THE OTHER Book
Practices: Students read the book, which has a total of 9 chapters, within the scope of the unit, for a total of 3 weeks during the weekly course hours. A summary and a connection to children’s rights are written at the end of the chapter on the booklets created for students. At the beginning, the author and their goal are introduced. Before they start reading it, students are divided into groups and asked to create a character to be added to the book (Groups draw, paint, and cut an othered character who has just come to their class on a large draft paper. Then the images of characters are placed on the board).
When To Use?
5th Grade, The Unit titled “the Individual and Society”, the subject titled Children’s Rights
Age Level
10-11 (Middle School 5th Grade)
Duration
3 weeks
Materials
The Other book, google documents booklet, materials for creating characters.
Related Social-Emotional Learning Area
Social awareness, empathy, communication skills, emotion awareness