life's journeys and the different choices we make? Write down your thoughts.
CROSS- CURRICULAR LINK:
Values: Honesty
Math : Problem Solving
Real- Life Application:
Critical Thinking is mostly applied in problem solving especially in money matters and decision making to come up with the right decision in life.
EVALUATION:
Worksheet to be given to the students after the discussion.