Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Lesson Length: 40 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Responsibility
Brief Description: Students will explore responsibility and reflect on how they would handle authentic moral dilemmas they may face in school or in life.
Know Before You Start: Students should have an understanding of the terms integrity and empathy.
Hook:
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Read and discuss the sample comic. What would be the responsible thing to do?
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Discuss responsibility.
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What does it mean?
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Is it always easy?
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Was there a time where you had to be responsible?
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If no one is looking, should you still do the responsible thing?
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Activity:
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Create a comic showing characters acting responsibly in different dilemmas.
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Panel 1: Introduce the situation.
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Panel 2: Show the character acting responsibly in that situation.
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Closure:
- Share and discuss completed comics.
- Were there any similarities and differences in how characters solved their dilemmas?
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
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Preteach vocabulary.
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Provide sentence starters as needed.
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Allow students to role play scenarios.
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Provide scenarios from which to choose.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Resources:
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Comic to print or display: Comic.
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Suggested Readings:
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What if Everybody Did that? By Colleen M. Madden.
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See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng.
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Rules by Cynthia Lord.
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
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