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When Aidan Became a Brother Literature Guide

Resource Type:

Literature Guide

Grade Level:

PreK

K

1

2

3

4

5

The guide below provides activities and discussion questions to explore how we like to be seen and how we show respect for and believe in others. This is a story about protecting and cherishing the uniqueness of each child. It is also the story of a child who was thought to be a girl at birth and was really a boy. His family is loving and supportive of the journey in a way that shows us all how to love and cherish each other's journeys, especially the potentially unfamiliar journey of child who is transgender.

Audience

Parents

Climate Change Challenge

Unit:

Climate Change Challenge

Grades:

9

10

11

12

Youth research current data and stories about climate change and ways to reverse the damage caused by human activity. Through discussion and research, they establish things they can do personally and as a team as environmental stewards.

Subjects

Character Education: Respect (Grade 6)

Grade Levels:

6

7

8

Learners define respect and explore the meaning of self-respect and respect for others. They explore the relationship of "respect" to definitions and examples of prejudice, bias, racism, and stereotype.

Subjects

Language Arts

Media / Technology

Philanthropy

Social Studies

Respect and Democracy

Unit:

Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)

Grades:

6

7

8

In this lesson the learners define respect and relate it to the core values and beliefs of a constitutional democracy.

Subjects

Advocating for Respect

Unit:

Character Education: Respect (Grade 7)

Grades:

6

7

8

The learners discuss a quote from Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and reflect on the meaning of respect for themselves as individuals. They commit their support to a plan for promoting respect in their community or school.

Subjects

Belonging

Unit:

Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)

Grades:

6

7

8

The learners examine the meaning of respect, especially as it relates to relating to people with different views. They describe how inclusion and exclusion from groups can result in conflict and stem from disrespect.

Subjects

First Impressions

Unit:

Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)

Grades:

6

7

8

The purpose of this lesson is for learners to evaluate what first impressions of people they form and to deliberately be more open to treating people respectfully.

Subjects

Respect and Human Rights

Unit:

Character Education: Respect (Grade 8)

Grades:

6

7

8

The learners read and reflect on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as it relates to respect.

Subjects

Models of Mastery (Private-Religious)

Unit:

We Are Guardians of the Earth (Private-Religious)

Grades:

6

7

8

The most important role models for learners demonstrate how one can live responsibly in our world while achieving success by contemporary measure. The great gift and challenge of Judaism is to bring holiness to the profane- to the worldly. The models offered in this lesson are successful in this...

Subjects

Courageous Heroes

Unit:

Character Education: Courage (Grade 6)

Grades:

6

7

8

The learners define courage and describe the identity of someone with courage. They describe courage with words that show what it is and what it isn't.

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