Lesson 3: Kindness
Duration of Days: 5
Lesson Objective
After reading “Kindness,” students will demonstrate their understanding of values that are important when interacting with others, providing reasons and examples to support their ideas in a group discussion.
How can we leverage hardship to strengthen the bonds of humanity? Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness” explores the meaning of small acts of kindness in a world that can be inexplicably and unexpectedly violent.
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CCSS: RL.9-10.1; SL.9-10.2
SL.9-10.1.A, SL.9-10.1.D
RL.9-10.2, RL.9-10.4
DOK 1-4
How can we leverage hardship to strengthen the bonds of humanity? Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness” explores the meaning of small acts of kindness in a world that can be inexplicably and unexpectedly violent.
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Reading Quiz
Reexamine lines 27–35:
Poem on Study Sync