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` GALON, DINDO, JR. G. 12- STEM DECEMBER 08, 2020

Homeroom Guidance
Quarter 1 – Module 2:
Accepting the Individuality of Others

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Homeroom Guidance Self-learning Module – Grade 12
Quarter 1 Module 2: Accepting the Individuality of Others
2020 Edition

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Department of Education. Homeroom Guidance Grade 12 Self-learning Module

2: Accepting the Individuality of Others Manila: Department of Education
Central Office, 2020.

Published by the Department of Education

Secretary: Leonor Magtolis Briones
Undersecretary: Diosdado M. San Antonio Assistant
Secretary: Alma Ruby C. Torio

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 Homeroom Guidance Grade 12 Quarter
1 – Module 2:
Accepting the Individuality of Others

Gabay sa Magulang/Tagapag-alaga

Isinulat ang modyul na ito bilang gabay ng inyong anak upang

malinang ang kaniyang aspektong personal at sosyal. Nakadisenyo
ito sa distance learning o alternatibong pamamaraan ng pagkatuto na
hindi nangangailangan ng pisikal na presensya sa paaralan, bilang
tugon sa direktiba na pagkansela ng face-to-face class dulot ng
pandemyang Covid-19.

Maaaring may mga pagkakataon na hingin ng mag-aaral ang

inyong patnubay sa pagsunod sa mga tagubilin at pagsagot sa mga
tanong sa bawat bahagi ng mga gawain. Hinihiling ng Kagawaran
ang inyong suporta upang matagumpay niyang maisakatuparan ang
mga gawain. Makatutulong ang araling ito upang hubugin ang
kaniyang kabutihan na tanggapin ang pagkakaiba-iba ng bawat tao
sa katangian, kakayahan, damdamin, at pananaw. Tiyakin na
sasagutin niya ang bawat bahagi ng modyul nang tapat.
Siguraduhing maipapasa niya ang kaniyang sagutang papel sa petsa
at oras na itinakda ng kaniyang gurong-tagapayo.

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Introductory Message
For the learner:

In your everyday interaction, you may have observed similarities and

differences with the people around you. You may have seen differences in physical
appearance, preferences, abilities, skills, and behavior. Each person’s intelligence,
personality traits, and values differ from one another. These aspects define each
person's individuality.

As a grade 12 learner, personal and social skills will help you in developing
healthy behavior and positive relationships. This module will help you gain better
understanding about your role in promoting respect for individual differences and
valuing others.

This self-learning module has six interactive tasks, which are as follows:

Let’s Try This – which will help you to get ready to learn;

Let’s Explore This – which will guide you towards what you need to learn;

Keep in Mind – which will give you the lessons that you need to learn and
understand;

You Can Do It – which will help you apply the lessons learned in daily activities;

What I Have learned – which will test and evaluate your learning; and

Share Your Thoughts and Feelings – which will help you express your thoughts,
opinions and feelings.

Make sure to read, think, follow, and enjoy every task that you are asked to
do.
Have fun! Stay safe and healthy!

MODUL
ACCEPTING THE INDIVIDUALITY
E 2 OF OTHERS

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 Learning Objectives

At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. determine the basic aspects of an individual;

2. demonstrate suggested ways in accepting others;
3. formulate home/school policies that promote respect for individual differences;
and
4. appreciate actions or behaviors that accept individual differences.

Period: Weeks 2 and 3

Suggested Total Time Allotment: 120 Minutes
Materials Needed: Clean sheet of paper, bond paper, ballpen, and coloring
materials

Week 2

Introduction

In this module, you will have a better understanding about your role in
promoting respect for individual differences. This aims to give you an opportunity to
view other’s perspectives and feelings. Accepting attitude and openness to other’s
unique characteristics will help you to have healthy relationships.

Go on board and celebrate everyone’s individuality!

Let’s Try This

Suggested Time Allotment: 20 Minutes
Observation of Other’s Uniqueness
1. Copy the following table on a clean sheet of paper.
2. Think of three (3) different persons who are similar in a certain aspect that
you would like to observe for this activity. Example: 3
famous personalities (singers, dancers, inventors,
politicians, artists).
3. Write their names and describe them using the options
in each column. Use your best judgment on them.

