Friends - How Many of Us Have Them?
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Introduction
In this unit, students will be investigating the process and skills necessary for building and maintaining healthy relationships as they experience transitions in life such as from middle school to high school. Students will be developing friendship questions for a survey of their peers. Stems to ten questions have been provided; students will read and discuss each concept reflected in the stems and then write four possible responses that emerge from their reading to construct the survey. Students will summarize the results and orally present their data in the classroom. A set of reflective prompts directs students to respond to the questions and their findings. Students will write a four-verse rap and chorus, or four articles for the school newspaper, about some aspect of the survey findings and the knowledge gained about building relationships during the project.
Essential Questions:
- What does it take to be a friend?
Critical Driving Questions:
- Who can I trust?
- What is a friend?
- Within a friendship, what are expectations of self-disclosure?
- How do personal assets influence friendships?
- What does it mean when a person "is of good character"?
- What should I look for in a friend?
- How can I be a good friend?
- What do I do to resist peer pressure?
- What are the barriers to building friendships?
- How does technology communication impact friendship-building?
- How do I get along with those I do not like?
- How do I build relationships with people different from myself?
- What qualities, skills, and behaviors are needed to establish friendships?
- What qualities do friends have?
- What happens when friendships end?
- How can I make friends online safely?
