LESSON: 5
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Introduction: Recall the day before topic and introduce the children to the topic of difference between seriousness and sincerity
Goals: To make the children understand that being responsible is different from being egoistic/bossy, understand the difference between seriousness and sincerity
Click: Seriousness Vs Sincerity
About the topic: When you stand up with responsibility, energy will automatically flood you. Feeling that you are responsible is the greatest quality. Ego is different from responsibility. When you feel responsible, you will take the initiative, you will not feel egoistic. Only when you think that you would have done better than the other person, will ego come in the play. Being responsible does not mean becoming serious. Sincerity is different from seriousness. When you are sincere you understand about life and you are able to approach life with a youthful enthusiasm with spontaneity and innocence. Seriousness is only ego shadowing the responsibility. In our youth life, the problems of early childhood appear comical. In our old age, the problems of youth life become comical.
Assessment: • Which is needed seriousness or sincerity? • Does responsibility relates to ego? • What is difference between seriousness and sincerity? • When does ego comes into play? • What is the way to expand? • How are the person in your life who is serious? • Who do we like more serious or sincere people? • Where are you see people very serious? • Do serious people laugh or even smile? • How do feel with sincere people (safe)?
Evaluation: Evaluate their language skills by asking them multiple questions on the topic
Conclusion: Be sincere in what we do, take responsibility and expand
Art of the day: Draw your responsibility
Materials needed: Plain sheet, sketch pen or pen or pencil
Explanation: Encourage the children to draw their responsibilities. Each one can draw what responsibilities mean for them. Give turns for each one to explain what they have drawn.
Inference: Working out of over flowing responsibility instead of greed or fear gives us immense peace and joy.
Story
There was once a great war between two countries. The war had been going on for sometime and the soldiers were starting to feel tired of the long battle.
On a hot afternoon, a man in civilian clothes was riding past a small group of tired soldiers digging a huge pit. The group leader was shouting orders and threatening punishment if the work was not completed within the hours. The man riding the horse stopped and asked the leader. Man riding the horse: Sir why are you only shouting Order? Why can't you help them yourself?
Group leader: What do you mean? I am the leader. The men do as I tell them. If you feel so strongly about helping them, you are welcome to do by yourself. Man riding the horse got down from his horse and started walking up to the soldiers at work. The man took up the tools and started helping the soldiers and worked with them till the job was finished. Before leaving the man congratulated the soldiers for their work. He approached the group leader and said.
Man riding horse: Next time your status prevents you from supporting your people, you should inform your higher authorities and I will provide a more permanent solution. The group leader was now completely surprised. Only now he looked closely at the man-and realized that the man was the army general. Leader must have honesty and responsibility caring genuinely about people.
Workshop1
Take responsibility of your emotion
Explanation: Encourage the children to list their emotions and how they overcome the emotion. For example the child feels I am worrying, I am crying. Whether he is able to analyse when there is a emotion or after the emotion is complete
Inference: When you take responsibility of your emotion probably you can have the break through immediately. For example-when you take full responsibility of the emotion anger. When you know the negative side of anger there you can easily come out of your anger.
For example: During worry when you analyse and understand worry is not helping you then you can easily come out of it. You can have easily a break through of the action.
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