Educational Objective: The student will demonstrate knowledge of accepting a compliment appropriately.
Language Arts Standard: Listening and Speaking

Materials Needed: The Prop Box with 2 telephones/costumes Brainstorm Form Appropriate Rubric: One for each student to complete during each role play. To download the student rubric, click here

The Lesson:

• Identify Need
1. People give compliments to others as a way of praising someone's good works. In this lesson we are discussing using words as a form of complimenting someone.
2. There are other ways we compliment someone, such as purchasing something someone made or imitating what they have done. If you neighbor mows his lawn and you see how nice it looks, for example, you would compliment him by mowing your lawn.
• Introductory Activity
1. Brainstorms time you can remember when you were given a compliment
2.Discuss how it felt to be given a compliment or when you gave someone a compliment.
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill
1. Look at the person.
2. Say "Thank you."
3. The most important piece is the next sentence. You can say "I am so glad you liked what I did." This is the polite response.
4. You may also credit someone else for the good deed, such as "Thank you. I got a lot of help from Mary." This is a form of "modesty," a way of always acknowledging the people that help.
5. There are incorrect responses. The first is to totally agree with the person giving you a compliment. "Thank you. Yes, I did do a good job. I am very smart." This is "boasting." The second is "discounting" the person by disagreeing with what they say,"Thank you, but I really didn't do a good job."

• Model the Skill
• Role Plays/Classroom Discussion
• Applications
• Independent Uses

Rubric for Role Play

Student (Speaker)____________________________ Student (Subject)____________________________

Date: _____________________ Observer's Name:___________________________________________

Social Skill Being Practiced: _____________________________

Other Comments: ___________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________

Supplemental Materials:

It's My Life by Tian Dayton This is a workbook for teens which includes includes self-image and expressing feelings.

Other Standards Address in Lesson:

6th Grade
Speaking Applications:
2.4 Offer a logical sequence of information and engage the listener, foster an acceptance of an idea.

7th Grade
Speaking Applications:
1.2 Determine a speaker’s attitude toward a subject.
1.6 Use speaking techniques, including voice modulation , inflection, tempo, enunciation and eye contact for effective communication.