Demo Lesson

This lesson will provide students with an opportunity to tell their story, heal, and ideally move forward. In addition, this lesson is meant to provide students with a voice so that they can bring positive change into their lives and the lives of others.

Students are scaffolded through a series of questions that begins with the defining of what imagination is all about. From there, students are asked to provide and expand upon two statements of value. In doing so, students must state whether or logic or imagination is more powerful.

In addition, students are to assert whether knowledge or imagination is more important. Students will then share their responses with a partner before we engage in a whole-class discussion. Then, we will complete each of the 6 steps included in the Imagine Journal. In doing so, we will celebrate and embrace our successes.

Then, we will reflect on the challenges that have shaped our lives. From there, we will draft our Imagine stories as we write about our challenges and reflect on how our experiences in life have shaped who we are as human beings. Then, we will actively contemplate and write about what we’d like to create in our lives. We’ll write about and discuss what we would like to do, where we’d like to go, and who we’d like to be in life.

We will then share some of our Imagine stories. Next, we will anchor our imagine dreams with the positing of three key steps that we will take to actually bring these possibilities into our respective lives.

Then, we will anchor our Imagine dreams into our minds and hearts by taking at least one of the dreams we have for our future and creating an “I” statement about it. We’ll say these statements with power to emphasize our own assertiveness.

Time permitting, we’ll then participate in a commemorative and symbolic group activity to help personify what has taken place during this lesson.