Integrated Values and Divinity Presentation: Divinity/Religious Instruction
LO's for Loyalty:
- Distinguish between loyal and unloyal attitudes.
- Learn that loyalty helps create a community.
- Understand being loyal can have PMI's.
LO's for Values:
- That values help us to stand tall and strong when others fall over.
- That values enable us to become people who can lead.
- That we can see different points of views (POV) about values.
Meaning and Root Words
What can you discover about this word?
Great Loyalty Videos/Media
- Charlotte's Web
- Fireproof - A discussion about sticking together for "better or worse" - Seniors
- A Supermarket Bagger (Youtube- Requires teacher access at school).
Activities
- Why not create a short media item (picture or movie and upload to our Media Gallery Competition for this topic.)
- Write in your blog about how you show or give loyalty at home and school, to teams, to your country. What could be your next step in loyalty?
- Why not write a guest blog for your school or class blog? Just spotting someone showing loyalty and write about it. Send it to Mr Grieve for checking and publishing.
- How does loyalty connect with your school-wide year theme? Write a paragraph about this.
- Take a Picture - Create a short 30sec video - a movie trailer Upload these to our media gallery on the topic of loyalty. A picture can say a thousand words apparently - maybe even one from your class activity.
- Look at the loyalty Quotes below. Pick one for a poster. Can you add items that will illustrate this quote further?
- Bring in articles from newspapers and magazines describing situations in which loyalty
or disloyalty are issues. Talk/write about who is acting with loyalty, and who is acting unloyal in these situations. - Take a thought about Loyalty from Wikipedia and turn it into a poster.
- Do a PMI on loyalty.
- Add to the Discussion. Look top right and add your own vote and great comments to our discussions area.
- Music: Create a short piece of music telling a tale of loyalty. Write or narrate an explanation.
- Poster-Banner-Drawing-Presentation: Create a piece of artwork or presentation promoting the value. Check out good design principles here.
- iPad Activity: Use Puppetpals, Toontastic, DoodleCast Pro, EduCreations etc to create a short play/story of characters showing the value. Scenes from school, at a birthday party, at sports etc.
- iPad Activity: Create a poem exploring the value. Use an iPad app to record it for playback.
Loyalty Quotes
Loyalty Quotes
Poems to check out
Loyalty - Senior Level
- Can you write a loyalty poem with the letters of the word loyalty, one each at the beginning of each line?
- More Questions to Discuss
- What others ways to show loyalty can you think of?
- Why is loyalty so important in relationships?
- How is loyalty a journey?
- Do you think people are afraid of differences sometimes? Can you give some examples? Why do you think that's true?
- Why do businesses have loyalty cards or programmes?
- Can animals show loyalty?
- What can you do to make this a more loyal world?
- Does loyalty play a role in harmonious race relations? Explain.
- Do you think that people in our society are loyal enough to each other? Why?
- Do you consider yourself to be a loyal person? Why, or why not? In what ways do you show loyalty to others or organisations, communities or country?
- What does loyalty have to do with the quality of your character?
