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    Celebrate Your Peers!

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    Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

    Lesson Length: 40 mins - 1 hour

    Topic: Social Awareness

    Grade Level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

    Standards / Framework:

    Brief Description: Students will interview a classmate and create a comic celebrating their unique strengths and passions.

    Know Before You Start: Pair students with someone they don’t know well.

    Hook:

    • Select a volunteer. Ask the class if they can guess this classmate’s favorite cartoon? Favorite candy? Repeat with several students.
    • Explain that we often stick to a small group of friends and don’t have the opportunity to really get to know the awesomeness of everyone in our classroom.
    • Have students spend 10-15 minutes interviewing a classmate using the following prompts or questions of their own:
      • What are some of your favorite hobbies outside of school?
      • What is something you are really good at that no one really knows?
      • Where are some of your favorite places to go?
      • What is one dream or goal you hope to accomplish in your life?
      • What is your dream future career?

    Activity:

    • Have students create a comic featuring this classmate which includes:
      • Their classmate's avatar.
      • A background that represents their classmate's favorite place to go.
      • Outfits, poses and thought or speech bubbles that reflect their classmate's interests.
      • Use the classmate's name to name the comic and provide a caption with words describing their personality and characteristics.

    Closure:

    • Create a Celebration Wall featuring each student as a member of the class community.
    • Reflect:
      • Why is it important to know more about our peers than what we see or what’s on the surface?
      • How does it feel to know that someone in class knows you better?

    Differentiation:

    • Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
    • Provide a written copy of the interview questions with visuals. 
    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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