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CHAPTER FIVE

Explore the importance of conscience formation and the impact it has on decision-making. Analyze quotes from MLK and relate them to personal life choices. Discuss the SEER process and engage in group activities to practice conscientious decision-making.

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CHAPTER FIVE

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  1. CHAPTER FIVE Conscience Formation

  2. Thursday, March 10: Quick Write- Copy and answer the following question • “Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expedience asks the question, “It is politic?” Vanity asks the question, “It is popular?” But conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • Analyze the quote above. What is the message MLK is trying to convey? How can you relate this to your own life choices?

  3. Lesson Activities • Quick Write • Prayer • Chapter 5 Inquiry • Lecture: Introduction

  4. With and Without Conscience Conscience A practical judgment of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or sinfulness of an action or attitude. It is the subjective norm of morality that we must form properly and then follow

  5. Definition of Conscience • What Conscience Is Not: • Majority opinion. • A feeling. • A superego. • A gut-instinct. • A “Jiminy Cricket.” • A myth.

  6. Definition of Conscience What Conscience Is: Awareness of God’s call to be. Awareness of God’s call to know and do the good, that is, to love. A practical judgment of the intellect.

  7. How Conscience Works virtue vice A bad habit, that inclines us to choose the evil rather than the good A good habit that empowers us to do good with ease

  8. Chapter 5 Inquiry • Pg. 125 #1-4 • Pg. 128 #1-6 and For Your Journal • Pg. 131 #1-3 and For Your Journal • Pg. 133 #1-4

  9. Friday, March 11: Quick Write - copy and answer the following question • According to your reading, what is conscience? • HINT: Includes 3 parts

  10. Answer • Awareness of God’s call to be • Awareness of God’s call to know and to do the good that is, to love • Practical judgment of the intellect

  11. Lesson Activities • Quick Write • Prayer • Lecture: SEER decision-making process • Group Activity: Case Study • Collect SEER presentation sheets

  12. Elect a course of action Study the facts Execute the action Review the decision How Conscience Works Study, Elect, Execute, Review: SEER – a person in tune with truth, a prophet

  13. How Conscience Works • Study, Elect, Execute, Review • You must always form and keep informing your conscience. • You must follow your conscience.

  14. How Conscience Works • Study, Elect, Execute, Review • 1. Study • Gather information about the moral object, the motives, and the circumstances involved in particular decisions. • Review the fundamental principles of morality and consider how best to apply essential moral rules.

  15. How Conscience Works • Study, Elect, Execute, Review • 2. Elect • Decision should be based on whether the proposed action is consistent with who you are as God’s creation made in his image. • An essential part of making this decision is to pray.

  16. How Conscience Works • Study, Elect, Execute, Review • 3. Execute • This involves responsibility. • You must do what your conscience tells you is right or you sin. • Be an actor, not a reactor. Take control of your own actions and own them.

  17. How Conscience Works • Study, Elect, Execute, Review • 4. Review • Evaluate and reflect on the actions already performed. • If we have taken the steps to form a good conscience, then our conscience will be clear. • If we have gone against what we know we should have done and sinned, then our conscience can help us repent and reform.

  18. Group Activity • Task: In groups of 3, create 3 “What would you do?” case studies on a keynote presentation • Your situations must require conscientious decision-making • A few examples are on page 123 • Requirements: • Must have detailed facts • Must have a moral dilemma (Consider the moral object, circumstances, and actions)

  19. Presentations • Task: • Each group has a sheet of paper with the “SEER” process • As the group is presenting you will need to fill out the handout • Mr. Anderson will randomly select groups to present their findings

  20. Tuesday, March 15: Quick Write-copy and answer the following question • Explain the steps of the SEER process. • How is this similar to the STOP process of discernment?

  21. Lesson Activities • Quick Write • Prayer • Current Event • Exit Task

  22. What to do? • 1. Title of the news story • 2. A summary of the story (1-3 paragraphs) • 3. What theme of Catholic Social Teaching does it relate? • 4. What are the Pros/Cons of the issue? • 5. What would the Catholic Church’s position be on the issue? • 6. What is your opinion on the issue? • 7. What further information would a reader need to be properly informed?

  23. Reflection • After reading your article: • 1. What are some ways you could share this learning with your parents or family, or friends? • 2. What concerns do you have about what you viewed? • 3. What effect could the events in this article have on you directly or indirectly?

  24. Wednesday, March 16– Quick Write • Quick Write - Turn back the clock. • Gospel Citations • Matthew 5: 17-20 • Matthew 7:12 • Luke 9: 23-25 • John 15: 9-10

  25. Lesson Activities • Quick Write • Prayer • Lecture/Discussion • Group Activity • Exit Activity

  26. Peer Pressure and Conscience “The moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties, and constancy in the pursuit of the good” (CCC1808). fortitude

  27. Peer Pressure and Conscience martyr A witness ready to suffer and even die for truth and virtue; martyrdom is the ultimate act of fortitude.

  28. Peer Pressure and Conscience • Fortitude • How to resist negative peer pressure: • Resolve to be your own person. • Know your own standards. • Use humor and grace to say “no.” • Stay away from situations that might tempt you.

  29. Group Activity • Task: In groups of 3, design a multi-media campaign to sensitize (make aware of) fellow students to the risks of negative peer pressure • Requirements: • Keynote presentation • Select a social issue (driving habits; school work; drinking and drugs; sexual behavior; relationships with parents; stealing; etc.) • Use appropriate images (pictures or short video clips) • Relevant facts/statistics • Ask yourself: How can negative peer pressure impact my decision about this issue? What could be the tangible and intangible effects?

  30. Exit Slip • What is “fortitude”? How can you use this virtue to assist in your decision-making process?

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