Obie Tucker Takes Control
Self-Control
How do pirates teach self control??
In the year 1704 Captain Molly Sharpe’s pirate ship sank and was never seen again. Three hundred years later, while on a field trip to the New Metropolitan Maritime Museum, sixth-grader Obie Tucker discovers that she/he and Sharpe lack the same virtue: self-control. Just when Obie is about to be sent home from the only field trip she’s ever been interested in, an eccentric museum curator presents Obie with a gift from Molly Sharpe herself.
Learning Objectives
- To provide strategies students can use in situations when self-control is needed
- To model behavior that demonstrates self-control
- To show positive consequences of practicing self-control and negative consequences of not using self-control
- To provide strategies students can use to recognize and learn from their mistakes after a lapse in self-control
- To show the difference between instant and delayed gratification in language that is useful to the students
