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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?
Reading Strategies developed by
Amy Ferguson Hackworth Fall 2000
for Dr. Sirpa Grierson, BYU | Page created by
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