Curriculum Unit
Building a Respectful Classroom Community through Artistic Expression
Regina Mulvena
Title Author
KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.
Students will learn and demonstrate socially appropriate interactions with peers in the classroom that reflect an understanding of respect.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT
What is respect? How do we show respect to ourselves? How do we show respect to others? How do we show respect to authority? How do we show respect to environment?
CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C CONCEPT D
Building an awareness of others & how to demonstrate respect
Building an understand of respect & an awareness of ourselves
Building an awareness of authority & how to demonstrate respect
Building an awareness of our environment & how to demonstrate respect
environment, property
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS D
How do we respect our environment? What happens if there is no respect for property?
What does respect mean? How do we show respect?
How do we respect ourselves?
Who is the authority?
Why is authority needed?
How do we respect authority?
How do we show respect to others? How would we want to be treated?
VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C VOCABLULARY D
authority, pantomime, job, responsibility, leader
kindness, friends, politeness, puppetry, sharing, caring, recipe
YET, improvisation, expression, tones
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES
What is the recipe for friends? By Greg Williams and Illustrated by Greg Abele
Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker
Chart paper/Smart Board (SB)
Writing pages for lessons 2 and 5