Ent403: Who Moved My Cheese?

I.Time Frame:

II. Class Schedule:

Course Code: Entrep 403

Course Title: Entrepreneurship Integration

III. Objectives

IV. Subject Matter

1. Who Moved My Cheese?

2. Reference: Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson

V. Procedure

A. Introduction

1. Daily Routine

a. Checking of Attendance
b. Vocabulary 
  List vocabulary words encountered during the reading and write definitions. 
1.) Hem
2.) Haw
3.) Sniff
4.) Scurry
c. Motivation
 Guess what the visual aid, a block of cheese, represents in connection to the title of the book; listen to the inside cover info; examine a teacher made poster with pictures representing metaphors for cheese in life; enjoy eating the cheese served with crackers.
d. Motive

B. Pre-Discussion

1. Video

C. During Discussion

1. Engagement Activity

a. Discussion Questions

1) Name the four characters.

2) Describe their personalities or their social styles. How are they different? How does each react to change? What scares each of them about change?

3) Why did the author use two little animals and two little people to make his point?

4) What does the cheese represent?               

5) What does the maze represent?

6) What does the book say to you in relation to change?

7) Which character do you represent?

8) What do you feel is the main message from the book?

9) If you had these 4 people working for you, how would you supervise each personality?

10) List pros and cons of the book.  Your personal likes or dislikes.

11) Discuss a problem or change event that is occurring in your life, community or school. Reflect the ways that Sniff, Scurry, Hem and Haw would react.
12) What, if anything did you learn from this story, and how might it affect your behavior in the future?

13) What represents the cheese in your life, and how has it changed? 

14) Which main character most represents the way you behaved when your cheese was moved?  Explain.

15) Identify a different situation where you have behaved (or might behave) like one of the other main characters in the story.

16) Which of the mice or little people are YOU similar to? 

17) Are you simple minded and uncomplicated like Sniff and Scurry? Or are you complex and complicated like Hem and Haw? 

18) How do YOU manage change? Are YOU ready for change? What would YOU do if YOUR cheese was moved? 

19) And the most important question is.....Are you ready for the day your cheese is moved? Because my friend, YOUR cheese WILL move. Will you panic and give up like Haw? Or will you analyze the situation and take control like Hem? Or will you just move onto new cheese like Sniff and Scurry?

VI. Assessment

1. Write a poem about change; 

2. Write an essay about how the ideas in the book have affected personal views about change; 

3. Make a collage of pictures/words depicting  personal cheese; write a fable or a parable.

4. Sticky note mosaic of maze

5. Write a journal entry about a change they had no control over and how they felt about it. 

I.              Arrange the following items according to the correct sequence of events.

Write A beside the item for the first event and O for the last event. (15 points)

___      1. Hem and Haw removed their running shoes.

___      2. Haw hears a sound in the maze.

___      3. Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw set off each day to find Cheese.

___      4. Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw imagine what the Magical Cheese will bring them.

___      5. Haw returns to Cheese Station C.

___      6. Haw tries to convince Hem to go into the Maze.

___      7. Sniff and Scurry discover the Cheese is gone and set off to look for New Cheese.

___      8. Sniff and Scurry find new Magical Cheese at Cheese Station N.

___      9. Hem and Haw discover the Cheese is gone and do nothing.

___      10. Haw sets off into the Maze,

___      11. Haw writes messages on the walls.

___      12. Sniff, Scurry, Hem, and Haw find Magical Cheese at Cheese Station C.

___      13. Haw finds Cheese Station N, and Sniff and Scurry.

___      14. Haw find bits of Magical Cheese in the maze.

___      15.  Hem stayed in Cheese Station C.          

II.            Matching Type

            Identify the characters being described by the statements below by writing the     letter. A for Sniff, B for Scurry, C for Hem, D for Haw, E for None of the Above, F

            F for all of the above.

___      1. At first he keeps changing his mind, but is able to laugh at his fear of change.

___      2. Anticipates change sooner than other people.

___      3. Can adjust.

___      4. Gets trapped by his reluctance to change.

___      5. Because he anticipates, He is better prepared for change.

___      6. Alert to small changes that may lead to larger changes.

___      7. Expects change to occur in life.

___      8. Can adapt and change

___      9. Is able to see the real situation.

___      10. Gets angry, blames others, gets depressed.

___      11. Is happy when he changes and finds something better.

___      12. Gets hemmed in by his reluctance to change.

___      13. Wants to stay in comfortable surroundings.

___      14. Gets stuck in fear and discomfort.

___      15. Cannot adapt and doesn’t change, so he loses

___      16. Moves  into action quickly when change occurs, so he changes and wins sooner than other people.

___      17. Easily changes direction, if needed.

___      18. Gets irritated easily.

___      19. Lazy.

___      20. Kind and generous.

VII. Assignment

THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL

Haw wrote messages on the walls of the maze. What do they mean to you?

Having Cheese Makes You Happy.

What Would You Do If You Weren’t Afraid?

When You Stop Being Afraid, You Feel Good!

The Sooner You Let Go Of The Old Cheese, The Sooner You Find New

Cheese!

Imagining Your New Cheese Helps You Find It!

Smell The Cheese Often So You Know When It Is Getting Old.

Move To The New Cheese And Enjoy It!

“Life is no straight and every corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of 

passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley.

But always, if we have faith, God will open a door for us, Not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever 

have thought of, But one that will ultimately prove good for us.” ~A.J. Cronin