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 4. Write your answers to the processing questions after.

Description
Persons Lively or Nurturing or Conservative Thinker or
Planner or
easy-
Reserved? disciplinarian? or liberated? doer?
golucky?
Name: Disciplinarian Liberated Thinker Planner
Tyler Joseph Lively

Name: Nurturing Liberated Thinker Planner

Reserved
Vico Sotto
Name: Disciplinarian Conservative Thinker Planner
Reserved
Alvin Leung

Processing Questions:
1. Were you able to fill out all related descriptions for each person? Which of the
descriptions is the most observable?
- I am able to fill out all related descriptions for each person. The most
observable descriptions are conservative or liberated, thinker or doer and
planner or easy go lucky.
2. What is the most difficult description to observe? Explain.
- The most difficult description to observe is the lively or reserved since
these celebrities might have different personalities on screen and off
screen. And I might not have accurately describes them. However, I might
correctly described them since I watch them thoroughly in television or
online.
3. What can you say about the differences that you observed among these three
persons?
- Their differences that I observed is what makes them unique. One is a
musician, one is a politician and one is a chef, that makes them shine on
their own. These differences gives them individuality and character to
display.

Let’s Explore This

Suggested Time Allotment: 20 minutes

Showing Support for Others

Copy the following table on a sheet of paper. How will you support
others in the given situations? Write your answer in each column.

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 Situation Physically Emotionally Socially Spiritually

1. A new classmate with a I will lend a Make him/her I can help I will show
physical disability hand by feels that him/her socially him/her that
simply he/she is very by just simply be on the other
helping special or friend with side of his/her
him/her for comfort him/her or letting disability
the things him/her you other friends there is GOD
he's/she's whenever to be his/her who love and
difficult to he/she feel friend. care about
do. alone/different him/her and
or feel even though
embarrassed. he/she is
disable he/she
still have a
purpose of
why he/she
existed in this
world.

2. A friend who lost his parents One of the Offering Joining them or Joining them
due to accident things I’ll emotional accompanying or
notice is support, by him/her when he/ accompanying
them losing being there she is going out. him/her when
appetite, when they are Try introducing he/ she is
encourage on the verge of new stuffs to going out. Try
them too eat crying or losing them, or even introducing
good food interest on the new friends. new stuffs to
and exercise. things they them, or even
once loved. Be new friends.
a shoulder to
cry on and be a
good listener.
Be empathetic.
3. A neighbor who chose to I can invite I can help my Go shopping Share some
stop schooling for my neighbor neighbor by with my verse in the
employment to jogging talking and neighbor, so that bible and read
together. sharing my my neighbor the bible with
experiences in will be good my neighbor.
difficulties in social in the
my life that I people around
have been our
success with. neighborhood.
4. A sibling who spends most I will be a I will give I will give
of his/her time playing good him/her time to
online games example to advices and them so
my sibling. encouragement. they will
have more

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 time to bind with I will pray for
me than those them, and also
online games. encourage
them to pray
together.

5. A friend who plans to leave Listen to my Offer relevant I may refer him Pray for my
their house because of a friend very pieces of or her to my friend to have
family problem intently. 8 advice if he or parents for wisdom
do not have she is done another point of before making
to interrupt voicing out his view and his or her
him or her thoughts and suggestions. decisions.
immediately, emotions. They may give
but the mere Make him or parental
fact that I am her feel that I recommendation
present helps care for him or s which can be
him or her her and that he more mature.
ease the or she is not
burden alone.
somehow.

6. A new group member who I will help I can help him I can support I can help
loses hope because of them emotionally by him socially by him
many problems physically by listening to creating a spiritually by
helping them him, because donation box for praying for
in their everybody people who him, pray to
problem. needs a would like to God that he
Let’s say, shoulder to help or I can will overcome
he’s lean to when recommend him this hurdle in
struggling times get to employers so life.
with financial rough. that he can get a
problems, I job.
can help him
physically by
looking for a
part-time job
for him.
7. A cousin from an ethnic I will guide I will I will tell my
group who is still I will help her/him, accompany cousin that
adjusting to her new her/him cope support her/his her/him when everything
school up with the decision. and she is going out, will be fine
physical tell her that introduce your and encourage
changes she everything is cousin with new her/him to
experience. fine. things and new pray.
Help her, friends
explain to her
that she will
get used to
the new
environment
and guide

