Core
Values Emphasized in this Learning Module
Kindness, Pursuit of Excellence, Respect, and Responsibility
These
core values are reflected in this module in the following ways:
Citizenship—all
citizens are provided due process no matter what their physical
or mental limitations may be.
Fairness--individuals
should not be treated unfairly simply because they are less intelligent
than others.
Honesty—people
need to be dealt with truthfully, and not deceived, whether they
are developmentally challenged or not.
Integrity—people
in positions of responsibility are shown objecting to the potentially
unfair treatment of human subjects in a scientific experiment
being supervised by superiors.
Kindess—characters in the novel show kindess
and compassion to individuals who are developmentally challenged.
Pursuit
of Excellence—the novel’s main character,
Charlie, strives to become all that he is capable of being. He
is helped in this effort by other characters in the novel.
Respect—characters,
such as Miss Kincaid, show respect for Charlie as a human being
with feelings and thoughts of his own.
Responsibility—the
scientists involved in the experiment with Charlie take responsibility
for the experiment and its effects on him after the project is
finished.
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