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Learners talk about the uses of water and understand its importance to our world.
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Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 8)
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Learners brainstorm universal obstacles to completing tasks and meeting goals.
Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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Using award-winning literature, the learners describe and analyze racism in Mississippi during the Great Depression. The readers identify the injustices in the community as well as the values and self-respect that build community relationships and strength.
Unit: Telling Our Stories of Giving
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6
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Students learn effective techniques and complete prewriting activities for writing a persuasive essay. As a culmination of the unit, students choose one of the three styles of writing--news article, personal narrative, or persuasive essay--to write, edit, and publish about their experience with...
Unit: Courage of the Heart
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Young people use their voice to speak up for injustice and take action for the common good.
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Unit: Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)
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In this lesson the learners define respect and relate it to the core values and beliefs of a constitutional democracy.
Unit: Surviving the Depression
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Using primary source images and interviews, participants learn about life and economics during the Great Depression and how different sectors of society contributed to bringing the country out of this dark period.
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Unit: Air Pollution and Asthma
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Young people gain awareness of the negative effects of air pollution, especially asthma. They research and identify some of the sources of air pollution in the school and community and possible ways to improve air quality in these areas.
Unit: Social Reformer—Jane Addams
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In this second lesson about Jane Addams, we learn about the impact of her philanthropic work and connect it to the needs of our communities today. Young people discuss voluntary actions they can take inspired by Jane Addams.
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Unit: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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K
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A picture book biography tells the story of the life and philanthropy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.