Community & Civic Education
Check-In
Good morning!
High Priority Vocabulary
Objective: Read, comprehend, and spell six common words.
Look at * “Solve That Puzzle!” You should have received a printed copy of this.
Presenters: Prompt participants to read and complete the worksheet on their own if they are able. Otherwise, share your screen and use the annotate tool to complete the first two word-blanks as a group. Then, give participants a couple minutes to complete the worksheet on their own.
Once everyone has completed the worksheet, share your screen and ask for volunteers to share their answers. If they are able, encourage participants to use the annotate feature to fill in the word-blanks. Otherwise, prompt participants to spell out the word.
If you all like crossword puzzles, you can work as a group to make and solve your own crossword puzzle.
Show & Share
Do you like to watch the leaves change color in fall? Where do you think are the prettiest fall trees?
Tomorrow’s show and share: Now that it's getting cooler, we get to wear sweaters and sweatshirts again. Do you have a favorite fall sweater?
Body Break
You know how you like to move, but do you know how your friend likes to move? Ask them and try it out for yourself!
Life Skills Story: An X is an X Unless…
Objective: Understand the life skills story for the week. (Reading comprehension)
Presenters: If you didn’t read the whole story on Monday, finish reading it today. If you did finish it, prompt participants to recap the story’s main ideas before you do the quiz.
Here are some questions that you may want to ask: Why did Tess miss the last few days of practice? Why was Nina not able to find box #20? Why did Coach Marks congratulate Tess?
Take the * Story Quiz for this week’s story. You should have received a printed copy of the quiz.
After you finish the quiz, check your answers. The quiz answers are listed at the bottom of this page.
Body Break
You know what to do!
Thematic Connection: Voting
Today’s theme is civic and community education, and we have an election coming up! Voting in an important way to be civically engaged. Do you have a plan to vote?
Did you know that you can check whether you’re registered to vote online and also track your ballot online? Did you receive your ballot yet?
If you want to learn more about what’s on the ballot, you can read the California Voter Guide online. If you want to learn more about the various issues on the ballot, you can watch videos about the propositions in American Sign Language! Which propositions do you think are a good idea?
If you want to learn more about voting, check out: vote.ca.gov
Thematic Connection: Public & Private Spaces
Objective: Distinguish public and private spaces, and identify what sorts of behaviors may be appropriate in each setting.
Last Tuesday, we practiced categorizing speech and actions. Some words we used to describe ways of talking or acting were: silly, professional, private, and calm. Do you remember other words we used to describe behavior? What are some examples of those ways of acting?
Often, whether acting in a certain way is appropriate or not depends on where we are. Specifically, what’s appropriate often depends on whether we are in a public or a private space.
Presenters: open this slide show and share your screen: Public and Private Spaces. Use the slide show to discuss the differences between public and private spaces (both in the real world and virtually), and practice identifying what sorts of speech and actions are (not) appropriate for different spaces.
What did we learn today?
Story Quiz Answers
- A: She had been sick.
- C: The number was written in Roman numerals.
- C: because she was the fastest 50 freestyler for the day
- B: 50 freestyle
- A: puzzled
- B: your hands often touch other things, but your elbow does not.
- A: team towels
- C: Place them in a covered container in the refrigerator.
- C: swimming pool
