Health

Curriculum Map

Too Good for ViolenceGrade: 8

Enduring Understandings:

Health concepts are essential for wellness and a health-enhancing lifestyle.

Essential Questions:

  • What choices should you make to act and grow responsibly?
  • How can the choices you make today, influence your future health and happiness?

Common Core Standards / Pennsylvania Standards / Content / Skills / Assessment
CC.3.6.6-8.C.
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose and audience.
/ 10.2.6.A, 10.2.6.D, 10.1.6.C, 10.1.6.D, 10.1.6.E, / Lesson 1
Communicating Makes Connections
Lesson 2
Giving criticism
Lesson 3
The ART of Taking Criticism
Lesson 4
Conflict Styles
Lesson 5
Real vs. Reel Violence
Lesson 6
That’s Entertainment?
Lesson 7
Redirecting Anger
Lesson 8
Rumors
Lesson 9
Mediation /
  • Discuss the importance of communicating feelings verbally and non-verbally
  • List feeling words
  • Demonstrate the use if I-messages
  • Demonstrate effective skills for expressing constructive criticism
  • Demonstrate making clear requests
  • Identify words and phrases that tend to provoke defensive reactions
  • Recite a model for taking criticism
  • Demonstrate effective responses to criticism
  • Identify five conflict styles-competing, giving in, avoiding, compromising and going for win/win
  • Discuss conflict style as a personal choice
  • Discuss the importance of considering the issue and the relationship when choosing a conflict style
  • Discuss the appropriateness of different conflict styles for different situations
  • Define violence
  • Differentiate between media presentations of violence and real violence
  • Discuss the real consequences of violence
  • Differentiate violence in real life from violence in the media
  • Discuss facts about violence
  • Distinguish between positive and negative responses to intense anger
  • Discuss ways to deal with our anger positively, even in extremely negative situations
  • Discuss the relationship between rumors and conflicts
  • Identify ways that facts become distorted as rumors spread
  • Demonstrate how distortion occurs even when people are not trying to distort the facts
  • Discuss what to do when you hear a rumor
  • Define “negotiation” and “mediation”
  • Differentiate between negotiation and mediation
  • Discuss mediation as an option when disputants are unable to solve their conflict on their own
  • Perform a mediation role-play
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Teacher observation of role play
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Teacher observation of group work
Homework-Analyzing Media Messages
Teacher observation of class activity
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Teacher observation of group work
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Share/Pair notes on questions
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Teacher observation of role-play