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
Unit: Truth, Trash and Treasure
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: Urban EdVenture Course by the Westminster Schools
Discussion of the book The Three Questions guides youth to be aware of people and needs around them and the importance of service as a response to the needs of others.
Author: Urban EdVenture Faculty at Westminster
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Unit: Getting to Know the Community
To introduce the four sectors of a civil society: government, market, nonprofit and household.
Students will be taking the role of city planners and will design a sound community by addressing land use and opportunity costs.
Unit: What a Wonderful World—Changes Through Time
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: Power of One—Everyday Heroes for the Common Good (The)
Students will describe the work of foundations and nonprofits, identify local foundations in the community, and explain why the people connected with these organizations can be considered local heroes.
Unit: Whose Job Is It?
To expose learners to first-hand accounts of the function of non-profits in various nations of the world, and share that information with the class.
Unit: Challenging Social Boundaries
Students will describe how Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat was a continuation of long-standing acts of protest against forced segregation in public spaces in the South. They will explain how her action, which ushered change in public transportation, was heroic.
Unit: Faces of the Community (The)
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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