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Welcome to Patterns of Revelation in S4
with Ms. Deborah Casias Noonan
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#1. First Day Questionaire
Please help me to get to know you a little better by answering the following
questions.
Your Name: _____________________ Locker #__________ Homeroom: # S4
Do you prefer a nickname? If so, what is it? ____________________________
Your birth date: ____________________
Your home phone #: _________________________
Your email address: _____________________________
Your home address:
How many other classes do you have on each block day? #: ________
WRITE YOUR SCHEDULE BELOW:
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�B�: _____________________________________________
�C�:_____________________________________________
�D�:_____________________________________________
�E�:_____________________________________________
�F�:_____________________________________________
�G�:_____________________________________________
�H�:_____________________________________________
Who are you Big Sisters here at Nerinx?
Sophomore Big Sister: ____________________________________________
Junior Big Sister: _______________________________________
Senior Big Sister: _____________________________________
Are you working during the school year? _________
If so, where?
How many hours a week?
Are you playing sports this year? ___________
What sports are you playing or trying out for? :
Are these for Nerinx or some other Organization?
Are you planning on being involved in Clubs this year?
Which ones are you thinking about joining?
Are you hoping to be a member of Student Government?
What offices do you want to run for?
Please pick a study partner, this is someone in this class who you will ask
to let you know if we did anything special in Class when you are absent from
school. You will agree to do the same for her. If there are even number of
students so we will have 12 dyads.
Please write your Study Partner's name:
_____________________________and___________________________
Please tell me the name of your favorite:
Subject: __________________________________
Flower: _______________________________
Style of dance: ______________________________
Author or Book: _____________________________
Movie: _______________________________
Style of Music: ____________________________
Please tell me the name of your favorite:
Favorite Singer or Group: _________________________
Song: ____________________________________
Color: _______________________
Place: _______________________
Food: ____________________________
Name the person you admire most: ________________________________
What did this person do to win your admiration?
Do you have any questions about Nerinx at this time? What are they?
Tell me something about yourself that will help me be a better homeroom
teacher for you.
Do you have any questions for me?
What would you like to accomplish this year?
Do you have any thing else you want to tell me about yourself?
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Name:__________________________ Date:________________ Period:_______
#2. Introductory Activity [ August 16 or 17, 2011]
Complete this in class according to the directions given by your teacher.
Interview the person who has the same number as you do. Find out:
[1] The person’s name: ______________________________
[2] Her hobbies: ____________________________
[3] Her place in the family (only child, oldest, middle, or youngest child)
[4] Her homeroom:
[5] Something she likes
[6] Something she dislikes
[7] Ask her something you would like to know about her.
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Interview the person who has the same number as you do. Find out:
[1] The person’s name: ______________________________
[2] Her hobbies: ____________________________
[3] Her place in the family (only child, oldest, middle, or youngest child)
[4] Her homeroom:
[5] Something she likes
[6] Something she dislikes
[7] Ask her something you would like to know about her.
**Be ready to introduce her to the class.
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#3. Please write down anonymously questions you might have about parental or
family relationships, which are related to this lesson.
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#4. Study Questions for Ch. 1 Relating
Name:________________ Period:_____ Date:________
1. Why study about relating?
2. According to Jesus, what does happiness come from?
3. What is the key to personal happiness and social harmony?
4. What does love of others begin with?
5. What are the most important relationships? Explain.
6. What is the purpose of our lives according to the text?
7. What is one of the most important ways to love God?
8.Why did Jesus become human?
9. What is a main aspect of Christianity?
10. What does “self-concept” refer to?
11. What influences the way we first begin to view ourselves and relate to
others?
12. What are some examples of the messages about who we are that individuals
get from the way their parents respond to them?
13. What are some of the things that affect our self-concept?
14. Give some examples about how we are influenced by our family background.
15. Give some examples of ways that peer relationships influence our self-concept.
16. How do peer relationships influence the way a person relates to other people?
17.What is peer pressure? Give some specific examples of +/- peer pressure?
18. What can a person do about peer pressure?
19. How can the appraisals of others?
20.What ultimately determines your self-concept and happiness?
21. Why is having a positive self-image important for religious reasons?
22. What is the difference between being alone and being lonely?
23. Is there anything positive or valuable about either being lonely or alone?
Explain.
24. What can people do to overcome feelings of loneliness?
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Name:________________ Date:_____________ Period:______
#5. Where am I now? Exercise from page 3 Relating Ch. 1
At this point, you might find it interesting and helpful to take this
self-test. It’s just for your information, so you will not be expected to
share your answers or your score.
