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    Rights and Responsibilities

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    Subject: Civics, Social Studies

    Lesson Length: 40 - 45 mins

    Topic: Understanding Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens

    Grade Level: 4

    Standards / Framework:

    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.

      • Panel 1: Illustrate a protected right of a citizen.

      • Panel 2: Illustrate a responsibility of a citizen.

    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.

    • Preteach vocabulary.

    • Provide examples and have students sort into rights and responsibilities.

    • Allow students to work in pairs or groups as needed.

    • Provide sentence starters as needed.

    • Allow students to create a comic in their home language.

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

    Resources:

    • Comic to print or display: Comic.

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