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Responsibility - What Would You Do?

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Subject: SEL (Social-Emotional Learning)

Lesson Length: 40 mins - 1 hour

Topic: Responsibility

Grade Level: 4, 5, 6, 7

Standards / Framework:

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:

  • 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?

Activity:

  • 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.

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.

  • Preteach vocabulary.

  • Provide sentence starters as needed.

  • Allow students to role play scenarios.

  • Provide scenarios from which to choose.

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