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Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Empathy, First Day of School
Brief Description: Students will think about how they and others are feeling about the return to school.
Know Before You Start: The comic prompts students to empathize with a number of feelings kids may have about returning to school, and consider how to be a good friend to their classmates.
Hook:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Have students discuss how they felt on the first day of school.
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Were they nervous?
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What kinds of things made them feel better?
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How can we help others feel better on the first day?
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Activity:
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Have students imagine that they have been placed in a group with two of the characters in the comic.
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How do they think the conversation might go?
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What would each student need to hear in order to have a great day?
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Using the sample comic as a guide, have students make a comic that includes themselves and two friends talking on the first day of school.
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How do they think the conversation might go?
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Closure:
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Organize students in groups of four to share and discuss their comics before giving groups an opportunity to share with the class.
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Encourage students to share how they're feeling about being back in school and ways to support classmates.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
- Provide printout of the sample comic for student reference.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Content Packs:
Elementary School
Middle School
Playgrounds
