After reading several chapters of the novel for reading counts credit, students will select one of main characters in the story that reveal appropriate socially acceptable behavior and compare the behavior to district-wide character education words of the month.

Students will identify the district-wide character trait for the story character and write about situations, behaviors, and/or actions from the story that supports the education word of the month.

Language Arts - State Goals

	2.A.2a – Identify literary elements and literary techniques (e.g., characterization, use of dialogue) in a variety of literary works.
	2.A.2b – Describe how literary elements (e.g. theme, character, setting, plot, tone, and conflict) are used in literature to create meaning.
	2.B.2a – Respond to literary material by making inferences, drawing conclusions and comparing it to their own experiences, prior knowledge and other text.
	1.B.2a – Establish purpose for reading; survey materials; ask questions; make predictions; connect, clarify and extend ideas.
	1.B.2b – Identify structure (e.g., description, compare/contrast, cause and effect, sequence) of nonfiction texts to improve comprehension.
	1.C.2a – Use information to form and refine questions and predictions.
	1.C.2b – Make and support inferences and form interpretations about main theme and topics.
	1.C.2d – Summarize and make generalizations from content and relate to purpose of material.
	3.A.2 – Write paragraphs that include a variety of sentence types.
	3.B.2b – Establish central idea, organization, elaboration and unity in relation to purpose and audience.
	3.B.2d – Edit document for clarity.

Social Emotional - State Goals

	1A.2a. – Describe a range of emotions and the situations that cause them.
	1A.2b. – Describe and demonstrate ways to express emotions in a socially acceptable manner.
	2A.2a. – Identify verbal, physical and situational cues that indicate how others may feel.

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Writing Rubric

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This lesson will require two 50-minute sessions.

Day one students will select a character from the list that exhibited appropriate socially acceptable behaviors that reflect a district-wide character education word of the month.

Then they will write a paragraph identifying the character education word of the month that is represented by the story character and examples to support the trait word.

The student will choose a story character that exhibited a positive character trait and justify their selection by describing an event in the story to support their story character selection.