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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:
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Students should have a basic understanding of the terms integrity and empathy.
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Create authentic scenarios you may be witnessing in the classroom or on campus.
Comic 1
Comic 2
Hook:
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Read and discuss Comic 1. What would be the responsible thing to do?
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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?
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With a partner or in small groups, have students discuss the scenarios in Comic 2. Have one student document answers to share with the class.
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.
Closure: Share and discuss student comics. Were there any similarities and differences in how characters solved their dilemmas?
Differentiation:
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Pre-teach vocabulary.
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Provide sentence starters for discussion.
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Allow students to role play scenarios.
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Provide a few specific examples of scenarios that students can choose from to create their own comic.
Resources:
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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.
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