Students engaged in Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) for approximately 50 minutes. After SSR, students were presented with a PP on an introduction to Ethics, which can be found below:
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After a quick introduction to Ethics, students were presented with a moral question, refered to as Heinz Dilemma:
"A woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: 'No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it.' So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug for his wife.
Did Heinz do the right thing?"
This dilemma was then debated in groups and was coupled with a FCAT-style writing assignment.