Today, more than 33% of the world's population is lonely. In children, loneliness is not new a problem, with upwards of 20% consistently feeling lonely. But in a connected digital age, how can this be? The answer may be right in front of our face.

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Identify and analyze recurring themes across works (e.g., the value of bravery, loyalty, and friendship; the effects of loneliness).

LA.7.RL.3.4

Identify and analyze themes — such as bravery, loyalty, friendship, and loneliness — which appear in many different works.

LA.7.7.3.4

recognizes aspects of theme (e.g., moral, lesson, meaning, message, author's ideas about the subject) and recurring themes across works (e.g., bravery, loneliness, loyalty, friendship).

READ.7.2.1.4

READ.8.2.1.4

Describe feelings and moods evoked while observing works of art (e.g., sadness, anger, loneliness, happiness, fright, friendliness, excitement, peacefulness).

VIS.K.5.a

Assess situations that may require coping strategies (e.g., loneliness, boredom, grief, anger, shyness) and list assets that would help address these situations

HE.4.ME.4.C.1

Analyze ideas and recurring themes found in texts, such as bravery, loyalty, friendship, and loneliness.

LA.7.3.1.7 G.5

Identify and analyze general themes, such as bravery, loyalty, friendship, loss, and loneliness that appear in many different works.

LA.7.EL.07.LI.12

work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

HE.9-10.1.1.7.5

HE.9-10.2.2.7.5

work cooperatively when advocating for safe, healthy communities.

HE.9-10.3.3.7.5

HE.9-10.4.4.7.5

to work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

HE.9-10.6.6.7.5

HE.9-10.7.7.7.5

Work cooperatively when advocating for healthy communities.

HE.9-10.7.5

Identify how emotions such as happiness, fear, sadness, excitement, anger, and loneliness can be expressed positively or negatively.

HE.3.2.k

The student will evaluate the benefits of collaboration in relation to community health and wellness initiatives. Key concepts/skills include the impact of developing positive relationships among health, wellness, and safety professionals for promotion of healthy communities

HE.9.9.5.a

demonstrate an understanding of how to read and interpret signs, symbols, and style in art works (e.g., visual metaphors, such as a single tree, used to evoke loneliness in paintings by Group of Seven artists; objects used as symbols in Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr; messages conveyed by the use of traditional symbols in contemporary art; an artist’s manipulation of the intended message of an advertisement by modifying symbols and elements of design in the imagery that is appropriated, or “borrowed”, from the original ad)