Thursday, October 25, 2012

Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school diplomacy lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are four (4) diplomacy 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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Diplomacy Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Denny Teaches Tom to Eat Crow
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need to be diplomatic with adults in positions of power such as teachers, administrators, and parents. Valuing & Respecting Authority are two important survival skills that all thinking individuals need to display if they wish to get along well in this world. Students will learn when it might be appropriate to “eat crow” with teachers and other significant adults in their lives. One of the goals of this story is that students will increase the number of times they choose to “eat crow” with teachers instead of being rude or disrespectful.
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Diplomacy Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): First Lesson in Diplomacy
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need to be diplomatic with adults in positions of power such as teachers, administrators, and parents.

Picture this. You are in the seventh grade and need help with an algebraic formula problem. You go to your teacher for help. Unfortunately, your teacher has gotten older and sometimes experiences memory problems. Not knowing that this was one of your teacher’s bad days, you work your entire homework assignment based on this help. The next day in class, another student asks for help on the very same problem. That is when you discover that every problem that you worked was wrong. You angrily yell at the teacher in front of the whole class.
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Diplomacy Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Johnny and Susan
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need to be diplomatic with your family members, your school mates, and the other people in your life. Johnny and Susan are a brother and sister who cannot seem to get along. Everything changes for the better after their mother teaches Susan how to use ‘I Messages’ (i.e., Diplomatic ‘I’ Statements) with her big brother instead of using Accusing ‘You’ Statements.
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Diplomacy Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Ted's Use of Diplomacy Saved the Day
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need to be diplomatic with the other kids at school.

Ted asked to join the pick-up basketball game before school. When a jock named Matt refused to let him join, Ted went over to one of his friends and complainingly called Matt a name. That began a chain reaction where Ted got himself into hot water with a few kids at school. Will Ted manage to find a way to fix the problem before his day gets any worse?
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Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school ‘fight or flight’ lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are five (5) ‘fight or flight’ 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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‘Fight or Flight’ Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): A Mediation session with Shawn, Tyler, and Dennis
Story Description: This is the sequel story about Tyler, Dennis, and Shawn’s gang used to teach more about Fight or Flight and the Mediation process. This story is called “A Mediation session with Shawn, Tyler, and Dennis.” Shawn and his gang had been waging psychological warfare on Tyler. One day, Dennis playfully nudged Tyler while he was with them. Instead of laughing in welcome, Tyler and the gang accused Dennis of hitting Tyler and warned him he better watch his back.
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‘Fight or Flight’ Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Bully Jake & Eddie plus Sequel
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the VICTIM-VICTIMIZER CYCLE in action. The two characters who interact together are a bully named Jake and a boy named Eddie. The story is called “Bully Jake And Eddie.”

Story Description for Sequel: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the possible consequences of having the reputation of being a bully. It also demonstrates the slow process it takes for a former bully to try to re-gain people’s trust. Do you remember Bully Jake and Eddie? Jake is seriously worried. A friend of his, a former bully, got framed and placed in the Alternate School. What if that happens to him as well? How do you regain people’s trust when you’ve been a bully for years? Will anybody ever be willing to trust Jake again? The story is called “Jake tries to rebuild his trust level with others.”
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‘Fight or Flight’ Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Mouse Mother
Story Description: This is an adaptation of a story that comes from the oral traditions of Africa. It is used with permission of Opalanga Pugh, a griot of the African culture. Prior to her death in 2010, Opalanga traveled around the United States, sharing the traditional stories of Africa.

