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Responsibility: What Would You Do?

from Byron Flitsch

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At a Glance:

Grades:	4, 5, 6, 7
Subject:	SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)
Topic:	Responsibility
Lesson Length:	40 mins - 1 hour

Standards / Framework:

What will students learn in this activity?

Students will explore responsibility and reflect on how they would handle authentic moral dilemmas they may face in school or in life.

What should students know before this activity?

Students should have an understanding of the terms integrity and empathy.

How can teachers introduce this lesson?

Read and discuss the sample comic. What would be the responsible thing to do?
Discuss responsibility.
- What does it mean?
- Is it always easy?
- Was there a time where you had to be responsible?
- If no one is looking, should you still do the responsible thing?

What will students do?

Create a comic showing characters acting responsibly in different dilemmas.
- Panel 1: Introduce the situation.
- Panel 2: Show the character acting responsibly in that situation.

How can teachers wrap up the lesson?

Share and discuss completed comics.
- Were there any similarities and differences in how characters solved their dilemmas?

How can teachers differentiate this activity?

Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
Preteach vocabulary.
Provide sentence starters as needed.
Allow students to role play scenarios.
Provide scenarios from which to choose.
Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

Related Resources:

Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Readings:
- What if Everybody Did that? By Colleen M. Madden.
- See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng.
- Rules by Cynthia Lord.
- A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

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