Handouts: None given
Reminders:
- Book Report Key Due-Dates: Title & Author (Mon, Sep. 11, written on a paper in class), Pre-Reading Form (Mon, Sep. 25, @ start of class), Book Report/Project (Mon, Nov. 14, report on TurnItIn.com / Art @ start of class)
Instructional Time: Unit 1 - Introducing Worldviews
Journal: Fill this out on page 4 of your Unit 1 Study Packet
- Read the verses in the bottom left corner: Romans 12:2 & 2 Corinthians 10:4–5
- Fill out the “Personal Summary” at the top
- - Explain what you think these verses are saying in 15 or more words.
- - This is graded for completion
- Numb: To not feel something
- In the video, the man seemed to be numb to the changes in his: Coffee, Suit, Lunch, Car, & Apartment
- Culture influences us a lot—
- - Often we don’t even realize how it changes us (we are numb to it)!
- - It changes our values, thoughts, & behaviors
- - It is a big part of who we become
- - - A way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization (such as a business)
- Questions from the Student Workbook, page 3…
- - 1) What is the film about?
- - -How things influence us in ways we don't realize.
- - 2) How did the main character react to what was happening around him?
- - -He didn't notice it; or if he did notice, it was subtle
- - 3) What are examples of things that changed as a result of the influences around him?
- - -His apartment, coffee, suit, lunch, car, etc...
- - 4) What do each of these examples represent in today’s popular culture?
- - -Advertising, media, etc...
- - 5) What do you think the TV analyst meant when he said, “The question then becomes: What are we going to do? Are we going to sit here and be numb, or are we going to do something about it?”
- - -This, as well as the radio interview with the senator early in the film ("The longer we stand by and do nothing, the harder it will be to take control later"), is another way of saying that if we allow culture's influence to permeate our lives, we will become desensitized to its control over our actions. It is hard to engage culture if we don't recognize it all around us and the power that it asserts
- - 6) What are some of the things that influence you on an ordinary day?
- - -All sorts of things could be put here! Music, movies, books, TV, magazines, peer pressure, what friends say, textbooks, etc...
Video: Culture TS: We watched & then discussed this (Student Workbook, pg 4), if you were gone, arrange a time to come by before or after school & see the video.
- 1) What did Dr. Brown mean when he mentioned the fish in the ocean?
- - Dr. Brown said, “Culture is the ocean we swim in. Like a fish in the middle of the ocean, it doesn’t even know that it’s wet. More than that, everything it sees, it sees through the water!”
- - We are surrounded by, influenced by, see everything through, & can't escape it.
- 2) Culture has a major influence on what three things?
- - Our values, beliefs, & behaviors
- 3) What is popular culture?
- - A collection of values, themes, ideas, & behavior that is popularized mainly through media & technology. The most visible forms of popular culture are seen in television, movies, radio, music, magazines, the internet, etc...
- 4) Why is popular culture so influential?
- - Popular culture becomes a means by which people particularly young people, express their identity & values. It is also the means by which they explore the big questions in life.
- 5) How is “the right to choose” seen as the most important value in our culture?
- - We like to be "pro-choice" about everything. Ask how everyone would feel if there was only one kind of ketchup or one television station to watch. This is actually how it is under communist governments! But is choice always a good thing? The answer is that having the ability to decide enables us to choose what is right and good, but also to choose what is wrong and bad.
- - Do you think that it really is the 'most important value?'
- - What else may be?
Quiz 1a Preparation:
- Your Verses: Romans 12:2 & 2 Corinthians 10:5 (ESV)
- Vocab Words:
- - Conformed: To be made like something
- - Transformed: Changed into something different
- - Renewal: To be made like new in a better way
- - Discern: To know, find out
- - Will: What somebody wants
- - Divine: Of or from God
- - Lofty: Something considered higher than it should be
- Short Answer Questions: Based upon class discussion & your personal reflection of these verses, use complete sentences & your own words to specifically answer:
- - 1. Describe how people are 'conformed to this world.'
- - - Use the video ideas to answer #1
- - - What are we influenced by?
- - - What things about us are influenced?
- - 2. Explain what these Bible verses encourage us to do instead and tell how it says we are to do that.
- - - Use class discussion ideas to answer #2
- - - Be transformed! => How?
