People who live Morally

• Religion
• Secondary Education

Reminder of Online Classroom Rules

• Respect (don't record or forward the lesson to anyone)
• Have materials ready
• Minimise distractions (put your phone away)
• Make sure homework is complete
• Do your work in a timely manner (same as in-class)
• For Zoom, cameras on, mics muted unless asked otherwise!

Materials you will need for this class:

- Your Religion copy

- Your pencil case (pens for note taking)

- Google Docs

-This slideshow, activities are in here for you!

People who live Morally

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Living our Values

By the end of today's lesson, you will be able to...

• Understand the story of Willie Bermingham
  

• Understand the story of the Peter McVerry Trust
  

• Analyze Greta Thunbergs Speech
  

Willie Bermingham

• Read this story: Willie Bermingham
  
• He believed that we all have a responsibility to care for those who are less fortunate than ourselves
  
• He also believed that a community’s worth should be based on how they treat their poorest and most helpless members
  

What does ALONE mean?

       A

       Little

       Offering

       Never

       Ends

• Willie Bermingham began with a huge poster campaign to highlight the awful conditions that many elderly people lived in
  
• Donations poured in from the public and every penny was used to provide shelter, clothing, food and support for the elderly
  
• He lobbied ministers in government and civil servants to act quickly
  

He did not mind if he stepped on peoples’ toes because he was focused on what he wanted to do to improve the lives of many elderly people

He won a People of the Year Award in 1979

He died in 1990 but ALONE continues to be committed to working with older people across Ireland to this day

Question Time

- Answer these questions 

- Upload your answers to Google Classroom

Fr. Peter McVerry

A person with a strong religious moral vision is Fr. Peter McVerry

He continually advocates for the poor of society

Now read Fr. Peter McVerry’s story

Question Time

- Answer these questions 

- Upload your answers to Google Classroom

Greta Thunberg

‘You Are Never Too Small to Make a Difference’

 

• Greta was born on 3 Jan 2003 in Sweden
  
• At the age of 9, she began to research climate change
  
• Now at 16 years old, she is a well-known climate activist
  
• In 2018, she became prominent as the person who started the first school strike to raise awareness of global warming
  

Question Time

- Answer these questions 

- Upload your answers to Google Classroom

Greta Thunberg- Asperger's Syndrome

Greta often talks about having a mild form of autism, which she sees as helping her focus on her cause

‘I see the world a bit different, from another perspective’

She also believes that it helps that she sees things as ‘black and white’, because the choice for the future of the planet is very clear to her: either we stop the emissions of greenhouse gases or we don’t

In December 2018, Time Magazine named Greta Thunberg one of the world’s twenty-five most influential teenagers of 2018

Keywords

Advocate- stand up for

Juvenile- young person

Prominent- Important

Paris Agreement- Agreement within the United Nations on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases

Riksdag- Swedish parliament

Autism- A condition that impacts on the way that people see the world and how they interact with other people

Influential- Powerful

World Economic Forum- independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world

Homework

1. Complete the questions from each person of influence from today's lesson. 

2. Upload them to Google Classroom

3. Complete the activity on the next slide

Flinga!

Using information from this class, brainstorm as many possible tweets as you can think of to this Flinga, we will begin the next class with this

Access Code: FRDYQYY

https://flinga.fi/s/FRDYQYY