Workbook 8 Activity 2

Activity 2: Responsibilities

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As an active Canadian citizen, you may have made the commitment to be environmentally friendly in all your activities. You have taken the responsibility to understand what it means to recycle, reduce, and reuse. There are many opportunities for a person to make a commitment.

In your community, a person may have made the commitment to volunteer at a local animal shelter. The person would have taken the responsibility to help find homes for lost and unwanted pets.

 

In a school, a student may have made the commitment to be part of a school-wide citizenship project. This person may be responsible for involving the student body in collecting warm socks for the homeless.

In a home, a person may have made the commitment to make lunches for the members of the home.


Responsibilities come in all shapes and sizes. What responsibilities do you have at home, at school, in your community, or as a Canadian citizen?

Construct a chart, and list your responsibilities under each of the headings: home, school, community, and citizen.

If you do not have any responsibilities, perhaps it is time for you to become an active and responsible Canadian! In your chart, identify some responsibilities that you would like to have.

Save your chart in your Activities folder. You may want to add to it as you become more responsible.


In this activity, you will examine this question:

What responsibilities do individuals have because of the rights and freedoms granted in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

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