Relationships, Community & Solidarity

Objectives

• D02.S1.11.01 Practice deep listening across disagreement, staying open to being changed by what others say.
• D02.S1.11.02 Build and maintain close, trusting relationships and offer the same support to others.
• D02.S2.11.01 Apply empathy to people they have never met, such as those far away or in future generations.
• D02.S2.11.02 Weigh empathy for individuals against fairness to a group when the two conflict.
• D02.S3.11.01 Analyze what makes communities resilient, inclusive, and just, using historical and contemporary examples.
• D02.S3.11.02 Envision and plan a contribution that strengthens belonging in a community they care about.
• D02.S4.11.01 Argue for a position on care, solidarity, and collective responsibility toward distant others.
• D02.S4.11.02 Plan and begin a sustained mutual-aid or cooperative effort with accountability.

Essential questions

• How do I practice deep listening across disagreement, staying open to being changed, while building and maintaining close, trusting relationships?
• How do I apply empathy to people I have never met, and weigh empathy for individuals against fairness to a group?
• What makes communities resilient, inclusive, and just, and how do I plan a contribution and a sustained mutual-aid or cooperative effort with accountability?

Big ideas

• Deep listening across disagreement — staying open to being changed — is how close, trusting relationships are built and sustained.
• Empathy can reach people I have never met, far away or in future generations, and must be weighed against fairness to a group.
• Resilient, inclusive, just communities are built through planned contributions and sustained mutual-aid and cooperative efforts held with accountability.

Lessons

1. 1 Deep Listening: To Understand, Not to Win 55 minutes
2. 2 Staying Open to Being Changed 55 minutes
3. 3 Building Close, Trusting Relationships 55 minutes
4. 4 Maintaining Trust: Repair and Support 55 minutes
5. 5 Empathy for People I Have Never Met 55 minutes
6. 6 Empathy for Future Generations 55 minutes
7. 7 Empathy vs Fairness: When They Pull Apart 55 minutes
8. 8 What Makes Communities Resilient 55 minutes
9. 9 What Makes Communities Inclusive and Just 55 minutes
10. 10 Planning My Contribution to Belonging 55 minutes
11. 11 Arguing for Care and Solidarity Toward Distant Others 55 minutes
12. 12 Designing a Mutual-Aid or Cooperative Effort 55 minutes
13. 13 Beginning with Accountability 55 minutes

Assessment plan

A deep-listening reflection showing openness to being changed; a close-relationships reflection with a support offered to another; an empathy-for-distant-and-future-others analysis; an empathy-versus-fairness weighing; a resilient-community analysis using historical and contemporary examples; a contribution-to-belonging plan; a written argument on care, solidarity, and collective responsibility toward distant others; and a begun mutual-aid or cooperative effort with an accountability plan, gathered as portfolio artifacts.