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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.

    • Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.

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