Empowering Global Citizens

relationships. This also develops their commitment to equality by
establishing a universal human need.

4. Students will use creative communication to write their own ver—
sions of “Cinderella” and to add to their “Book of Me.”

5. Students will learn conflict-resolution skills by thinking about how
all people need respectful relationships and by reflecting on what

constitutes a respectful relationship.

Overview

Students examine the need of all people for respectful relationships. They
examine the life of Muluken, who lives in India, and her description of her
family. They revisit their friendship poems from the beginning of the year
and think about what changes they would like to make to them. They also
read and write poetry about their families. They also do an extended com—

parison of different versions of “Cinderella.”

Activity 1.4.1

Revisiting Muluken

Students go back to Oxfam’s “Your World, My World” series of lessons and
focus on the lesson on families. They learn about Muluken’s family and use
her story to reflect on their own family

(httpz/ /www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/your_w0rld_my_world/

files/lesson5_exploring_family.pdf.).

Activity 1.4.2

Revisiting Friendships

Students revisit the section on friends in Oxfam’s “Your World, My World”
and contrast their answers with what they said and thought at the beginning
of the year. They will also look at their acrostic poems on friendship and
make new ones based on their current understandings of friendship

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