1. Beauty
What is it? Who or what defines it? What does it mean
to me?

2. Rules for this unit:
• Be respectful of everyone. Think before you speak.
• Acknowledge that everyone is beautiful.
• Do not put down the ideas or beliefs of others.
• Guard your words. Run them through the filter of your brain before they reach your
mouth and spill out.

3. Watch this video. Pay
attention.

4. What was the message of the video?
Was there a lesson to be learned?
Write a response to the video discussing the
message. Three sentence minimum.
Share your response with your elbow buddy.
Be prepared to be called upon to share your elbow
buddy’s response.
Discuss.

5. 1. Think of what you consider beautiful in a person. Write down five
attributes that you see as defining beauty.
2. With your list circulate around the room.
3. Speak to your classmates and write down five attributes that you
hear from others that are not on your list.
4. At the end of this activity you will have a list of at least ten
attributes .
Your list should look like this:
What do I consider beautiful? What do others consider beautiful?

6. What does the class consider beautiful?

7. What does
beauty mean to
you?
Choose one of the following
quotations.
Write down the quote and the
name of the author.
Write a response to the quotation
you chose (3 sentence minimum).

8. Quotations on Beauty
• “Everything has its beauty but not everyone
sees it.”
• “Beauty is only skin deep, but
ugly goes clean to the bone.” • ― Confucius
• “I find the whole concept of being ‘sexy’
― Dorothy Parker embarrassing and confusing. If I do an
interview with photographs people
desperately want to change me - dye my hair
• “No matter how plain a blonder, pluck my eyebrows, give me a fringe.
Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know
woman may be, if truth and everyone wants a picture of me in a mini-skirt.
honesty are written across her But that’s not me. I feel uncomfortable. I’d
never go out in a mini-skirt. It’s nothing to do
face, she will be beautiful.” with protecting the Hermione image. I
wouldn’t do that. Personally, I don’t actually
think it’s even that sexy. What’s sexy about
― Eleanor Roosevelt saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a
short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’
My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less
you reveal the more people can wonder.”
• ― Emma Watson

9. Close your eyes and
listen to this song.
Describe the singer. What do
you think he looks like?

10. Here is Israel
Kamakawiwo'ole

11. Did Israel look the way you imagined?
Is Israel “beautiful” by today’s standards?
Why or why not?
What are your standards for beauty?
Are they yours or have you been brainwashed
by the media?
What is beautiful?

12. They say beauty
is in the eye of
the beholder.
Different cultures have different
standards of beauty.

13. What is beauty?
How does the media distort our
views?

15. flaws 3rd person singular present, plural of flaw
Noun
A mark, fault, or other imperfection that mars a
substance or object.
A squall of wind; a short storm.
Verb
(of an imperfection) Mar, weaken, or invalidate
(something): "the computer game was flawed by
poor programming".

16. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.

17. I don’t like my hair. My hair is thin and stringy and rarely looks good.
Every day I am surrounded by young ladies with beautiful.
Thick, flowing hair which is a constant reminder to me of the
inadequacy of my hair. I become envious when I see Pantene
commercials with shiny, flowing, sleek, long hair. I wish my hair would
grow longer and thicker and that I didn’t have to work to make it look
good. My hair is definitely one of my flaws.

18. I was sad
because I had no
shoes until I met
a man that had
no feet.
Why are we so hard on ourselves? Why
don’t we appreciate what we have?
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19. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.

20. What are your flaws? Write
about a flaw that
concerns/bothers you. Of
course, not a flaw that you
don’t want others to know
about. I will share one of my
flaws as an example.