This story perfectly demonstrates a character Self-Mentoring as she remembers to breathe, gives herself a Pep Talk inside her head, relies on her Inner Wisdom, and comes up with a brilliant solution to get her attacker to leave her and her loved ones alone.
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‘Fight or Flight’ Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Thicken Your Skin to Put-Downs
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach your students some potential humorous retorts they can use when other kids attempt to put them down. It might just help them to thicken their skin to put-downs. Wayne and Melinda are tired of being put down. They both decide to use some humorous retorts to help them defuse the conflict. The humorous retorts are so successful that they start teaching these techniques to some of their friends. Perhaps some of these ideas will work for you and your friends as well. The humorous retorts used in this story came from an actual Chicago social worker who worked at a school for unwed girls. I met her on a cruise we both took. She shared with me several ideas to help kids thicken their skin to put-downs.
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‘Fight or Flight’ Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Tyler Chooses between Dennis and Shawn’s gang
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the Fight or Flight technique of mob mentality and psychological warfare. The story is called “Tyler chooses between Dennis and Shawn’s gang.” Shawn and his gang were waging psychological warfare on Tyler. One day, Dennis playfully nudged Tyler while he was with them. Instead of laughing in welcome, Tyler and the gang accused Dennis of hitting Tyler and warned him he better watch his back.
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Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school communication skills lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are five (5) communication skills 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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Communication skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Dennis Learns about Responsible Reporting
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for using good communication skills in the classroom. This story called “Dennis Learns about Responsible Reporting Versus Tattling” illustrates the importance of following class rules, being respectful to the teacher and your fellow classmates, maintaining your classroom as a safe zone from put-downs, and learning the difference between responsible reporting versus tattling or snitching.
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Communication skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Fred learns to make Good Observations
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for using good communication skills when interacting with other people. This story called “Fred learns to make Good Observations” illustrates the importance of making good observations about when it is your turn to talk and when you should be simply listening or keeping quiet.

Additional Note: Making good observations of when it is a good time for you to talk to others and when you should be simply listening is an extremely good character trait to have. That is part of having good Self Control. It also demonstrates a lot of Respect for others when you wait your turn to talk and only speak on related topics
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Communication skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Goofy Jane
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the need for using good communication skills when interacting with other people. This comic story called “Goofy Jane” demonstrates the pitfalls that can happen when you do not follow the simple rules of being a good communicator. Eighteen-year-old Jane is training to be a singer, dancer, and actress so she can become a Hollywood movie star. She nearly blows her chance to fulfill her dream as she breaks every communication skill rule with a Hollywood agent by the name of Mr. Headworthy. Read the role-play called “Goofy Jane” to find out what happens.
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Communication skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Josh Takes a Risk
Story Description: Imagine your teacher expects each student in the room to give a speech or perform a story. You, however, are feeling nervous or reluctant to perform. That’s the way that a boy named Josh felt.

Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about importance of making eye contact with others when you do public speaking.

As you may be aware, many students would rather eat nails than get up in front of their classmates to do any kind of public speaking. Making eye contact with your teacher and the other students in the room is one technique that really helps build your comfort level in the long run. A boy named Josh did not believe that making eye contact could actually help him build his comfort level; however, when he finally took the risk to try it out, he found it actually worked for him as well.

This story called “Josh Takes a Risk” illustrates the importance of making eye contact with your teacher and your classmates when you give a public speaking speech or performance.
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Communication skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Little Red-Riding-Hood and Omega Wolf Bert
Story Description: Here is a modern version of an old favorite called “Little Red-Riding-Hood and Omega Wolf Bert.” The story teaches the importance of finding common ground between two opposing forces, empathy, using your survival instincts to help you through dangerous situations, the unpleasantness of name-calling, and the importance of making sincere apologies for wrong intentions and wrong-doing.

