Types of Conflict Lesson

June sells handmade friendship bracelets on Main Street and every dollar goes into her telescope fund. One afternoon, Officer Pratt stops at her table, buys two bracelets for his daughters, and then delivers June some bad news. He explains that a town rule says nobody under sixteen can hold a seller's permit. He is as friendly as can be while he takes down her sign but claims that he has to enforce the rule. June signs up for five minutes at the next town meeting. Can one young person get a whole town to change its rules?

After a basketball game, Evan finds an unmarked envelope stuffed with cash beneath the bleachers. It is almost exactly what he needs for a class trip his family has already said they cannot afford. No one sees him find it and there is no name on the envelope. As Evan imagines boarding the bus with his friends, he also imagines the person who lost the money and a part of him feels for that person. Of course another part of him wants to participate in the class trip. Will he attempt to return the money or use it for the trip?

Marlowe lives with her father at a lighthouse on a dangerous stretch of coast. During a violent night storm, a window shatters, the warning lamp goes dark, and her father injures his leg on the stairs. Now the lighthouse has gone dark. A passenger ship is already moving toward the hidden rocks, but Marlowe is the only person able to climb the tower. With wind forcing open the doors and rain flooding the steps, can she relight the lamp before the ship reaches shore?

Ingrid is an apprentice in her uncle's bell shop in a mountain village. One day she repairs a cracked bell found beneath an abandoned chapel. Every night at midnight, the bell rings once even though no rope is attached. Each toll draws another shadow from the graveyard, and the figures move closer to the village each night. Ingrid discovers that the thirteenth toll will allow the spirits to remain forever. Can she break the bell's curse before its final toll?

Eli, a young frontier mail rider, is attempting to deliver a deed. This important document proves that the families of Red Mesa own their land. Outlaw leader Lexie Diamond wants the document destroyed. She wants to claim the valley for herself. Lexie blocks the main road, sends riders after Eli, and waits for him at the abandoned station where every trail meets. Can Eli outthink Lexie, evade her gang, and deliver the deed before the land hearing begins at sunrise?

Tasha is the manager for the school basketball team and she runs the scoreboard at the championship game. Tonight, the scoreboard seems to have a mind of its own. It awards points that nobody scored. It freezes the clock then leaps it forward thirty seconds. The buzzer blasts in the middle of free throws. While both crowds groan, Tasha battles back. She resets the board, checks every cable, and punches in the fix codes from the back of the manual. The machine responds to every fix with a brand new glitch. Can Tasha hold the biggest game of the year together until the final buzzer?

Mae has spent three years helping to turn an empty city lot into a small community orchard. Just before the first big apple harvest, she discovers hundreds of beetles feeding on the leaves. The insects spread from tree to tree faster than the volunteers can remove them. They threaten the youngest trees first but even mature trees are not safe. With the harvest and the orchard itself at risk, Mae experiments with traps, barriers, and careful pruning. Can she stop the infestation before the entire grove is lost?

At the school art show, Ken recognizes the picture that wins first prize. His best friend, Amari, copied it almost exactly from an old art book that Ken once lent her but no one else seems to notice. Ken wants to protect a friend who has stood by him for years, yet he knows another student deserves the award. Then the teacher announces that the results will become final the next morning. Now Ken has one night to decide between loyalty and integrity, silence or honesty. Will Ken stay quiet or tell the truth?

The year is 1902 and Emil was born left-handed. His left-hand letters march across the page, neat and proud. But according to the school code in the county, all children must write with the right hand, so Emil's schoolwork comes out wobbly and smeared. Miss Fern is a caring and concerned teacher, but even she taps Emil's desk and makes him switch the pencil. Emil has decided to challenge this unfair policy. Can one boy push back against the way things have always been done?