LESSON PLAN
Lesson: Week 2, Day 2: GUILT
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
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WHAT AND HOW?
DESCRIBE ACTIVITIES
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ANTICIPATORY SET
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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. |
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
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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." |
INSTRUCTION
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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. |
GUIDED & INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE
(Continue with the Cooperative Learning
Strategies)
Small
group, pairs or individuals.)?
and provides feedback? |
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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. |
CLOSURE done at the end of the
DUECE lesson.
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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?
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below for student worksheets