Frequently, other kids call Connie Blake by the name of Little Red-Riding-Hood because she regularly wears a red cloak. On her way to bringing muffins to her sick granny, she met an Omega Wolf by the name of Bert. Hoping to be more popular with his wolf pack, Bert hatches a plan to capture Connie. Will Connie survive?
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school character education lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are eight (8) character education 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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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Accept Me for Who I Am
Story Description: Some kids start making fun of basketball player Jason just because he is short. In the first part of the role-play, seventh-grader Jason reacts badly to their ridicule. He ends up getting beat up. The last part of the role-play shows how much better the situation can be when Jason demonstrates enough self control to talk reasonably with his tormentors. As a result, they react in a more tolerant fashion as well. The role-play is called “Accept Me for Who I Am.” This Conflict Resolution role-play is based on an idea shared with me by one of my past seventh-grade students who struggled with being a lot shorter than the other 7th-grade guys.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Animal Justice for the Hyena and the Hare
Story Description: The Grandmothers of the Kikuyu tribe of Kenya tell stories to teach the children important lessons like don't be greedy. One of those children, Ann Njeri Mwangi, orally shared this tale with me in 1990. Hyena helps Hare find a cub-sitting job for Queen Lion. Unfortunately, Hyena demands a very unreasonable reward in exchange. Listen to this Character Education tale and see if you agree it also has a strong message about Justice and about being Responsible.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Be part of the Solution
Story Description: Students participate in acting out the twelve (12) skits called “Be part of the Solution Skits.”
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): How the Tortoise Got Cracks in his Shell
Story Description: The Grandmothers of the Kikuyu tribe of Kenya tell stories to teach the children important lessons like don't be greedy. One of those children, Ann Njeri Mwangi, orally shared this tale with me in 1990. Many of the birds were invited to a party in Heaven. Tortoise convinced them that a way must be found to bring him along as he was such a Sweet Talker. Read about his elaborate con job. Listen to this Character Education tale and see if you agree it also has a strong message about the necessity of being a strong Leader and Trustworthy.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): How to tactfully handle acquaintances who leach on to you
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of the Character Education traits of Caring & Giving, Leadership, Tolerance & Allowing, Valuing & Respecting Self, and Valuing & Respecting Others. Jenny never wanted a school shooting to happen at her school. Her solution: Find and befriend an outcast. Her problem: The loner she found, Anne, began to follow her around everywhere she went. How could Jenny still be Anne’s friend yet maintain her own personal boundaries? Additional Note: Sometimes, when we become an advocate for someone perceived as a loner or outcast, that person can suddenly expect you to become his or her best friend. So, in that case, it is important to learn an assertive way of handling that situation.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Making Friends with Kids from Other Schools
Story Description: I used to teach at a middle school that had 6 feeder schools: 3 were K-6 and 3 were K-5. The newly entered sixth-and seventh-graders found it challenging to meet so many news kids. This story addresses the best way to expand your network of friends.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Sarah and Jennifer End Their Friendship
Story Description: While Jennifer was out sick, Sarah hears rumors that Jennifer had been saying bad things about her. When Jennifer returns to school, Sarah verbally attacks her. Can their friendship be saved? This story demonstrates the importance of checking your facts. It also demonstrates the importance of finding a balance between the Character Education traits of Valuing& Respecting Self and Valuing & Respecting Others.
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Character education Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Three Outcomes for Denise
Story Description: This story demonstrates the three different outcomes to conflict: LOSE-LOSE, WIN-LOSE, and WIN-WIN. It also illustrates three character education traits: Valuing & Respecting Self, Valuing & Respecting Others, and Valuing & Respecting Authority. See if you can figure out when each happens.
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Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school basic skills lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are four (4) basic skills 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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Basic skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): A False Rumor about Brittany
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of checking your facts when rumors are being spread, Basic Needs, working for a WIN-WIN Outcome, and the Peer Mediation process. Brittany discovers that either Christy or Sarah has spread a false rumor that she has cheated on her boyfriend named Corey. Will Brittany discover who really started the rumor and why? Will Corey believe that she was innocent and take her back?
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Basic skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): It All Happened Because Mark Overslept and Missed Breakfast
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about that conflict happens when one or more of your Basic Needs get messed with. Either you have conflict within yourselves and you feel frustrated, angry, or depressed; or conflict happens with others and you get into an argument or a fight. But sometimes, conflict can happen from something as simple as being sleepy, sick, or hungry. Listen to this story about Mark and the chain reaction of actions that happened as a result of what was going wrong with him.

