Grade+3+-+Caring+for+Others

challenge 2

Group Members: Tara, Stephanie, Leah, Grace, Leona

Subject: Literacy (character ed focus)

Grade: 3

Key Learning: It is important to care for others as well as ourselves

Frame Critical Challenge: "Imagine you are walking to a New Year's Eve party with your parents and you meet this little girl sitting on the street. What 3 things would you do to help this girl and how would this change the outcome of this story?"

Rough Notes: (please write ideas for any of the Challenges below, that way, we'll be ready to hit the ground running at our next session!)

Type of Critical Challenge: (Critique the Piece, Judge the Better or Best, Rework the Piece, Decode the Puzzle, Design to Specs, Perform to Specs Decode the picture (Little Match Girl); Judge the Better or the Best (helpful things we can do); Rework the Piece (Write a new ending to the story).

Culminating ideas/type of challenge to show learning: Observation of student discourse/brainstorming Assessment of re-written ending of story

Criteria for Judgment: -Observation vs. Inference (decode the picture) - Criteria for "helpful" for a homeless person (i.e. immediate help/relief, lasting, "doable", etc.)

Background Knowledge required: Social context of the time; time of year (festive/rushed); homeless situation

Critical Thinking Vocabulary: Empathy, inference, judgment, evidence

Thinking Strategies: 5 W's organizer, Brainstorming (list of helpful things); Story starter (teacher provided)

Habits of mind (one or two to focus on). Empathic, Attentive to Detail