This document provides the objectives, content, and assignments for an English lesson on overcoming personal challenges. The lesson includes viewing a video on kindness, analyzing a picture relating to dealing with challenges, and discussing how students have dealt with problems in their lives. The target output is for students to create an impressive photo essay emphasizing how they can deal with personal challenges. The assignment is to read the myth of Arachne.

1. GRADE 10 ENGLISH
Module 1: Overcoming Challenges
Lesson 4: Dealing with Personal Challenges
July22, 2019
Grade 10 Diamond
Grade 10 Zircon
Grade 10 Jade
Grade 10 Moonstone
Grade 10 Pearl

2. Learning Objectives
1. be informed of the expected outcome/performance
of the lesson
2. explain the given focus/enduring question and
provide personal views about it
3. EN10VC-Id25:Express insights based on the ideas
presented in the material viewed.

3. Previously…

4. Previously…
1. What was the target output for Lesson 3?
2. What have you learned from Lesson 3?

5. Lesson 4
Dealing with Personal Challenges
Learning Objectives &
Target Output

6. Learning Objectives
1. draw generalizations and conclusions based on the material viewed
2. compare new insights with previous learnings
3. make generalizations
4. give meanings of words through using dictionary and / or context clues
5. explain how tone and mood contribute to the theme of the myth
6. use special words / expressions that emphasize points
7. use factual and opinion-based statements as supports in persuasive
writing
8. employ examples as supports in public speaking
9. select, organize, and produce visuals and graphics to complement and
extend the meaning of a photo essay
10. compose a short persuasive text expressing one’s stand on an issue

7. Target Output
• The Target Output is to
• PRESENT AN IMPRESSIVE PHOTO ESSAY emphasizing how you can deal
with personal challenges.
• The photo essay will be rated based on the following CRITERIA:
1. VISUALS / GRAPHICS,
2. TEXT REPRESENTATIONS / CAPTIONS,
3. ORGANIZATION, &
4. IMPACT

8. Sample
IMPRESSIVE PHOTO ESSAY

9. Hunger and Rage
Although the Caribbean islands are widely considered as a holiday
paradise, Haiti – a state lying on the Hispaniola island, in the Greater
Antilles – evokes a hell and a disaster rather than anything else.
Hundreds years of slavery and colonialism, the Duvalier family
dictatorship in the last century, accompanied by mass violence, left
Haiti hopeless and as the poorest nation of the Americas.
The overall situation in Haiti gets worse every year and the
extreme, hardly imaginable poverty hits more and more people. The
Haitian economics is paralysed, there is no infrastructure, no food
supplies, the population suffers from hunger, social and living
conditions in Haitian slums (e.g. Cité Soleil) are a human tragedy.
People live together with pigs surrounded by rotten stinking garbage
with no electricity, no drinking water, no meals, suffering and dying of
diseases which may be easily curable if there was a public health
system. There seems to be no way out of this misery.
The whole situation got even worse last year in summer when Haiti
was hit by four successive hurricanes and several tropical storms. The
massive deforestation of Haiti has allowed large floodings.
Haitian administration and the judicial system are (and always have
been) higly corrupted, misappropriation of public funds is common.
MINUSTAH (Blue Helmets installed in Haiti by the UN in 2004)
substitute the police therefore they are generally not welcomed by the
Haitian population. Wild and violent riots repeatedly affect all the
country.
The rage grows and the tension continues with undiminished
strength.
Photography by Jan Sochor
Music by Manno Charlemagne – “Banm Youn Ti Limye”, Les Inedits de
Manno Charlemagne (2006)
My Impressive Photo Essay ENGLISH 10

10. Let’s Condition Our Minds!
Tasks –
Part 1 Kindness is.
Part 2 Picture Perfect

11. Let’s Condition Our Minds!
Task –
Part 1 Kindness is.

12. Directions: Watch the video clip about Kindness.
•Processing Question:
What can you say about the video?
 Must watch & Share.Stay connected with Humility for Humanity. - YouTube (360p).mp4

13. Let’s Condition Our Minds!
Task –
Part 2 Picture Perfect

14. As you look closely at the drawing, try answering these questions.
Whose face flashed at the back of your mind?
How do you feel as you look at it?
What are its aspects / details that relate to, or show the importance of dealing with personal
challenges in life?
Now, read the quotation and relate it to the message in the pictures. Talk about what the picture
and the quote have in common.
“ It’s our ability to deal with the challenges and not their absence that gives us
true glory, comfort, and happiness in life.” – Anonymous

15. Discussion and Activities 1
Task 2
A PUZZLING TRIAL

16. A PUZZLING TRIAL
Situation: Think about a puzzling problem, a trial, or a challenge you have
experienced. Find a partner, and take turns in explaining what happened.
Tell what you like / dislike about it. Use these guide questions:
1. How did you feel about it?
2. How did you deal with it?
3. What are the things about it that you’d like to change / improve?
4. What’s your next move?
Share your experiences with others.

17. Mastery of the Lesson
Task 3
Three Controls

18. Task 3 THREE CONTROLS
Situation:
Form triads, and list at least three questions about personal challenges that
you hope to answer in this lesson.
Take turns in sharing these questions, and find out what they have in
common.
Check them against this essential question:
• How do I deal with personal challenges?

19. Lesson Application 

20. In life…we apply!
•How are the everyday challenges as students
changing you?
•Are they helping you become a better individual?
How?

21. Assignment

22. Assignment
•Read the story of ARACHNE,
LM pp. 69 - 71.