- - - Have our minds renewed! => How?
- - - Know God’s will! => How?
- - - Destroy wrong arguments & opinions => How?
- - - Take thoughts captive to obey Christ => How?
- - - If God is holy & way above us, we can only know Him by changing the natural way we think (Is. 55:8-9)
- In the video, the man seemed to be numb to the changes in his: Coffee, Suit, Lunch, Car, & Apartment
- Culture influences us a lot—
- - Often we don’t even realize how it changes us (we are numb to it)!
- - It changes our values, thoughts, & behaviors
- - It is a big part of who we become
- What is Culture? According to Merriam Webster (Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture):
- - - The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time- - - A way of thinking, behaving, or working that exists in a place or organization (such as a business)
- Questions from the Student Workbook, page 3…
- - 1) What is the film about?
- - -How things influence us in ways we don't realize.
- - 2) How did the main character react to what was happening around him?
- - -He didn't notice it; or if he did notice, it was subtle
- - 3) What are examples of things that changed as a result of the influences around him?
- - -His apartment, coffee, suit, lunch, car, etc...
- - 4) What do each of these examples represent in today’s popular culture?
- - -Advertising, media, etc...
- - 5) What do you think the TV analyst meant when he said, “The question then becomes: What are we going to do? Are we going to sit here and be numb, or are we going to do something about it?”
- - -This, as well as the radio interview with the senator early in the film ("The longer we stand by and do nothing, the harder it will be to take control later"), is another way of saying that if we allow culture's influence to permeate our lives, we will become desensitized to its control over our actions. It is hard to engage culture if we don't recognize it all around us and the power that it asserts
- - 6) What are some of the things that influence you on an ordinary day?
- - -All sorts of things could be put here! Music, movies, books, TV, magazines, peer pressure, what friends say, textbooks, etc...
Video: Culture TS: We watched & then discussed this (Student Workbook, pg 4), if you were gone, arrange a time to come by before or after school & see the video.
- 1) What did Dr. Brown mean when he mentioned the fish in the ocean?
- - Dr. Brown said, “Culture is the ocean we swim in. Like a fish in the middle of the ocean, it doesn’t even know that it’s wet. More than that, everything it sees, it sees through the water!”
- - We are surrounded by, influenced by, see everything through, & can't escape it.
- 2) Culture has a major influence on what three things?
- - Our values, beliefs, & behaviors
- 3) What is popular culture?
- - A collection of values, themes, ideas, & behavior that is popularized mainly through media & technology. The most visible forms of popular culture are seen in television, movies, radio, music, magazines, the internet, etc...
- 4) Why is popular culture so influential?
- - Popular culture becomes a means by which people particularly young people, express their identity & values. It is also the means by which they explore the big questions in life.
- 5) How is “the right to choose” seen as the most important value in our culture?
- - We like to be "pro-choice" about everything. Ask how everyone would feel if there was only one kind of ketchup or one television station to watch. This is actually how it is under communist governments! But is choice always a good thing? The answer is that having the ability to decide enables us to choose what is right and good, but also to choose what is wrong and bad.
- - Do you think that it really is the 'most important value?'
- - What else may be?
Quiz 1a Preparation:
- Your Verses: Romans 12:2 & 2 Corinthians 10:5 (ESV)
- Vocab Words:
- - Conformed: To be made like something
- - Transformed: Changed into something different
- - Renewal: To be made like new in a better way
- - Discern: To know, find out
- - Will: What somebody wants
- - Divine: Of or from God
- - Lofty: Something considered higher than it should be
- Short Answer Questions: Based upon class discussion & your personal reflection of these verses, use complete sentences & your own words to specifically answer:
- - 1. Describe how people are 'conformed to this world.'
- - - Use the video ideas to answer #1
- - - What are we influenced by?
- - - What things about us are influenced?
- - 2. Explain what these Bible verses encourage us to do instead and tell how it says we are to do that.
- - - Use class discussion ideas to answer #2
- - - Be transformed! => How?
- - - Have our minds renewed! => How?
- - - Know God’s will! => How?
- - - Destroy wrong arguments & opinions => How?
- - - Take thoughts captive to obey Christ => How?
- - - If God is holy & way above us, we can only know Him by changing the natural way we think (Is. 55:8-9)
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