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Lesson #19
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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?
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GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)
Lesson #19
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Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
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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.
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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GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)
Lesson #19
Name: __________________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________
Activity No 2
Exercise No. 1
Directions: Give at least five kinds of personal freedom with its corresponding responsibility. An example is
already given.
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.
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But today the way I play the game is not the same, Well it looks like the road to heaven
no way But it feels like the road to hell
Think I'm gonna get myself happy When I knew which side my bread was buttered
I think there's something you should know I took the knife as well
I think it's time I told you so Posing for another picture
There's something deep inside of me Everybody's got to sell
There's someone else I've got to be But when you shake your ass
Take back your picture in a frame They notice fast
Take back your singing in the rain And some mistakes were build to last
I just hope you understand That's what you get (That's what you get)
Sometimes the clothes do not make the man That's what you get (I say that's what you get)
All we have to do now That's what you get (for changing your mind)
Is take these lies and make them true somehow That's what you get for changing your mind
All we have to see That's what you get
Is that I don't belong to you That's what you get (And after all this time)
And you don't belong to me yeah yeah I just hope you understand
Freedom! (I won't let you down) Sometimes the clothes do not make me, oh yeah
Freedom! (I will not give you up) All we have to do now
Freedom! (Have some faith in the sound) Is take these lies and make them true somehow
You've gotta give for what you take (It's the one All we have to see
good thing that I've got) Is that I don't belong to you
Freedom! (I won't let you down) And you don't belong to me, yeah yeah
Freedom! (So please don't give me up) Freedom!
Freedom! ('Cause I would really, really love to stick Freedom! (oh freedom)
around) Freedom! (my freedom)
You've gotta give for what you take You've gotta give for what you take
Heaven knows we sure had some fun, boy Freedom! (hold on to my freedom)
What a kick just a buddy and me (what a kick just a Freedom!
buddy and me) Freedom! (my freedom)
We had every big-shot good time band on the run, You've gotta give for what you take
boy Give for what you, give for what you take yeah
We were living in a fantasy (we were living in a Yeah, you've got to give for what you, give for what
fantasy) you, give
We won the race, got out of the place May not be what you want from me
I went back home, got a brand new face Just the way it's got to be
For the boys on MTV Lose the face now
But today the way I play the game has got to I've got to live, I've got to live, I've got to live
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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GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)
Lesson #19
Name: __________________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________
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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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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GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)
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Name: __________________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________
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.
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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It’s time to answer the questions in the What I Know chart in Activity 1. Log in your answers in the table.
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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GEN 002 Understanding the Self (UTS)
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Name: __________________________________________________
Section: _______________________________________ Class number: _______
Schedule: _____________________________________ Date: ______________
C. LESSON WRAP-UP
Congratulations for finishing this module! Shade the number of the module that you finished.
From the learning that you get, what are your plans to change for the better “YOU”
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FAQs
KEY TO CORRECTION
All exercises requires opinionated answers. Answer may vary from person to person.