It depends on the age of your group. If they are in elementary school, then maybe something like....
What would you do if you and three of your friends (Kim, Emily and Joanne) want to go skating, but Joanne doesn't have any skates and her mom can't buy her a pair?
If your students are in grade 7,8,9 then I would ask them something more pertinent to them, but still important to the community....
Ex. The local skate park will be closing down due to vandalism. What do you think about this? What are you ready to do to make sure that it stays open?
If your students are in grade 10, 11, 12, then I think that it's important to bring in world news. I would give them a copy of a news article, or put it on the overhead projector. I would read the article, then ask their input. However, I would ask them to justify each answer. (ex. It's okay to say that you agree or disagree with the Sudan authorities, however you must say why.) Here is an example of an article found online, I've given you the source.
Hope this helps.
Here is a bit of the article...
A British primary school teacher arrested in Sudan faces up to 40 lashes for blasphemy after letting her class of 7-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad.
The Unity school is a Christian-run co-educational private school that teaches both Christians and Muslims and is popular with Sudanese professionals and expatriate workers.
In September, she asked a girl to bring in her teddy bear to help the Year 2 class to focus and then asked the class to name the toy.
"They came up with eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Muhammad. Then she explained what it meant to vote and asked them to choose the name," Mr Boulos said.
Twenty out of the 23 children chose Muhammad. Each child was allowed to take the bear home at weekends and asked to write a diary about what they did with the toy. Each entry was collected in a book with a picture of the bear on the cover, next to the message "My name is Muhammad".
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