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Lesson Plans - Character Education

Poetry Unit

Objectives
A. The student will analyze a variety of poetic forms (epic, lyric, sonnet, haiku, ballad, free verse)
B. The student will create innovative projects using digital tools to express original ideas.
C. The student will apply ethical use of information and media by respecting copyrights, using information and media technology responsibly, and citing resources appropriately. S3.C1.PO5
2. Materials
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Cultural Learning

1. Hand out small survey on which group they would like to look up.
2. After looking at the groups take the top three, break them into groups and have them look up stereotypes, struggles, groups or foundations that help, some team building exercises to help learn about the group.
3. Offer the mentioned websites to

Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction

Students’ success at reading documents (in this case, timelines) is imperative if they are to develop and update knowledge of events through the integration of ideas.

Pet Perspective

Explore the world from the point-of-view of a favorite pet

Take Care of Your Pets Riddle Book

Share all the right basic things about taking care of pets This demonstrates to children also to care for their toys which sets the stage for caring for all living things and property.