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Teacher's Anticipation Guide

Use the questions below each prompt to generate additional student discussion.

People in a neighborhood always get along.

• Why is it that people sometimes don't get along in a neighborhood?
• What keeps neighbors from getting along?
• Do you know all of your neighbors? Which get along with best?

It is easy to make a difference your community or neighborhood.

• What makes it easy to make a difference in our community?
• What makes it hard? What are some obstacles to making a difference?
• What would it take to make a difference in our community?

Nature is a way for people to be drawn together.

• If you agreed, how does nature draw people together?
• Do you like to be in the mountains/forest?
• Is nature peaceful?

One person can make a difference in the world.

• Has someone made a difference in your life? How did they do it?
• Have you made a difference for someone else?
• What are some of the ways people make a difference? Are they always big ways?

Good things that happen in one part of the world don't affect things that are going on in other parts of the world.

• Does what happens in your neighborhood affect what happens in your school?
• Does what you eat for breakfast affect how you feel all day?
• Does the news across the world affect what happens at our school?
• If so, how?

People who do good things always know exactly whom they will affect.

• What are some ways you do good things that people might not notice?
• Name the most recent nice thing someone did for you. Did they think it was a big deal?
• Have you been affected by someone who didn't know they were affecting you?

People of different races should try to keep to themselves.

• Why is it important to embrace people of all races?
• Why do some people like to be separate? Do you like to be separate from others?
• What is it like to feel different?

Sometimes differences in people don't matter.

• Do any of you have friends who are completely different from you?
• Can we learn from people who are different from us?
• What if the world acted and talked and thought the same?
• How have differences in people created problems in your life or in history?

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