Module 2 Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Management Copyright © 2015 School-Connect®118
Handout 2.1.1 Handout 2.20.1
FromVictimtoVictor
Bell Ringer
What do you think “victimitis” means?
Notes
1. What did you
learn about Viktor Frankl’s life?
2. What did you
learn about Nelson Mandela’s life?
Jigsaw:“Invictus”byWilliamErnestHenley
Break into four groups. Each group will recite one of the four stanzas. Try to memorize your part. Once every-
one is ready, the groups will take turns reciting their section to share the whole poem.
Stanza 1: Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Stanza 2: In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Stanza 3: Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall  nd me unafraid.
Stanza 4: It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
— William Earnest Henley (1888)
Re ection/Application
How can you
fi ght off “victimitis” in your life and be victorious?