Subject: Civics, Social Studies
Lesson Length: 40 - 45 mins
Topic: Understanding Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
Brief Description: Students will be able to distinguish between protected rights and responsibilities as members of their community, state, and country.
Know Before You Start: Students should have an understanding of the terms right and responsibility.
Hook:
- Read and discuss the sample comic.
- Have students decide if the action in each panel is a right of a citizen or a responsibility of a citizen.
Activity:
- Have students create a two-panel comic depicting a right and responsibility for citizens living in their community, state, or country.
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Panel 1: Illustrate a protected right of a citizen.
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Panel 2: Illustrate a responsibility of a citizen.
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Closure:
- Share and discuss the completed comics.
- Were there any commonalities?
- What would life be like if citizens didn’t follow through on their responsibilities?
Differentiation:
- Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
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Preteach vocabulary.
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Provide examples and have students sort into rights and responsibilities.
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Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.
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Provide sentence starters as needed.
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Allow students to create a comic in their home language.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
Resources:
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Comic to print or display: Comic.
Suggested Content Packs:
Judicial Branch (US Government)
Legislative Branch
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