Lesson Plan: Citizenship
Six Pillar Shuffle
Time in session: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Evaluation time: 5 minutes
Goal: To present the Citizenship pillar from Character Counts!sm to participants and discuss "what is character?"
| Objective 1: To increase participant understanding of "What is Character." (15-20 minutes)
Section:
"What is Character" from the Character Counts!sm curriculum
Overheads 1-2, 7-14, 17-22, 29-30, 33-34, 43-44
Outcome: Each participant will report an increased awareness of what character is. |
Presenter says:
What is character?
Overheads 1 - 10, 15 - 18
Presenter says:
What is the first thing that you think of when you think of the word character?
Let's look at some statements about character.
Overheads 7, 9, 10, and 11
Presenter says:
Dr. Thomas Likona suggests that there are three aspects of character: knowing, loving and doing the good.
Overhead 13
What does this mean to us?
| Objective 2: To increase participant understanding of the Citizenship pillar from the Character Counts!sm curriculum. (10-15 minutes)
Sections:
Character Counts!sm Six Pillars: Citizenship
Overheads 1 -18
Outcome: Each participant will report an increased understanding of the Citizenship pillar from the Character Counts!sm curriculum. |
Presenter says:
What are examples of citizenship?
Overheads 1, 2, 7, and 13
| Objective 3: To increase experience of counties and groups in using and developing activities to promote six pillars. (30 minutes)
Sections:
Character Counts!sm Six Pillars: Citizenship
Overheads 1 - 18
"What is Character?" from the Character Counts!sm curriculum
Overheads 1 - 43
Outcome: Each participant will participate in activities that TAEX team shares with group. Participants will share other ideas for promoting character activities. |
Presenter says:
We are going to practice applying the principle of citizenship to different situations. Let's look at how some statements might be worked into a group of youth, or business people or another group that you work with.
Activity:
Presenter says: Let's name some groups that each of us works with so that each of us can pick a group and we'll have as many groups as we have people.
Next, we'll look at some overheads about citizenship. As you like at these overheads, please consider the following questions:
a. What advice would you give your group using this overhead as your guide?
b. Does your group exercise the citizenship activity outlined on your card?
c. What changes do you want your group to make?
Presenter says:
The pillar Citizenship seems very easy because examples of citizenship are all around us. Sometimes, however, we forget to respect another person's way of expressing their citizenship. Sometimes people have difficulty with "civil disobedience". Let's talk about that for a few minutes.
Overheads 16 - 18
Presenter says:
In recent history, the person who most exemplifies civil disobedience is Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King have his life for his belief that disobeying an unjust law in a civilized way was the greatest expression of democracy.
Thank you for participating in this session.
Please be sure to complete your evaluation. Thank you.
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