PC 101 Life Skills
Gathering Agenda for Week 10
Thinking Errors
Gathering Purposes
• Discuss the BYU-Pathway Worldwide devotional
• Review the ten thinking errors from the course
• Role play a few thinking errors and try to discern what initial stress or primary emotion lies at their
origin
Preparation
• For face-to-face Gatherings, arrive early to setup the room, prepare any visual aids, and greet students
as they arrive.
• For virtual Gatherings, start the meeting early, share your screen with a message welcoming them to
the gathering and letting them know you’ll start soon.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks that students meet in small groups, use Breakout Rooms.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks you to display things on “the board,” you can use the
whiteboard.
Min. Activities Teaching Tips
Welcome and Devotional
10 Welcome Welcome, announcements, and housekeeping
Hymn or Please sing one or two verses of a hymn. If you meet with a virtual
Thought, gathering, the lead student or another student should be invited
Prayer to share a brief spiritual thought. A volunteer will then give an
opening prayer.
BYU- Students were asked to watch the BYU-Pathway Worldwide Look up the
Pathway devotional this week, as contained in the course. They should have questions in advance
Worldwide done this prior to the gathering. As a class discuss the devotional so you are ready.
Devotional using the discussion questions provided in the course.
Math Gathering Activity
10 Read and You are working on family history and want to figure out the
Discuss number of genetic ancestors you have for any number of
generations back. If your parents are one generation back and
your grandparents are two generations back, how can you go
about finding the number of genetic ancestors you have for any
number of generations back?
Question 1: Based on what you’ve learned about exponents, find
the equation to calculate the number of ancestors for any
generation.
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, Question 2: Use the equation to answer how many genetic
ancestors you have 7 generations back?
You are Generation 0. You are 1 person.
Your parents are Generation 1. They are 2 people.
Your grandparents are generation 2: 4 people
Your great-grandparents are generation 3: 8 people
And so on...
Question 3: Imagine you have the records of all your ancestors for
7 generations and you know that 16 of your ancestors from 7
generations back came from the same place. What percentage of
your ancestry is from that place?
Hint:
You are Generation 0: 20 = 1
Your parents are Generation 1: 21 = 2
Your grandparents are Generation 2: 22 = 4
Your great-grandparents are Generation 3: 23 = 8
And so on…
Answer:
1. 2(n)
You are Generation 0: 20 = 1
Your parents are Generation 1: 21 = 2
Your grandparents are Generation 2: 22 = 4
Your great-grandparents are Generation 3: 23 = 8
….
Let n = the number of the generations
Generation n: 2(n)
2. 7 generations back is: 2(7) = 128
3. There are 128 total genetic ancestors 7 generations ago.
16 out of the total are from the same place, then the
16 1
percentage can be found by 128 = 8 = 0.125 = 12.5%
Thinking Errors Review
20 List Write the following list on the board.
• Victimization
• Pride
• Entitlement
• Powerlessness
• Giving Up
• Justification
• Scarcity Mentality
• People Pleasing
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Gathering Agenda for Week 10
Thinking Errors
Gathering Purposes
• Discuss the BYU-Pathway Worldwide devotional
• Review the ten thinking errors from the course
• Role play a few thinking errors and try to discern what initial stress or primary emotion lies at their
origin
Preparation
• For face-to-face Gatherings, arrive early to setup the room, prepare any visual aids, and greet students
as they arrive.
• For virtual Gatherings, start the meeting early, share your screen with a message welcoming them to
the gathering and letting them know you’ll start soon.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks that students meet in small groups, use Breakout Rooms.
o When the Gathering Agenda asks you to display things on “the board,” you can use the
whiteboard.
Min. Activities Teaching Tips
Welcome and Devotional
10 Welcome Welcome, announcements, and housekeeping
Hymn or Please sing one or two verses of a hymn. If you meet with a virtual
Thought, gathering, the lead student or another student should be invited
Prayer to share a brief spiritual thought. A volunteer will then give an
opening prayer.
BYU- Students were asked to watch the BYU-Pathway Worldwide Look up the
Pathway devotional this week, as contained in the course. They should have questions in advance
Worldwide done this prior to the gathering. As a class discuss the devotional so you are ready.
Devotional using the discussion questions provided in the course.
Math Gathering Activity
10 Read and You are working on family history and want to figure out the
Discuss number of genetic ancestors you have for any number of
generations back. If your parents are one generation back and
your grandparents are two generations back, how can you go
about finding the number of genetic ancestors you have for any
number of generations back?
Question 1: Based on what you’ve learned about exponents, find
the equation to calculate the number of ancestors for any
generation.
1
, Question 2: Use the equation to answer how many genetic
ancestors you have 7 generations back?
You are Generation 0. You are 1 person.
Your parents are Generation 1. They are 2 people.
Your grandparents are generation 2: 4 people
Your great-grandparents are generation 3: 8 people
And so on...
Question 3: Imagine you have the records of all your ancestors for
7 generations and you know that 16 of your ancestors from 7
generations back came from the same place. What percentage of
your ancestry is from that place?
Hint:
You are Generation 0: 20 = 1
Your parents are Generation 1: 21 = 2
Your grandparents are Generation 2: 22 = 4
Your great-grandparents are Generation 3: 23 = 8
And so on…
Answer:
1. 2(n)
You are Generation 0: 20 = 1
Your parents are Generation 1: 21 = 2
Your grandparents are Generation 2: 22 = 4
Your great-grandparents are Generation 3: 23 = 8
….
Let n = the number of the generations
Generation n: 2(n)
2. 7 generations back is: 2(7) = 128
3. There are 128 total genetic ancestors 7 generations ago.
16 out of the total are from the same place, then the
16 1
percentage can be found by 128 = 8 = 0.125 = 12.5%
Thinking Errors Review
20 List Write the following list on the board.
• Victimization
• Pride
• Entitlement
• Powerlessness
• Giving Up
• Justification
• Scarcity Mentality
• People Pleasing
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