GOOD MORNING

EVERYONE!!
Hello!
Q1: Describe the taste of
WATER.

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Hello!
Q2: Describe the colour
blue to a blind person.

DESCRIBE ME!!

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Hello!
Q3: How will you
describe how wonderful
the world is to a blind
person?

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Hello!
Q4: Try to reach your
chin by using the tip of
your elbow.

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UNLOCKING DIFFICULT TERMS
Opposable – able to be placed against one or more of the
other fingers or toes on the same hand or foot
Limitations – the act of controlling the size or the extent of
something
Possibility – a chance that something might exist, happen, or
be true; the state or fact of being possible
Embody – to give a bodily form/ to represent in bodily or
material form
Spirit – the force within a person that is believed to give the
body life, energy and power

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Content: The
Human Person as
an Embodied Spirit
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OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify limitations and possibilities.
2. Recognize one’s own limitations and
possibilities.
3. Appreciate one’s limitations and
possibilities through differentiated
activities.

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ACTIVITY: THUMB LESS LIFE
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+ The teacher will group the class into four
+ Each group will choose two members of the group who
will pretend that their THUMBS are gone for three
minutes.
+ While in this state, the two representatives will proceed
with their normal activities while their thumbs are not
functioning (immobile).

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ACTIVITY: THUMB LESS LIFE
.
+ The rest of the members of the group will get a piece of
paper and will divide the paper into two columns.

+ The first column will be the activities YOU CAN DO even

without your thumb.

+ The second column will be the activities YOU CANNOT DO

without your thumb.

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ACTIVITY: THUMB LESS LIFE
.
+ The leader of the group will present the output in front of
the class.

+ Each group will be given three minutes for the activity and
two minutes for the presentation.

+ Each group will be given one question and they are task to
answer the question and also present the answer together
with their first output.

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ANALYSIS:
GROUP 1 – How did you feel about yourself
after failing to do certain activities that
you would normally do easily?

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ANALYSIS:
GROUP 2 – Did you appreciate the
importance of a very small part of your
body, your thumb, more on this activity?
Explain your answer.

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ANALYSIS:
GROUP 3 – Look at the list of the things
that you can do without your thumb.
Imagine that these are the only things
you can do for the rest of your life. Would
you still consider your activities as
“human” activities? Why?

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ANALYSIS:
GROUP 4 – Do you agree if someone says
that without your thumb your life is not
as human as it should be? Justify your
answer.

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What is human being?
+ Embodied existence

WHAT IS EMBODIED SPIRIT?

+ inseparable union of body and soul.

“It is through our limitations that possibilities

become real”.

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OPEN ENDED STATEMENT
Today I realized that _______________________

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Application and assessment
DIRECTIONS
1. The teacher will assign different activities in each group.
2. Each group will be given five minutes to prepare for their
presentation and two minutes for the actual
presentation.
3. While the first group are performing, the second group will
prepare for their comments and rating using the given
rubrics.
4. The second group will be rated by the third group and the
third group will be rated by the fourth group and lastly
the fourth group will be rated by the first group.
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Task:
GROUP 1 – Pantomime (as a student)
GROUP 2 – Reporting (as an elder sibling)
GROUP 3 – Singing (as a classmate)
GROUP 4 – Role Playing (as a child)

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Rubrics:
CONTENT - 5 Pts
PERFORMANCE – 5 Pts
COOPERATION – 5 Pts
15 Pts

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 ASSIGNMENT: REFLECTION
Reflect on one thing you cannot do because of your body and on
one possible thing you can do because of that bodily limitation. How
do you feel about this?

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Thanks!
Any questions?

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