Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 30 - 45 mins
Topic: Integrity
Brief Description: Students will use comic scenarios to discuss whether or not the characters are showing integrity.
Know Before You Start: Students should understand what integrity is and the components of living with integrity.
Hook:
- As a class or in small groups ask students to discuss the following questions:
- When do you know something is right or wrong?
- How did you learn what is right or wrong?
- What if no one is looking? Do you still have to do the right thing?
- Let students share their thoughts. Then explain the activity.
Activity:
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Read and discuss the sample comic.
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Are the students in each panel showing integrity?
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Why or why not?
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How would you have handled the situation?
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This activity also works as a small group or independent pen and paper activity.
- Have students create their own three-panel comic showing themselves in a situation where they acted with integrity.
Closure:
- Have students share their comics with a partner or in groups.
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Have students journal about why always exhibiting integrity is challenging.
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Explain why living in integrity is beneficial.
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
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Provide sentence frames for students.
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Print comic panels for student discussion.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Resources:
- Comic to print or display: Comic.
- Suggested Reading:
- The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Braclay Moore.
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