Bell Work

1. Bell Work • How many people are in your family? • What do you like to do when you have a free 30 minutes? • What do you want to be when you grow up?

3. Making Decisions • A decision is a choice you make and act upon. • For example, you decide what clothes to wear and what food to eat everyday. • You also decide whether to study for the big test and what friends to have.

4. Making Decisions • Each decision you make will impact your over all health either physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially. • Hopefully, you will make good decisions in which you have carefully considered the outcome of each choice.

5. Making Decisions • When making all decisions good or bad you become personally responsible for the outcome. • Taking responsibility for your action shows maturity and good mental health.

6. Making Decisions • For example you can’t get upset with the lunch lady who served you food that you picked in the first place. • You picked the line, you had the choice of food. You chose to eat the food.

7. Values • Your decisions are going to based on your values. • Values are beliefs that you consider to be of great importance.

8. Values • Here a just a few common values that most people try to uphold. • Honesty • Compassion • Courage • Good judgment • Self-discipline, citizenship • Responsibility • Respect for others and self

9. Values • When we go against our personal values we don’t feel good about our decision. • For example when you cheat on a test and receive a good grade. You know that work was not your own. • The grade really doesn’t mean the same because you cheated. You didn’t earn it. • You went against your personal values of being honest.

10. Assignment 1 • “Values Ranking” • Complete the assignment. • Remember there are no right or wrong answers.

11. Assignment 1:5 • WISDOM Having mature understanding, insight, good sense, and good judgment • WEALTH Having many possessions and plenty of money for the things one wants • TRUSTWORTHINESS Being honest, straightforward, and caring • SKILL Being able to use knowledge effectively; being good at doing something important for you and others • RELIGIOUS FAITH Having a religious belief • RECOGNITION Being important, well-liked, and accepted

12. Assignment 1:5 • POWER Possession of control, authority, or influence over others • PLEASURE Satisfaction, gratification, fun, joy • PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Concern for being • Attractive; being neat, clean, and well groomed • MORALITY Believing in and keeping ethical standards, personal honor, and integrity • LOYALTY Maintaining allegiance to a person, group, or institution • LOVE Warmth, caring, unselfish devotion • KNOWLEDGE Seeking truth, information, or principles for satisfaction or curiosity

13. Assignment 1 • JUSTICE Treating others fairly or impartially; conforming to truth, fact, or reason • HONESTY Being frank and genuine with everyone • HEALTH Being sound of body • CREATIVITY The creation of new ideas and designs; being innovative • JOB One’s lifetime work • FAMILY One’s present family and future family • EDUCATION School, college. • ACHIEVEMENT Accomplishments; results brought about by resolve, persistence, or endeavor

14. Character • When a person upholds their personal values they build character. • Character is the way that people think, feel, and act. • If your character is based on positive values, you will develop attitudes and habits that make it easier to make good decisions.

15. Assignment 2 Plane Crash

16. You have been traveling on a tour around the world. • As you are traveling home you are pondering over all the events and things you have seen over the past three weeks.

17. Suddenly, the pilot comes over the loud speaker. • His voice is stressed and urgent. • He tells you to prepare for a crash landing. • You are struck numb with fear.

18. As you look out the window for sings of any hopes, you notice that the plane is flying over the ocean. • You become even more fearful because any rescue will not be quick or easy.

19. As the plane hits the water, you see luggage, blankets, and carts fly around you • People are screaming and crying while other are motionless, eyes fixed forward.

20. You feel the coldness of the water seeping in around you as the plane comes to a stop. • As your fingers fumble at the seat belt, you notice that remarkably there are many survivors. • You follow the other to the open gash in the plane to escape before it goes under to a watery grave.

21. It is your turn to jump out of the gash. You can now see the wreckage from the plane scattered across the ocean. • It is also apparent that land is not near by. You leap into the chilly waters and struggle towards a piece of the plane that is floating.

22. There are about twenty other people around you, hanging onto pieces of the broken wreckage.

23. Someone calls to you. You see that there is a life boat that has survived the crash. • The person helps you aboard. It is the captain of the plane. He is badly hurt. • As he grabs your arm in pain, he tells you to gather up as many people as you can .

24. He also tells you that the boat can only hold ten people. • If any more are retrieved the boat will collapse and all will be lost.

25. On his last breath he tells you to choose wisely. • He allows himself to slip overboard in the ocean. • As you watch him sink, you wonder who you will choose will live and die.

26. Task • You must come up with a list of ten people who should be saved from the ocean. • All you have to base your decision on is the persons occupation and their age. • Be ready to explain your reasons for saving or not saving different people.

