ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN VALUES

First Meeting

The Advantage of the Values Education to me are, you will learn how to face some problems because you now what to do to this problem. You'll now what other way in expressing your self and also you can use it in helping a friend even not clause friend.
It will help me by getting experience in this school and also the way that the school discipline.
I'll also get some information that will help me in the future and also enhance my abilities in solving some problems in the future.

Second Meeting

My First week at MCL is very exciting because I cant wait to see what kind of school it was. When I arrived at the MCL its very nice and when I take may exam I was scared because I don't have any friends yet thats why I'am scared that I migth get lost because the school is big but it lucklly I was not lost. When the first day of class came I see many students waiting outside and I don't now were I will go. But I found my cousin and his friends and I joined them. Lucklly my cousin is my classmate in class that's why I was not scared. Three days I was quite because I don't have a friend yet except my cousin but it all worked out eventhough I was quite.

Third Meeting

During the Freshman Nigth it was very good, I have seen the students injoying the night. My emotions is I was very happy also the students. The way the students express them selves.
When someone hit me because they are jumping. I realoze that it is also good relaxing sometimes and it can also help forgetting someting which is a bad experiance for you.

JOURNAL ENTRIES(Fourth Meeting)

We are now on our fourth week and these are the guide questions for your entry this week.

1. Looking back at the list of your positive characteristics and qualities, what do you feel and realize about it?
2. The Golden Rule says, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
a. Given the following situations, how would you like to be treated by your teachers and schoolmates:
- when you have given wrong answers to the questions during recitation;
- when you are expressing your opinion during class or group discussion;
- when you are giving suggestions during group work or presentation;
- when you commit mistake;- when you don't like doing what they ask you to do;
- when they want to give you comments or suggestions?
b. Considering the given ideas on how to treat others with restpect what can you commit to yourself in terms of dealing with the MCL commmunity: teachers, students, employees, security, maintenance/janitors and canteen personnel?Please write you entries on time and one at a time so that your work are not filed up!Have a nice day! God bless you!Prof. RG MondezP.S. For the sixth meeting, "Competence and Excellence", prepare for a 30 seconds individual talent, skill, or accomplishment presentation. You may show your talent in singing, dancing, playing musical instrument, etc.You may also show and tell something about your masterpiece: painting, poem, essay, drawing , and project.Certificate medals, trophy, sports jersey and anything recognizing your excellence and accomplishment may be presented also.

COMPETENCE AND EXCELLENCE(Sixth Meeting)

Riley has served as the head coach of five championship teams and an assistant coach to another. He recently won the 2006 NBA Championship with the Miami Heat. Prior to his tenure in Miami, he served as head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks. He also played for the Los Angeles Lakers' championship team in 1972, which brings his personal total to seven NBA titles. He is also known for leading LA Lakers into back to back championship (1987-1988), the first team in 20 years to repeat as champions. Pat is widely regarded as one of the greatest NBA coaches of all time. (Wikipedia.org)“I do the very best I know – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” -US President Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States of America. As a child, he has to struggle for living and for learning. His family moved to Indiana when he was eight. He described their place as a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. But even so, he still managed to read, write and decipher. He made extraordinary effort to attain knowledge while working on a farm, splitting rails for fences, and keeping store at New Salem, Illinois. Later he found work as village postmaster and as a surveyor. In 1834 he won election to the state legislature, and after coming across the Commentaries on the Laws of England, he taught himself law. Lincoln became one of the most respected and successful lawyers in Illinois and grew steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, as a representative from Sangamon County, and became a leader of the Whig party in Illinois. In 1858, he ran against Stephen A. Douglas for Senator, however he lost the election, but in debating with Douglas he gained a national reputation that won him the Republican nomination for President in 1860. He was re-elected President in 1864. (Wikipedia.org)
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.” - John W. Gardner
John William Gardner was the former President of Carnegie Corporation, and US Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Lyndon Johnson. He founded two influential national U.S. organizations, the Common Cause and Independent Sector. He also authored numerous books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. Gardner received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964, (it is one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States and is bestowed by the US President). Gardner’s term as secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, was the height of Johnson’s Great Society domestic agenda. During this tenure, the Department undertook both the huge task of Launching Medicare, which brought quality health care for senior citizens, and oversaw a massive investment in education with the passage of federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students. Gardner also presided the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (source: Wikipedia.org)Excellence is a process, a commitment and a challenge.
Pat Riley, Abraham Lincoln and John Gardner have proven us that achieving excellence is not impossible. To be one of NBA greatest coaches of all time is a process. He sees every game like the “Game Seven of the NBA Finals” and he takes every lost as a learning experience to improve his team’s weaknesses. Abraham Lincoln commits himself to deliver the best he knows and the best he can. This makes him one the excellent US Presidents. For John Gardner, excellence can be achieved by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. It’s not impossible but it’s not easy either. Gardner is able to win this challenge by finding new meaning and reasons in doing every task at hand.To do good is innate among us. To do better, let’s explore our possibilities. Achieving excellence is a life time commitment to do the best we can.Challenge Yourself1. For one week, challenge yourself to:a. Get high score in a quiz or seatwork,

