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Lesson 1

This sentence-completion exercise can be used as a Pre- and Post-Test of student knowledge and attitudes related to graffiti.

Objective

Students will be able to complete open-ended sentences to reveal their current attitudes regarding graffiti.

Method

Ten questions will be presented in the form of a handout. Students individually complete each sentence and discuss their responses.

Materials

Photocopies of the Graffiti Hurts® story problem sheets provided (one for each student) writing materials.

Vocabulary

Procedure

  1. Give each student a copy of the sentence completion worksheets.
  2. Allow completion without further discussion or definition.
  3. Allow students to share answers and discuss their responses.
  4. Present the background material provided on pages seven to ten of the Graffiti Hurts® Teacher Guide.
  5. Discuss what an attitude or behavior is and how we develop them.
  6. Discuss the ideas of "ownership" and "permission" and how they relate to graffiti. Discuss the difference between "public property" and "private property".
  7. After this unit of study is completed, you may wish to use this worksheet as a post-test or assessment tool. Students will be able to compare and contrast their pre- and post-responses to the statements on the worksheet.

Assessment

Students write three open-ended sentences on graffiti, trade papers and complete the sentences of their classmates.

Enrichment

  1. Students write a story, poem or essay that includes his/her feelings when seeing something defaced with graffiti.
  2. Students imagine they are a wall defaced with graffiti. Students write a short skit. What would the graffitied wall say to the perpetrators?
  3. Students create a magazine with pictures of beautiful places, public places, or other graffiti-free scenes and write stories about why they think the place is beautiful.

Directions: Make the following phrases into complete sentences:

  1. Graffiti is
  2. I think graffiti is created by
  3. Those who do graffiti wish to
  4. When I see graffiti I feel
  5. Graffiti is usually found
  6. The graffiti in our school is
  7. The best way to stop graffiti in our school is
  8. Graffiti is harmful because
  9. Graffiti vandals are
  10. To keep our schools and community beautiful as a student and citizen I should

Try Sample Lesson 4

For other activities for children, check out the Graffiti Hurts®" Kids Only" page.

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