Relationships, Empathy & Conflict

Objectives

• D02.S1.07.01 Set and respect personal boundaries and recognize when a peer has set one.
• D02.S1.07.02 Repair a relationship after a disagreement by apologizing, listening, and agreeing on next steps.
• D02.S2.07.01 Explain how a person's background, culture, and experiences shape their point of view.
• D02.S2.07.02 Practice empathy across difference by seeking to understand views unlike their own.
• D02.S3.07.01 Examine how online and offline communities differ and how people belong in each.
• D02.S3.07.02 Explain how communities change over time and why change can be both hard and good.
• D02.S4.07.01 Organize or join a mutual-aid action in their school or community.
• D02.S4.07.02 Reflect on the motives for helping, such as care, duty, or recognition.

Essential questions

• How do I set and respect boundaries, and repair a relationship after a disagreement?
• How does another person's background shape their point of view, and how do I practice empathy across real difference?
• How do online and offline communities differ, and how do I act for care and the common good?

Big ideas

• Boundaries are how respect is made real, and repair — apologizing, listening, agreeing on next steps — is how trust is rebuilt.
• Point of view is shaped by background, culture, and experience, and empathy across difference means seeking to understand views unlike my own.
• Communities change over time, and mutual aid and honest motives are how people care for one another.

Lessons

1. 1 Boundaries: The Yes, the No, and the Maybe 50 minutes
2. 2 Reading the Boundary: Recognizing a Peer's No 50 minutes
3. 3 Repair: Apologize, Listen, Agree 50 minutes
4. 4 Practicing the Repair Conversation 55 minutes
5. 5 Where My Point of View Comes From 50 minutes
6. 6 The Same Thing, Many Views 50 minutes
7. 7 Seeking to Understand, Not to Win 50 minutes
8. 8 Two Kinds of Gathering: Online and Offline 50 minutes
9. 9 When a Community Changes 50 minutes
10. 10 Mutual Aid: Why We Help 55 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of boundary-setting and relationship repair, of perspective-taking and empathy across difference, and of participation in a mutual-aid action; a point-of-view analysis, a community-change reflection, and a motives-for-helping note as portfolio artifacts.