Mental Health
Long shot: never too small to dream big
Author(s): Chris Paul
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Hhdh5h
Indigo: https://bit.ly/2OsE4MM
Social Justice focus: Overcoming obstacles
Synopsis: N.B.A player Chris Paul tells his story of making his high school basketball team despite being one of the shortest players trying out. He demonstrates the value of determination, hard work, and the refusal to accept limitations.
Lesson Plan: Tyler Moreira
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Creative Writing
Grade: 4
Lesson: What is the focus of this lesson in relation to the unit?
The focus of this lesson is to reassure students that they are capable to achieve their dreams and remind students of the various support systems they have. In this lesson, students will be guided through goal setting strategies to help achieve them.
Curriculum Areas: What are possible connections to other curricular areas?
Cross-curricular connections to health and physical education – healthy living strand in the Physical Education curriculum document in the ways it allows students to reflect on their support systems in life and their emotions as individuals.
Curriculum Expectations: What Overall and Specific Expectations will be addressed?
Overall:
Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes;
Overall Expectations:
generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience;
Specific:
Developing Ideas
generate ideas about a potential topic using a variety of strategies and resources (e.g., brainstorm; formulate and ask questions to identify personal experiences, prior knowledge, and information needs)
Grammar
3.5 use parts of speech appropriately to communicate their meaning clearly, with a focus on the use of: common and proper nouns; verbs in the simple present, past, and future tenses; adjectives and adverbs; subject/verb agreement; prepositions; and conjunctions (e.g., since, through, until)
Physical Education
Overall: identify the physical, interpersonal, and emotional aspects of healthy human beings.
Specific:
- identify the characteristics of healthy relationships (e.g., showing consideration of others’ feelings by avoiding negative communication);
- identify the challenges (e.g., conflicting opinions) and responsibilities in their relationships with family and friends.
Learning Goal(s): What are students expected to know, do and understand? We are learning to…
- We are learning to explore and discover our SPARKS (Goals, interests, dreams, passions) in our lives
- Set a plan in place to help us achieve our goals (Goals, Plan and shift (GPS) to achieve these goals)
- Reflect and identify our support that is available from our peers, family and school and their importance to our mental health
Success Criteria: How will students know they have met the learning goal? I can….
- Identify/brainst