Community & Civic Education
Check-ins (2-3 min)
Remind everyone of the theme for the week:
Imagination and Real Life
And the Skill Building:
Presenting Info
Short recap of yesterday: heroes, about me, and safety knowledge sharing
Introduction (1 min)
Characters in Books & Movies
Today let’s talk about our favorite characters in books and in movies. Books and movies can be non-fiction, BASED on real life but partly changed, or fiction which means imaginary.
Theme Activity (10-15 min)
- As a group, look at GoodRead’s list of the best books ever AND/OR
- IMDB’s list of the top movies.
Discuss these questions.
- Which of these have you read or watched?
- Who are your favorite characters in those stories?
Use these alternative movie lists by language if appropriate for your group
**Disclaimer-- these are results of searches, not curated lists -- if you have better, culturally relevant insight, please use it.
Look at *this list of names. Some are imaginary characters and others are real people.
PRESENTERS: Share the list and have people follow along if they got the sheet at home. As a group, assign a category to each name - the stamp tool is an easy way and more people can stamp at the same time. Not sure? Put a question mark.
OPTIONAL Theme Activity Elaboration (5-8 min)
Good writers and actors can make fictional characters seem almost like real people. Answer these questions about your favorite characters:
- Do they have faults or flaws and make mistakes sometimes?
- Do you know any trivia or fun facts about the character?
- Does your favorite character remind you of people in your real life?
- Sometimes books and movies are based on real life, and characters are sometimes based on real people. Is there a real person or story behind any of your favorite books or movies?
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Show and Share (5-10 min)
What is your favorite book? Can you show us a copy? What about the characters do you like?
Tomorrow's Show and Share is about any friend or relative you know who is a veteran of the US Military. If you want to bring a veteran as a guest tomorrow, that is great. Pictures are also nice to share.
Skill Builder 01 (10-15 min)
Using Maps and Directions
- As a group, choose a city or neighborhood near you and visit it on Google Maps.
- Then, select two well-known locations.
- You can choose a library, recycling center, Walmart, post office, Hope site, or anything you like.
- Use Google Maps to look up directions between those two places.
- Then, designate someone in the group as the annotator. (PRESENTERS: resist the urge to assume this has to be you. The annotator doesn't have to do the route correctly. Errors and collective correction can BE the learning process.)
- The annotator can use the pencil tool and place a mark on the start location
- The group should tell the annotator to draw a line up, down, right, or left to start.
- As the line gets drawn the group can give more information like “Turn right,” or “Turn left at Santa Clara St,” or “Turn right to get on 280.”
- The annotator follows the directions.
- The group can correct the annotator when needed.
If you finish quickly, you can pick two new locations, choose a new annotator do it again. Notice that by giving directions and correcting errors you are communicating information to someone.
Skill Builder 02—Spin the Wheel (5-8 min)
Spin the wheel! This wheel lists different locations in the community that you might visit.
Identity 1-3 appropriate behavior expectations for each place.
What did we learn/practice today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
