Introduction - What is Trust???

Context: This is the first lesson in a 15-day unit plan on the topic of the Cold War. This is a thematic unit with the theme being trust/distrust. This first day introduces the students to both the unit topic and the theme.

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Objectives and Common Core State Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.6 Identify aspects of a text that reveal an authors point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). Cognitive: SWBAT define trust and community. SWBAT explain why trust is important in a community. Affective: SWBAT participate in class discussions.

Materials/Technology Resources Required Smart Board What is Trust??? Prezi presentation (http://prezi.com/bel7eaqmjsq4/what-is-trust/) One copy of To Serve With Honor worksheet for each student One copy of Paul Newman excerpt for each student

! Time: 47 minutes !

Instructional Procedures/Steps: 1. Have Smart Starter #151 displayed on the Smart Board when the students enter the room (see attached Smart Starter). Students have three minutes to complete the Smart Starter. 2. Once students complete the Smart Starter, explain to students that today we are going to be talking about trust and doing a couple of activities to better understand what it means to trust someone, the importance of trust, and how trust can be gained and lost. 3. Ask students to define trust and give examples of what they think it means to trust someone. 4. Ask students to define community and then list examples of various communities that they may be involved in in their lives. Examples may be schools, classrooms, athletic teams, religious organizations, neighborhoods, cities, towns, and friend groups. 5. Have students look over the list of familiar communities and ask them if they trust each of the individuals in a particular community the same. Also ask if the students feel that they are trusted the same by each member of a particular community. 6. Ask the students why trust is a valuable trait within a community. Brainstorm ideas of what may happen if there were no trust in a community.

7. Explain that now the students will think about real-life examples of people and business that they trust. Explain that one aspect of developing trust is through honesty in which words and feelings match thoughts and actions. However, sometimes it can be hard to determine which people are trustworthy. 8. Have students raise their hands if they can think of the name of a famous person or company that they trust in the following categories: a. Politician b. TV Personality c. Athlete d. Retail Store e. Celebrity 9. Have a student, or students, read the excerpt about Paul Newman. As a class, discuss the questions that follow. 10. Discuss how students themselves can use their own time, talent, and treasure to support trustworthy politicians, sports figure, corporations, and celebrities. Discuss whether or not we have a responsibility as citizens to take actions to support public figures who show trustworthiness. 11. Explain that often times when people think about trust, they also think about loyalty. Explain that this unit is about a war and in war, sometimes people have to make very difficult decisions. One of those decision is often whether or not you can trust your leaders, and if you cant, do you still have a duty to be loyal to them? 12. Hand out the worksheet, To Serve With Honor. Have students read the excerpt silently and answer the questions. When everyone is finished, discuss the definitions of hochverrat and landesverrat and ask a couple of students to share out their answer to the last question. 13. Explain that, as we get into the Cold War, it will be important to always keep in our minds the idea of trust and loyalty and to contemplate the difficult decisions that people on both sides of the war had to make.

Evaluation: Students will hand in their worksheets at the end of class.

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Smart Starter #151: Free Write

What does it mean to trust someone? Who is one person that you trust and why do you trust them? What have they done to earn your trust?

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Paul Newman (19252008) was as well-known for his acting career as his philanthropic [giving for the common good] endeavors. He was an actor respected and renowned by critics and audiences alike. He received many awards for his acting, including a Best Actor Academy Award for his role in The Color of Money. Other of his films include Hud, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Newman used his name recognition to gain attention and support for issues that were important to him. He was a political activist and spoke up for many causes, including children with illness, drug abuse, and homelessness. His name creates visibility of his philanthropic activity, and the entrepreneurial accomplishments of his food product company, Newman's Own. Newman led the way in corporate philanthropy with the company Newman's Own and its remarkable policy of donating 100% of the proceeds (after taxes) to charitable [related to giving to the needy] organizations. He and friend A.E. Hotchner conceived the idea to launch a business using the homemade salad dressing that the Newmans originally gave out as holiday gifts. The combination of popular name recognition and a good product allowed the company to donate close to $1 million in its first year of operation. Newman himself recognizes the value of his endorsement [public support for] with the motto of the company reading, "shameless exploitation in pursuit of the common good." The original product, Newman's Own Salad Dressing, has grown into a whole product line of dressings, salsa, popcorn, steak sauce, pasta sauce, fruit cocktail juice, and lemonade. Each of the products is made with all natural ingredients, according to the Newman's Own Web site. As of October, 2008, the donations to charities exceeded $280 million (http://newmansown.com/). Until his death in 2008, Paul Newman was involved in many charitable organizations through board membership and continuous financial support. In 2008, he was named the Most Generous Celebrity by Givingback.org. He contributed $20,857,000 for the year of 2008 (Wikipedia) to the Newmans Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities. He continued to act in and direct plays and feature films.

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To Serve with Honor ! By Richard A. Gabriel (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982)

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In a crisis, the soldier must exercise his sense of loyalty as fides, and it must always take precedence over any sense of obsequium. Indeed, the problem is even more complex, for in a deep moral crisis the soldier may even have to override his oath to the profession and to the Constitution in order to be loyal to humanity itself. The Germans, who perhaps have had more direct experience with officers and soldiers being crushed between demands of their oath and the course of immoral events, have developed an interesting distinction in dealing with the question of loyalty to superiors. They distinguish between hochverrat and landesverrat. Hochverrat is disloyalty to a superior, which in German terms meant disloyalty to the monarch or other government head of state. Landesverrat, by contrast, is disloyalty or betrayal of the nation. Within this distinction there is room for maneuver in making an ethical choice. In order to serve the nation or the Constitution, a soldier may sometimes have to be disloyal to his superiors or refuse to execute their orders. The Germanic distinction between the two notions of loyalty throws into focus what every member of the military profession knows in his heart, and that is that fundamentally a soldier's first loyalty is to behave ethically and humanly, and that in times of severe moral crisis he must be prepared to follow that higher morality.In essence, to be an ethical soldier is to do ones duty as to what is ethically right and to know why those ethics bind. Duty is not blindly tied to following orders. 1. Define hochverrat:___________________________________________________________

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2. Define landesverrat:___________________________________________________________

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3. Is one more important than the other? Why or why not?_______________________________

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Answer Key for To Serve With Honor Worksheet:

1. Define hochverrat: disloyalty to a superior, meaning a leader, president, or ruler. 2. Define landesverrat: disloyalty to the nation or the Constitution. 3. Is one more important that the other? Why or why not? Answers will varystudents will get full credit as long as they credibly justify their answer.