Grade Level: 6-8

Content Area: Guidance/All

Learning Objective(s)

Students will strengthen their understanding of the virtues of caring and kindness.

Virtue/Character Trait:

Compassion

Lesson Title

Compassion

Lesson Summary:

Students will write a recipe for caring.  Students can also participate in some kind of caring project, such as a canned food drive.

URL:

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/nccep/lp/lp99v.html

Grade Level: 8

Content Area: Language Arts  

Learning Objective(s)

The learner will use language for aesthetic and personal response, use strategies and processes that enhance control of communication skills development, use language for the acquisition, interpretation, and application of information, and use a variety of technologies to assess, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.

Virtue/Character Trait:

Caring /Compassion/Forgiveness

Lesson Title

Caring With Poetry Presentation

Lesson Summary:

The teacher will perform two dramatic well-known poems, “The Children’s Hour” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and “The Little Boy and the Old Man” by Shel Silverstein. Students will play a Literary Terms Matching Game. The class will then watch a class performing Poetry Alive on the theme of “forgiveness.” In groups, students will locate numerous poems with the theme of “caring.” They will also identify which literary terms are demonstrated in their poem. For follow-up activities, students can write their own poem or prepare and present a dramatic poetry performance.

URL:

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/nccep/lp/lp99.html