Educational Objective: The student will demonstrate a knowledge of behaviors that show respect of other people's rights.
Language Arts Standard: Listening and Speaking

Materials Needed: The Prop Box 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
• Introductory Activity: Brainstorm: People's actions that indicate they are respectful of others. Teacher may wish to read quotations from the Words of Wisdom Project about respect.
• Define Steps and Sequences of Skill

1. Obey a request from a peer or adult to stop something they don't like you doing.
2. Be kind to others by not teasing, threatening, making fun or discounting others.
3. Allow others to have their privacy, such as their personal "space" when they want to be alone.
4. Treat others as you want them to treat you.
5. Ask permission to use someone else's personal property.
6. Treat public property as if it were your own or as if you would have to pay for damages.
7. Be sensitive to others when in public, such as being quiet in a movie or in a store.
8. Dress appropriately in public. Wear clothing that is not offensive, such as having bad or provocative language written on it
9. Use language that is sensitive to others. Other people have the right not to hear offensive language. Check the recording labels of your music and games.
10. Celebrate the diversity and personal protections of our country. Behave in a way that is not discriminatory.
• 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: ___________________________________________________________
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