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This lesson will expose learners to philanthropy in three different genre of literature: a play, a fable, and a parable.
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Unit: Philanthropy in Literature
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Students will recognize philanthropy in literature in a historical setting....
Unit: Pilgrim's Progress
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Students explore the definition of community as a group coming together for the common good. Students work cooperatively to form rules and compare their rules to the compact made by the Pilgrims before they left the boat.
Unit: Truth, Trash and Treasure
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Through an understanding of the terms, rights and responsibilities, learners will investigate how democracy in the United States makes civic virtue possible. How do people in a democratic state use their right to be responsible citizens by practicing the idea of civic virtue?...
Unit: What a Wonderful World—Changes Through Time
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This lesson guides students to pursue an intergenerational friendship. Through literature, students also recognize the joy of sharing time, talent, and/or treasure—something kind and unexpected–with people about whom they care. Through literature students recognize the richness of developing...
Unit: Philanthropic Literature
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Fables teach lessons or morals through animal actions. The exaggerated human-like characteristics of animals make the moral lesson appealing. The story of the Lion and the Mouse illustrates that a kind deed is never wasted and whatever kindness we can do is related to good citizenship.
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This lesson uses a colorful book to introduce a conversation about giving something you value to make a better community. ...
Unit: New Philanthropy--A Hands-On Way of Giving (The)
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Learners will analyze the new philanthropists, who they are, what they give, who they give to, their personal qualities, and how they hold people and organizations accountable for their philanthropic efforts.
Unit: Faces of the Community (The)
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The students examine the motivations and work of the painters Van Gogh and Gauguin who were driven by a need to benefit society through art. The students learn how artwork portrays ethnicity and then draw their own portraits to create a display of the diverse faces of the community.
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Unit: Common Good in Colonial America
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3
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Learners will find examples in literature of the simple act of doing something for the common good. They will research examples of philanthropists in colonial America.