Conflict+Resolution



|| || Reading Workshop |||| Writing Workshop || Performance Indicators
 * ** IS229 2008/2009 ELA Unit: Conflict Resolution Grade 7 **
 * Start Date/End date || March 16, 2009-April 19, 2009 |||| ||
 * Standards &

|| Students will use word recognition and context clues to read fluently. -Seek opportunities for improvement in reading comprehension by choosing more challenging writers, topics and texts |||| Students will continue to work on prewriting activities and writing process. -Identify transitional words -distinguish between dictionary meaning and implied meaning ||
 * Organizing Center || ** Launching the Reading Workshop ** |||| ** Launching the Writing Workshop ** ||
 * Rationale

|| Draw conclusions to help us understand conflict and the role of human nature? |||| What inferences can you make from two friends arguing? || |||| How does conflict resolution helps us understand ourselves and others, make good decisions about our lives, and improve our relationships with others? || ||
 * Essential question
 * Guiding Questions

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 * Mini Lesson Topic

Materials (Mentor texts, charts, notebooks, etc)

|| -Challenges (Accepting responsibility) -Respecting Nature -Environmental Issues -Racism/Prejudice/Cultural Diversity/civil Rights Issue -War/Holocaust/Human Rights Issues/Terrorism/911 -Immigration -Women’s right issues/Challenges/accomplishments

Custer’s Last stand: Battle of the Little Bighorn Dr. Heidegger’s experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Beirut Bombing, deadly terrorist attack SLAM by Walter Dean Myers |||| ** 4 types of conflicts ** -**Man vs. Man** - man is in physical competition with another -**Man vs. Nature**- Man is competing with certain elements -**Man Vs. Inner Man** – Mental struggle the person deals with making some sort of decision or change -**Man vs. Society** - main source of conflict is [|social traditions] or concepts. || (formative & summative)
 * Assessments
 * Assessments

|| Through the arts and humanities, students recognize that although people are different, they share some common experiences and attitudes |||| Discuss that conflict is natural; everyone has conflicts because we all have different wants, needs, ideas, and ways of doing things. Our behavior – what we do and say – can make our conflicts bigger or smaller. ||
 * Essential vocabulary

|| Conflict Solution Behavior Problem-solving skills alternative |||| Empathy Interactions || || -Teamwork activities – create an elevator chart -Interview their partners about a time when they had a conflict. -Discuss the conflicts in current events, and identify the causes of the conflicts. (e.g. President Obama and issues he is currently dealing with) -Create a web with things that make you angry. |||| The Giver by Lois Lowry What advantage might “sameness” yield for contemporary communities? -Is the loss of diversity worthwhile? - Yield – to give in Worthwhile – valuable/important || || |||| ||
 * Extension activities