Screencast Part TwoA MARVELOUS POWERPOINT BY MAXWELL JONES

Character Count Standards

How to lose all your friends: EMOTIONS AND THEIR IMPACT

SELF-IMPROVEMENT

FLEXIBILITY

SOCIAL AWARENESS

EMPATHY

POSITIVITY

Three-Tiered Social Skills Instruction

The three tiers are as follows - Few: Individual social skills instruction

Some: Small group social skills instruction

All: Schoolwide and classwide expectations.

In this case, our story is likely schoolwide – unless there are a select few problem students who need to be read the story.

Objective

The objective of telling this story is to show, without coming off as preachy, how to not act in front of other. Put simply, it’s meant as a tongue in cheek look in the minds of those who want everything for themselves, and how this will negatively impact ones social life.

Input

Key Terms the Students should learn: Community – Working together, and having others interest in mind.

Empathy – Realizing someone else has feelings, and that their actions affect the emotional wellbeing of others.

Here’s a link to my reading of “How to Lose All Your Friends.”

http://youtu.be/h33WMG4-YPc

Independent Practice

From here, I will split the children up into group. I will give each of them a situation, such as “Laura wants one of your cookies, what do you do.” The students will show how to lose Laura as a friend, and how to make Laura happy in two separate performances done by each respective group. Those watching will the identify which performance was the positive way to handle the situation, and the negative way to handle the situation. This will handle both independent practice and checking for understanding.

Reflection

I’ll give a brief summary of what we’ve gone over, while remaining open to questions. I’ll be sure to discuss the aspects of empathy and community we shared earlier, and connect them to what we’ve done. A quick overview of the worksheet I handed out earlier will also be added in, to ensure all students understand the lesson.