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Lesson Objectives

Students will apply landlord-tenant concepts to real-life situations by interviewing an adult about his or her independent living experience.

Duration

10 minutes: Introduce homework
20 minutes: Homework
25 minutes: Classroom discussion

Description

Students interview an adult about their experience with landlords, roommates, and budgets while living on their own. The interviews become the basis for classroom discussion.

This lesson is one part of a larger unit, Independent Living. While completing this unit, students will learn about: landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities; deciphering rental and leasing agreements; costs of establishing a first residence; benefits of budgeting; major categories of living expenses; surviving and thriving with roommates.

Consumer Jungle units are designed to be flexible, and can be used as one integrated unit or individual segments. If you are planning to use the unit in its entirety, please see the Related Content field for the additional lessons. The End of Unit Assessment field contains links to the vocabulary, concept, and content quizzes for the unit.

Materials

• Copies of the Surviving Solo Wisdom student worksheet
• Landlord Tenant Law PowerPoint

Step-by-Step Procedure

1. Distribute the Surviving Solo Wisdom handout to students as a homework assignment.
2. Ask students to interview an adult and return the results for class discussion the following day.
3. Lead a classroom discussion about the interviews. Listen to students answers, then ask summary questions such as:

• What common advice do parents offer for young adults living independently for the first time?
• What responsibilities do young adults have when living on their own?
• How do financially responsible adults use budgets to manage their finances?

Related Content

• A Place to Hang Your Hat
• Budget Basics
• It Costs How Much!?!?
• Reality Check
• Surviving or Thriving with Roommates
• TV Roommates
• Rental Agreement Lingo

End of Unit Assessment

Students can take the vocabulary and concept quizzes via pen and paper.

Downloads:

• Independent Living Vocab Quiz
• Independent Living Concept Quiz

Content Provider

Consumer Jungle is dedicated to providing young adults with the life skills they need to become responsible, informed consumers. Consumer Jungle provides engaging and relevant consumer education curricula covering a variety of topics such as credit cards, transportation, living on your own, personal finances, telecommunications, health, and e-commerce fraud. Developed with input from teachers, students, and parents, Consumer Jungle delivers interactive games, activities, and relevant information directly to the home or classroom.

Website(s)

• Consumer Jungle -http://www.consumerjungle.org

Related Academic Standards

New York State

WST.9-10.3 (See note; not applicable as a separate requirement) Note: Students' narrative skills continue to grow in these grades. The Standards require that students be able to incorporate narrative elements effectively into arguments and informative/explanatory texts. In history/social studies, students must be able to incorporate narrative accounts into their analyses of individuals or events of historical import. In science and technical subjects, students must be able to write precise enough descriptions of the step-by-step procedures they use in their investigations or technical work that others can replicate them and (possibly) reach the same results.

WST.9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

ELA.9.W.1.D Students take notes from written and oral texts, such as lectures and interviews.

ELA.10.W.1.D Students take notes and organize information from written and oral texts, such as lectures and interviews.

ELA.11.L.3.D Students recognize the use of protocols and traditional practices in interviewing and other forms of speaking.

ELA.12.L.3.D Students recognize the use of protocols and traditional practices in debating, public speaking, interviewing, reviewing literary works, and other forms of speaking.

HPF.FC.C.2.1.C Students understand essential requirements for selecting and maintaining a home.