Level
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Grade 8-12 (13-18 years)
Most effective 15-18 years
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Aims & Objectives
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To encourage meaningful talk, logical reasoning and questioning skills
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Lesson Plan
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The teacher tells the class that they are hospital staff, doctors, nurses, administrators, who have the difficult task of deciding who should receive the kidney machine. Five people need the machine to live, but only one can receive it.
Each group/individual receives the sheet below, and each group discusses their choice and then reports back to the whole class on their choice and their reasons. Alternatively, after report backs, a free vote can be held.
The lesson should occupy about forty minutes. During the discussion, if groups start to come out strongly for one candidate, you should make a negative announcement, "news just in" about that person so that all candidates get a hearing.
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The hospital has only one kidney machine. The following patients require a kidney machine. If they do not receive treatment, they will, in all probability, die. The choice is difficult, but it must be made.
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Mr Reggie Havenga
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25 Years old, he is a talented footballer. He plays for Manning Rangers, and has represented South Africa at U-23! He was expected, before his illness, to be invited to the Bafana Bafana squad on its European Tour, but pulled out when his illness was diagnosed. He is unmarried, and has no children.
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Mrs Martha September
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34 Years old. She is married, with three children aged 5,8 and 9. She is a "housewife", but she takes in sewing jobs to make ends meet. Her husband left her three years ago. She is "seeing" someone, and hopes soon to announce that she will be getting re-married.
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Mr David Khumalo
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18 Years old. He has just left matric. He graduated with an A aggregate. He is particularly interested in pursuing a career in medicine, and was accepted at Wits medical School. In Grade 12 he represented his school at the Science Olympiad, and was placed in the top ten, winning atrip to Germany to compete at the World Science Olympiad.
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Miss Arun Govender
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22 Years old. She is unmarried, but has a steady boy-friend. She is doing post-graduate studies at the University of Natal in Law. She is on the SRC and has been very active in helping students with special needs - forcing the University to provide whell-chair ramps and lecture notes in brail! She has been nominated for SRC president in next month's elections.
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Mr Mpho Ramela
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56 Years old. He is a widower - his wife died last eyar from AIDS. He has five children aged 13 to 25. He works for Telkom as a clerk in the accounts department. He is also the branch chairman of the Hillbrow and Berea ANC. He was an MK soldier, and spent seven years on death row after a conviction for "terrorism" in 1982.
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