6Cs Article 010: Devious Sips, TikTok trends, and Active Citizenship - Easel

Reading response article about CITIZENSHIP.

How can we discourage negative social media challenges like the Devious Licks TikTok challenge that destroyed school bathrooms in Sep 2021?

Reading comprehension article handout written at 3 different grade levels (Grade 6, 8, 10) with matching paragraph numbers. Includes sample answers.

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New TikTok Challenge Devious Sips Dares Kids to Take Action!

Ten discussion questions help students analyze and evaluate different responses to Devious Licks including:

• positive social media challenges,

• arresting students, and

• reporting videos to shut down social media accounts.
  (If you can't post a video, it can't go viral...)

Devious Sips and Devious Licks are really lessons in active citizenship. 

• What do we do to encourage positive behaviors and challenge negative ones?

• How is responding to racism similar or different from responding to Devious Licks?

This lesson includes concepts from the 6Cs CITIZENSHIP chapter of the GROWTH MINDSET 21st Century Learning bundle.

It would go well with the MAKING CONNECTIONS reading strategy.

This article comes in 3 differentiated reading levels:

• Handout A Grade 6

• Handout B Grade 8

• Handout C Grade 10

NOTE:

• Reading grade levels are approximate.

• I used Hemingway Editor to re-write each paragraph for the different grade levels. Hemingway determines the “grade level” of your text using the Automated Readability Index.

• Although there are many different readability formulas that calculate different grades, the bottom line is there are different versions of the article.

• EACH BODY PARAGRAPH is numbered. All differentiated versions of the articles contain the same paragraph structure. (So paragraph 1 has the same facts in all three reading levels.)

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• Open the PDF. (It will look exactly like this ARTICLE 010 PREVIEW PDF.)

• STEP 1: Print the PDF. (It has all of the handouts and the lesson plan.)

• STEP 2: Click the link to the slideshow lesson (top of page 2.)

• STEP 3: Teach.

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This package includes: 

• Informational Text article at 3 different reading levels

• Mini-lesson on CITIZENSHIP

• Discussion questions  

• Paragraph response package for brainstorming  

• Reading response rubric 

• 13-PAGE ANSWER / DISCUSSION GUIDE. Comprehensive answers help you consider multiple points of view to help you grade student responses or guide student conversations in class. Includes quotes from the text with paragraph numbers.

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