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How Do They Care?

Lesson 1:

From Unit Character Education: Caring (Grade 7)

Lesson

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Academic Standards

Philanthropy Framework

6th-8th Grade

Subjects:

Language Arts, Philanthropy and Social Studies

Key Words/Concepts click to view

ELA:	Group Discussions; Journaling; Reflection
PHIL:	Caring/Sharing; Character Education: Caring; Reflection
SOC:	6 genOn; Good Character

Purpose:

Learners discover how celebrities demonstrate their caring by giving their time, talent and treasure and taking action for specific causes. It gives the learners an opportunity to begin to think of what they care about.

Duration:

One 20-minute lesson

Objectives:

The learner will:

identify how some celebrities care for specific causes.
list what they care about enough to give their time, talent, and tresure and take action.

Service Experience:

Although this lesson contains a service project example, decisions about service plans and implementation should be made by students, as age appropriate.

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:

Journals or paper to write a list

Handout 1: Celebrities Who Care Match
Handout 2: Celebrities Who Care Match - Answers

Instructional Procedure(s):

Anticipatory Set:

Ask the learners to raise their hands if they have heard of the celebrities you are going to name. Name one at a time -- Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Annie Lennox, Tim McGraw, Mariah Carey, George Clooney, Bono -- and wait after each name for hands to be raised. Comment that they seem to know a lot of these people as celebrities.

Ask if they know anything about these celebrities as philanthropists -- people who give their time, talent, or treasure and take action for the common good. Allow time for the learners to share any information they have about the charity work of these people. Tell the learners that each of these celebrities deeply cares about issues and takes action to address those issues.
Tell the learners they are going pair up to play a celebrity/charity match game. Allow the learners to find a partner of their choice. Distribute Attachment One: Celebrity Match and instruct the pairs to work together to determine what each celebrity cares about by drawing a line from the name to the description of their philanthropic work. Allow time for the pairs to determine the matches.
As a whole class, go through each name and ask for pairs to identify the caring match. Allow time to discuss why the person's way of caring might be appropriate to his/her time, talent, and treasure.
Suggest that each of these people has discovered their philanthropic passion -- what causes or social issues they care enough about to take action for.
Ask the learners to list in their journals three to five causes or social issues they care about enough about to take action by giving their time, talent, or treasure.

School/Home Connection:

Suggest that the learner talk to friends and family about what they care enough about to take action to get additional ideas before the next lesson.

The learners can research some of the organizations supported by the celebrities and decide if they also care about those causes and issues.

Lesson Developed By:

Betsy Flikkema
Associate Director
Learning to Give

Barbara Dillbeck
Director
Learning to Give

Handouts:

Handout 1Print Handout 1

Celebrities Who Care Match

Jon Bon Jovi	This performer is a Congressional Horizon Award recipient for his/her humanitarian work and is well known for efforts to help disadvantaged children. The performer established a camp that provides free summer vacations to children from New York City’s toughest neighborhoods and is also heavily involved with fundraising for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Brad Pitt	This performer and his spouse took truckloads of relief items to the Gulf area after Hurricane Katrina. They also performed a charity tour, giving all the proceeds to the Neighbor’s Keeper Foundation, a group the couple formed to help victims of the disaster. The actor raises funds to support the work of his father’s foundation to enhance the quality of life of children and adults with brain tumors.
Annie Lennox	This celebrity is the Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR: the U.N. Refugee Relief Agency. She serves is on the board of advisors for the Yéle Haiti Foundation. She arranged a deal with People Magazine allowing them to print the first picture showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to the charity
Angelina Jolie	This performer has helped build 26 homes with Habitat For Humanity and helped build a health clinic for the poor in New Jersey
Tim McGraw	This actor is a member of the Board of Trustees of United Way. and is a UN Messenger of Peace and co-founder of Not On Our Watch. He/She dedicates much time and energy to stopping the atrocities occurring in Darfur.
Bono	This celebrity supports Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Foundation. The performer, who was awarded with the British Red Cross’ Services to Humanity Award in 2008, dedicates much time to raising awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Mariah Carey	In 1986 this performer helped organize Amnesty International’s Conspiracy Of Hope tour alongside Sting. He wrote a song called Silver and Gold for Steve Van Zandt’s Artists Against Apartheid, and participated in Van Zandt’s anti-apartheid single Sun City. The performer has received 3 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize, and was knighted in 2007.
George Clooney	Newsweek Magazine named this actor as one of “15 People Who Make America Great” for bringing attention to causes in Africa. The actor travelled to Africa to raise awareness for the Make Poverty History campaign. According to tax records, the actor and spouse donated more than $8 million to charity in 2006.

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Celebrities Who Care Match - Answers

Jon Bon Jovi	This performer has helped build 26 homes with Habitat For Humanity and helped build a health clinic for the poor in New Jersey
Brad Pitt	Newsweek Magazine named this actor as one of “15 People Who Make America Great” for bringing attention to causes in Africa. The actor travelled to Africa to raise awareness for the Make Poverty History campaign. According to tax records, the actor and spouse donated more than $8 million to charity in 2006.
Annie Lennox	This celebrity supports Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Foundation. The performer, who was awarded with the British Red Cross’ Services to Humanity Award in 2008, dedicates much time to raising awareness of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa.
Angelina Jolie	This celebrity is the Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR: the U.N. Refugee Relief Agency. She serves is on the board of advisors for the Yéle Haiti Foundation. She arranged a deal with People Magazine allowing them to print the first picture showing her visibly pregnant in exchange for a $500,000 donation to the charity
Tim McGraw	This performer and his spouse took truckloads of relief items to the Gulf area after Hurricane Katrina. They also performed a charity tour, giving all the proceeds to the Neighbor’s Keeper Foundation, a group the couple formed to help victims of the disaster. The actor raises funds to support the work of his father’s foundation to enhance the quality of life of children and adults with brain tumors.
Bono	In 1986 this performer helped organize Amnesty International’s Conspiracy Of Hope tour alongside Sting. He wrote a song called Silver and Gold for Steve Van Zandt’s Artists Against Apartheid, and participated in Van Zandt’s anti-apartheid single Sun City. The performer has received 3 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize, and was knighted in 2007.
Mariah Carey	This performer is a Congressional Horizon Award recipient for his/her humanitarian work and is well known for efforts to help disadvantaged children. The performer established a camp that provides free summer vacations to children from New York City’s toughest neighborhoods and is also heavily involved with fundraising for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
George Clooney	This actor is a member of the Board of Trustees of United Way. and is a UN Messenger of Peace and co-founder of Not On Our Watch. He/She dedicates much time and energy to stopping the atrocities occurring in Darfur.

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Unit Contents:

Overview:Character Education: Caring (Grade 7) Summary

Lessons:

1.: How Do They Care?
2.: Caring and Gratitude
3.: Oprah Winfrey
4.: How Can We Care?
5.: Make a Difference to One

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