THEME: Peaceful Conflict Resolution

LESSON: 2

OBJECTIVE(S) - The learners will be able to:
1. Recognize aggressive, passive, and assertive behaviors
2. State, "He/She is aggressive, passive, assertive."
3. State, "He/She is a bully, a victim, a friend."
4. State, "He/She is arrogant, sad, angry, confident, helpful."

MATERIALS:
1. Any two puppets
2. Computers and Internet access

WARM-UP:
1. Teacher reviews feelings. Using puppets, teacher dramatizes various emotions. Students identify feelings like: sad, angry, arrogant, confident, and helpful.

ACTIVITIES:
1. Teacher explains and/or discusses the nature "conflict". Conflicts happen between friends, family and acquaintances. Sometimes someone hurts someone else's feelings and other times one hurts someone else's feelings. There are different ways to handle conflict. Aggressiveness, passivity, and assertiveness characterize three different types of behavior in a conflict situation.

2. Teacher directs the students to the "Behaviors in Conflict Resolution" web page. This page presents the three behaviors in a conflict situation: aggressive, passive, and assertive behaviors. Teacher and students discuss and describe the three behaviors.

4. Students work in groups to plan a brief role-play portraying the different behaviors.

CLOSURE:
1. Volunteers act out the various behaviors and the rest of the class tries to guess whether volunteer is the bully, victim, or assertive child.

2. Students identify the three behavior types in various conflicts.

ASSESSMENT:
1. Teacher observation and perceptions of classroom interaction and students participation will be the basis of evaluation for the accuracy of pronunciation and correct use of sentence structures.