LGBT+Awareness+Project

= **Lesson Planner** = **Ms. Legare’s Period 4 Class** **Generation Citizen Project** **May 2011**
 * __ **Topic:** __ LGBTAwareness ||
 * **__Standards:__ MA State Health Standards**

**Prek–2 Standard 5 MENTAL HEALTH** Students will acquire knowledge about emotions and physical health, the management of emotions, personality and character development, __social awareness, and LGBT awareness__; and will learn skills to promote __self-acceptance__, make decisions, and cope with stress, including __suicide prevention__.

**PreK–12 Standard 11 VIOLENCE PREVENTION** How their actions affect others, will understand the power that positive character traits can have in violence prevention, will gain skills to report incidents of violence and hurtful behavior to adults in the school and community, will avoid engaging in violence, and identify constructive alternatives to violence, including how to discourage others from engaging in violence. || 1) Identify LGBT bullying and be able to speak up against it. 2) Accept differences among others ||
 * **__Objectives:__ Students will be able to:**
 * __ **Activities:** __

**__Do Now:__** Answer the questions below on your own. Feel free to write your own opinion these will be anonymous:
 * 1) What does being gay mean to you?
 * 2) What do you think of people who are gay?
 * 3) What would you do if a friend/family member came out to you?
 * 4) Do you use words like gay, fag, faggot?
 * 5) What are your thoughts about LGBT bullying?

Hand your papers into the facilitator. For each questions the facilitator will draw out the most often repeated ideas (the majority), what stands out, and the minority opinion. Students can comment on the ideas drawn out in a respectful way.

**__Mini-Lesson/Class Notes__**: View the following video and complete the below I See/It Mean**s** while you watch. Try to chose the 3 things that stand out the most while you watch.

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**__Small Group Work:__**


 * In small groups of three, pair up and share your I See/It Means to discuss what you wrote.
 * Identify two ideas that your group will report out on. They should be the ideas that you find the most important of your discussion.
 * Chose one person to speak for the group.

**__Processing:__**

The facilitator will call on all groups and once again pull out the main ideas of the class. The discussion should pull out what LGBT bullying is, how people bully gays and lesbians and how what video suggested people do when they see LGBT bullying.

**__Homework__:** Writing Assignment:

Answer the same five questions you answered in the Do Now. Are any of your answers different? If so, write informally about how your ideas changed as a result of seeing the video or as a result of the class discussions. Comment on if your ideas in your opinion changed for the better or they worse, and why you say this.

This assessment will be used by the facilitator to on his/her own to assess the effectiveness of the lesson, and to assess if any ideas need reteaching, refining or clarification. If time permits, the facilitator can lead a discussion on if peoples' ideas changed as a result of the video. ||
 * __ **Materials:** __
 * I See/It Means
 * Video ||