Tuesdays With Morrie Lesson Plan

Building Community

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will take Morrie's idea about the importance of building community and come up and develop a realistic idea to generate closeness in their own community.

Structure:

In the memoir, Morrie says, “Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you” (175).

For this assignment, students will come up with an idea to bring people together in their community. They will not be coming up with a one-time event, but something more permanent that will serve to build community. They should consider their actual community and what they know about...