Black Button – Short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKnhOJ-R80
5)
The moral dilemma is discussed and the teacher asks the following questions:
What would you do in this situation?
What do you think the man will do?
6)
The teacher shows the film until the man presses the button, pause at 5:26.
The students discuss the man’s decision.
The teacher asks the following question:
What do you think the other man is going to tell him.
7)
The teacher shows the rest of the film and asks their students what they think the
message of the film is.
8)
The teacher could tell their students that one interpretation is that the man has sold his
soul for money. Then asks them if they agree.
The following proverb can be written on the board:
Money is the root of all evil
The teacher asks their students if they agree.
9)
The students in pairs or small groups discuss the following question:
What would you do with your life if money was no object?
10)
Now, they are going to watch a short video based on part of a lecture by Alan Watts
which asks the question “What would you do if money was no object?”
The teacher asks their students if they agree with Alan Watts. (The script could be
handed out for the students to read).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSyHWMdH9gk
Script
What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? Let’s
suppose, I do this often in vocational guidance of students, they come to me and say,
well, we’re getting out of college and we have the faintest idea what we want to do. So I
always ask the question, what would you like to do if money were no object? How would
you really enjoy spending your life? Well, it’s so amazing as a result of our kind of
educational system, crowds of students say well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be
poets, we’d like to be writers, but as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that