Personhood Curriculum 8th Grade

 

Egocentricity Lesson #3

"Where Truth Is"

Lesson Plan

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1. Increase understanding of the basic premise of Egocentric Thinking. It is looking for truth internally, rather then externally!
2. Introduce the signs of Egocentricity.

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Teacher Prep

Print the essay "Where Truth Is." - - - truth.htm - - - truth.rtf

Make copies for students, plus spares.

 

Print the slide no-panic.htm - - - no-panic.rtf

Make a projection transparency from it.

 

Down load the dramatic reading, "'Where Truth Is' Dramatic Reading" - - - drama.rtf.

Open it in your word processor, print it, and make 4 copies. Three are for student readers. One for you. (You can view this docment in your Web Browser here: drama.htm. Printing this *.htm document may not produce a well laid out result.)

Introduction

Project the transparency "no-panic" but be sure to cover everything but the first paragraph.

Read the first paragraph out loud.

Uncover the second paragraph, and read it to the class.

Then uncover the large font words, and read them to the class.

As we go through the lesson today, if you believe that it doesn't apply to you, please be patient. It may be very important to others in the class. Be considerate of them. Also, someday you may be able to use this information to help someone else! You will certainly be able to use it to detect egocentricity in other people.

Relevance

If you know what egocentricity is all about, you can better avoid it. If you recognize it in others, you will be able to deal with them better. This lesson brings egocentric thinking into better focus.

If you are not egocentric, other people will respect you more.

If you are egocentric, other people will not get along well with you.

Presentation

We will now be treated to two short dramatic readings. In the first Jane is an egocentric. In the second, she is not. We will see a rather dramatic difference!

Readers take stage and begin.

We have worked with Life-Rules before. Here we will look at two opposite Life-Rules, and see how each can play out in our lives, and what they can do to us or for us.

After the essay we will have a Directed Discussion. I will use a Participation Record. Take notes. As I read this, if you recognize any of the behaviors, that is you have seen people do these things, put a note at that spot. No names please! If you see something that was in the dramas, either egocentric or non-egocentric, put a note at that spot.

Read the essay.

On some entries, after reading them, ask individuals if they have an example they could share. Try to draw students into discussing and contrasting corresponding items on the left and right sides. If no students identify an item as exemplified in the dramas, point it out, and reference the part of the drama where it appears.

This essay has a lot of words marked with *. These are spelling and vocabulary words. You will be tested on these. You are to be able to spell them and define them. If there is time remaining in class, students are to work on this study. They may pair off to quiz each other.

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Teacher Follow-up

 

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