Volume 2, Issue 3, November/December 2008 |
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Contents
The Daily Dilemma
Theme of the Month
Lessons and Activities
Character Education Tips and Resources
In the News
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"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." -Elbert Hubard |
| The Daily Dilemma
Challenge your students!
Not-so-hypothetical situations from the case files of Charis Denison.
From the archives...
Stephanie was supposed to tell a certain guy that her good friend had a crush on him. Instead, Stephanie ended up hooking up with the guy herself. And to make matters worse, she lied to her friend about it. Now things are spinning out of control. What's she supposed to do?
Click here for the Daily Dilemma
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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." -Charles Caleb Colton |
| Theme of the Month: Friendship
To have good friends, you must be a good friend. It is normal for friendships to change as we grow up, and it's good to be open to friendships with other people who are different from us.
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"I get by with a little help from my friends." -John Lennon |
| Lessons and Activities
Elementary School
You Can Choose: Being Friends
Discussion questions, exercises and writing assignments to help in creating a lesson plan to teach students about friendship.
A Friendship Chain
Teach elementary students how to express positive feelings about their classmates while promoting class unity.
Charlotte's Web: A Story About Friendship
Students learn how to deal with conflicts and anger through role playing and discussion.
Middle School
Big Changes, Big Choices: Friendship
A variety of exercises, writing assignments and discussion questions to use when creating a lesson plan about friendship
Literature E-Circles
Using the popular young adult novel Holes, middle school students explore topics such as relationships to authority, friendship, and morality. There are useful discussion topics, assignments and exercises that can be used even without the e-circles.
Passing Notes
Through passing notes, students realize that sharing compliments with each other makes them feel good.
High School
Cliques, Friendship Groups, or Boxes?
This lesson helps students explore the social "boxes" that they place themselves in or are put in by others, and focus on how they judge one another.
Great Expectations: A Novel About Friendship
This lesson plan uses Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations to teach students about the importance of relationships. (Don't have the novel? Download a free copy here.)
Stand And Deliver for Justice and Diversity: King Day
Martin Luther King, Jr. said "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." This lesson plan teaches about tolerance and diversity, an important part of friendship.
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." -Eleanor Roosevelt |
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Character Education Tips and Resources
Friendship Theme
Here is a collection of activities for teaching students about friendship and encouraging a friendly environment in your classroom.
Friendship Art Activities
A variety of activities to consider when teaching a lesson or unit on friendship.
Having Friends, Making Friends and Keeping Friends
Information about how peer relationships contribute substantially to both social and cognitive development.
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"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods." -Aristotle |
| In the News
Friendship, Activism Grow from School Funding Protest
Students have met weekly in a quiet corner of a Chicago library to chip away at the school funding predicament that has stymied Illinois lawmakers for years. And along the way, they became friends.
Probing an Unlikely Friendship
This article explores the unusual friendship between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
Berkeley Study Shows Health Benefits of Diverse Friend Groups
A recent study at the University of California, Berkeley, finds that cross-racial friendships can actually reduce anxiety in both academic and social situations.
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"Friends show their love in times of trouble..." -Euripides |
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