Living well next door

This lesson asks you to name kind and inclusive things that you and other people do every day, and to show that people and the environment should be treated with respect. The museum offers one card on neighbours and their rights; your class adds sharing, taking turns and caring for plants and water. ¹

List things a good neighbour does and things that would upset a neighbour. Ask who is helped when people keep to them.

Neighbours are people, but shared places also need care. Ask what you could do to show respect to the classroom, the playground or a plant.

Picture two houses side by side, each with a roof. The Kuwaiti encyclopaedia of jurisprudence records what its jurists say about roofs. It says that roofs need a screen against sight into a neighbour's house, and that the schools differ on compelling the owner to build one ^{2 3 4}. It also says that a neighbour's rights limit how an owner may use his property where it harms the neighbour ⁵. This is the record on jiwar.

Think of a place where you live or learn next to other people. What is one thing a person could do there that would bother the people beside them, and why would it bother them?

• Jiwar: what the Kuwaiti encyclopaedia says about shared walls, screens and passage.
• Shirb, water rights: how the same encyclopaedia treats turns at water that people share.

Read the card on jiwar. Write two rules for a good neighbour in your class or on your street, and say who each rule helps.