social scenarios - Speaking of Speech
social scenarios - Speaking of Speech
social scenarios - Speaking of Speech
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You are doing something against the classroom and school rules. The teacher asks you<br />
to stop. You don’t. When you do it again, the teacher gets very upset and immediately<br />
sends you to the <strong>of</strong>fice to talk the principal. What is the best way to react to this<br />
situation? What is the worst way to react to this situation?<br />
You are outside and two kids start throwing balls at you. What is the wrong way to<br />
react? Demonstrate it. What would be the best way to react to this situation?<br />
You are doing an assignment that is difficult for you, but you are trying your very best.<br />
Two kids keep teasing you and making fun <strong>of</strong> you and calling you names. You ask them<br />
to stop. They don’t. What is the most appropriate way to react to this situation? Tell<br />
me what you shouldn’t do.<br />
You are given a group assignment but someone in the group continues to mess up and<br />
then the whole group has to start over. What is the worst way to treat this person?<br />
Demonstrate it. What is the best way to react? Demonstrate this as well.<br />
You are lining up to go to lunch and two other students cut in front <strong>of</strong> you. The<br />
teacher does not notice. Tell me the wrong way to react to this situation? What is the<br />
best solution to this problem?<br />
Your teacher is giving directions for a new assignment. You do not understand what<br />
the teacher wants you to do? Tell me the best thing to do in this situation? What is<br />
the wrong way to react to this situation?<br />
Another student keeps trying to talk to you while you are working at your desk. It is<br />
distracting and making it difficult for you to finish your work. Tell me the worst way<br />
to react to this situation? What is the best solution to this problem?<br />
You see a group <strong>of</strong> kids at recess playing a game you like. You really want to join<br />
them. Demonstrate a good way to ask if you can play with them. What should you not<br />
do?
Your teacher has asked you to pair up with another student to complete an assignment.<br />
How do you ask someone to be your partner? Show me. What would not be a good<br />
thing to say.<br />
Your teacher has given you a timed test. You really have to use the bathroom. What<br />
should you do? What should you not do?<br />
Your best friend is gone today. You feel lonely at recess and want to play with<br />
another group <strong>of</strong> children but you are afraid to ask if you can join them? Demonstrate<br />
two possible ways you could approach them. Tell me two things you should not do in<br />
this situation.<br />
You are not invited to a birthday party that someone in your class is having and it<br />
makes you feel bad. What should you do? What should you not do?<br />
Another student accidentally bumps into you and makes you drop your pencil and it<br />
rolls away. You are upset. Describe a good way you could react to this situation.<br />
Describe a poor way to react to this.<br />
You slip on the ice or mud outside on the playground during recess. It hurts and you<br />
are muddy and start to cry. Other kids start laughing at you. Tell me one good way to<br />
react to this situation. Give me an example <strong>of</strong> something you shouldn’t do in this<br />
situation.<br />
You want to ask a new friend to come over and play at your house after school.<br />
Demonstrate how you would ask this friend to play. Demonstrate something you<br />
should not say.<br />
You ask a friend to play at your house and they tell you that they are not allowed to<br />
play at your house because their parent does not know your parent. It makes you feel<br />
sad. What are two things you could do or say? What are two things you should not<br />
say?<br />
By Amy Covington Werrett, Washington County School District, Feb. 2010