DOWNLANDS COLLEGE

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
UNIT RED
INTRODUCTION TO MORALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

NAME: ________________________________________
Draft Due: Week Ending 25 February 2013

Date Due: Week Beginning 4 March 2013

TASK ONE: Response to Stimulus Short Guided Responses

Conditions:
The DVD, Fifteen and Pregnant, will be viewed during class time.
Each lesson will provide time for viewing, discussion of the segment and guided
preparation of the relevant response/s.
The task is due one week after viewing of the DVD has been completed.

Knowledge and
Understanding

Processing Skills

Communication
Skills

Assessment:

Teachers Comment:

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RED Morality and Social Justice: Response to Stimulus (guided short responses)

SkillsProcessing ngUnderstandiand Knowledge

The student can:

The student can:

The student can:

The student can:

Demonstrate a comprehensive
understanding of the themes and
moral issues within the stimulus

Demonstrate a clear
understanding of the themes
and moral issues within the
stimulus

Demonstrate an understanding
of the themes and moral issues
within the stimulus

Identify some of the themes and

moral issues within the stimulus

With assistance identify some of

the moral issues within the stimulus

Attempts to provide personal

responses to the moral issues.

With assistance, provides a

response to the moral issues.

Provide informed and justified

personal responses to the moral
issues.

Provide informed personal

responses to the moral issues.

The student can:

The student can:

The student can:

The student can:

The student can:

organise time to successfully and

efficiently present the task by the
due date

organise time to successfully

present the task by the due
date.

use time to satisfactorily

present the task by the due date

use time to present part of the

task

use time to begin the task

Identify the moral issue and

provide alternative choices

With assistance,
identify the moral issue and
suggest an alternative choice

Analyse the moral issue and

provide relevant, alternative choices
Justify appropriate strategies for
maintaining moral integrity in
response to personal, social and
cultural expectations.

ion SkillsCommunicat

The student can:

The student can:

Provide responses that accord with
the indicative word length
consistently and effectively
presents response using short
response genre with appropriate
vocabulary; and correct spelling,
grammar and punctuation

Identify the moral issue and

provide relevant, alternative
choices

Provide personal responses to

the moral issues.

Nominates some strategies for

maintaining moral integrity in
response to personal, social and
cultural expectations.
The student can:

With assistance, nominates

some strategies for maintaining
moral integrity in response to
personal, social and cultural
expectations.
The student can:

Provide responses that mostly

accord with the indicative word
length

Provide responses that usually

accord with the indicative word
length

Provide some responses that

accord with the indicative word
length

effectively presents response

using short response genre with
suitable vocabulary; and mostly
correct spelling, grammar and
punctuation

satisfactorily presents task

using short response genre with
basic vocabulary; and in which
errors in spelling, grammar and
punctuation do not prevent the
meaning being conveyed

presents task using some short

response genre with basic
vocabulary; and in which
numerous errors in spelling,
grammar and punctuation do not
prevent the meaning being
conveyed

Nominate appropriate
strategies for maintaining moral
integrity in response to personal,
social and cultural expectations.
The student can:

With significant assistance,

name the moral issue and a
possible choice
With significant assistance, identify
a choice that may be morally
relevant.

The student can:

Provide limited responses
presents written information that
does not accord with the
expectations of the task

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Respond to the following questions, using the lines provided to record your answers
Where applicable, the word length for a response should be in accord with the relevant spacing.
Responses are to be structured as sentences.
Question 1:
After viewing the film, 15 and Pregnant, briefly describe the initial response of various family
members to the knowledge that Tina was pregnant.
a) Tina .

b) Mother

c) Father .
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d) Rachael (sister) ..
.
e) Adam (brother)
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f) How would you respond in a similar situation?
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Question 2:
What things, do you think would have been important to Tina before she became pregnant?
List them in order of importance, making 1 the most important.

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Question 3:
Tinas father asks if she has considered having the baby adopted and her mother responds:
Tina is fifteen. Shes not old enough to make such life changing decisions.
In reply, what would you say to Tinas mother?

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Question 4:
Im not doing much with my life. We may as well have a kid. We can grow up together.
From the above comment, evaluate Rays (Tinas boyfriend) character.
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Question 5:
Choose an issue that has been presented in the film and, using the six step process for
decision-making, work through the following steps and write a response in for every stage of the
process.
1.

The problem
What do you think is an important issue that requires a decision, in the film?
...........................
Why does this decision matter?
...............................
...............................
What is the most important thing about this decision?
...............................
...............................
Who is involved?
...............................
How are they affected?
...............................
..

2.

The choices
What are the various alternatives?
...............................
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What does s/he need to know more about?
...............................
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3.

The consequences
What might s/he want to happen as a result of the decision?
..............................
...............................
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
...............................
...............................

4.

Seek advice
How can family inform the decision?
.............................
.............................
How can the experience of the church help in this matter?
..............................
..............................
How can other people help?
...............................
..
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5.

The decision
What should s/he decide to do? (Even though you may know the difference between
right and wrong, you still have a choice. You may choose the wrong option.)
...............................
...............................

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6.

Reflection and prayer (throughout all stages)

Has s/he really worked through the consequence/s?
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Has s/he been honest with her/himself?
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Is s/he being true to her/his values?
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Was s/he free to decide this or was s/he forced?
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