Thursday, October 25, 2012

Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school hero’s journey lesson plans set 1



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are eight (8) hero’s journey lesson plans appropriate for grades five to eight.

Each lesson includes nine sections:

Section 1: Lesson Objectives
Section 2: K-W-L MODEL discussion (‘K’ and ‘W’ questions)
Section 3: Vocabulary
Section 4: Story
Section 5: Popcorn Review
Section 6: Role-Play
Section 7: Bloom’s Taxonomy discussion questions
Section 8: Writing assignment
Section 9: K-W-L MODEL discussion (‘L’ questions)

These field-tested lessons are totally self-contained. They come with teaching posters and role-play downloads – all for FREE. Everything you need is there for you simply by clicking on the links. Feel free to copy and paste them onto your computer so that you can use them with your classroom students.

One of the ways students learn about character education techniques, conflict resolution strategies, and anti-bullying processes is to try them on for size. Through the use of engaging stories and fun role-plays about realistic middle school students, young people start to incorporate the concepts taught in each lesson.

These lessons were all utilized in a class called ‘Communication Skills’. The author, Debbie Dunn, taught over 500 middle school students (Grades 5-8) a year for five years until a budget-cut eliminated many of the school’s special extracurricular programs. During that time period, she created over 3000 pages of curriculum based on real middle school conflict resolution and anti-bullying issues.

For the benefit of middle school students, middle school teachers, guidance counselors, and concerned parents, the author posts many of these lesson plans on Examiner.com. Feel free to subscribe to Debbie Dunn’s school conflict resolution Examiner page should you wish to keep abreast of each lesson as it gets posted.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Water of Life
Story Description: Three brothers and their little sister work very hard to build a palace, a church, and a garden on their land. People came from miles around to look and admire. An old man informed them they still lacked acquiring a branch from the tree of beauty, the water of life, and a talking bird. Each brother, in turn, attempted to acquire these three items. Each brother ran into danger since they did not fully follow the directions given by a kindly giantess. It was up to the Little Sister to attempt to save the day.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Ball
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the first story of seven about a 6th-grade boy named Jack. Jack tries out for the football team even though he is tall and gangly and wears glasses. The older boys pick on him unmercifully. Many of the kids at the school make fun of him. Then Jack discovers basketball. Read how he experiences great success when he turns to a sport he truly loves.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Drum
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the second story of seven about a 6th-grade boy named Jack. Upperclassmen Tom and Marcus meet sixth-grader Jack. When the older boys learn that Jack wishes to be part of the percussion section in the marching band, Tom comes up with a rather mean plan.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Dance
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the third story of seven about a 6th-grade boy named Jack. Sixth-grade basketball star, Jack, starts going out with seventh-grade cheerleader, Ann. At first, their relationship is fun for both of them. But when Jack decides he wishes to also spend time with his other friends and go out for track, Ann becomes possessive. Will they manage to stay together or break up?

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Heart
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the fourth story of seven about a 6th-grade boy named Jack. He really enjoys hanging out with his good friends Don and Ron. The only problem is that Ron starts sniping at Jack. Will the two boys manage to work out their differences or sever their friendship? Read this story to find out what happens.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Word
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the fifth story of seven about a 6th-grade boy named Jack. Please understand that this is a different Jack from the Jack in the previous four stories.

In this story, sixth-grader Jack feels overshadowed by his older and much-more-popular brother Andrew. Due to the fact that Jack didn’t feel like he could compete, he mostly kept quietly to himself. Read this story to find out how Jack’s older brother and mother help Jack to not feel left out anymore.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Feeling
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the sixth story of seven about a boy named Jack. Please note that this is a continuation of the story about the Jack you read about in the stories called ‘The Ball’, ‘The Dance’, and ‘The Heart’.

Now that Jack was in the seventh grade, he began to feel confused about whether he wished to remain on the track and basketball teams. He even began to feel curious about those kids who took either pot or pills. Did he want to become one of them? Read the role-play to discover what choice Jack ended up making.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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Hero’s journey Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): The Star
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Self Control, Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Tolerance & Allowing. In the set of follow-up discussion questions, your students will also learn key features of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey process.

This is the seventh and last story of seven about a boy named Jack. Please note that this is the conclusion of the story about the Jack you read about in the stories called ‘The ball’, ‘The dance’, ‘The heart’, and ‘The feeling’. This story is called ‘The star’. It was written by Clinical Social Worker, Terry Gardner.

Jack was now in eighth grade. He had come a long way since the uncertainties, fears, and many questions he had during his sixth- and seventh-grade years. Jack was very popular with most of the students and teachers. He did very well with school work and was one of the school’s outstanding athletes. But had all that success gone to his head? Let’s see what Jack did with all of his success and personal growth.

Please note: As a clinical social worker, Mr. Terry Gardner kindly created these stories for Debbie Dunn’s Communication Skills class at CMS back in 2001.This Terry Gardner Jack Tale is shared in his memory and with permission of his widow, Lin Gardner.
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