Feathers+and+Fools+Reinforcement+Activity

__**Objective:**__ Students will be able to illustrate what civic participation is by rewriting the story //Feathers and Fools.//

__**Materials:**__ -Book, //Feathers and Fools// -Paper -Markers

__**Procedures:**__ Before reading the book define what civic participation is. Civic participation requires individuals to make informed and reasoned decisions by accessing and using information effectively.

Read the book //Feather and Fools.//

After reading //Feathers and Fools// discuss why the two bird groups ended up in war and what happened: -What happened that caused the two groups to disagree with each other? -What happened to cause them to stop fighting? -Why did this cause them to stop fighting? -Do we have similar fights in our society? In our school? -Are there ways we can prevent these fights?

After discussing the book, discuss what it means to be a citizen and what civic participation is (Content standard states that this “requires individuals to make informed and reasoned decisions by accessing and using information effectively"). Questions to consider: -Were the peacocks observing this “requirement?" Were they making informed and reasoned decisions and accessing and using information effectively? -Were the swans observing this "requirement?" Were they making informed and reasoned decisions and accessing and using information effectively?

Have the students either individually or in small groups rewrite the story (starting after the point that the peacocks note the differences between themselves and the swans) and illustrate the new story to have both flocks acting in accordance to the ideal citizen is, and has to do in order to make reasoned decisions.

__ **Other Ohio Content Standards:** __ Third Grade, Government Strand Civic Participation and Skills 9. Individuals make the community a better place by solving problems in a way that promotes the common good.

Third Grade, Government Strand Rules and Laws 11. Laws are rules which apply to all people in a community and describe ways people are expected to behave. Laws promote order and security, provide public services and protect the rights of individuals in the local community.