a. To recite in class at least once in any courses;c. To submit a quality assignment or requirementOn your journal, process your experience with the aid of the following guide questions:a. What challenge did you take?

b. Were you able to beat the challenge? How do you feel about it?c. What have you realized/learned from your experience?2. Assignment for next meetinga. Read about the effects of smoking.b. Watch the film “An Inconvenient Truth”, starring Al Gore and directed by Davis Guggenheim.

On the journal, write your reaction to the movie:- The most striking scene in the movie- Your feelings and emotions while watching the movie- Your realization after watching the movie- The specific actions you can commit to take care of the environment

HONESTY (Eigtht Meeting)

Filipinos are naturally, ordinarily Honest PeopleOne of our most outstanding virtues as Filipinos, is the virtue of honesty.What is honesty? · Honesty is telling the truth.· Honesty is straightforward conduct.· Honesty is being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, honorable, fair, genuine, and loyal with integrity.Isagani Cruz of Inquirer News Service (August 27, 2004) expressed his opinion that we, Filipinos in general are honest and that this is one of the admirable virtues of our race. There might be degenerates who have impaired that impression, but they only constituted a small minority despite the growing number of thieves, swindlers and kidnappers among us. The rest of the 84 million Filipinos are trustworthy men and women and children too.Adding significance to the statement of Isagani Cruz was the findings of Asian –wide survey conducted by Readers’ Digest published last April 7 2004 at Star news paper. The study found out that most Filipinos tend to act in an honest fashion when confronted with everyday dilemmas testing their sense of right and wrong.Here are some specific findings of the survey:1. Eighty-two percent of Filipinos will alert security officers to a shoplifter, the highest score from all the Asian countries included in the survey.2. Philanderers beware, as 52 percent of Filipinos said they would tell their friend if his or her spouse was seen having a romantic dinner with a stranger.3. If they find the cashier at the supermarket has given them too much in change, 82 percent of Filipinos said they would give the money back.4. The survey also found that 79 percent of Filipino respondents would return a wallet with an address and phone number inside,More than any related literatures and studies can be cited to validate the honesty of the Filipinos, let us now recall some real life stories citing our honesty as a Filipino.1. August 28, 2004, Daily Inquire published the Honesty of Nestor Sulpico who had returned a bag of black pearls worth $70,000 to a passenger who had left it in his taxicab. The act was reported in the American press and reflected favorably on the PhilippinesOctober 12, 2004 – Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto G. Romulo conveyed his commendations for the honesty and moral exemplar displayed by Mr. Melchor Bolivar and his wife Rowena Bolivar, the Filipino couple who returned US$700,000 erroneously credited to their savings account by a Manhattan-based European bank.3. Romeo Pelaez, a janitor at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, had returned a bag containing three million yen (P1.5 million) that had been left in a Japan Airlines plane by a Japanese man and his Filipino wife. Pelaez was cleaning the plane when he discovered the bag containing the money and turned it over to airport authorities.4. Nita Ramos, a 44-year-old janitress at the Manila Domestic Airport, also returned jewelry estimated at P150, 000 which she had found in the pre-departure ladies room of the domestic airport.5. A. Filipino nurse Melitza Anne Chan, 27, of Iloilo, who works as the assistant to the chief of the Dental Department of the Marabi Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, did not withdraw, but instead reported to the concerned bank, some 10 million Saudi Riyals (around US$2.6 million or more than P150 million) erroneously credited to her own account.Recently, the whole nation was inspired by the honesty shown by a 12 year old student from a public school name Christina Bugayong. Tinay, as they call her, found the bundles of cash and checks amounting to P300,000, dropped by a man in a speeding motorcycle last January 4 2005. After numerous coaxes from neighbors to keep the money and split it among themselves, Tinay decided to return the money to its rightful owner through the help of a radio station.These real life stories prove that Filipinos are naturally and ordinarily honest people. Honesty is an innate Filipino virtue. The genes of honesty run in our blood. Filipinos are naturally/ordinarily honest people.William Gardner challenges us to do ordinary things extra ordinarily well. If being honest is ordinary among us, how can we make this extra ordinary?Being consistently honest draws the line between ordinary and extraordinary. We should be consistent in telling the truth, being sincere, truthful, trustworthy, fair, genuine, and loyal with integrity, with ourselves and with others. Doing this reflects how honest we could be in the eyes of our just and loving God. It is being consistently honest that makes our virtue of honesty extra ordinary. All of us are facing the challenge of keeping the virtue of honesty within our bloodline. We are all tasked to pass this virtue and keep it alive from generations to generations. Together, wherever are we, whatever our status in life might be, let us face this challenge and prove to ourselves that we are full blooded honest Filipinos.

