Week 3 first year CSPE

1. Homework – Questions. Take out Reflective journal.
Objectives:
1. Understand what a community is.
2. Examine the school and local community.
3. Understand the relationship between rights and responsibilities
Heading: Chapter 1 Rights and Date:
Responsibilities 2
Skills: Being literate by reading. Working with others.
Warm-up – Write heading and date onto an A4 page.
Our warm-up question is this:
Apart from school, what areas or places do you think are
important? What places that people go to for work or fun do you
consider important in the ‘Local Community’? Why?

2. Warm-up – think, pair, share – A4 Page
What places (inside or outside the town) do you find important? Why?

3.  The following are the answers to the questions on page 4-5 of your
Reflective Journal. Let’s read through them.
1. 535,475 non-Irish nationals were living in Ireland in 2016.
2. Polish, UK and Lithuanian were the top three nationalities living in
Ireland in 2016
3. There were 134,838 mixed Irish and non-Irish households in Ireland in
2016.
4. (Opinions)
 Sharing cultures and traditions – art, music, food, fashion, etc.
 Creates peace and stops wars. We are scared of the ‘unknown’.
 Helps the economy – new ideas, new skills, more people, etc.
Mark your answers as correct in the reflective journal.

4.  Last class, we examined what it meant to be human; to have
dignity, rights and responsibility.
 Read page 5 and 6 which tells us about what a community is
and examines the example of a school community.
 We’re going to do the ‘Think, pair share’ activity in our
reflective journal which asks what rights different people in
the school have. Then finish reading page 6 if we have time.
 You’re cooldown and homework will be reading about the
lives of five people and answering a question about them.
Plan for today

5.  Pages 5 and 6 explain what communities are and give the
example of a school. Let’s read. Four volunteers needed.
 (note) Community: People who share attitudes and
interests.
 (note) Inclusive: letting people join in. (Exclusive – the
opposite)
 (note) Community spirit: a willingness to participate and
make thing better.
 (Task) When the notes are taken, open page 7 in your reflective
journal and answer the left side. What do you think?
Reading page 5 and 6

6. 1. Make sure you have answered the left hand boxes – what
you think.
2. Without leaving your seat, find four people around you and
ask what they wrote. There are four boxes in the middle of
the page marked ‘pair’. Write an answer from a different
person in each box.
3. Between your answers and what you have heard from
others, which answers would you raise your hand and share
with the class. Write these answers in the right hand boxes.
Reflective journal

7.  Pages 7 and 8 of your main book ‘Rights and responsibilities in
the local community’.
 This asks you to read profile 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and answer a question
on each one. What ‘responsibility’ do they have?
 Write both the right and the responsibility down.
 For example:
1. John has the right to own and drive his car. He has the
responsibility to drive carefully / not drink and drive / not text
and drive / to pay tax or insurance (one answer is enough).
Cooldown and homework – A4 page.

8.  Page 7-8 answer questions in BLUE Writing.
 Small note: there are difficult words here. Pesticides and
high-rise. These will require you to find out what they mean
(dictionary, internet, asking people). “I don’t know” - >: (
 Answers should be on the same page as your notes.
Homework