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Young people investigate, plan, and facilitate a service-learning project that benefits refugees in their community.
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Unit: Forced to Flee and Find a New Home
Unit: Character Education: Courage (Grade 7)
Grades:
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Learners identify issues in their school or community they feel they could have the courage to stand up for.
Unit: Character Education: Perseverance (Grade 6)
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Learners brainstorm a variety of short-term and long-term goals and discuss the logistics of carrying out the goals. They brainstorm needed resources and how they can persevere in reaching one or more of the goals.
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Each learner sets an individual goal using a goal-setting strategy. The group reflects on perseverance and how to persevere when the plan gets difficult to carry out.
Unit: The Power of Children
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Students form groups, sign group agreements, delegate tasks, and begin forming their service-learing project proposal. The teacher provides mini-lessons to individuals, as needed, who bring information back to groups on presentation skills, budgeting, and service-learning...
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The participants investigate the roles of historical and contemporary Latino philanthropists. They will look at the work of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the farm labor movement within the historical context of Latino activism in the United States.
Unit: George H.W. Bush and Points of Light
Grades:
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Students view primary documents to explore public policy on service. They make meaning of the government role and citizen responsibility in civic action. They make a personal plan of service based on their available time, talent, and treasure.
Unit: Community Philanthropy
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Participants gain awareness about the work of local nonprofit organizations through research and by interviewing representatives. They summarize the mission, needs, and impact of the organizations on the community.
Unit: Generosity of Spirit Folktales
Grades:
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In the featured folktales, we learn the impact of misjudging the character of another, and understand that an evil act does not require a person to return evil with evil.
Unit: Power and Race in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
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We observe how power and privilege are used to keep African American families oppressed even after they were freed from slavery.