1. Choice and Accountability
Advisory Lessons
Week 3

2. ICEBREAKER
Continuous Tale
Students form a circle.
A student starts a story by contributing the first sentence.
Each subsequent student adds a sentence until the last student ends the story.

3. LEARNING TARGET AND AGENDA
Learning Target: I can understand how to make good choices.
Discussion- What is choice? What can we control? What can we not control?
Activity- Conscious and Informed Choices
Exit Slip

4. WHAT IS CHOICE?

5. CHOICE
We make choices all the time.
We choose what we wear, what we eat, and who our friends are.
We can choose between right and wrong.
Kid President Video

6. A STORY ABOUT CHOICE…
A 22-year-old man lit a firecracker in a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio, that killed several people, including two children.
His friends dared him to do it. He took the dare, and it was meant to be a joke.
The joke ran amok as rockets whizzed and firecrackers exploded in a violent chain reaction.
The man was charged with involuntary manslaughter and he learned the hard way that you’d better think about consequences before making a choice.

7. What can we control? What can we not control?
You can choose what you want to eat, but if you only eat junk food, you will harm your body and your health.
You can choose your friends, but if the ones you choose make bad choices, you may suffer consequences.
You can choose between right and wrong, but if you don’t know the difference, you might get into trouble.

8. What can we control? What can we not control?
You can control choices you make throughout your life, but you can’t always control the consequences of those choices.

9. CONSCIOUS AND INFORMED CHOICES
Conscious Choice- You are aware of the choice and you think it through ahead of time.
Informed Choice- You base your choice on information and facts.

10. ACTIVITY
With your group, complete the graphic organizer called Conscious and Informed Choices.

11. EXIT SLIP How can you be sure you are making a good choice?
Give an example of a choice you have made so far during this school year and describe the consequences of your choice.

12. ICEBREAKER Count Up Students count to ten as a group.
Only one person may speak at a time.
Students blurt out numbers from random positions in the circle, without following a pattern or sequence.
If multiple students say a number at the same time, the group starts at one again.

13. LEARNING TARGET AND AGENDA
Learning Target: I can understand accountability.
Discussion- What is accountability? How does blame relate to accountability?
Activity- Suppose that… Various scenarios that involve choices, students create comic strip
Exit Slip- Define accountability and describe how blame relates to accountability.

14. WHAT IS ACCOUNTABILITY?

15. WHAT IS ACCOUNTABILITY?
When you are accountable, you take responsibility for the choices you make.
Maybe they weren’t the best choices; maybe you made mistakes.
Still, they were YOUR choices.

16. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY…
“He made me do it.”
“It’s his fault I got in trouble.”
“They are making me act like this.”

17. WHEN YOU’RE ACCOUNTABLE…
You don’t blame other people for YOUR actions.
You know you can’t control what others say and do—only what YOU say and do.
You don’t lie or make excuses.

18. TURN AND TALK:
What can you do when you make a poor choice?

19. WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU MAKE A BAD CHOICE?
Admit it.
Accept the consequences.
Make up for it somehow.
Learn from your mistakes.
Make a commitment to make better choices in the future.

20. ACTIVITY- SUPPOSE THAT…
You will get a choice of scenarios where you have to make a choice.
On the comic strip template,
Create one comic strip where you make a bad choice and you take responsibility.
Create another comic strip where you make a good choice.

21. Define accountability. Describe how blame relates to accountability.
EXIT SLIP
Define accountability.
Describe how blame relates to accountability.

22. ICEBREAKER
Eleven
In groups of four, students hide hands behind their backs.
Group leader signals start of each round.
On leader’s signal, group members flash finders simultaneously.
Goal: to flash a total of eleven fingers.
Collaborative strategizing is prohibited.
Rule: players must flash a different number each time.

23. LEARNING TARGET AND AGENDA
Learning Target: I can understand how to react when making a poor choice.
Discuss possible reactions to making poor choices.
Activity- What If You Make a Poor Choice? Graphic Organizer and Questions
Exit Slip- Identify appropriate reactions to making a poor choice.

24. WHAT CAN YOU DO WHEN YOU MAKE A BAD CHOICE?
Admit it.
Accept the consequences.
Make up for it somehow.
Learn from your mistakes.
Make a commitment to make better choices in the future.
Accountability Video

25. TURN AND TALK:
Have you ever made a bad choice?
How did you handle it?

26. WHY IS ACCOUNTABILITY IMPORTANT?
Being accountable means that you are responsible for your actions.
When you are accountable, you build trust with people.
People trust you more and your relationships with people are better.

27. What If You Make a Poor Choice? Graphic Organizer Directions:
ACTIVITY
What If You Make a Poor Choice? Graphic Organizer
Directions:
Use the bank of options below and complete the graphic organizer.
Answer the questions on the back of the page.

28. Identify three appropriate reactions after making a poor choice.
EXIT SLIP
Identify three appropriate reactions after making a poor choice.

29. ICEBREAKER
Fan Mail
Each student puts name on the top of an 8 ½ x 11 paper and folds back the name part.
Students pass papers to the right.
Students write a compliment underneath the fold line, then folds the paper again in the opposite direction.
Students continue passing and complimenting, until the paper makes a “fan.”

30. LEARNING TARGET AND AGENDA
Learning Target: I can identify choices that I will make in my lifetime.
Discuss big choices that people make.
Activity- Make a List, Make a Timeline
Reflection

31. WHAT ARE BIG CHOICES?
Big choices are decisions that may have a big impact on your future.
These choices are important, so planning ahead is a good idea.

32. WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF BIG CHOICES?
What high school will you attend?
What college will you attend?
What career will you choose?
Where will you live when you grow up?
Other examples?

33. What is the most important choice you have made so far in your life?
TURN AND TALK:
What is the most important choice you have made so far in your life?

34. ACTIVITY Make a List, Make a Timeline
Make a list of the most important decisions you need to make in your lifetime. Think about how you can make the best choices. Jot down some possible consequences.
Make a timeline of the most important choices you’ll face during your lifetime. Show the ages at which you think you’ll be making those choices. What can you do to plan ahead? Illustrate your timeline with symbols to represent your choices.
When you have completed your rough draft, you may have poster paper.

35. Write about a time in which you made an important choice.
REFLECTION
Write about a time in which you made an important choice.
How did you make the choice?
What were the consequences?
Would you do anything differently?

36. ICEBREAKER Four Corner Thinking
Teacher designates four corners of the room as strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, and strongly disagree.
Teacher makes statements and students move accordingly and then discuss why they chose that corner.

37. ICEBREAKER Four Corner Thinking Hot Cheetos are the best snack.
Math is the best subject in school.
U of L is the best college.
Art is the best related arts class.

38. LEARNING TARGET AND AGENDA
Learning Target: I can reflect on the choices of others.
Discuss- How can we learn from others’ choices?
Read: Character in Action, Jed Michael: Living with Your Choices and answer questions
Exit Slip- Questions

39. HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM OTHERS’ CHOICES?
Have you ever seen someone else make a bad decision and thought, “I will never do that.”?
Have you ever seen someone make a good decision and thought, “I will do something like that.”?
Video

40. HOW CAN WE LEARN FROM OTHERS’ CHOICES?
Look at people going through similar life experiences.
Think about the choices they have made and the consequences of their choices.
Can you learn from their experiences?

41. Answer the questions with your group.
READ
Character in Action-
Jed Michael: Living With Your Choices
Answer the questions with your group.

42. How do different people react to making poor choices?
EXIT SLIP
How do different people react to making poor choices?
How can you learn from the experiences’ of others?