THE PEACEPRINTS PROJECT

Lessons and Activities for PEACEPRINTS: Sister Karen’s Paths to Nonviolence Lessons (727 KB)

Dear colleagues,

A team of teachers committed to nonviolence created the following lessons for the book, PEACEPRINTS: Sister Karen Paths to Nonviolence. Peaceprints are the means to nonviolence; nonviolence is the goal. These themes resonate throughout the book and lessons. Books can be purchased at www.buffaloheritage.com or call 716-362-9688.

The lessons are aligned with New York State standards in English, social studies and art and can be adapted for any grade level including adult education. Lessons 1, 2, 3 provide background information, and we suggest using one or all as introductory lessons.

A few lessons are designed specifically for religion classes and marked “Religion.” The basis of all the lessons, however, is the belief that human beings are most fully human when they practice nonviolence.
As you use these lessons you may develop additional ideas and activities and even new lessons. That’s what creative teachers do! On the page called “Additional Lessons,” which follows the last lesson, we invite you to share your ideas and we provide information on how to do so. Thank you in advance.

For assistance with implementation of lessons, contacts for speakers, the location of  resources on peace and nonviolence, and information about Alternatives to Violence training, contact the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence: 716-362-9688.

We thank The Canisius College WNY Writing Project for its ongoing support for the Peaceprints Project and for its encouragement to teachers to create classrooms of peace and justice. 

With gratitude for the many ways your lives and teaching leave peaceprints,

Evelyn Brady

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