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Title: EMPATHY


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EMPATHY
  • (OR HAVING A GREAT CAPACITY OF PUTTING ONESELF IN
    ANOTHER PERSONS SHOES)

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EMPATHY
  • empathy em-puh-thee
  • (noun) the understanding of or the ability to
    identify with another persons feelings or
    experiences

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THERES AN OLD CHEROKEE INDIAN SAYING
  • Walk a mile in another's moccasin...

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IN HARPER LEES TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
  • WE LEARN "You never really know a man until you
    understand things from his point of view, until
    you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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SYMPATHY
  • Sympathy feeling sorry for anothers hurt
  • Sympathy is feeling sorry for anothers hurt or
    pain. There is some emotional distance with
    sympathy you are not experiencing the pain for
    yourself, rather you are saying Isnt it sad
    that this person is having a bad time. Sometimes
    sympathy can tip into pity, and that is where
    some caution is needed. Pity is an emotion that
    tends to dehumanize and belittle.

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SYMPATHY
  • Most people who have a disability or other
    challenges will despise being pitied as pity
    strips away the rich reality of their human
    experience and leaves just the difficulty or
    disability on view. For a deeper relationship and
    understanding, empathy is needed

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EMPATHY
  • Empathy walking in anothers shoes
  • Empathy takes things a little deeper it is the
    ability to experience for yourself some of the
    pain that the other person may be experiencing.
    It is an acknowledgement of our shared experience
    as humans and recognition that we all feel grief
    and loss and pain and fear. You do not need to
    have experienced exactly the same events as the
    person who is suffering but you do need to have
    the ability to really imagine how they must be
    feeling in their situation. Empathy is a
    vicarious experience if your friend is feeling
    afraid, you too will experience a feeling of fear
    in your body if they are sad, you too will feel
    sorrow.

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SO WHAT IS EMPATHY?
  • Empathy is a quality and a virtue. This quality
    enables a person to understand and feel concern
    for others situation or feelings. Empathy means
    to identify with the problems or situations of
    people and understand their thoughts and
    condition. It is an action of being sensitive to
    others and their feelings without them explicitly
    airing them. It is different from sympathy.
    Empathy means 'to suffer' in Greek language. It
    was first used in the English language during the
    early 20th century.

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EMPATHY
  • Feeling empathy is allowing yourself to become
    tuned into another persons emotional experience.
    It takes courage to do this but if you have ever
    experienced real empathy from another when you
    have been hurting, you will know what a gift it
    can be.

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WHAT IS EMPATHY?
  • It means putting one self in another person's
    mould. It is being in somebody else's shoes and
    knows about their emotions and entering into
    their way of thinking. Thus this quality assists
    a person in recognizing, perceiving and feeling
    the emotions of others. People often empathize
    with others through their moods and behaviors. It
    is quality that is possessed by great people like
    Gandhi and others.

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COMPASSION
  • If empathy is the ability to really experience
    some of the feelings of pain that another person
    is feeling, then compassion is to translate that
    feeling into action. You understand that your
    friend is feeling worried and stressed with their
    aging relative in hospital, so you cook the
    family some dinners and take their children for
    an afternoon..

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COMPASSION
  • True compassion reaches out to all people, no
    matter whether they are your friends or not, and
    even to all living creatures. It is the ability
    and willingness to stand alongside someone and to
    put their needs before your own

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COMPASSION
  • Living a compassionate life can be learned it
    is not just something that some extra-good
    people are born with. Changing habits takes
    persistence and practice but it is achievable
    through the right methods.

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COMPASSION
  • Many of the worlds wisest people have stated
    that giving to others in life is the source of
    the greatest contentment and life satisfaction,
    so there are many personal benefits to be gained
    as well.
  • To bring the power of compassion into your life
    there are a few things you can do. Firstly, you
    need to begin to discern the difference and
    develop your ability to walk in other peoples
    shoes.

15
HENRY FORD
  • If there is any one secret of success, it lies in
    the ability to get the other person's point of
    view and see things from his angle as well as
    your own.

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AUTHOR J.K. ROWLINGS
  • Imagination is not only the uniquely human
    capacity to envision that which is not, and,
    therefore, the foundation of all invention and
    innovation. In its arguably most transformative
    and revelatory capacity, it is the power that
    enables us to empathize with humans whose
    experiences we have never shared.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
  • We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A
    culture that too often tells us our principle
    goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous,
    safe, and entertained.

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THINK ABOUT IT
WHAT ROLE DOES EMPATHY HAVE IN OUR LIVES?
HOW MAY IT BE RELEVANT IN OUR BOOK CLUB BOOKS?
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THINK ABOUT THIS, TOO
HOW MAY THIS APPLY IN REAL LIFE?
WHAT ABOUT IN OUR STORIES?
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GOOD READERS
  • GET LOST IN STORY BY DEVELOPING EMPATHY FOR THEIR
    MAIN CHARACTERS AND BY LEARNING HOW TO PUT
    THEMSELVES IN THEIR SHOES.

A SCENE FROM THE CAY
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IN THE YEAR OF THE BOAR AND JACKIE ROBINSON
  • ANYONE WHO HAS EMIGRATED TO A NEW COUNTRY,
    UNDERSTANDS THE CHARACTERS STRUGGLE-MORAL
    DILEMMA OF BEING LOYAL TO HER CHINESE CULTURE AND
    BECOMING A PROUD NEW AMERICAN, ULTIMATELY
    REALIZING SHE CAN DO BOTH!

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TURN AND TALK
  • ABOUT A RECENT BOOK YOU READ--HOW DID YOU PUT
    YOURSELF IN THE CHARACTERS SHOES? HOW DID YOU
    ENVISION WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE THE MAIN
    CHARACTER?

23
BUT REMEMBER
  • IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO JUST FEEL SORRY FOR SOMEONE.
    WE HAVE TO IMAGINE WHAT IT IS LIKE TO WALK IN
    THEIR SHOES.

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SO AS YOU READ TALK IT OVER TODAY, START
THINKING ABOUT
  • How is the character feeling at this point in the
    text? Why?
  • How would you feel if you were the character?
  • Can you imagine being in the characters shoes
    right now? What do you imagine?

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QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF TO DEVELOP EMPATHY
  • What does the character believe to be true about
    life? Why? Do you believe anything similar?
  • What might the character say in this
    ________situation? Why do you think so?
  • What might the character do in this _______
    situation? Why do you think so?

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QUESTIONS ABOUT COMPASSION
  • HOW DO THE CHARACTERS IN YOUR STORY BEGIN TO HAVE
    THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE TO LEAD COMPASSIONATE
    LIVES?
  • WHAT OBSTACLES DO THEY ENCOUNTER ?
  • HOW DO THEY OVERCOME THESE CHALLENGES?
  • HOW DOES IT FIT INTO THE THEME OR BIG IDEA OF THE
    STORY?
  • WHAT ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF OUR OWN LIVES?

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YOU CAN ALSO APPLY THIS MODEL TO YOUR INDEPENDENT
BOOKS
  • BUT FOR NOW, APPLY TO YOUR BOOK CLUB NOVELS.

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ASSESSING OUR LEARNING
  • EACH ONE OF YOU MUST CAREFULLY ANSWER EACH OF THE
    QUESTIONS POSED TO YOU IN SLIES, 24, 25 AND 26
    (AFTER TALKING IT OVER WITH OUR TEAM-MATES).
    FINISH FOR HOMEWORK.
  • BUT FIRST, STOP AND JOTSOMETHING NEW AND
    IMPORTANT YOU LEARNED TODAY.
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