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Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

Lesson Media
  • Watch video (overview of concepts in this chapter)
  • Reflect (activities and discussions)
Activities
  • Break down concepts and definitions
  • Test your comprehension
  • Apply your knowledge
  • Continue to work on your final project

Part One

Our democracy needs your help - What did the hypocrite say to the hypocrite? Don't be a hypocrite

Read Story Instead

Prefer reading instead? Here's the text version of your lesson.

Questions & Activities

Reflect on your lesson with short activities, or by exploring referenced articles, featured podcasts, term definitions, and more!

Featured Hot Take

When we don’t own our hypocrisy, things get messy. Really messy. So, it’s about time we start cleaning up our public discourse, right Your Honour?
 
Hon. Janet Austin helped lead the YWCA and helped lead the province of British Columbia, serving as Lieutenant Governor. 
 
We’re featuring this podcast across all five Nature Labs subjects. You might not like every course you take in school, but they are all related. By listening to this podcast, hopefully you’ll better understand why.

Reflection

  • How can we put forward and debate issues in a constructive way that enhances our democracy?
  • Do you think we need to be more patient when it comes to advancing our ideas for change? Do we ask for too much, too quickly?
  • Do we need more empathy for those that we disagree with?
  • Do we need to be more inclusive of voices who have opinions informed by experiences different from our own?
  • Do you listen to differing opinions? Or do you only listen to different opinions from within your own community or echo chamber?

Part Two

YOUR TEACHER WILL DIRECT YOU TO THE ACTIVITIES BELOW THAT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR PROJECT.

Be Constructive

Be a better critic. Get more constructive feedback. It's time to learn how to review and be reviewed.

Critique

Learning is in the doing. Practice critiquing visual stories before reviewing your classmates.

Time to Test

Test your nearly complete final project with your class. *Recommended

Peer Review

After pitching your project, it's time to review and be reviewed. *Recommended

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You Can Take It! How To Accept Negative Feedback With Ease

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Canadian Failures: Stories of Building Toward Success

Sub-Category: Testing & Failure Source: CBC/CTV File Type: Book/Video Overview: Canadian failures that led to major national success stories Web Link: https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadian-failures-stories-from-successful-canadians-about-how-failure-got-them-there-1.4234287

Unsolicited Evaluation Is the Enemy of Creativity

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How to give helpful feedback

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Evaluating Prototypes

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The glorification of failure

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Additional Resources

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9 great jobs for people who want to save the planet

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Online hate faces a long-overdue reckoning

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In the perpetual quest for the secret to happiness, scientists butted heads until they...

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The Storytelling Animal

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Chapters

Chapter One

The System of Things

Chapter Five

Here’s How

Chapter Nine

Own Your Hypocrisy

Chapter Two

The Context of It All

Chapter Six

Your Turn

Chapter Ten

Keep Going

Chapter Three

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

Chapter Seven

Dig Deeper

Chapter Eleven

One Last Thing

Chapter Four

Hard Stuff is Hard

Chapter Eight

Be Better

Chapter Twelve

The End (of the Beginning)