Traits of Good Citizens
Session 6: Working Hard and Taking Responsibility

Materials

• Book about being responsible and working hard
• Drawing paper
• Crayons and markers

Instructional Activities

1. Ask students what it means to be responsible. Discuss the term with students. Let students share ways they are responsible. Then discuss what happens when people are not responsible. (Example: It is your job to feed the dog, but you forget.) Discuss the term consequence.
   
   
2. Have students write about or draw pictures of ways they act responsibly.
   
   
3. Read a book to students about working hard at school and taking responsibility for one’s own actions.
   
   
4. Lead a discussion with students about the characters in the story. Ask how they showed examples of working hard. Ask how they showed examples of taking responsibility or accepting consequences.
   
   
5. Help students write a humorous class book about someone who is irresponsible.
   
   
6. Provide students with suggested steps for accepting consequences:
   
   
   

   How to accept a consequence: 1. Make eye contact. 2. Say, "okay." 3. Do not argue or whine.

   How to accept "No" for an answer: 1. Make eye contact. 2. Say, "okay." 3. Do not argue or whine. 4. Ask for a reason.

    
   
   
7. Have students role-play steps for accepting responsibility and consequences.