Name: Grade & Section: Subject: English @ Teacher: Score: Lesson ‘Quarter 4 Week 1 LAS 2 Activity Title Relevance and Worth of Ideas in the Selection Leaming Target: Discuss the relevance and worth of ideas in the selection Reference(s) MELC ENSRC-IVE-2.22 /nww.29@ orgiediorecollege/pin/2013/09/student https:sAvww enotes.comitopicsslastjudgment LAS Writer Rechel L. Lapasaran Relevance is the perception that something is interesting and worth knowing, Ithas two parts (1) interest and (2) worth knowing, Many attempt to add relevance to otherwise uninteresting content by focusing efforts on creating interest. They do this by adding in anything that draws attention, like flashy digital presentations, humor or games. These may attract the attention of, but, if the content that follows is not substantive (or well explained so that students find it engaging and worth knowing, then their attention wil likely wane. In a teaching/leaming setting, relevance should draw and hold students’ attention. No matter how disinteresting content may seem, once students have determined that the content is worth knowing, then it will hold their attention and engage them. | am not saying that flashy presentations, humor and games are useless in a lesson; | am saying that if those are used, they need to lead to learning about content that is relevant. Activity Direction: Read the summary of the "The Last Judgment” (see attached copy) and answer the questions below. 1. Is God aptly characterized in the story? Explain 2. Describe the special court that tried Kugler during the last judgment. 3. Ifyou were Kugler, who would you rather have as judge- God or men? Why? 4, Why couldn't God be the judge in Kugler’s case? 5, What was the last judgment inthis case?(This article is intended to be read and not to be copied) ‘The Last Judgment Karel Capek (A Summary) In this short story, a man named Ferdinand Kugler has died, and now its time for him to face his final judgment, which will either allow him into heaven or condemn him to hell. He has killed nine people in his life, and he was actually killed by his ninth victim, @ police officer, who died from injuries that Kugler inficted His judges are "old and worthy councilors with austere, bored faces”: human men not unlike judges Kugler has encountered on earth. Kugler enters a “not guilty’ plea, and God, who is ‘omniscient, is called to the stand as a witness. God reveals all the murderous deeds that Kugler ‘committed during his life, but the judges stop God from "mention{ing] [Kugler's] good deeds . .." God briefly reveals that Kugler could be generous, and he often helped others, He was typically kind to women and animals, and he was true to his word ‘When the judges leave the room to deliberate and decide his fate, God explains that the judges are people, ike Kugler, and they were judges on earth. Kugler expresses his surprise that God himself is not the judge, especially since God knows everything, God explains that itis because he knows everything that he "can't possible judge." He says that “man belongs to man," and that God is only the witness to everything that humans do. Further, God says, humans are not worthy of divine judgment and only deserve to be judged by other human beings, ‘When Kugler mentions a man he thinks he killed, a man that God forgot to count in God's tally God explains that the man lived and that he's a very good man, despite his evident faults. God cautions Kugler, saying that Kugler should not think of anyone as "completely worthless.” Itis perhaps for this reason that God himself is only the witness and not the judge: because he sees the good and the bad in everyone, he might be inclined to be merciful—more merciful than other humans, who tend to see the bad alone (ike the judges who do not want to hear about Kugler’s good deeds). In the end, the judges condemn Kugler to hell