Civics & Community Awareness
Check In (5 min)
What did you do after program yesterday?
Recap Yesterday (3 min)
We went over the importance of using supports and making sure that we have those supports accessible at all times. What are some supports we talked about?
Show & Share (10-min)
An adventure I went on: Sharing my journey. Some questions to consider while we share our adventures:
- Did your journey to that place take long?
- Were there speed bumps or roadblocks along the way?
- What did you learn while you went on this adventure?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: Wearing all my green! In honor of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, wear as much green as you can for tomorrow’s show and share.
Life skills stories Book 4 – Story 14: Animal Games* Part 1 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: This week we will go over part 1 of Animal Games. Use the attached question sheet to engage with participants as you go through the story as a team.
This week we will read a story called Animal Games. Instead of reading one story per week, we will read stories over two weeks and work on understanding more of the story more fully.
Today, choose one or more of these questions to discuss together:
Describing Yourself
- Think about creating a game character to look as much like you as possible. You can choose hair color, hair length, body type (such as tall and thin), glasses or no glasses, skin color, ear size, and clothing color. Describe the choices you would make. Answers will vary, but should address hair color, hair length, body type, glasses, skin color, ear size, and clothing color
Evaluating Your Own Attitudes
- At the start of the game, Cinda’s attitude about the game didn’t allow for others to make moves against her. How do you feel about playing games where your opponents do nasty things to you?
- Sample Answer: I really don’t like to play games where people do nasty things to me, so I avoid such games.
Understanding Your Values
- Give an example of one of your values. Remember that values are ideas or customs that you consider to be important.Answers will vary.Believing in Yourself
Learned Strengths
- Describe a game or other fun activity that you are good at and explain how you know you are good at it. Answers will vary, but should include both a game or activity student is good at and how student knows he or she is good at it.
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Reviewing Municipal Codes & Municipal regulations (10-15 min)
PRESENTERS: Review the municpal code information and discuss the following as a team. If you have any interesting tidbits about municpal codes in your area, feel free to share.
COVID-19 has changed a lot of things for many people. One change has been through municipal codes and regulations.
Let's define what a municpal code is and then put it into our own words. Bonus points if you can add in some plain language to describe a municipal code.
California's timeline of municipal codes has been interesting since the onset of COVID-19. Let's search what the timeline looks like and discuss it as a team. Which municipal codes have become municipal regulations and why?
Are there specific timeline markers that speed up a municipal code to become a municipal regulation?
What are differences between a municipal code and municipal regulation? Us a T chart on zoom annotate to identify differences between the two terms
Life Skills Stories Worksheet(5-10 min)
Ordering at a Restaurant On a Budget*
PRESENTERS: Complete the worksheet as a team
Complete the worksheet as a team. Share your answers with the team when everyone is finished. How did you get to your answers?
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Optional Level-Up
Write and Design a municipal code timeline for one of the codes we talked about today. Be ready to share this COVID-19 based code and/or regulation with your team.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
