For the first lesson that I taught this semester, I had the students think about what it meant to be a good citizen of a community and how they would improve their community/school. In order to do this, the students worked in their groups, which is the table they sit at, to plan out how they would like to improve their community. The Language Arts part of the lesson was to create a persuasive poster trying to convince their community or school to make the necessary improvements! Here are their posters, which I thought turned out amazing! I have an incredibly creative group of students!! A big thing that I considered a success was that the students really debated and required a vote to choose which topic to choose. Although I was unable to talk too much about the democratic process, I did mention to them that voting was part of our process in the United States and asked them to share what they knew about our democratic society. They shared a few connections, saying that they know the majority vote rules and that is how our rules are created, they must be voted on. This was a great teachable moment.
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