1. Name:________________________________ Date:_____________
Activity: PERSONAL TIMELINE
A personal timeline portrays the influential events and happenings of a
person’s life so that he can understand where he has gone wrong and right in the
past. It helps to plan the future in a better and constructive way.
Using a bond paper, write the major events in your life and the significant
people in your life. You may add your age, specific dates and places. You may draw
the timeline horizontally, vertically, diagonally or even using arrows depending on
your imagination. Be creative in your representations. You may also use symbols,
figures and drawings. Think of a title for your personal timeline.
You may use crayons or art materials depending on the available resources
or just a simple paper and pen may be fine.
2. After making your Personal Timeline, answer the following questions:
1.Is there a ‘center’ or a central theme in your timeline and life? If you will give
a title for your timeline what would it be and why? ________________
2. Identify the turning points in your timeline. What were the thoughts, feelings
and actions that you experienced?___________________________
3. Who are/were the most significant people in your life? How did they influence
you?_______________________________________________________
4. What would you change or add, if you could? How would each of these
changes or additions affect your life, or even change its present course?
5. Where do you want to be in a year, 5 years, and 10 years? What do you
expect your future timeline will
be?____________________________________
6. Give one decision you made in past that has great impact in your present
situation.___________________________________________________
7. Do you agree that life is a domino effect, a chain of good and bad decisions?
Why or why not?_____________________________________________