Sequel tale Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about why conflict happens. Mr. Campbell, a middle school Communication Skills teacher, teaches his class about the fact that conflict happens when our Basic Needs get messed with. He also introduces the concepts of Passive, Aggressive, and Assertive Responses to Conflict.
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Basic skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Oscar the Outcast
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about the importance of being an advocate for someone who is viewed as being an outcast and loner. Oscar is a middle school student who is viewed as an outcast at his school. No one will sit with him. No one will be his friend. The only ones who talk to him are the bullies who constantly put him down and push him around. Oscar has no idea how to fix or change things for the better. Then one day, a new girl enters his homeroom.
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Basic skills Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Who will make the Princess Laugh?
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach all about our Basic Needs. This is a story about a Princess who has never laughed and a goofy guy named Jack. The story was inspired by Richard Chase’s story called “Jack and the King’s Girl” found in his book called THE JACK TALES.
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Learning how to be Bully Free: Middle school anger management lesson plans



To help promote students learning anti-bullying techniques, here are seven (7) anger management 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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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Angry Blake
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about Anger Triggers, Anger Cues, our Fight or Flight Instinct, and Self-Mentoring techniques. The story is called “Angry Blake.” Blake was filled with fury. You could have cut the tension between his parents with a knife. They yelled at each other half the night, as Blake lay trembling and angry in his room. At school, he felt the need to vent that anger on some of the other students.
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Control your anger with SPAM
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about a unique Anger Management method. The story is called “Control Your Anger With SPAM.” Emily and Mike have a great deal of trouble keeping control of their temper. A guidance counselor teach them a method of Anger Management that works called SPAM, like the meat, only it is not something to eat. (S.P.A.M. = Stop-Ponder-Appreciate-Moment)
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Her First Kiss
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about resolving conflict with friends.

It is normal and natural to feel angry or sad when someone disrespects you in some way. What do you do if you are the person who is in the wrong? How do you make amends if you realize that you are the one who accidentally or purposely mistreated a friend?

Here is a true story about a sixth-grade girl named Debbie who did just that. There will be two role-plays to follow that tie in with this story. The discussion questions are built into each role-play, so other than a Popcorn Review, there will be no additional discussion questions at the end. The story is called “Her First Kiss.”
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Matt Falsely Accuses Jonathan of Stealing
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about Anger Triggers, Anger Cues, our Fight or Flight Instinct, and Self-Mentoring techniques. This story is about a boy not only making a false accusation of a good friend, he punches him in the nose. Will his friend agree to forgive him? Find out in the story called “Matt falsely accuses Jonathan of Stealing.”
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Pranks, Idle Threats, & Promises
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about Anger Triggers, Anger Cues, and Anger Management techniques. This story demonstrates that it is not appropriate to make threats or promises to administer bodily harm at school. The action of making threats or pulling pranks can often backfire as it did for Greg, Tim, and Bruce in this story called “Pranks, Idle Threats, and Promises.”
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): Sam Self-Mentors versus Psychological Warfare
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach about Anger Triggers, Anger Cues, and Anger Management techniques. The story is called “Sam Self-Mentors rather than giving in to Psychological Warfare.” Sam was overwhelmed. Due to his Dad’s drinking and rage, Mr. Duncan lost his job, his wife, and moved his son to a new town. Adding to all the other losses, Sam’s new best friend Drew deserted him to join Shawn’s gang. What will Sam do now that Shawn and his gang are starting to play their psychological warfare games on him?
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Anger Management Lesson Plan (Grades 5-8): SPAM and Stairstep Thinking
Story Description: Here is a story scenario you can use to help teach further details about a unique Anger Management method called S.P.A.M. The story is called “SPAM and Stairstep Thinking.” Jason is offended and angry that Blake put him down. The rest of the morning went from bad to worse. At lunch, his best friend Lee taught him how to use the SPAM method of anger management and Stairstep Thinking to psych himself into feeling better again.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Voki videos for Matt falsely accuses Jonathan of stealing

Title page clip for voki videos giving a sneak preview of Matt falsely accusing Jonathan of stealing

Here is a sneak preview of the story about Matt falsely accusing his good friend, Jonathan, of stealing. Will their friendship survive?

Matt falsely accuses Jonathan of stealing.

To read the rest of the story, click on this link.

Matt falsely accuses Jonathan of stealing.

Click below for other parts of this lesson plan for middle school students, teachers, guidance counselors, and home-schooling parents.

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