Students edit their memoir drafts, adding dialogue and figurative language in this guided writing session. This lesson will help students realize that struggles they experience in their lives often lead to a new understanding or lesson learned. Students will reflect on how their experience...
Students will become aware of women and minority figures who have made a difference in a civil society.
Students will become aware of historic figures who have made a difference in our civil society.
Through reading the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, students will continue to investigate how present-day definitions of heroism have been influenced by cultural heritage and identify philanthropy themes intrinsic in their reading....
Groups will collaborate to identify significant events and organizations in American history that involve philanthropy and share their findings with other student groups within the school.
Students will think of ways that they can be (or have been) philanthropists. A puppet or doll tells about going to a soup kitchen and gets the students excited about providing food for a soup kitchen. A variety of multidisciplinary centers focus on soup kitchens. At the end of the lesson,...
In this lesson, students learn about communicating honestly. They explore different ways communication can be changed through interpretation and intentionally misleading.
Students will list their individual talents that can be pooled together to be used for the sake of others.
To engage students in cooperative learning activities to identify proper procedures for common school activities that promote the common good.