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® The activities below can help reinforce the material in this What’s Up ® workbook when used in the classroom. Many are experiential, helping students work together to better understand issues related to peer pressure and to improve skills needed for success in school and life. You can also use these activities to help students meet select Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (CCSS.ELA). Correlations to specific standards are listed below each activity. Visit www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy to learn more. Teacher’s/Leader’s Guide for Pages 4-5—Negative or positive? While peer pressure is often associated with unsafe or unhealthy activities, peer pressure isn’t all bad. Students can also influence one another to make good, safe and healthy choices. Have students think about a time when they experienced negative peer pressure and a time when they experienced positive peer pressure. Have them write essays, including: • what they were pressured to do • who was involved • how they felt at the time • what they decided to do and why. Supports Writing Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.3a,b,c,d,e CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.3a,b,c,d,e CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.3a,b,c,d,e CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.10 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.10 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.10 Pages 8-9—The real you Part of what makes people who they are is their values and goals. Have students create posters themed “The person I am.” They can base these on the activities on pages 8 and 9 of the workbook. Have them start by pasting a photograph of themselves in the center of a piece of poster board or construction paper. Around the picture, they can write their values in one color and their goals in another. Encourage them to be as creative as they’d like in terms of design. For example, they can use different fonts for the words, draw graphics or paste on additional pictures. Supports Writing Standards: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.4 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.6.10 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.10 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.8.10 with Peer Pressure Please read: Talk to a professional! This guide is not a substitute for the advice of a qualified expert. Follow your organization’s policies and regulations (for example, those that apply to parental notification and consent) when using these activities. 2014 Edition ©2001 Channing Bete Company, Inc. All rights reserved. (04-14-A) Channing Bete Company, One Community Place, South Deerfield, MA 01373 • 20D-0041 To reorder call (800) 628-7733 or visit www.channing-bete.com and ask for item number PS98790 C O M P A N Y Channin ® The trademarks, including registered trademarks, in this guide are the property of the respective trademark owners.