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Educational
Objective: The student will identify key factors that make a friendship
endure?
Language Arts Standard: Listening and Speaking, Extensions of
Reading and Writing
Materials
Needed:
The Prop Box with 2 telephones
Colored Pencils and 8" x 11" sheets of paper (for
making a get well card)
Brainstorm Form
Appropriate Rubric: One for each student to complete during
each role play 
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The Lesson:
• Identify Need
• Introductory Activity: Brainstorm aspects of a friendship
that are critical.
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill
1.
Remember the rules about registers
2. Keep secrets between you.
3. Be honest.
4. Don't gossip
5. Be respectful
6. Now and then express your appreciation for your friendship,
like saying something in a birthday card.
7. Use empathy and be a good listener.
8. Don't put your friends in harm's way or tempt them by doing
something illegal.
9. Be willing to forgive mistakes and misunderstandings.
10.Stay focused on your common interests.
• Model the Skill
• Role Plays/Classroom Discussion
Rubric
for the Role Play or Evaluation
Student
(Speaker)____________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________
Date: _____________________ Observer's
Name:___________________________________________
Social
Skill: ___________________________________
| Observations & Guidelines |
No |
Yes |
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the friends share private jokes and codes & similar unspoken
values? |
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the friends keep secrets and confidences between them? |
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Were the friends always honest with one another? |
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the friends avoid gossip? |
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Were the friends respectful of each other? |
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Did the friends express appreciation to each other? |
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Were
the friends good listeners? |
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the friends respect boundaries of their expectations with
each other? |
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the friends forgive each other when mistakes were made? |
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friends maintain several common interests between themselves? |
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Score or Points |
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Additional
Comments: _______________________________________________________________________
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• Applications
• Independent Uses
Additional Comments: _____________________________________________________________________________
Other Standards
Address in Lesson: Read Literary Passages about Friendships
6th
Grade
Reading
Standards
1.2 Identify and interpret figurative language and words with
multiple meanings.
1.5 Understand shades of meanings in related words.
2.7 Make reasonable assertions about a text through accurate,
supporting citations
Writing Strategies
1.1 Choose the form of writing (e.g. personal letter, poem or
narrative) that best suits the intended purpose.
1.6 Revise writing to improve the organization and consistency
of ideas.
Speaking Applications:
2.4 Offer a logical sequence of information and engage the listener,
foster an acceptance of an idea.
7th
Grade
Reading
Standards
2.1 Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose
between various categories of informational materials.
3.3 Analyze characterization as delineated through thoughts, words
and speech patterns.
Writing Strategies
1.4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation marks,
commas at the end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English
usage.
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation , inflection,
tempo, enunciation and eye contact for effective communication.
8th
Grade
Reading
Standards
1.1 Analyze idioms, analogies, metaphors and similes to infer
the literal and figurative meanings of phrases.
3.4 Analyze the relevance of the setting (e.g. place, time, customs)
to the mood, tone and meaning of text.
Writing Strategies
2.1 Write a clear, coherent incident, event or situation by using
well chosen details.
2.5 Present information purposely and succinctly and meet the
needs of the intended audience.
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Paraphrase a speaker’s purpose and point of view and ask relevant
questions concerning the speaker’s content, delivery and purpose.
1.3 Organize information to achieve particular purposes by matching
the message, vocabulary, voice modulation, expression and tone
to the audience and purpose.
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