-Personal Responsibility-
-Personal Responsibility-
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Grade 12 - Personal Responsibility (20-25 minutes)Objective: You will learn about the personal power you posses, what contributes to our assumptions about power, and how to harness our power for positive change.
Introduction
Introduction
You are invited to select (in your minds) two other students and to keep these students’ identities a secret. Each student’s goal is to walk around the room until they are as far from the two chosen students as they can be, while staying within the boundaries of the space.
Share anything you noticed or experienced while working towards this goal.
Listen to the following thought:
Each time one student moved, it affected the movement of everyone else in the room, often causing a chain reaction. It was probably difficult to tell exactly why someone was moving, or where the chain reaction started, but your movement had everything to do with what was going on in your community here. This is an example of the power each of us holds to affect change in our environment. In this activity, you could see both physical and mental power working at the same time to create change. You each have personal power, and probably much more if it than you realize.
Main Activities
Main Activities
Remember that the exercise you've just completed shows that strength and intelligence can become sources of personal power.
Brainstorm what traits, situations, or things can give people power.
The following are some examples:
Does health give people power?
Does wealth give people power?
beauty?
physical size?
knowledge?
popularity?
ability to communicate?
For the next activity, you need to move to the place on the spectrum that represents the amount of power you feel you have to do the following things, with 10 representing the most power:
Wear what I want
Get good grades in school
Get a part-time job
Choose where I live
Participate in the activities that I want to
Choose who I spend my time with
The ability to make choices is a kind of power. Our personal power can be used to effect change, not only in our own lives, but in the lives of those in our families, our schools, and our communities.
Closing
Closing
Remember, we all have personal power to positively influence our lives and create change around us.
How is personal power connected to the concept of choices?
Who is responsible for the way power is used?
Who do we impact with our choices?
What are some situations in your life that you can begin to make your personal power work for you?
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Teen-Power_and_Control_Wheel-Color.pdfExtension Activity:
Extension Activity:
While power can be used for positive change, it can also be used to control and manipulate. Relationship abuse is a pattern of behaviors that are sometimes used to gain power and control over a partner. There are many kinds of power that can be exploited in relationships. One way we can visualize this is through the Power and Control Wheel.
Guide students in exploring the Teen Power and Control Wheel, either individually or as a group. Guide learning and reflection on the different kinds of power displayed on the wheel.
You may also wish to use the following website to guide conversation about relationship abuse and how to get help:
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