Book 7: Six-Dinner Sid

Standards:

K-4.1 Identify qualities of good citizenship, including honesty, courage, determination, individual responsibility, and patriotism.

K-4.2 Demonstrate good citizenship in classroom behaviors, including taking personal responsibility, cooperating and respecting others, taking turns and sharing, and working with others to solve problems.

Summary:

This is the story of a cat named Sid who lived on Aristotle Street. Sid lived in six houses so that he could have six different dinners. Each night he would leave one and go on to the next to have six different dinners. The neighbors on Sid’s street did not talk to each other so they did not know what Sid was up to. One day Sid became sick. The next thing he knew he was being taken to the vet six different times and given his spoonful of medicine six different times too! The doctor thought something was suspicious and he called all of the owners of the black cat and Sid was found out. The owners made sure that Sid only had one dinner a night and Sid was not happy about that so he found a new street. Everyone talked on his new street so everyone knew about six-dinner Sid and because they knew, they were okay with it.

Objective:

The students will demonstrate an understanding of what an honest citizen is through acting out a scenario through dramatic play that demonstrates the qualities of a good citizen.

Materials:

Book Six-Dinner Sid by Inga Moore

Strips of paper with honesty situations

Procedure:

1. The teacher will read the book Six-Dinner Sid to the students and talk about Sid’s actions.
2. The teacher will point out to the students that Sid’s first owners are upset with him because he was never honest with them about where he really lived and how his new owners understood, because Sid was honest from the beginning.
3. The teacher will talk to the students about why honesty is so important and ask them why they think it is important.
4. The teacher will talk to the students about how honesty is a large part of being a good citizen of a community and how a person must be honest with others and with himself or herself.
5. The teacher will explain to the students that they are going to be divided into four different groups and that they are going to act out a situation where the main character has a difficult decision on whether to be honest or not. (Ex: you did not read your story for homework and your teacher calls on you in class).
6. After each group has gone the teacher will discuss with the students why it was important for the main character to make the decision that he or she made and why honesty is the right thing to do because it is a big part of being a good citizen.