Keisha made bad decision because she did not think about the future. She only thought about the present. Teenagers
should think in abstract terms instead of concrete terms. Smart teenagers understand that for every action there is a consequence,
and that consequence may last forever.
i.Goal setting: Set a short-term goal
(example: make better grades, make the team, advance in band or chorus, be a better son or daughter, better sister or brother,
pass standardized test, graduate)
ON YOUR OWN PAPER
1.Choose
your goal. Write it out in a complete sentence.
2.Write at least three behaviors that will help you achieve your
goal.
3.Copy down things you will have to do to prepare yourself.
4.Figure out a way to measure your
progress.
5.Start your plan today and write down the actual date that you will accomplish your goal.
6.Plan a
reward for yourself for accomplishing your goal.
ii.Goal setting: Set a long-term goal (example: what do you want to be when
you grow up,
where are you going
to college, where will you work, how will you become a successful adult). If you don’t
know what you want to be when you grow up- what DON’T you want to be? Don’t let what people think affect
your answer.
ON
YOUR OWN PAPER
1.Choose your goal. Write it out in a complete
sentence.
2.Write at least three behaviors that will help you achieve your goal.
3.Copy down things you will have
to do to prepare yourself.
4.Figure out a way to measure your progress.
5.Start your plan today and write down the actual
date that you will accomplish your goal.
6.Plan a reward for yourself for accomplishing your goal.
iii. true/false
Each of the following statements is either true or false. If the statement
is true write the word true, and if it is false write the word false.
1.Teenagers
make choices everyday that either hurt or harm them.
2.Every young person will have sex before they graduate?
3.Some ways
to deal with emotional problems or stress is to talk to a teacher, write, sing, or punch a pillow.
4.Every teenager will drink alcohol
or smoke before they graduate high school.
5.The decisions you make today will determine your tomorrow.
6.Most high school couples end up
getting married so it’s okay to do the things that married couples do when you are in love.
7.One of the biggest responsibilities
of a teenager is working out an individual identity.
8.It is impossible to be a virgin when you get married.
9.Herpes
and HIV are Sexually Transmitted Disease that cannot be cured.
10.Marijuana is not really a drug.
iv. ACTIVITES
1.Amber gave
a sexually transmitted disease to Clarence. One out of four sexually active teens have a STD and don’t know it. There
are four types of sexual activity: vaginal, anal, digital (your fingers), oral. Any of these methods can give you a STD. List
places or organizations in your town that test and treat sexually transmitted diseases.
2.Keisha faces dilemma after dilemma.
Name a problem that you have and work it through these steps: Write down the problem. Brainstorm possible solutions to the
problem. Think about each solution individually. Ask somebody you trust his or her opinion, and finally choose a solution.
3.Keisha’s
father says that music videos are bad. Write a paragraph telling why you agree or disagree with Mr. Martin.
4.Whenever
Keisha was about to make a bad decision, she would hear her father’s voice, her teacher’s voice, or her Youth
Pastor’s voice. Whenever you are about to make a bad decision what’s going through your head?
5.Write a
description of the person you think you will be in ten years.
6.Do your friends build you up?Do
you have good friends? Write yourself a letter telling yourself how great you are.
7.Your parents probably want you
to have a better life than they have. How will you make this happen?
8.Write a play about a person who makes a bad
decision, but decides to change their life and live happily ever after.
9.Look through magazines and make a collage of
emotions. Then chose an emotion to write two paragraphs about. The first paragraph telling why you felt that way, and the
second paragraph telling how you dealt with it or how you should have dealt with it.
10.Write an essay about a person in your life (you can
change their name), that have made bad choices and now their life is rough because of it. Tell what they could have done differently
and what they can do now to make a better life for themselves.
V. using vocabulary Using the vocabulary below write a song, rap, or poem.
1. Stereotypes- fixed
imagines of how everyone in a particular groups is thought to be, images and thoughts that do not recognized an person’s
individuality.
2. Drive- motivated to proof someone wrong. A person known as a go-getter.
3. Commitment- a decision maintained
for the long term; a kept promise.
4. Thoughts- those mental images of which a person is always aware of
5. Values- a person’s set of rules
for behavior; right and wrong
6. Confrontation-an interaction in which a person expresses feelings to another person.
7. Hormone-a chemical that serves as a messenger.
8. Abstinence- refraining completely from a particular behavior.
9. Drink- with respect to alcoholic
beverages: 1 can of beer, 3 ounces of wine, 1 wine cooler, 1 ounce of liquor.
10. Marriage-the institution
that joins a man and a woman by contract for purpose of creating and maintaining a family.
