Lesson on Homelessness

1. Homelessness

2. On a clean sheet of paper
Write an essay (half to a full page) that addresses the questions below. You
will have 10 minutes
- What are your feelings about the issue of homeless people?
- What makes people homeless?
- Who’s fault is it that people are homeless?
- What do you think of when you see a person begging on the side of the
road?

3. Discussion
Discuss with your group – 5 minutes
Discuss as a class – 5 to 10 minutes

4. Hard Times Generation
 We will watch a video called “Hard times Generation:
Homeless Kids”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK_RnxYdrqU
 Simply watch the video and think about what you wrote in
your essay and how it compares to what you see in this video
 After the video we will discuss

6. On a new Clean sheet of paper
Write at the top: Homeless Journal
Write today’s date and write down your
thoughts on today’s lesson