December’s Superpower is Acceptance!
“Acceptance is not love.
You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.”
~ Albert Ellis
- Acceptance is the willingness to embrace feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own.
- Acceptance is the ability to experience or survive something unpleasant.
- Acceptance is the willingness to tolerate a difficult or unpleasant situation.
- We all have the human need and right to be accepted.
Songs:
God Bless America
Don’t Laugh at Me
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
By: Toni Morrison
“This book is about you. Even though the main event in the story took place many years ago, what happened before it and after is now part of all our lives. Because remembering is the mind’s first step toward understanding, this book is designed to take you on a journey through a time in American life when there was as much hate as there was love; as much anger as there was hope; as many heroes as cowards. As with any journey, there is often a narrow path to walk before you can see the wide road ahead. And sometimes there is a closed gate between the path and the road.”
In this two-minute mini-documentary, Toni Morrison introduces her book and shows young people the relevance of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Let’s Play a Game – POPCORN
This activity will help us see that we all have similarities and differences. You will pretend to “pop” like kernels of popcorn whenever you hear a statement that pertains to you. Let’s try a few examples and then discover how we are alike and different in many ways.
Follow-Up: Each class will receive a crayon. You are asked to play another game called “The Line of Uniqueness.” It is important to reflect on what makes each of us unique. When you are done, sign the class crayon in your own unique way! The crayons will be placed in a box for our hallway display.
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