Types of Conflict Lesson

Tanisha has trained all summer for the only open spot on the city BMX team. Marcus wants the spot too, and he knows every trick she plans to use. At the tryout, Marcus rides before her and performs her best move and then tells everyone that Tanisha copied him. Can Tanisha create a new run and beat Marcus before the judges choose?

June makes friendship bracelets and sells them on Main Street. Every dollar goes toward a real telescope. One afternoon, Officer Pratt stops at her table and buys two bracelets. Then he shares the bad news. A town rule says that nobody under sixteen can get a permit to sell things. This is an old rule, older than June's grandparents. June decides to speak at the next town meeting. Can one young person get a whole town to change its rules?

Evan finds an envelope filled with cash under the gym bleachers. The money is enough to pay for a class trip his family cannot afford and no one saw him pick it up. Evan wants to keep it, but he knows someone may be searching for it. Will he turn it in or use it for the trip?

Marlowe lives with her father in a lighthouse beside a rocky sea. One night a powerful storm breaks a window and blows out the lamp while a ship is heading toward the shore. The lighthouse goes dark. Her father hurts his leg and cannot climb the tower. Marlowe must fight the wind and rain to relight the lamp before the ship reaches the rocks. Can she do it before somebody gets hurt?

Ingrid is learning to make bells in a mountain village. After she repairs an old cracked bell, it begins ringing by itself. Every night at midnight, the bell rings once. With each new ring, a dark figure steps out of the graveyard and moves closer to town. Ingrid learns that the thirteenth ring will let the spirits stay forever. Can she stop the cursed bell before the final ring?

Eli is a young mail rider carrying an important land paper. He must deliver it to the town of Red Mesa. An outlaw named Lexie Diamond wants the paper so that she can destroy it. Then she can steal the families' land. Lexie and her gang block the road and chase Eli toward an old train station. Can Eli outsmart Lexie and deliver the paper before sunrise?

Tasha runs the scoreboard at the championship basketball game. Tonight, the scoreboard will not listen. It adds points that nobody scored. It freezes the clock then makes it jump ahead. The buzzer blasts for no reason at all. Tasha presses buttons, resets the board, and even crawls under the table to check the wires. The whole game is at risk due to the scoreboard. Can Tasha figure out how to keep the game on track until the final buzzer?

Mae helps care for the apple trees in her neighborhood garden. One morning, she finds hundreds of beetles chewing the leaves and crawling under the bark. If they spread to the young trees, the whole orchard may die. Mae tries traps. She tries covers. She even carefully prunes as the insects move from row to row. Can she save the trees before the beetles destroy them?

Ken recognizes the drawing that wins first prize at the school art show. His best friend, Amari, copied it from an old art book and believes no one will notice. Ken wants to protect his friend but he also knows the award is unfair. The teacher asks whether anyone has a concern before the prize becomes final. Will Ken stay quiet or tell the truth?

It is 1902 and Emil writes best with his left hand. But the school code says every child must write with the right hand. Miss Fern is a caring and kind teacher, but even she makes Emil switch his pencil. Emil's right-hand letters wobble and smear. His left-hand letters are neat and proud. Emil decides to speak up. Can he help change this longstanding and unfair policy?