9-3 Last day of the official add/drop period

TODAY'S GOALS :[2I1] “to know thyself.” To know one’s strengths and weaknesses in learning, writing, reading, speaking, listening. Self-awareness is essential not only for leadership and ethics, but for good writing for it enables self-management of time and emotional as well as intellectual resources. [1B] how to maintain a pro-active, positive attitude

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And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven*....If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a large millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned at the bottom of the sea."

TODAY'S TOPICS: Childhood and Animal Studies; emotional literacy and emotive ethics;QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT ASSIGNED READINGS 13 -107

TODAY'S ACTIVITIES:QUIZ ON MELSON AND DOLBY, 219-247 + the purpose of guided imagery; emotional literacy; experiential learning; + discussing other aspects of the course and answering questions about it and the topics listed above. Children Full of Life

REQUIRED READING:

Bridging Disciplines Program …………………………………………………215
Children and Society ………………………………………………216-217;

Environment ………..218

Melson, Why the Wild Things Are: Animals in the Lives of Children …219-240

• 221 Human-Animal Bond, Biocentric vs. Humanocentric
• 221-2 Overview of the book
• 222-7 Child development scholarship
  • 226 Links between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans
  • 226 Biophilia
• 228-32 Pets, incl. Pets in the family
• 233 Love on Four Legs
• 233-4 Learning from Animals
  • 234 Biophilia and animal therapy
• 235-8 Animal selves and symbols
  • 238 Animal guides
• 239-40 Victims and Objects, Links between cruelty to animals and cruelty to humans vs. humane education

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  Dolby, “Empathy for All” …………………………………………..........................………….241-247
  • 243- Expanding the moral circle
  • 244 Informed Empathy
  • 245 Ethics
  • 246 Democracy, Empathy in the classroom

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On the heath, King Lear asked Gloucester: “How do you see the world?” And Gloucester, who is blind, answered:" I see it feelingly."

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Compassion and Autobiograhical Writing in Asia: Children Full of Life

EMOTIVE ETHICS:

Toni Morrison introduction…………………………………………………………….......…259
Bluest Eye selections ………………………………………………………………..…..…260-4
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“Know Thyself”………………………………………………………………………………….270
Emotional Intelligence and Leadership, Goleman…………..…………………271-7
Harmonizing Emotion and Thought…………………..……………………………..278-0
“The Man Without Feelings”………………………………………………..…….….…..281
“The Roots of Empathy”…………………………………………………………………..283-4
David Lee Powell: I. Q. vs. Morality………………………………………………….285
Molesters and Sociopaths……………………………………………………………….286
“I Am A Rock” and “Comfortably Numb”………………….……………………..287

EMOTIONAL LITERACY
Emotion Words Checklist…………………………………………………………………..288-5
Children’s Feeling Words……………………………………………………………….….296
Vocabulary of Emotions……………………………………………………………….……297
Intensity of Feelings Chart…………………………………………………………………298
Smiley-Faces… ……..……………………………………………………………………….…….299 Joy………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 300
Writing Emotions…………………………………………………………………………….…...301-2

EMOTIVE ETHICS DEFINITIONS
Definition of Passion + Churchill on Emotion……………………………………...303-5 “Compassion”…………………………………………………………………………………………306-7 “Empathy”…………………………………………………….…………………………………..308 “Sympathy”……………………………………………………..………………………………………309-0
Sympathetic Imagination………………………………………………………….………..311

PHILOSOPHICAL ETHICS
Companion to Ethics, ed. Singer, Table of Contents…………………………..312-6
“Animals” The Ethics of Sympathy: Lori Gruen……………………………………317

EMOTIVE ETHICS
Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics ed. Donovan and Adams,
Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………….….…318-9

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OTHER IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS

Definition of Human and Humane………………………………………… 248-250
Definition of Animal…………………………………………………………….…251-252
Definition of Speciesism …………………………………………………..….253-255
Definition of Anthropocentrism……………………………………..……..256
Definition of Anthropomorphize……………………………………….…..256
Definition of Ethnocentrism…………………………………………….……257
Definition of Egoism……………………………………………….…………….257
Definition of Hubris………………………………………………………..…..…258

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REVIEW: course basics 13 -107

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LOOKING AHEAD:

9-5 EXTRA CREDIT LECTURE AND EXTRA CREDIT EXHIBIT: 8 pts. if I see you there; up to 16 more for post in Extra Credit Blog

 

QUIZ on First Half of Bless Me Ultima 9-10

LONG-RANGE PLANNING: FIND YOUR POWER ANIMAL FOR P1

PROJECT ONE INSTRUCTIONS

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