Celebrating Our Differences

Lesson Two:
Why is Respect So Important?

Lesson One:
How Do Other People Make Us Feel?

Lesson Three:
What Makes Us Unique?

Building Competence

Connection to Essential Inquiries

Building Competence

Connection to Essential Inquiries

Building Competence

Connection to Essential Inquiries

Brainstorming how the behaviours in the book made the character feel.

Practicing colouring with the puppets

Imagining the types of dialogue that would happen during scenes in the book

Talking about how respect feels, sounds and looks like.

Discussion around character's unique traits

Discussion about how the character was treated with respect as well as intolerance

Practice writing words and sentences

Creating examples of what makes people unique

Create illustrations that relate to the topics being assessed

Discussion about what things make us unique

Opportunities for students to see similarities and differences with their peers

Opportunities to celebrate differences while working in a group and showing respect

Discussions about what behaviours are positive and negative in the classroom

Extrapolations about why certain behaviours help or hinder learning

Students will present opinions to their classmates

Students will differentiate positive and negative behaviours

Students will brainstorm information that can be used in final performance task