What Makes a Leader? What Are the Issues?

Synopsis:

Who is a leader you respect and admire? • Greta Thunberg: Climate change activist • Should we listen to young people? • Speak out! • Thai cave rescue • What type of leader is best?

Key Concepts:

Leaders are not all the same, and different situations call for different leadership styles. Some leaders are passionate about what they believe in and they persuade others to believe in their ideas, too. Leaders aren’t always perfect, but they take action and can be agents of change.

Reading Strategies:

Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

Extent:

24

Paired Title:

An Unlikely Leader / Leading the Way

Supporting Materials:

Lesson Plan - What Makes a Leader? What Are the Issues?