Circle the number at the point where you would place yourself now in answer to
each question.
1. On the scale of basic happiness (aside from having bad days and rough times
or especially joyful ones now and then), do you feel at this point in your
life that you are primarily a happy or an unhappy person?
•Unhappy 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Happy
2. For the most part, do you like who and what you are?
• No 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Yes
3. In general, do you like the way you relate to others?
• No 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Yes
4. Generally speaking, do you like the way others relate to you?
•No 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Yes
To determine your total score, add up the numbers you have circled above and
then divide by four. When you have finished, your instructor will tell you
how to interpret the results.
Total score: ____
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# 6. Family Tree Assignment
Please ask if you have any questions about the assignment.
Due the class after it is assigned. Due: August 19, 2010
Complete the following assignments on your own paper.
1. On your own paper draw your family tree.
2. Use the following symbols:
For females use a circle For males use a square
For example:
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Mother ! ! Father
! !
! !
Son----wife !
First Born !
Daughter ------------husband
Youngest
! --!-------------- !------!----//-/----- (or divorced)
2. Write a paper analyzing your family structure. Explain what influence the
birth order has had on the self-concept and personalities of each of the
children and their relationships with family members.
3. Draw a symbol that represents your self-concept at present. Write a
paragraph explaining this symbol.
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Marble Exercise for Relating Chapter One
Name:_________________________ Date:____________________ Period:______
Those who parented us somehow give us the basic “set of marbles” with which we
have set out to play “the game of life”: some large, and others small; some
round and smooth and beautifully colored, and others with slight
discolorations or imperfections. These earliest childhood experiences in
relating also taught us the rules by which we were to pay the game. But the
strategies were ours.
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Your task is to draw the jar of marbles that you received. Identify what each
marble represents. What rules were you taught in early childhood regarding how
to use your marbles?
Then explain what strategy you use when playing with these marbles.
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#7. Study Guide for Relating Chapter Two
Name: ____________________ Date: _____________ Period: ______
Study Guide for Relating Chapter Two
Review this as you read Relating Chapter Two. You should be able
to discuss these in class.
Read Chapter Two pages 13-27 in Relating
1. Why is self-knowledge an important preliminary step in learning
to relate better with others?
2. In order to find out who you are as a person, what types of things
would someone have to know about you? Explain.
3. What does the term “Life Attitude” refer to?
4. Name and explain the five “life attitudes” discussed in the chapter.
Which one fits you best? Why?
5. Describe what is meant by personality? Why won’t there ever be
totally accurate ways of assessing personality?
6. How can understanding your personality better help you make
wiser moral choices and improve your relationships with others?
7. Complete the personality exercise, “What’s your personal style?”
on page 18.
8. What seem to be the main general factors that combine to
influence human personality development?
How do you think each of these has influenced your having the type
of personality that you do? Explain.
9. Explain how your name, body image, and talents and abilities
have been important factors in forming your self-concept and how
you relate to others.
10. Name and define the two serious psychological eating disorders
that are widespread among teenagers.
11. What three things a person should do to feel good about herself
and about life?
12. Who or what ultimately determines who you are and become?
Explain.
13. Describe what having a personal “code of ethics.”
14. What is the basic ethical standard for Catholics? What else does
it imply and involve for Catholics? Do non-Christians and other
Christians also believe in this same standard? Explain.
15. Why is it vital to have a code of behavior, and how does it affect a
person’s relationships?
16. What basic questions does religion address?
17. What are Catholic’s responses to these basic questions, and how
should these responses affect their lives?
18. How can your religious beliefs and your relationship with God
affect your life and relationships with others?
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#9. Temperaments Worksheet
Name: ___________________ Date:____________ Period:_____
Temperaments Worksheet
This will be completed as part of Chapter Two Relating.
Complete the Temperaments Activity worksheet. Then complete the
questions below.
1.Can you think of any other personality traits or “temperaments”
than those discussed in the text, in class, or explained on the worksheet?
2. Another way of viewing personality is in terms of being an
“extrovert” or an “introvert.” What is meant by each of these terms?
3.How can you see the four personality “temperaments” as relating to
the five “life attitudes” discussed at the beginning of the Chapter?
4. Do you like your name? Why or why not?
5. Have you ever wished you had been named something else? If so,
what?
6. If you had to choose a new name for yourself right now, what would
it be? Why?
