My Website

SO...I made a website. See it at www.jeccazan.tripod/thestoryofme

Ethics Assignment

url:

http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/17/prmID/4379

Who?

Layton Lawlor is a teacher in the humanities dapartment of Langley High School in McLean, Virginia. Mike McCamman is one of her students. Jack Becker is the former literary editor of WORLDVIEW magazine. Christian Barry is the editor of Ethics & International Affairs.

What?

The purpose of this website is centered around a question once asked by Socrates..."How shall we live?" There is more to life than simply the freedom to act in one's own self interest. There should also be some purpose, some higher goal, toward which enlightened people strive.

When?

The site was copyrighted in 2004 by Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.

Where?

The information presented in this website is all first hand information founded from the author’s own research and through their own work in the classroom.

Why?

This website offers valuable information regarding what ethics need to be taught in the classroom, as well as how to go about teaching them.

How?

So...how will I incorporate this resource into my curriculumn? As I will be teaching 3rd Grade, this resource offers plenty of material to help introduce the idea of ethics to my students. This is the time period in their lives that determines how exposed and potentially tolerant the children will be to future ethical issues. I plan to incorporate the information provided on this website to design lesson plans, activities, and ideas to help support ethical awareness in my classroom.

The concept of faith has always remained very abstract to me. My life has been based too much on logistics and statistics, rather than the idea that not everything in life can be explained. So when Elder Robert D. Hales offered his prophetic advice on how to believe and obtain faith, I found that I sincerely wanted to know. I've always been in awe of the tremendous and impenetrable faith that so many characters in ancient scripture possessed. How could they believe so firmly in something that had yet to be proven, by earthly standards? And how could I?

Hearing Elder Hales describe it so simply helped me to understand really what faith was. It is simplicity. It's basic.