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The Fundamental Personhood curriculum (grades 3 - 5) is designed to strengthen the child's mind to be better attuned with what are his (enlightened!) self-interests. It also provides some thinking tools that can be applied to all sorts of decisions a person must make in his lifetime. Of the greatest importance, it is designed to pave the way to intrinsic (internal) motivation.
WARNING! Don't try to teach this material cold! You will need to study it and master the concepts first!
The lessons follow a logical progression
At the end of grade 5, the foundation has been
established to further develop intrinsic motivation for the
process of
learning, and in every aspect of life. We
build on this in grades 6, 7, & 8.
These lesson plans are highly scripted to accommodate new and
inexperienced teachers, be they in a formal school or home school.
More experienced teachers may wish to use their own style.
A
letter should be prepared and sent home
explaining to parents what the school is trying to accomplish in the
class grades 3 through 5. Look at Example
Letter #1 to parents. - - -
letter1.rtf
Once per semester, there should be a public meeting for parents to attend. Their detailed questions can be answered then. (See Sample Agenda - - - agenda1.rtf)
This page acts as a linked Table of Contents to reach individual lesson plans in HTML or Rich Text Format (*.rtf). You may print an HTML lesson plan directly from the web page where it is presented.
How
to Use in Jr. High or High School (assuming it was not presented in
grades 3-5)
In Jr. High teach all of these lessons in quarter 1. Then in Quarter 2 teach the 6th grade students. Q3= 7th grade, and Q4= 8th grade students. This schedule allows the students transferring in to get caught up. See Implementing the Program in a Regular School Setting.
For High School, teach ALL lessons in the 9th grade. Teach Grade 3, 4, 5 (modified) in quarter 1, grade 6 in Q2, GRADE 7 in Q3, and grade 8 in Q4.
Students are to keep a folder for material that is handed out, or that they create. Their folder and its contents should be kept and used throughout the student's stay at this school.
RTF versions provide ready to edit versions, to allow teachers to adapt the lessons to their own needs. Read about RTF and how to do a clean download of these for editing and/or printing out hardcopy. To download a lesson plan that can be edited in your word processor, click on the .rtf at the right side of the table.
There are 4 to 6 lessons in each year. They need not be evenly spaced, and in some cases, it might be best to have them only 1 week apart.
The personhood curriculum includes documents to be presented in class. These handouts, transparencies, etc. are listed in each lesson plan. Generally they are available in various formats, depending upon the document's nature. They are:
Web Page *.htm Can be edited with MS Word 97 or
later. Rich Text Format *.rtf These can be read by many word
processors. MS Excel 5.0 *.xls These can be read by later versions of MS
Excel.
They can be downloaded and written into your hard drive or a floppy.
With the appropriate software they can be edited. Look for specific
files linked to in the lesson plans, Teacher's Prep
sections.
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Use transparencies to show last year's work in review.
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Self-made person.
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Present the "Golden Rule" "What if ...?" as an example.
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About Honesty, a dramatic reading |
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