Lesson Plans

Senior Religion IV “Advanced Morality”

LP-AM-WK 8-9-10-11

[Spring 2008]

 Moral Issues/Research Topics

 Presentation Dates               Post-Presentation Discussion

  #1 Monday/March 10                     #1 Tuesday/March 11

  #2 Wednesday/March 12              #2 Thursday/March 13

  #3 Monday/March 17                    #3 Wednesday/March 19     

  #4 Monday/March 31                    #4 Tuesday/April 1 

  #5 Wednesday/April 2                   #5 Thursday/April 3

   #6 Friday/April 4                           #6 Monday/April 7 

  #7 Tuesday/April 8                        #7 Wednesday/April 9

  #8 Thursday/April 10                    #8 Friday/April 11

  #9 Monday/April 14                      #9 Tuesday/April 15

#10 Wednesday/April 16               #10 Thursday/April 17

#11 Friday/April 18                       #11 Monday/April 21

#12 Tuesday/April 22                    #12 Wednesday/April 23

#13 Thursday/April 24                  #13 Tuesday/April 29                 

#14 Wednesday/April 30               #14 Thursday/May 1

#15 Friday/May 2                          #15 Monday/May 5

#16 Tuesday/May 6                       #16 Wednesday/May 7

#17 Thursday/May 8                     #17 Friday/May 9

Senior Religion IV

Moral Issues/Research Topics

Period #3

“Opposing Viewpoints”

Project Titles & Presenter(s)

1.     “What Makes a Just War?”

2.     “Big Business Tobacco Companies vs. America and the World (What is right?)

3.     “Birth Control/Contraceptives” (Secular versus Religious Views.)

4.     “Alcoholism”

5.      “Plastic Surgery”

6.     “Partial Birth/First Trimester/Abortions”

7.     “Addiction to Drugs”

8.     “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” in Real Life.

9.     “Child (Sexual) Abuse”

10.   “Steroids’ and its affects on Baseball”

11.   “Suicide”

12.   “International Business Ethics” (How corporations and governments do business)

13.   “Violence in Video Games: Does it affect our thinking?”

Senior Religion IV

Moral Issues/Research Topics

Period #4

“Opposing Viewpoints”

Project Titles & Presenter(s)

1.      “Genocide in Darfur”

2.      “Partial-Birth Abortion”

3.      “The Morality of the Suppression of Native American Indians”

4.     “Animal Cruelty/Dog fighting”

5.     “Music and its Effects on Society”

6.     “Prostitution”  [Two Day Presentation]

7.     “Violence against Women”

Senior Religion IV

Moral Issues/Research Topics

Period #5

“Opposing Viewpoints”

Project Titles & Presenter(s)

1.      “Drugs and Sports”

2.     “Video Game Violence”

3.      “How society discriminates against people who are obese”

4.     “Organ Donating” (Black Market/For Profit Donations)

5.     “Capital Punishment”

6.     “Ethical Issues in Pediatric Psychopharmacology”

7.     “Euthanasia”

8.     “Girl Bullying”

9.     “Teen Pregnancy”

10.    “Mature Subjects in Cartoon Animation”

11.    “Triage, Torture, and the Medical Ethics of War”

12.    “Gang Violence”

13.    “Bio-Engineering”

14.    “Eating Disorders in Teenage Girls and Boys”

15.    “Politics of an Outdoorsmen” (PETA, Gun Control, Animal Rights)

16.    “Warrant-less Wiretapping and Civil Rights” (Protecting our Freedom?)

17.    “Women’s Suffrage: Women and civil rights in Africa”

Senior Religion IV

Moral Issues/Research Topics

Period #6

“Opposing Viewpoints”

Project Titles & Presenter(s)

1.     “Song Writers Lyrics and its affect on Listeners”

2.     “Date Rape/Drugs and Abuse”

3.     “Gay Adoption”

4.     “Intercollegiate Athletics and Ethics”

5.      “Celebrity Ethics: In the Spotlight”

6.      “Post Abortion: Mental and Spiritual Effects”

7.     “Mechanization of Warfare”

8.      “Morality of Artificial Intelligence”

9.      “Affects of Religion on War”

10.     (Opening Pandora’s Box?) “Stem Cell Research”

11.     “Death Penalty”

12.     “Crime and Punishment: Pro Athletics”

13.     “Military Genocide”

14.     "The Impact of Alternative Energies”

Senior Religion IV

Moral Issues/Research Topics

Period #7

“Opposing Viewpoints”

Project Titles & Presenter(s)

      1.     “Spousal Abuse”

2.      “Stem Cell”

3.      “Evolution Theory and its implications”

4.     “Child Exploitation/Slave Labor”

5.     “The Death Penalty”

6.      “The Evolution of Television Violence”

7.     “Human Cloning”

8.      “Substance Abuse and its effects”

9.      “Partial-Birth Abortion”

10.     “Eating Disorders”

11.     “Suicide: Causes and Effects”

12.     “Steroid Usage in MLB and the Mitchell Report”

13.     “Teens: A hot demographic”

14.     “Morality and War (Genocide)”

15.     “Upper Social Class/Spending Habits”