1. You and your values
Next

2. WALT: Understand about making choices based on beliefs

3. Starter
Stefan, aged 12 wrote a set of guidelines he though children should live by. Put these into the order, you think, are most important:
Don’t hurt people or animals
Don’t steal
Always tell the truth
Don’t fight
Don’t damage other people’s property
Don’t be greedy or selfish
Take care of the environment
Take care of your body
Respect other peoples’ opinions and beliefs
Stand up for what you think is right – don’t let anyone bully you.

4. Share your opinions with the class.
Task
What do you think a CONSCIENCE is?
Back
Next

5. CONSCIENCE
conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"
a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person''s thoughts and actions
Similar Words: scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong

6. CONSCIENCE
Remember: Always let your conscience be your guide. – Pinocchio

7. The Right Thing?
Read the school essay “The Right Thing” written by the main character in Robert Leeson’s novel “Red, White and Blue”. Discuss what he says about the difficulty of deciding when to tell and when not to tell.
Task
Discuss in your groups whether you think people are right to despise those who speak up? Discuss the view that it often takes more courage to tell than not to tell

8. What should you do if?
Study the list of situations and write a paragraph (between 3 and 5 sentences) about would you think you should do in each case.
1. You see someone taking a chocolate bar from the corner shop without paying. Would it make a difference if you knew it was:
Someone who comes from a poor family;
someone you know is hungry at school because they often get no breakfast;
Someone who gets lots of pocket money?
You see someone tampering with someone else’s bike in the bike sheds. Would it make a difference what they were doing, for example
Letting down the tyres
Cutting the brake cable
Loosening the saddle?
You see someone getting punished for something you know they didn’t do. Would it make a difference if:
You knew who really did it?
You were the person who did it?

9. Plenary Read each of the actions and decide which
you think are the most serious and the least
Serious. Write a number next to the action. 1 2 3 4 5
Extremely serious
Very serious
Serious
Not very serious
trivial
Stealing
Swearing
Blackmail
Name-calling
Cruelty to animals
Vandalism
Riding on a bus without paying
Killing someone
Bullying
Mugging
Lying
Taking drugs
Allow students to read/talk about in pairs the front cover and book
Share ideas with class
Do they recognise the ‘chalkboard’ background??
Back
Next