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Common Ground: Neighbor to Neighbor

CONCEPTS

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Differences
Prejudice
Solutions

PROJECT/TASK

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Please click here for lesson and activity ideas titled "Live Without Hate," provided by Hot Topics, Inc.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

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Create your own Neighbor to Neighbor effort within your school district or with a school district that is close by. Choose facilitators and host a meeting at the school. How would your students work to solve racial problems and learn to live without hate? Reading and writing assignments may support the event (see resource lists below).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ca/learn_outcomes.htm

Students will:

  • Focus on the topic with adequate supporting ideas or examples; convey messages related to that topic, exhibit word choice appropriate to audience, purpose and subject, and use language as an expression of self. (4th Grade Writing a, b, f; 6th Grade Writing a, c; 9th Grade Writing a, e; 12th Grade Writing a, h, k)
  • Draw inferences; determine validity of statements; respond to the text. (4th Grade Reading 8, 17; 6th Grade Reading 12; 9th Grade Reading 12, 14, 15; 12th Grade Reading 13, 14, 15)
  • Understand that many different peoples with diverse backgrounds make up our nation today, evaluate the actions of public officials on the basis of a given set of criteria, compare and contrast points of agreement and disagreement among sources, identify and weigh alternative viewpoints, and recognize that local and national issues can be related to those confronting a global society. (9th Grade Citizenship 2, 14c; 12th Grade Citizenship 12, 18b, 18d, 19)

RESOURCES

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Neighbor to Neighbor
Equality Before the Law lesson (historical perspective)
Holidays: Celebrating Diversity
Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man lesson plan
Maniac Magee
Maniac Magee teachers' guide
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird lesson plan

RESOURCES FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN

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With links to Amazon.com reviews

Angel Child, Dragon Child by Michele Maria Surat
Berenstain Bears New Neighbors by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Families Are Different by Nina Pellegrini

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