What are your core values? Here, we will explore this and leave the class with loads of new vocabulary, important skills that we can generalize to improve our level, and a personalized shield representing our individual core values.
Let’s talk about values.
1.) What is most important to you in your life?
2.) Is there anything that isn’t important to you, that you do only for social acceptance?
3.) Is there anything that is important to you, that you wish others valued more?
4.) Do the people in your social circle tend to have the same values?
5.) Do you have any close friends who have very different values from you?
Warm Up Activities
Values Video – Watch the video and try the challenges
Spin the wheel – Take a screen shot, and talk for a minute about the value you landed on.
Vocabulary and Grammar
List of values – Learn the words and practice making adjectives from nouns.
A list of 125 values with definitions
Eight Adjective Suffixes We Use Every Day – Learn how to make adjectives out of verbs and nouns.
Nouns to Adjectives Quiz – Change the suffixes to create adjectives from the nouns.
Infinitives and Gerunds – Values quiz
Reading and Writing
WRITING
Essay writing – Write about values.
READING
The thing about values – Read and comment on the blog.
Empowered Within – Read the article and write a summary of it.
The Surprisingly Simple Secret to High Self Esteem – Tiny Buddha
Empathy as a Strength and a Weakness – Psychology Today
12 Famous Philosophers and their Guiding Principles – Read the article, and select a philosopher to write a paragraph about. (C1)
Medieval Shields – An advanced reading about weapons (C2)
Self Reliance – Read the classic Emerson essay. (C2)
Conversation
Ethical Dilemmas – What would you do?
Conversation Questions – Provide an example in each answer.
1.) How have your values changed since you were a child?
2.) In what ways to you think people’s values are shaped by their social environment?
3.) In what ways do you think people’s values are shaped by their life experiences?
4.) Do you think most people have a clear sense of their core values?
5.) How might knowing your core values make decision making easier or harder?
6.) What is the relationship between values and self-esteem?
7.) It is often said that compassion is a strength, not a weakness. To what extend do you agree?
8.) Talk about a time that you faced an ethical dilemma.
9.) Do you think people with very different core values can get along well?
10.) Compare a culture’s ideal values with the actual values of the people.
