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...
Learners use words to communicate positively and build community. A service project involves writing positive messages on stones and placing them strategically to uplift and beautify.
Students learn how poverty and hunger are related.
Participants analyze the essential qualities of the Core Democratic Values and how these values are evident in relationships and behavior in a classroom/group and in the community/nation.
The young people reflect upon themselves as community members and use descriptive language to give themselves meaningful names.
Using Guidestar as a source, young people identify three nonprofits and their mission statements.
Youth will develop a collaborative definition of "community" and realize the unique attributes of their community.
Young people read about Jewish role models who partake in tikkun olam. They reflect on how they can use their behavior as a model for their own philanthropy to perfect the world.
Young people make puppets out of recycled materials. They use their creativity to come up with a movable puppet that represents a character in their puppet play.
Through a fable, learners discuss how generosity improves the quality of life in their communities.