Students create a definition of responsibility from their experiences and gain insight into ways that sixth graders are responsible. Through a scenario, students examine the steps of decision-making in taking responsibility.  Through text, students examine Lorenzo De Zavala's responsibility in early and later life. Students gain insights into people's choices about responsibility through scenarios. Through a choice of prompts, students will reflect on and express their understanding of being responsible.

Focus Question:  What role does responsibility play in relationships and life success? How can developing responsibility equip people as world citizens who contribute to the common good?

The learner will:

• define responsibility from a brainstormed list of ideas/adjectives.
• examine his or her responsibilities through the lenses of assigned, assumed, automatic and reminded.
• draw conclusions about sixth graders and responsibility.
• decide what action to take in response to a scenario.
• analyze the steps of decision-making in a scenario of someone taking active responsibility.
• write in a journal the steps of decision-making in a personal act of responsibility.
• examine Lorenzo de Zavala's responsiblities in early and later life.
• analyze the steps of decision-making in taking responsiblity for the Indian Villagers' water.
• predict what principles or values directed Zavala's life.
• analyze a scenario to determine ways of handling decisions about responsibility.
• explain responses, with rationale, to a variety of perspectives.
• create an essay on the defintion of responsibility, or
• create an essay on a personal experience of responsiblity, relating what might have happened without responsibility taken.

It is recommended that learners keep a journal to record their learning and reflections about the character traits studied.