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 her/him.
8. A relative who is confused I will I will listen I will be friends I advice him
with his gender preference accept to his/her with him. that don’t
his/her thoughts. lose your
gender. faith in God
and as long
as you’re not
hurting
anybody
around you
it’s okay to
show the real
you.
9. A classmate who I will help I will make I bond with her I will
experiences social my my classmate in order to include my
discrimination due to his classmate to feel that she is boost his/her classmate in
poor academic study not alone or confidence, and in my
performance
his/her that I am I will invite prayer.
lessons. supporting her him/her in our
to study well study circle.
10. An older sibling who needs I will help I will give I will bond I will pray
help on time management him/her him/her some with him/her so with him/her
doing his inspiration so that he/she will and ask God
tasks so that that he/she not feel alone. to blessed
he/she will him/her.
might able encourage to with wisdom
to reach the do his tasks. and a clear
goal on mind.
time.

Processing Questions:
1. What do you notice with your answers?
- I noticed that my answers varies from different situations yet my intentions
towards my problem is the same. I want to be a shoulder to lean on to those
persons when they need one.
2. Which of the situations is the most difficult to handle or manage? Explain.
- The most difficult situation to handle or manage the friend that loses her parents in
an accident and the neighbor who chose to stop schooling for employment. With
these situations, several factors must be observed. We must examine first the
situation before we move, not just once but many times. Also, the condition of the
person is very difficult, that’s why helping them is very hard.
3. What type of support or help is the easiest to provide? Explain.
- The support that is the easiest to provide is to be a friend and a shoulder to lean
on. Being a friend to someone doesn’t need or met any
conditions or expectations. Just becoming a person where
they can ran into is the easiest help I can provide in times of
need.

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 4. What have you realized after doing this activity?
- After this activity, I realized that all of us face different problems, and those
problems does not require just one solution. This activity help me realize that all
of us can help, even in the smallest things we have, it will be beneficial to other
people.

Keep in Mind

Suggested Time Allotment: 20 minutes

In dealing with others, we must recognize that we are all different from one
another. Though we may have similarities in terms of preferences, taste, physical
appearance, style and many more, we still have our distinctions and uniqueness
which make us special in different ways.
Our individuality comes with our unique attributes and characteristics. Some
can easily be seen physically while some can be manifested through actions and
behavior which may indicate values and personalities.
There is harmony in diversity and we can all keep it that way if we learn to
accept one another as we are.
There are healthy ways to deal with our individual differences which would
work for everyone’s advantage. Here are some:
a. Accept that we are all different. Don’t assume that your preferences would
always be the same as those of your peers or friends. Of course there are similarities
among you but all have different stories to tell that affect the way you see things. You
may have different beliefs, culture, values, and even interest, and you cannot force
anybody to be exactly the same as you. Remember, even twins have differences.
b. Use your similarities with other people to strike a harmonious relationship
with them. While you acknowledge that people are different from another, there are
also commonalities which you may take advantage to establish positive relationship
with them. At this point in time, you might have found the right people who can be
your good friends, who can inspire you to strive harder, and who can be your role
model.
c. Be open-minded with others. You can always learn from the experiences of
your friends and peers and they can also do the same with you.
The manner they overcome life challenges and how they impact
their living could be your insights to improve your lifestyle or even

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the way you see things around you. You can also learn from their culture, traditions
and values.
d. Try to consider where others are coming from. Your family set-up may be
different from what your friends have. People might have grown up in a province or
in a highly urbanized city. There are those who have a complete set of parents and
those that have a single parent or no parents at all. Additionally, people have
different childhood experiences which greatly affect their attitude and personality
now. There are also those who struggle financially and those who are well off. Keep
in mind that people are coming from different backgrounds and they act, decide and
make choices based on those things.
e. If your differences with others are getting in the way, try to have a
common ground. You cannot impose your beliefs, values and culture to others, the
same way that they cannot do that to you. However, instead of trying to prove who’s
better and who’s not, you may want to find an area where you can both improve
yourself while learning from each other. There are differences that are worthy to talk
and celebrate, and there are those that we just accept unconditionally just like in the
second item. There’s no point in comparing people as each of us have our own
potentials and abilities.
Always remember that you co-exist with others. There are things that you cannot
control like the people around you but you can always manage the way you deal with
them. The choice is always with you, either you make the most out of those
individual differences and have a happy life or you make that as your limitations.

