Transcript I. Enjoy a Story

Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
Warm-up
I.
Enjoy a Story 
II. Courage & Integrity 
III. Read & Discuss 
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
I. Enjoy a Story
The Cleaning Lady
During my second month of nursing school, our professor
gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had
breezed through the questions, until I read the last one:
"What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?"
"Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning
woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her
50s, but how would I know her name?”
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
I. Enjoy a Story
The Cleaning Lady
I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before
class ended, one student asked if the last question would
count toward our quiz grade.
"Absolutely," said the professor. "In your careers you will meet
many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention
and care, even if all you do is smile and say 'Hello'."
I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name
was Dorothy.
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
II. Courage & Integrity
Listen and fill in the blanks.
Courage and integrity are two very
traits
important __________
that are a part of
every person's lifestyle. Which trait would
desirable
be more _________?
Courageous people
do not let anything hold them back or
restrain them from doing what they
________
believe in. Integrity is the ability to set a
frame of personal morals and live your life
accordingly.
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Also courage is executing
_______ what you
believe in, even when you know
your end result is most likely to be
failure. The ability to accept failure
is also courage. The most important
maintaining
form of courage is ___________
integrity.
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Integrity is all about who you really are
as a person. Integrity is the ability to
given situation
maintain those morals inany
___________.
If I had to choose between integrity
and courage, I would choose integrity
because it takes courage to have
integrity. If you had integrity, courage
would already be part of you.
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It takes courage to maintain your integrity. Many
incidents may ________
come up in life that challenge your
moral principles. People with a high amount of integrity
can maintain their moral principles in any given
situation. People with low integrity must have a low
amount of courage because it takes true courage to
maintain their integrity. Between courage and integrity,
outweighs the value of courage.
the value of integrity _________
High integrity is more important than anything else in
the world because there is nothing more important
than who you are inside.
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
III. Read & Discuss
Study the following five quotations on morality and then
brainstorm about the two topics listed below.
1."What you do not wish others to do to you, do not
do to them."
(Confucius)
2. Moral integrity is a long-range commitment to
specific moral principles; a person of moral
integrity does not change moral principles
for the sake of expediency or personal
convenience.
(Manuel M. Davenport)
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3. Integrity is the commitment to acting in
accordance with long-range values and
moral principles. Integrity requires us to
think past short-term gains to long-range
consequences.
(Diana Mertz Hsieh)
4. No one can enhance himself at the
expense of others; what one believes to be
"self-enhancement" is that case is actually
self-destruction.
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III. Read & Discuss
5. The truly good person harmonizes quietly,
modestly, and without calling attention to
himself or to the quality of his acts. He builds
no monuments to himself.
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Lesson 8 – “We’re Only Human”
III. Read & Discuss
Topic for discussion:
1. According to a survey conducted by the
Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 2002,
the divorce rate in Shanghai has risen from
0.027 percent in the late 1970s to 0.486
percent of 2001. More than 40 percent of the
divorced couples surveyed admitted their
spouses had other sexual partners, which
they said directly caused the divorce.
How do you interpret the extramarital affairs
from the perspective of morality?
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Topic for discussion:
2. The world is flooded with pirated
goods which range from electric
appliance to personal items. The
pirates go at the risks of severe penalty.
What lies behind their drive for the
illegal activities is a surprising number
of avid buyers who are virtually honest
and law-abiding people. What do you
think of the pirates and the buyers?
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