I. Challenge yourselfChoose a challenge:

a. Tell the truth
b. Return recovered things (personal items, money, etc)
c. Admit mistaked. Return excess changee.

Avoid cheating On your journal, process your experience with the aid of the following guide questions:

a. What challenge did you take?
b. Were you able to do the challenge? How do you feel about it?
c. What have you realized/learned from your experience?

I. ANSWERS IN HONESTY

The challenge that I choose is telling the truth because telling the truth can make others or yourself better because if you keep it secret for a long time someday the truth will be revilled and that can make the problem more bigger than you expected but if you tell the truth in the first place may be the person will not be angry to you because you are telling the truth. I was able to do the challenge when we are in highschool thats when I distroy the window and I was the one who tell it to the teacher. I feel good because I can admit may mistake in life. I realized that telling the truth is not a bad thing but a good thing to do.

QUESTIONS VALUES

First Meeting Questions

1. How does Values Education work to your advantage?2. After you have processed your first few experiences at MCL, in what way this will help you achieve successful adjustment in college?

Second Meeting Questions

1. How was your first week of stay at MCL?
2. How do you feel about your teachers and schoolmates? How do you find your courses? What sort of adjustment you still have to meet in terms of your academics, emotions and social involvement?

Third Meeting QuestionsChoose ONE and write it in your blog account.

1. Write your thoughts/reflection about the Freshmen Night using the guide questions below:
a. What were the things, scenes and events you have seen during the Freshmen Night?
b. What were your feelings/emotions during the event?
c. What did you like most about the event?
d. What did you dislike during the event?
e. What have you realized/learned from this experience?
f. Any remarks for the MCL administrators.
2. Write a reflection about one of your significant classroom experiences during the past few days at MCL. This could be something positive or negative. Use the outline below:
- the date/time of experience
- details of the story/experience (people, location, event/situation, reactions of the people around.)
- your feelings and reactions during this experience
- your learning/realization from the experienc.