Week 3 You Can Do It

Suggested Time Allotment: 30 minutes

“I Care” Policies
Copy the table below on a separate sheet of paper. Write at least five policies
at home, in school, in the community or online that you personally do to respect
individual differences. Answer the processing questions after.

HOME SCHOOL COMMUNITY ONLINE

Respect the belief Respect the beliefs Don't be mean to Use
of my family of your classmates. other people. emoticons or
members. smiley faces,
but make
sure that you

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 are as clear
and specific
as possible to
express what
you mean.
Always be polite. Respect the beliefs If you don’t agree Talk to a trusted
of your teachers. with them, then adult if someone is
don’t be a bad mean or rude to
person. you online. Never
respond to mean
messages; you
might start a fight
online.

Understand that it Respect the beliefs Respect their Use respectful

is possible to have of school staff. opinions. language online,
a different just like you would
opinion. offline.
Don't say negative Be an example Respect yourself Do not forward
things when you towards your spam. It is not fun
don't agree with friends. and it could
them. damage the
computer through
viruses embedded
in the emails.

Always be Avoid saying bad Avoid being rude Never do or say

respectful to your things about to other people. anything online
siblings. others. that you would not
do or say offline.

Processing Questions:
1. How do you compare your answers in each column?
- The answers in each column shares the same root, and it is to be
respectful to everyone. Even the terminologies are different, the goal of the
rules are to promote a healthy, safe and respectful community to all people
with differences.
2. Given the current situation, how do you intend to practice them?
- In times of pandemic, practicing them is a must. At home, where we
engage with to our family members I must follow them
correctly in order to have a safe environment. In school,
community and online where we engage into a large

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 number of people, it is a required and a must to follow these rules, I will
apply them not to just selected people but for all people.
3. What made you practice such ways to respect individual differences and care
for others?
- I practiced this ways when I also experienced to be discriminated about
my differences. But instead of doing it to others, I accepted my flaws and
use it to be respectful to others and influence them to accept who they are.
I want them to feel that they belong to this world, because all of us are the
same.

What I have Learned

Suggested Time Allotment: 15 minutes
Write a 3- to 5-paragraph essay that answers the question below on a sheet
of paper.

We live in a diverse world where all of us will be exposed to many different

people and experiences. As an individual with different flaws, color and traits, we
can show the positive aspects of differences. We are created equal, there is no
perfection in our world and all of us varies from each other. These variation makes
us unique, and we must celebrate and embrace it.
The first way in celebrating our individual differences is to recognize it. We
are not the same- and we must accept this fact. And by this, we will be respected for
who we are individually, who we are as defined by the characteristics we possess,
and who we are as part of the groups to which we belong. At a minimum, when we
think about diversity, we need to consider not only race but gender, religion, physical
challenges, economic status, age, disability, sexual orientation, and learning
differences. Indeed, some people define themselves not by their race but by one or
more of these other descriptors.
The next step is to be proud of who and what we are. We tend to ask about
acceptance and respect but we forgot to be proud of who or what we are. We need
to be confident to show other people our flaws, our traits, and our differences in
order to be recognized. This way, we are not just sharing them who we are but
rather showing them that all of us is different and we must celebrate it.
And the core, is to accepting other people’s differences. It is not enough that
we only accept our own individual differences. It is very important also that we
accept other people’s differences. This will lead to safe and non-discriminating
environment, and when you do something good to there people it will create a
domino effect, and you make them to do some good things too.
Our differences make us Special! Cherish them. Be proud of them. Well
sometimes we are scared of doing a certain thing, because we are shy or we think
we are not too good at it or that people will make fun of us but that shouldn’t stop us
from expressing ourselves.

How should we celebrate our

individual differences ?
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 Share your Thoughts & Feelings
Suggested Time Allotment : 15 minutes

Create a slogan or poster on unconditional acceptance of others

and respect for individual differences. You may post it online or
physically in the most noticeable area at home. Use a short bond
paper and coloring materials.

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