7. In what ways do you think your name has influenced you (positively
or negatively) to think and feel about yourself? Why?
8. How could you improve your attitude about your name?
9. Briefly discuss how Native Americans and historic figures have
often had descriptive names (for example, Walking Tall, Sitting Bull,
Alexander the Great, Mahatma (“great-souled”) Gandhi.
10. How would you expand your name to describe yourself?
11. How do you think your friends would expand your name to describe
you?
12. What expanded name would you ideally like to be known by in
history books?
13. What five objects do you value most (the last ones you would give
up?) Why?
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#10. Velveteen Rabbit Questions
1. A List the qualities of the mechanical toys in your life.
B. Do you think we need mechanical toy friends?
2. What friendship needs did the Velveteen Rabbit meet in the little boy’s life?
3. A. Describe a skin horse in your life.
B. What has that person meant to you?
4. What in your opinion is REAL in relationships?
(reflecting on the Velveteen Rabbit)
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#11. Chapter Four Relating Activity:
Read 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Your group assignment is to find three songs that speak to what LOVE truly is
based on how it is described in the scripture passage. Then you are to find
three songs that describe what infatuation is. You’ll be asked to play small
portions of the songs you choose, and you will need to explain your choices.
You will turn in a summary of each song and your explanation of why you chose
those particular songs.
Read 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Your group assignment is write two parodies. The first parody is describe what
Love is. Your second parody is to describe what infatuation is. Both songs
will be “performed” by your group and the text turned in for a grade.
Read 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Your group assignment is to find two poems that you think best describe the
qualities of love found in the scripture passage. Next find two poems that
describe infatuation. You will recite all your poems and tell the class why
you chose these poems. You also will turn in into me the poems and a brief
explanation of why you chose the poems that you did.
Read 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Your group assignment is to perform two skits. Both of your skits should be
depicting typical situations between teenagers on a Friday night at Ronnie’s.
One of the skits should be showing a LOVING response based on qualities of
love found in the scripture passage. The other skit should show a response
based on INFATUATION. Both skits need to be typed and given to me after your
“performance”.
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#12. Famine Project [Date:_______________]
Link to the World Hunger Interactive Map
Go to the link for the World Hunger Interactive Map
This is a research project. Due ____________, 2012
http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/
Research famine in our world today. We will pick individual areas of the world
for each person to research.
Use the interactive map of world hunger to find out more about hunger in the
area you are assigned.
Research to find the causes of hunger. Who is effected by the hunger?
Finally you will compare this information with the Genesis accounts of Joseph
and the famine in his homeland. What did people have to due as a result of
famine in their homeland? How were they helped by others?
Then look at the areas of the world today, that are effected by famine and its
causes. What do these people do? Who is or isn't helping them? How can they
be helped? How can we help them?
http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/
Be prepared to present you findings to the class;
Identify the country where the significant portion of the population suffers from
food shortage or famine today. Provide statistics when possible.
Show the map of the country and identify the specific area.
Explain the causes of famine or food shortage for your specific area.
Explain what happens to the human body when it is malnourished.
Report on what happens to the families in famine-stricken areas.
What happens to the countryside during a famine?
Report on the efforts of international relief agencies that aid famine-stricken
countries.
Explain how the story of Joseph's family and their famine can be compared to
the people in the country you reported on.
Explain what we can do to help the people suffering from famine today.
This will be due: Date_____________, 2012. You must use the country you
signed up for in class.
http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/map/hungermap-popup/map_
popup.html
http://www.wfp.org/country_brief/hunger_map/
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#13. ME BOXES: One of the great traditions of Freshman Retreat is to have
each
student select a box of their choosing and decorate the outside of it with
pictures, art, words, symbols, etc. that reflect who they are or what they are
like. The outside of this box should reflect what others probably ALREADY
know about them. On the inside of the box are to be placed 2-3 symbols,
words, pictures, etc. that represent what is mostly UNKNOWN about themselves –
perhaps a fear, hope, dream, conviction, or struggle. It would be helpful to
suggest to your freshman that even the average shoebox is often too large and
unwieldy (difficult to transport), and recommend they choose a small shoebox
(or something smaller) for this activity.
Please have each student put her name on the bottom of the box. This activity
will help them prepare for the retreat so please emphasize the significance of
putting some time and thought into it. Students should have the boxes
completed and brought to school by Thursday, April 7th. If we could also try
to locate 7 large boxes (one for each section) that will hold and help move
all these Me Boxes to the retreat site, let’s keep our eyes open for those.
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