Lesson
4
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Sharing Opinion Pieces About Humanity

Grade

Grade 3

UNIT

9

Humanity

Last Updated:

May 26, 2025

In Unit 9, Lesson 4, “Sharing Opinion Pieces About Humanity,” students will practice their reading skills by reading their opinion pieces to a partner and their listening skills by listening to their partners’ stories. Then, students will participate in a class discussion about the different ways students demonstrated humanity. Finally, students will write two examples, on their worksheets, using complete sentences, about how other students discussed humanity in their opinion pieces.

SUGGESTED TIME:

20 minutes

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Read aloud to a partner to support development of English pronunciation, syntax, and grammar
  • Listen to a partner’s reading to develop active listening skills 
  • Participate in a class discussion to develop active listening and conversation skills 
  • Write complete sentences to practice correct English syntax and grammar

REQUIRED MATERIALS:

  • Prohuman Grade 3 Unit 9 Worksheet 4: Sharing Opinion Pieces About Humanity

VOCABULARY:

Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better.

ELA COMMON CORE STANDARDS MET

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1

Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.B

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.C

Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.1.D

Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.3

Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4

Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.6

Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.1

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CHARACTER AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL (CSED) NATIONAL STANDARDS MET

Moral Character A4

Offer examples of caring and compassionate behaviors (at home, in school, in the community)

Moral Character B4

Provide an example of a friend or role model who demonstrates caring and compassion

Civic Character A4

Explain why it is important for everyone to serve and contribute to their family, school, community, nation, globally

Civic Character B6

Describe how a role model volunteers and contributes to the common good

Interpersonal/ Relationship Skills A2

Recognize the needs of others and how those needs may differ from your own

Interpersonal/ Relationship Skills A7

Give and receive constructive feedback to classmates and peers

Social-Awareness A4

Explain a time when you put yourself in “someone else’s shoes” in order to understand their perspective and point of view

Social-Awareness A5

Explain what empathy means (e.g., the ability to sympathetically understand and personally identify with the emotional states, needs and feelings of others)

LESSON PROCEDURE

Today we will read our opinion pieces about humanity (from Lesson 3) with a partner.

  1. Circle the room to support the students as they take turns reading their opinion pieces to their partners. (10 min) 
  2. Now we will discuss our opinion pieces. Who would like to raise their hand and tell me how they can best show humanity?
  3. Write 2-3 examples on the board, with the student’s name and a brief description of what they said. (5 min)
  4. Finally, we will write on our worksheet two sentences about what we’ve heard.

GRADE 3 UNIT 9 WORKSHEET 3: WRITING AN OPINION PIECE ABOUT HUMANITY

Humanity: I see that every person is special. People are more alike than unalike. We all need to work together to make our lives better. 

ACTIVITY: Write an opinion piece about the best way you can show humanity. 

Topic:

Opinion: 

Reason 1: 

Reason 2: 

Reason 3: 

Closure:   

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