Recognizing a Supportive Community

Session Four

Present additional challenges.

• Distribute additional pictures and stories and present the critical task:

Decide whether or not the people in the sketch and story are a supportive community.

Direct those pairs of students who successfully completed the practice challenge to work independently on a group selected from the above collection of scenarios. When completed, quickly review their work before directing them to select a new scenario. Meanwhile, gather those students who struggled with the initial practice challenge. Repeat the practice procedure, using less challenging scenarios. Encourage all students to find as much information as they can from each drawing and story, and to use this information to decide whether their group is a community or not.