Learning to Give, Philanthropy education resources that teach giving and civic engagement
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Purpose:
Learners study the charts they made in the previous lesson to find hero traits related to courage and the classic hero story. They compose a summary line for each real-life hero.
Duration:
One 20-minute lesson
Objectives:
The learner will:
- compare and contrast key themes in the classic hero tale with traits of real-life heroes.
- compose a slogan or inspiring saying that communicates the key lesson learned from a real-life hero.
Service Experience:
This character education mini-lesson is not intended to be a service learning lesson or to meet the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice. The character education units will be most effective when taught in conjunction with a student-designed service project that provides a real world setting in which students can develop and practice good character and leadership skills. For ideas and suggestions for organizing service events go to www.generationon.org.
Materials:
Completed chart papers from the previous lesson
Instructional Procedure(s):
Anticipatory Set:
Display the chart papers from the previous lesson. Remind the students that each group explored the qualities of a different real-life hero.
- Give the students about five minutes to move around the room and read the charts, or have groups present their charts to the whole class.
- Refer to the chart of classic hero traits from Lesson One. Ask the students to identify traits from hero stories that match traits of these real-life heroes.
- Have the students self-select a chart that they did not create. Working in a new group, they look for lessons they can learn from heroes about courage and facing daunting challenges. As a group they come up with a one-liner or slogan that communicates "the lesson" one can learn from their selected hero.
- Students write their composed slogan on the bottom of the chart.
Lesson Developed By:
Betsy FlikkemaAssociate Director
Learning to Give
Barbara Dillbeck
Director
Learning to Give
Handouts:
Unit Contents:
Overview:Character Education: Courage (Grade 8) Summary
Lessons:
- 1.
- Classic Hero
- 2.
- Hero Traits
- 3.
- Hero Stories Teach
- 4.
- Courage in Action
- 5.
- Facing Fear with Courage
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