LESSON PLAN

 

Lesson: Week 2, Day 2: GUILT

California Teaching Standards Focus: Standard 4.2

This lesson relates to standard 4.2 in a way that it translates content into clear learning goals, it distinguishes leaning goals, and expectations are consistently high.

 

Lesson Objective:  Student will identify personal behavior, which has produced guilt, and describe the connection between guilt and childhood messages.

 

STAGES

WHAT AND HOW?

 DESCRIBE ACTIVITIES

  1. Warm-up

ANTICIPATORY SET

  • An activity that lasts maximum (15 minutes).
  • How does it involve the learner in active participation?
  • What links to the lesson objective?

 

̃    Instruct students to do a quick write about what the difference between right and wrong.

̃    Ask students from each group to share their explanations and write them on the board.

 

  1. Introduction

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

  • Write and state the lesson objective.
  • How will you explain why it is important to accomplish this objective? 10 minutes

̃    Student will identify personal behavior, which has produced guilt, and describe the connection between guilt and childhood messages.

 

̃    Distribute Student Worksheet, "Basic Human Rights"

̃    Ask each student to read aloud one of the rights (#2 - 20) and add the phrase, "without feeling guilty" after each one. Example: "I have the right to change my mind without feeling guilty."

 

 

 

 

  1. Presentation

INSTRUCTION

  • How will you teach the concept using strategies geared for every type of learner: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic? 25-35 minutes (This is about using cooperative learning strategies)
  • Give students the information (from Lesson Leader resource sheets, or other appropriate informational sources).
  • Modeling: show the process or product of what students are learning.
  • Provide demonstration of the skills they need to accomplish the objective by using a variety of strategies: visuals, music, description, video, explanation, examples or definitions.
  • Check for understanding by using: signal, choral or 1:1 response.
  • Check for understanding by asking “who, what, where, when, why, how” questions.
  •  Check for understanding by using  ”suppose or prediction” questions.

 

 

̃    Refer to Leader Resource Sheet, Guilt, and give lecture, allowing time for discussion for purpose of clarification of information.

̃    Check for understanding by asking group to call out any word association they have for subject of guilt. List on whiteboard.

̃    Ask group to name some of the values they learned at home, school, church, and in society (e.g., honesty; alcoholism is a "sin"), which are associated with guilt.

 

 

 

 

  1.  Practice

GUIDED & INDEPENDENT PRACTICE

      (Continue with the Cooperative Learning Strategies)

  • What are the opportunities to practice the new knowledge?
  • Practice is guided through what materials?
  • How will practice activities be done as a (whole group,

Small group, pairs or individuals.)?

  • How will the teacher models each activity, monitors progress

     and provides feedback?

̃    Distribute Student Worksheet, Getting Honest, and direct students to answer        questions. Allow 10 minutes to complete individually.

̃    Divide into smaller groups of four and five. Direct students to read aloud ­those things about which they feel guilty. Emphasize that small group confidentiality must be honored and that the groups must not be judgmental.

̃    Each group chooses a recorder who will develop a collective copy of the number of guilt-related actions that were done while under the influence of alcohol/drugs as compared to those that weren't. Allow 30 minutes.

̃     Distribute Student Worksheet, Sorting Through Childhood Messages. Allow     10-15 minutes for individuals to complete within small 'groups.

̃    Direct small groups to discuss the worksheet again, directing them to offer no judgment but, instead, allow for freedom of expression in disagreement and agreement.

̃    Direct students to evaluate and cross out those messages they can now let go of and star * those which they can reinforce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Closure

CLOSURE done at the end of the DUECE lesson.

  • How will you check for integration of learning that demonstrates cognitive/behavioral change. What and how will they practice?

 

 

 

 

̃    Ask recorders to report on small group work.

̃     Ask several students to summarize the concepts learned about guilt including:

 

            a. Moral balancing (early messages related to guilt)

 

            b. How guilt is related to their disease

 

            c. How working through guilt is necessary to their recovery.

 

 

 

What accommodations will be for low level readers and ESL students?

 

Click below for student worksheets

 

wk2day2StudentWorksheet.htm

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