1. Senior English Unit 3 – Human Values & Bioethics

2. “Unit 3 - Overview
Science’s intersection with human values and bioethics.
Explore how science has advanced society prompting significant challenges
Challenges to collective mortality and values
How far should science interfere with nature

3. What is Human Values & Bioethics?
Human Values – Principles or standards of behavior; what one considers to be important or beneficial
Ethics - the moral principles governing or influencing your conduct
Bio – relating to life (ex: biography)
Bioethics - the ethics of medical and biological research

4. Unit 3 – Learning Outcomes
Read fiction interactively
Read fiction for characterization
Read fiction for point of view

5. Unit 3- Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
Write about point of view.
Write about characterization
Research a bioethics issue.
Write a research-based paper about a bioethics issue from an alternative point of view (Example: cloning)

6. Human Values & Bioethics
Essential Questions
How have scientific innovations advanced individuals and society?
2. In what ways have scientific innovations challenged bioethics and human values?
3. How far should science venture to cure human diseases/lengthen human life (e.g. stem cell research, cloning, etc…)

7. Unit 3 – Group Activity With the group at the your table
On chart paper, brainstorm the ONE essential question
Discuss what you think this question represents
Groups will report to class
Class will take notes from each group