Doing your section journal assignments should give the you a chance to record important ideas that you want to keep with you from this part of the course. Doing these should help you reflect upon the importance and significance of these ideas. And it should help y you review for the test.

Journal: This should be your web page and a hard copy should be handed in with the section test. Five parts, rubric grading: 1) One paragraph summary of the key idea summarizing the topic of the week. 2) List and explain three of the most important ideas you want to remember from this week. 3) One image of that reminds you of the topic. Attribute, link, your source. 4) One good question you should keep with your to ponder. 5) What should you try to do to make you a better person, a more faithful person, form this study.

Morality Part One: Why Study Morality?

Part One: One paragraph summary of the key idea of the section: Why study morality? Answer the question showing knowledge and understanding of class content.

Part Two: Instead of the normal part two, please write a paragraph on three of these. Show knowledge and understanding but also show personal reflection. Cite and explain the idea, but also make clear why you want to remember it and its significance to you. Write the question out first.

1. What “morality” did you grow up with? What stories do you grow up with? First brainstorm: What were your favorite TV shows? Who were your heroes? What were the big moral messages you remember your parents, grandparents? Did aspect of your life was most significant: religion? sports? school?

2. In class this week we have looked at movies, literature, history, scripture, music that have strong and clear moral messages. Cite one of your own from one of these areas.
2a) Cite a song that has a strong moral message that affects you even today. You must have a link to the words of the song. Many songs can be found at <http://www.lyrics.com>
2b) Cite a book or movie from when you were very young that you remember and that taught you something you still believe and try to live.

3. Why do people do wrong?
(Do you ever do anything wrong? If so, why? This is often a good way to answer such a general question: look at it in personal terms. It is also a good way to begin to understand people. As Atticus told Scout, "If you can stand in someone else's shoes for a minute, it helps in understanding them.” It also might help you better understand yourself.)

4. We tend to assume the ideas, values, feelings, with whom we associate. Cite one value you have unconsciously acquired from those with whom you spend time. This can be either good or bad or just different and unique.

5. While the past can be the foundation, your present morality might be more influenced by personal and cultural forces we studied in the first semester: concupiscence, emotions, peer and cultural pressures, present hopes and fears. Look at your own “story.” What is the present state of your morality?

6. Choose a topic from this first part of this course that you want write about but that is not on this list.

Part Three One image of that reminds you of “why study morality?” Attribute, link, your source.

Part Four One good question you should keep with you to ponder.

Part Five What should you try to do to make yourself a better person, a more moral person, from this study.