Why is this teacher teaching these kids?
• Loves reading and literature
• Comes from a long line of
teachers in her family
• Thinks that kids are wicked
AWESOME!
• Believes that by teaching she is
able to make a huge impact on
the lives and minds of
students who will become
tomorrow’s leaders
• Needed a career
• Wanted a steady income and
good medical benefits
• Wanted to work close to home
• Hoped to have summers off
with her kids
• Loves reading
• Comes from a long line of
teachers
• Thinks that kids are AWESOME!
• Believes that by teaching she is
able to make a huge impact on
the lives and minds of students
who will become tomorrow’s
leaders
• Needed a career
• Wanted a steady income and
good medical benefits
• Wanted to work close to home
• Hoped to have summers off with
her kids
SELF-INTEREST
• People often act out of self-interest.
• Self-interest is when you focus your own
personal interests.
• Enlightened self-interest is a philosophy that
says that people who act to further the
interests of others (or the interests of the
group(s) to which they belong), ultimately
serve their own self-interest.
• Those who help others, help themselves.
HISTORY:
**SS7H3 The student will analyze continuity and
change in Southern and Eastern Asia leading to the
21st century.
 a.
Describe how nationalism led to
independence in India and Vietnam.
 b. Describe the impact of Mohandas Gandhi’s
belief in non-violent protest.
Relating self-interest to our curriculum
• The United States, like all nations,
acts commonly acts in it’s own selfinterest
• It often acts with what many US
government leaders call enlightened
self-interest.
–We help you, knowing that in the end,
it will help us!
Vietnam War: 1950-1973
What did the US hope to stop in
the Vietnam War?
New Standard Time!!!
SS7H3 The student will analyze
continuity and change in Southern
and Eastern Asia leading to the 21st
century.
c. Explain the role of the United States
in the rebuilding of Japan after WWII.