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Danbury Public Schools Peace Curriculum Mapping Overview - Grade 5
ROOTS OF THE
LEARNING TREE
UNITED NATIONS
THEME LINK
Essential
Questions
Content Area:
English/
Language Arts
Culminating
Activity
BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND
The MORAL IMPERATIVE:
LEADERSHIP AND GLOBAL
CITIZENSHIP
How does one perpetuate
peace?
Reading and Responding:
Students read, comprehend and
respond in individual, literal, critical
and evaluative ways to literary,
informational and persuasive texts
in multi-media formats.
Root Concept: Caring
Cooperation - Respect
Activity:
Write the script for the Ceremony
to Award the Peace Prize.
Resource:
Plan a Successful Award
Ceremony
http://www.crystalartusa.com/index
.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=65
Academy Peace Prize Award
Ceremony
KNOW ONESELF
SHAPE ONESELF
SHARE ONESELF
THE WHY:
THE WHAT:
THE HOW:
RESPECT FOR DIGNITY
AND IDENTITY
ECOLOGICAL THINKING
AND RESPECT FOR LIFE
CRITICAL THINKING AND ACTIVE
NON-VIOLENCE
Why is peace important?
What is peace?
Reading and Responding:
Students read, comprehend and
respond in individual, literal,
critical and evaluative ways to
literary, informational and
persuasive texts in multi-media
formats.
Exploring and Responding to
Literature: Students read and
respond to classical and
contemporary texts from many
cultures and literary periods.
Root Concept: Positive Identity
– Sense of Purpose
Activities:
Who was Alfred Nobel?
Research and write a biography
of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Resources:
Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/
Nobel Peace Prize Winners:
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/
peace/laureates/
Microsoft Office Press Release
Template
Reading and Responding:
Students read, comprehend and
respond in individual, literal,
critical and evaluative ways to
literary, informational and
persuasive texts in multi-media
formats.
Communicating with Others:
Students produce written, oral,
and visual texts to express,
develop, and substantiate ideas
and experiences.
Root Concept: Reflection SelfTalk
Activity:
Develop a press release for the
acceptance of nominations for the
Academy Peace Prize.
Resources:
Microsoft Office Press Release
Template
Space Expo to Demonstrate
Student Designs and
Presentations
How does one live a peaceful
life?
Reading and Responding:
Students read, comprehend and
respond in individual, literal, critical
and evaluative ways to literary,
informational and persuasive texts
in multi-media formats.
Root Concept: Resiliency
Communicating with Others:
Students produce written, oral,
and visual texts to express,
develop, and substantiate ideas
and experiences.
Root Concept: Reflection - SelfTalk
Activity:
Compare the acceptance
speeches of two Nobel Peace
Prize recipients.
Resources:
Martin Luther King’s Nobel Prize
Acceptance Speech
http://www.almaz.com/nobel/peac
e/MLK-nobel.html
Nelson Mandela’s Nobel Peace
Prize Address
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/sp
eeches/nobelnrm.html
Ecological Plan: Trace Ecological Succession of Site Over Time
Adapted from Danbury Public Schools Learning Tree and Instructional Philosophy by Bonnie Lee Rabe, Ph. D. 2006
THE END
PRODUCT/RESULT:
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND CIVIC
RESPONSIBILITY
How does one bring peace to
others?
Communicating with Others:
Students produce written, oral,
and visual texts to express,
develop, and substantiate ideas
and experiences.
English Language
Conventions:
Students apply the conventions of
Standard English in oral and
written communication.
Root Concept: Caring
Cooperation - Responsibility,
Listening with Empathy
Activity:
Students will practice for the
Peace Award Ceremony by
holding Figurative Language
Awards in the classroom (focused
on their work with figurative
language, metaphor, simile and
personification).
Resource:
Figurative Language Awards
Ceremony Lesson Plan
http://www.readwritethink.org/less
ons/lesson_view.asp?id=115
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