The Kindness Project is taught as part of my 12th grade World Literature curriculum and is introduced with Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea. This unit frequently follows our postcolonial literature unit, where students have looked at how outsiders change and affect cultures.
Students are introduced to the Kindness Project by participating in a 24-hour day of kindness, where they are required to be purposely and reflectively kind. Students keep a log of this day and write a reflection on their experiences. This becomes the starting point of a research project in which they explore different types of kindness (or the lack thereof), caring, social responsibility and their impact on others.
Unit materials include:
Three Cups of Tea by Mortenson and Relin
Edges of the Lord (film)
The Stranger by Camus
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