This document provides instructions and content for a lesson on communities. It includes notes on defining a community, objectives about explaining what a community is using the example of a school, and tasks for students to complete in their reflective journals about rights within a school community. Students are asked to take notes, answer questions in their journals about various members' rights in a school, discuss their answers with peers, and potentially share responses with the class. The overall lesson focuses on exploring the concept of community through the example of a school.

2. Warm-up – Pens, Paper, Journal, Books
(note) Community: People who share attitudes and interests.
(Write an answer:) Apart from school, what areas or places do you
think are important? (Where do people go to for work or fun?)
Homework Blue Book page 5.
(Note) Objectives:
1. Be able to explain what a community is, with the example
of a school.
2. Understand some rights you have.
(Note Heading): R+R 2 Date:
(note) Skills: Being literate. Working with others.

3. Out of interest, are any of the places seen in this image?

4.  Place a tick or X beside your answers.
1. 535,475 non-Irish nationals were living in Ireland in 2016.
2. Polish, UK and Lithuanian were the top three nationalities
living in Ireland in 2016.
3. There were 134,838 mixed Irish and non-Irish households
in Ireland in 2016.
4. (Opinions - examples)
 Sharing cultures and traditions – art, music, food,
fashion, etc.
 Creates peace and stops wars. We are scared of the
‘unknown’.
 Helps the economy – new ideas, new skills, more
people, etc.
Blue Book page 5 - Answers

5.  Last class, we examined what it meant to be human; to have
dignity, rights and responsibility.
 Read page 5 and 6 which tells us about what a community is
and examines the example of a school community.
 We’re going to do the ‘Think, pair share’ activity in our
reflective journal which asks what rights different people in
the school have. Then finish reading page 6 if we have time.
Plan for today

6.  Let’s read pages 5 and 6, which explain what communities are
and give the example of a school. Take notes down after.
 (note) Inclusive: letting people join in. (Exclusive = the
opposite)
 (note) Community spirit: a willingness to participate and make
thing better.
 (Task) When the notes are taken, open page 7 in your reflective
journal and answer the left side first. Remember, we’re just
after discussing ‘inclusiveness’ and being able to work together.
Page 5-6, Green Book, Reading and Writing

7. 1. Make sure you have answered the left hand boxes – what
you think these people’s rights are?
2. Without leaving your seat, find two people around you and
ask what they wrote. There are four boxes in the middle of
the page marked ‘pair’.
3. Between your answers and what you have heard from
others, which answers would you raise your hand and share
with the class. Write these answers in the right hand boxes.
 We’ll try to share answers this week. We’ll recap this next week.
Reflective journal page 7