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1 What your class asks
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
Curriculum expectations, with their official codes
- A3.4 identify some elements of positive and inclusive behaviour and actions that they can practise in their everyday life […] and/or that other people practise […]
- A3.5 demonstrate an understanding that it is important to treat other people and the environment with respect […]
2 The lesson
What does a good neighbour do?
List things a good neighbour does and things that would upset a neighbour. Ask who is helped when people keep to them.
Who and what else deserves respect?
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.
Go deeper
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 about it
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?
Into the museum
- 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.
Try this
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.
3 Check yourself
Nothing here is marked or sent anywhere. It is for you.
In your own words: what does Jiwar (neighbourhood and the rights of the neighbour) have to do with this lesson?
Compare with the card
The rights of a neighbour. The Kuwaiti jurisprudence encyclopaedia says that jiwar covers the rights a neighbour has over a neighbour, and that a neighbour's rights limit how an owner may use his property where it harms the neighbour. What does a good neighbour do on your street?
I can now
Notes
- 1. The Ontario Curriculum: Social Studies, Grades 1 to 6; History and Geography, Grades 7 and 8 (2023)
- 2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.6679
- 3. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.6680
- 4. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.6682
- 5. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3), p.6681