Character Education Lesson 2 of 10

        Character Education Lesson 2 of 10

Grade Level: 5 and 6

Subject: How to be a Good Friend & How to Apologize Correctly

Duration: Day1: 30 minutes

                  Day 2: 30 minutes

DOK Level: 3 (discussion) and 4 (skit)

SAMR Level: Redefinition

Indiana Standard:Counseling Competencies: Social/Emotional Development

Competency 1: Students will acquire and further develop the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

Competency 2: Students develop personal management and collaborative skills needed to become successful learners, responsible citizens, and productive workers.

Competency 3: Students will understand personal safety skills.

Objective:

1. Students will understand what it means to be a good friend.
2. Students will understand how to apologize appropriately.
3. Students will be able to apply their friend and apologizing knowledge in order to design and present short skits to the class.

Procedure:

1. Day 1: The teacher will  deliver the Friends & Apologizing Google document to individual students online.Students will watch the videos and read the text.
2. Day 2: Students will have a class discussion and complete one of the activities shown in the Google document titled Friends & Apologizing Discussion & Activity.

Product or Assessment: Day 1: none

                                           Day 2: a class discussion and a short skit

Accommodations: The teacher could use the Friends & Apologizing document to view with the whole class together or with a small group rather than deliver it individually to each student.

Enrichment:

1. Students could use IMovie to record their entire skits.
2. If there are not enough skits for the entire class, students could create skits that are starter skits in which the presentation stops. Then...

            ~a group of students acts out the way NOT to handle the situation

            ~a group of students acts out one way the situation could be handled (passively)

            ~a group of students acts out one way the situation could be handled more directly

It would be a good idea to have students wear some sort of prop (large colored t-shirts, bandanas, vests, a tie, name tags) so that characters could be easily kept track of. Discuss the fact that a student’s personality sometimes determines whether or not they deal with the scenario in more of a direct (change the subject or walk away) or indirect way (speak up for someone).