Civics & Community Awareness
Black History
Learn about the Firsts in Sports this week!
Althea Gibson was the first African American tennis player to compete at the U.S. National Championships in 1950, and the first Black player to compete at Wimbledon in 1951.
Check In & Recap Yesterday (5 min)
Social media-the options and the good and bad sides.
How your social media activity affects job searches or other ways people see you.
Show & Share (10-min)
Show us your favorite keepsake from childhood. What does it make you remember?
Tomorrow's Show & Share: What’s the best compliment you could get? What compliments
do you like to give others?
Thematic Activity 01 (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Read the story as a group. Use the questions below to tie the story to the theme for the week. Use the question set that was sent home to go further if your group is into it.
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- The story explains how Cassie and Kate know each other. What level of friendship do you think they have? Very close friends, acquaintances, community members or something else?
- Cassie clearly did not have any relationship to the man at her work who tried to kiss her. What word did she use that describes that?
- Rya, an independent adult, talks to the guy at the gym. It's a public place and she is with friends. She can get to know him very slowly by only meeting him at the gym or with friends for a long time before becoming better friends. What are some of the differences between Rya talking to that guy and talking to someone we don't know online?
PRESENTERS: Point out that peole online
- can hide who they really are
- are not in public view of other people
- can potentially locate information about us that we did not freely give them
Skill Builder (5-10 min)
PRESENTERS: Using the Life Skills Story guide the conversation to appreciating that odd is just something different than we are used to, or what we would do or like.
Let's look at these pictures of clothing from different countries that may seem ODD to us. If you saw someone wearing one of these outfits in the regular community you would certainly notice them. What are some kind ways to think about people who look or dress differently from us?
Here are some odd posts that have been on social media. What is the kind way to respond if someone posts something you find UNappealing or UNiteresting?
PRESENTERS: end on the awareness that the kind response to social media things you don't like or care about is to do NOTHING. Only respond to the things that you can say kind or positive things about.
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Survival Math & Social Justice (5-10 min)
Did you know that doing raises as percentages is unfair to the people who make the least money?
Use this interactive raise calculator to answer the question below.
PRESENTERS: Enter the % increase first then change the hourly rates for each person to determine the values.
Three people work at a company.
- Devary is the owner and pays themselves $100 per hour.
- Dina is the night manager and gets paid $35 per hour.
- Lisa is the custodian and gets paid $16 per hour.
Devary gets a new contract that is going to allow a 13% increase for EVERYONE.
- Calculate how many DOLLARS more each month each person will get.
- Is it fair for the person earning the least to get the smallest raise? Why or why not?
- What are other ways to do raises? What is fair or unfair about those ideas?
This video is about the modern problem with the world economy. Not very exciting but explains the problem really clearly.
Global Travesty of Wealth Distribution
Optional Level-Up
If you have time and your group wants to, review set 2 of the questions about the Life Skills Story.
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What did we learn today?
What are we doing this afternoon?
