Q3 Concept: Human Fallibility

1. Q3 Concept: Human Fallibility The idea that all humans are able and likely to err.

2. Instructions • Walk around the room silently and read the quotes/questions regarding Human Fallibility. • Respond in writing to the quote/question/statement • Be sure to sign your name by your comment • Wait until told and move to the next poster • On your second time around, read comments made by your classmates: • Respond in a different color to a comment on the poster • Be sure to sign your name by your response • Wait until told and move to the next poster All comments/responses must be school appropriate. This is graded. Be sure to take it seriously. NO NAME = NO CREDIT

3. Recap • What did you find interesting about the ideas behind the questions and quote? • Were there any that surprised you? • Were there any with which you strongly agreed or disagreed? • Did you and your classmates agree on everything? • If no, why might that be?

4. The World Is Not A Pleasant Place to Be by Nikki Giovanni The world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by a river would stop its flow if only a stream were there to receive it an ocean would never laugh if clouds weren't thereto kiss her tears the world isnot a pleasant place to be without someone

5. With Inspiration from Nikki Giovanni • We will now work together to create our own versions of “The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be” • We will keep the first and last stanzas from her poem • The middle stanzas will be a team effort from you and your classmates • You will not know who’s stanzas are going to work together with your own • You need to create 2 or 3 metaphor stanzas (3-4 lines each) • Your stanzas should deal with some sort of experience or relationship on Earth Her Middle Stanzas: a river would stop its flow if only a stream were there to receive it an ocean would never laugh if clouds weren't thereto kiss her tears Think Nature: Grass, Trees, Stars, Wind, Water, Dirt, Ice, Snow, etc. Write this on a sheet that you can turn in and make sure your name is on it.

6. 1 Desire and revenge can result in corruption.

7. 2 Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. ~ Peter Drucker

8. 3 Which aspects of human weakness leave people open to be preyed upon?

9. 4 Societal dysfunction can be the result of imperfections of its members.

10. 5 Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

11. 6 How do compromised values lead to individual corruption?

12. 7 Cultural intolerance, violence, terrorism, and hate can be the result of blaming others for community, national, or global problems.

13. 8 America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. ~ e.e. cummings

14. 9 To what lengths do people hide their personal fallibility?

15. 10 Man’s desire for perfection can exemplify the fallibility of human nature.

16. 11 What are appropriate punishments for those individuals that commit hate or violent crimes?

17. 12 Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes. ~ Antisthenes

18. 13 When is revenge by any means justifiable?

19. 14 No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

20. 15 What is the difference between the media’s portrayal of love and the values of our society?