LEAGUE Event Lessons

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In addition to these grade-specific LEAGUE event lessons, teachers can search for service-learning and character-building lessons. For more information on The LEAGUE, visit the LEAGUE web site.

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LEAGUE EVENT LESSONS

King Day (-)

• Recognizing Our Similarities and Differences: King Day (K)
• Upon the Clouds of Equality: King Day (1st)
• Catch Her If You Can!: King Day (2nd)
• I'm in a Tizzy! How Can I Help? King Day (K)
• Sharing Compliments: King Day (1st)
• Compliments Can Change the World!: King Day (2nd)
• Courage Comes In All Sizes: King Day (3rd)
• Finding Our Bonds: King Day (4th)
• Rosa Parks: King Day (5th)
• Courageous Voices that Shook the Nation to Action:
  King Day (3rd)
• Words Can Hurt: King Day (4th)
• Looking beyond First Impressions: King Day (5th)
• Just-Us and Kindness: On Our Terms: King Day (6th)
• Wall of Philanthropists: King Day (7th)
• Just-Us and Kindness: A Voice for Children: King Day (8th)
• Put Your Hands in Mine: King Day (6th)
• Courage to Be You: King Day (7th)
• Justice and Kindness Play a Part: King Day (8th)
• Attributes of a Civil Society: King Day (9th)
• Comics and Cartoons of a Civil Society: King Day (10th)
• Reporting on an Ideal World: King Day (11th)
• Talk the Talk, Walk the Walk: King Day (12th)
• Understanding Justice, Kindness and Tolerance:
  King Day (9th)
• Stand and Deliver for Justice and Diversity: King Day (10th)
• Treating Others as You Would Like to be Treated:
  King Day (11th)
• Taking a Stand for the Good of Others: King Day (12)

OPTIONAL LEAGUE LESSONS

King Day (+)

• Citizenship
• Philanthropic Literature
• Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community
• "Antsy" for Others
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior - His Life, His Legacy
• Diverse Voices-African American Ventures
• Heroes and Their Impact
• How Did We Help?
• Philanthropy and You
• Foundations and You
• Different! Diverse! Dynamic!
• Core Democratic Values in Action
• Art for the Common Good—Junkanoo!
• At the Core of Philanthropy—Democratic Values
• Communities in Crisis
• Cultural Pluralism in Young Adult Literature—Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Global Philanthropy—The United Way
• Make the Connection! Core Democratic Values and Philanthropy
• Music of the Civil Rights Era, 1954-1968
• Philanthropy and Children Who Are Homeless
• Respecting Diversity—The Road To Tolerance
• Setting the Stage for Service Learning Relationships
• Executive Branch—Gifts to the Future (The)
• Power of One—Everyday Heroes for the Common Good (The)
• We Are One World
• Herstory in History
• ECHO, ECHO, ECHO—Each Can Help Others
• Us vs. Them
• Affirmative Action
• Concepts of Leadership
• Creating Student-Generated Classroom Rules
• Dear Philanthropist
• For Goodness Sake, Why Don't We Give More Power to the People?
• Majority Rule—Minority Rights
• Private Resources for the Common Good
• Social Reformer—Jane Addams
• Sports Legends and Philanthropy—Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe, Tiger Woods and Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• Using the Carter Center as an Example of Philanthropy Today—Local and Global Volunteerism
• Whose Job Is It?
• Women in Philanthropy
• Challenging Social Boundaries
• Growing a Citizen
• Communities in Crisis
• All for One
• How Prophet-able Are You?

LEAGUE K-12 Curriculum Scope & Sequence, available for download, provides an overview of the lessons created specifically for LEAGUE events. Lessons are listed in sequence and by grade level.