27. Remember, the rescue may be days away. Here is the list of the survivors. As the captain said “Choose Wisely!”

28. Survivors You 14 Grandma 76 Doctor 63 Nurse 27 Airline Attendant 33 X-Navy Seal 26 Little Girl 6 College Student 21 Gang Member 18 Farmer 55 Pregnant Women 24 Husband of the 25 Pregnant Women Investment Banker 51 Politician 59 Carpenter 40 Teacher 34 House Wife 38 Police Man 32

29. Assignment 2 • In your journal write down your top 10 people who you think should be saved. • After you list the person tell why you are saving them. • Example: • Little girl: I save her because she was young and had a full life ahead of her. • Police man: I saved him because I think he has a gun and can help us in the middle of the ocean.

30. Assignment 2 • In your group, collectively come up with a list of 10 people to save. • You will have different opinions and will need to talk things through. • Make sure that the majority and not the minority of the group decision is taken into account. • You must also be ready to verbally justify to the rest of the class your reasons for saving or not saving people.

31. Things to think about… • Does age matter? Are you going to save younger people over old or visa versa? • Does gender matter? Should you save women and girls first? If so – are their some you can’t tell their gender. Example: Doctor, nurse, and airline attendant could be any gender. • Are expecting to wash up on a desert island? Does that factor into whom you will save? • Do you really need a doctor and nurse on the same boat? What medical procedures are they going to really accomplish while in a rubber raft? • Has grandma already lived her life? Should she be left out of the boat so that someone younger could live.

32. Things to think about… • Should the ex-navy seal be in the boat? Can’t he treed water the longest? • The gang member is young, but why would you want a gang member on your boat? Could you really go back home and tell someone’s family that you saved a gang member over their family member? How would that make you feel to see a husband, wife, child cry knowing that their love one died so you could save a gang member? • Are you going to save yourself? Or are you going to let someone else have your spot in the boat? How would your family feel about possibly losing you?

33. Assignment 2 • List three things that made your decision difficult. • List two facts that you would like to know about each person that would make your decision easier. Example: did they have other family at home. • Do you think your choices would be different having more information – why or why not? • Write brief paragraph about how you felt having to make such a huge decision.

34. Assignment Review • What made you choice the specific people from the plane crash? The answer is your personal values. • Age, gender, career, family, money, criminal behavior, and weight are all values that you used in making your decision.

35. Decision Making • Remember in the first of this lesson we talked about how our values play a factor in your decisions. • During this assignment did you struggle with your decisions? • Hopefully you will never be faced with such a difficult decision of life and death. • The next slides will give you steps on how to make good decisions in your everyday life.

36. 6 Steps to Making a Decision • Identify the problem: What do you have to decide? • Consider your values: What does your Jiminy Cricket tell you to do? What do you consider to be right or wrong? • List the options: What are your choices? • Weigh the consequences: Consequences are the result of an action that you take. What will happen in the future for each option? • Decide and act: Make your choice, take responsibility for it, and act upon your decision. • Evaluate your decision: Was it a good choice? Would you make the same choice in the future? Is there anything you would change?

37. Decision Making • Besides our values, there are other things that influence our decisions. • An influence is a force that affects your choices when you have a decision to make.

38. Influences on Decisions • Family • Religion • Peers • Education • Media • Culture • Time • Money • Ease

39. Quick Check • A ___ is the result of an action that you take. • Personal ___ play a large roll in the decision making process. • Making good decisions based on personal values builds ___. • List the 6 steps in the decision making process. • Identify the ___. • Consider your ___. • List the ___. • Weight the ___. • Decide and ___. • ___ your decision.

40. Light Bulb Moment • I am going to give the answers to the quick check right after the questions throughout your lessons. • The quick check is for your benefit. To see if you are understanding the information and to prepare for your final unit test. • You could always cheat and write down the answers. • But where would that get you? Besides, that decision is most likely going against your personal values. • How is that building character?

41. Answers • Consequence • Values • Character • Problem • Values • Options • Consequences • Act • Evaluate

42. Since learning that your parents are separating, your friends keeping asking you if you are OK. You realize that you have obviously been really down and at times pretty grumpy. The next time your friend Jim asks you how you are you decided to tell him how you have been feeling

43. Your best friend has just told you that they are moving to a new school or moving to a new town/city. You felt really upset hearing this news. Your best friend is really upset as she/he tells you this news. Respond to your friend and tell them how you feel.

44. You have been working really hard to improve your skills in playing basketball in the hope that you will be chosen for the school team. Unfortunately you are away from school on the day of the trials. When you return to school you arrange to see the teacher who took the trials and talk to him/her about still being available to be a member of the team.

45. One of your friends is told off by the teacher for talking and acting the fool. In fact you were one of the people being silly and not your friend. You put your hand up to explain to the teacher what really happened. What do you say?

46. For the last six months, since your parents separated, you have been spending week about at each of their different houses. You are finding it hard to keep track of all your things and to remember to pack the right things each week. You sit down to talk to your Mum or Dad or both of them about how you are feeling.