Perspective

My district is looking into creating formative assessments that will be aligned to our Enduring Understandings.  Because of this, my team created (for a professional development meeting) an eight day unit on "perspective" and how perspective influences conflict.  Having finished this unit, it was interesting to see how each of the students' perspectives on a topic influenced their thoughts of the character's perspective (when you read "Ooka and the Honest Thief", you will see that the kids have differing feelings about whether stealing for your family is fair or not). 

I'm attaching a plan of what we did, as well as some resources.

Unit Plan: Perspective

Link to "Ooka and the Honest Thief"  (we used our Junior Great Books Series, but I found a copy of the same story online)

Ooka and the Honest Thief Questions (used for comprehension check, as well as working on discussion and synthesizing information).

We used "Moodle" for some of the discussion.  If you don't have Moodle, you could always have students respond to each other by hanging up their responses around the classroom. 

**Additionally, we are reading "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio (a great book on bullying, middle school, and perspective!).  Click here to check it out on Amazon.com!