Daniela Gomez

Book Title: Do something for others

Author: Anders Hanson
Summary of Story: Citizenship is being part of a community, anyone can be a citizen of the
same community. Citizens have rights and duties such as voting and having to obey laws. Good
citizens are respectful, help others and take care of the environment.
Grade: 3rd grade
Subject Area: Social Studies
TEKS: Citizenship. The student understands the impact of individual and group decisions on
communities in a constitutional republic.
Objective: The student will be able to
list examples of good citizenship
after reading Do something for others
should be able to list 9 out of 10 correctly.
Relevancy to the Real World: Learn things they can do to be good citizens and how their
community works from them to their parents duties.
BEFORE Reading the Book: 1. Do you think youre a good citizen?
2. What can you tell me about the book by just looking at the
cover? What will it be about?
DURING Reading the Book: 3. What flag does our country have? (describe, name.)
4. Who all follows the laws? name 1 law.
AFTER Reading the Book: 5. Do you do these things?
6. Have you ever planted a tree?
Description of Extension Activity: List examples of good citizenship according to box
subject list will be a cut out page.
Conclusion: Review on what good citizens, do or can do? what is the opposite of good
citizens?