Students discuss friendship, the different kinds of friends, and generate a list of organizations which might help someone find friends. They use their writing skills to develop individual lists of people who have an unmet need for friendship. Using their individually created lists, they generate a class list of organizations that might help people who have an unmet need for friendship that might appreciate receiving the class Friendship Banner made in Lesson Two: Friendship Begins with a Smile.

The learner will:

• develop speaking and listening skills.
  
  
• practice writing quickly, for the purpose of taking notes.
  
  
• evaluate a list and select those items on the list that meet certain criteria.
  
  
• work together as a class to generate a master list to use in the following lessons.

Anticipatory Set:


Initiate discussion by asking students if they need friends. Students discuss why they need friends, what friends do for them and what they do for their friends. Are there different kinds of friends? Is there anyone who doesn't need friends? Are there people who don't have enough friends? How can you tell?

Teacher-Directed Activity:

• Students spend 5-10 minutes writing an individual list of people, especially groups of people, who need friends.
  
  
• Students should be cautioned to be considerate of others' feelings of others, especially if this courtesy has been a past issue within the class.

Student Practice:

• At the end of the writing time, students will pair up and share their lists with each other. They will use their ideas to create a list of potential recipients of the Friendship Banner produced in Lesson Two: Friendship Begins with a Smile.
  
  
• Ask a student why doing this is good for everyone. Since the banner is quite large, it should be hung in a place where many people will see it.

Closure:

At the end of the partner work time, reassemble the group and create a master list of people the class may be able to help. Have students explain why they think that making more friends will be good for people on the list.