Appreciation of Differences

What we will be doing today: We will work on understanding our differences; practise in tolerance.

	A Song. Students sing the song in canon (see the Working Sheet)
	Face to face. Divide the class into two equal groups, with the same number of pupils in each group. Each one selects a partner in his group and sits facing him, so that each group has an inner and outer circle. The pupils from the inner circle receive the work sheet titled "SMILAR'' and those in the outer circle receive the one tilled "DIFFERENT''. After that, each pupil writes on his worksheet the name of his partner, and writes down at least three similarities between him and his partner. At that time the partner who has the work sheet "DIFFERENT'" writes down his answers with respect to how he is different from the pupil facing him. After that everybody moves one seat to the right, so that the partners change. It is important that the instructions are clear to everybody. So, when everybody gets their work sheets, the pupil can show, with somebody's help (a volunteer), what are their similarities (they both live in Croatia; wear clothing, have hair, breath air; and so on) or differences (date of birth, gender, type of music they like, favourite food etc.). After everybody has written down for each of their partners all similarities and differences (on their work sheets) everybody returns to one big circle and reads what they have written, and the teacher writes on the board those similarities and differences that are mentioned most often. Conversation after the activities: Were the answers on the whole connected to some physical trait? Which characteristic are people born with? Which can they change?
	The new person in the classroom. Volunteers from the class sit facing each other on two chairs placed in the middle of the circle. They imagine that a new pupil has come into the classroom. They imagine that they are talking about their new classmate. In what way is the new classmate similar to them, and in what way is he different? After the first pair participates in the game, it is the turn of a second pair, and then a third. After that, chat about how much the differences affect the description of the new pupil.
	The border. With chalk the teacher draws a line down in the middle of the classroom and explains that he will stand on the chair in the middle of the classroom and call out different characteristic, for example: black-white, day-night, apple-cherry, explaining, which characteristic falls on which side of the border. Everybody stands on that side which most corresponds to his preferences, which he likes the most. If a person cannot decide which he likes best, he can stand in the middle (on the line). Conversation in a circle: Do you remember some situation or event when you felt different from everybody else, or when others were looking at you as if you were different? How did you feel then?
	Task. Write down a poem or story about what you have learned here today. You can write a newspaper article or several statements. Write it down in your notebook.

"SIMILAR" Partner's name: "DIFFERENT" Partner's name: A/                 B/                 C/                 Partner's name: A/                 B/                 C/                 Partner's name: A/                 B/                 C/                 Partner's name: A/                 B/                 C/                 Partner's name: A/                 B/                 C/                 A/                 B/                 C/