The Realiy Ride Inroducion Key Concep: Each decision we make has a consequence. The decisions we make oday direcly affec he fuure. y - au worh i Wha consequences Vocabulary Realiy Goals Challenges Choices Consequences Trouble Value econdary Conceps: We all experience challenges a home, a school, or wih peers. I s imporan o be aware of he consequences of our decisions. Each new day is an opporuniy o change and make good choices. Remember, You are free o make your own decisions, bu you canno choose he consequence. ersonalize your Lesson: Can you nk of any ime in your own life when you were on he easfas rack? ave you ever had o face a difficul consequence as a resul of a decision you made? ow has he hau worh i rack been worh i for you? Aciviy: To inroduce s lesson, complee he aenion aciviy Coun Your Fingers. (ee he Learning Aciviies secion under Realiy Ride. )
The Realiy Ride Lesson lan: Inroducing Realiy Ride Wach a shor video segmen of roller coasers and/or amusemen park rides. Quesions: ow many of you have ever ridden on a roller coaser? Did you like i? Wha makes he ride fun or no fun? Do you nk you could have sayed on he ride all day? Why no? ow long do you nk he ride would coninue o be fun? how a picure of a roller coaser or ask he sudens o nk back on he video of he roller coaser. Ask: Look a s roller coaser. Can you see a paern? Wha happens each ime he roller coaser goes up? (I comes back down.) Wha happens when he roller coaser climbs gher more sharply? (I comes down more quickly and sharply.) Wha abou he lile small inclines? Do hey go down as sharply? Emphasize ha wha can make he ride fun for a wle -- he big seep climbs and he fas dropoffs -- can ge iring and old afer a lile wle and will evenually make you sick or no feel good. The Realiy Ride Lesson lan: Visual Analogy Walkhrough 1. oser how he poser of The Realiy Ride. Tell sudens ha s ride is called The Realiy Ride. Explain ha you are going o alk abou s ride oday, and when you are done, you will wan hem o be able o ell you wha s ride eaches. Tell sudens ha if hey can do ha, you promise ha hey will learn one way hey can ge more opporuniy, freedom and au worh i self-respec. y - Wha consequences The Realiy Ride has wo differen pahs you can choose from. Quesions Noice he firs one. I rises up prey fas. Bu hen wha happens? I drops off very quickly and crashes righ ino a wall. Now look a he second choice. Wha happens on s ride? The ride sill has ups and downs, bu hey are more gradual. Does he ride crash? Wha happens a he end of he ride? (We don know, bu we can see ha he rider has more choices ahead, so he ride s ending depends on he rider.)
2. Realiy Quesion: Realiy and fanasy are opposies. Can you ell me some ngs ha are fanasy? wor from my choices? bucome der r a figng, no enough money, ec. chool: Don undersand, confused, bored, bend, oo ha, oo much homework, ec. eers: Don have a lo of friends, bullies boher you, don fi in, figh wih friends or oher kids, kids are mean or pick on you, don have he cool clohes or shoes, peers ry o ge you o do ngs ha ge you ino rouble. www.whyry.org Wrie: ome: Too many rules, arens are oo sric, divorce, Reurn o he poser and ex plain ha s is he Realiy Ride. Real life can someimes The sands for eers (or be like a ride. We have ups and friends). downs. We have challenges and choices. ow we choose o Wrie: deal wih our challenges deerlis home, school, and peers mines wch pah we ake on on he poser. s ride. Look back a he picure of he realiy ride. The car has hree wheels. These hree We know ha one of he realiwheels ake he rider up and ies of life is ha everyone has down he ride of life. Each of challenges. Le s lis some of hese wheels has a leer on i he challenges you migh have ha represens a place where in each of hese hree places. you spend a lo of your ime. The sands for ome. The sands for chool. Wha consequences 3. Choices + Time Wrie: Wrie he wos fanasy and realiy on he boa and have he sudens make a lis of ngs under each wo. Emphasize ha realiy is wha Quesion: Wha does he wo realiy mean o you? is real or wha is acually happening in our lives. For examu worhere ple, Us siing looking a a s picure righ now is realiy. Le sudens know ha s picure shows one realiy of life: our choices evenually have consequences. Look a he name of s ride. I is called he Realiy Ride. Le s alk a lile abou wha ha means. Go back over he lis and have sudens alk abou ways hey can deal wih hese challenges ha migh ge hem ino rouble. For example: Too much homework, so hey don do i. how ha you undersand ha dealing wih hese challenges can be ough. You may no have any conrol over hese challenges, bu you have conrol over how you deal wih hem. For example, you may no be able o conrol how much homework you are given, bu you have conrol over wheher or no you do i. W co
4. Choices + Consequences Quesion: Look a he wo racks of he realiy ride. ow are he wo racks differen? The firs rack goes way up, hen comes down wih a crash. The second rack doesn go way up or way down, bu is more level. I splis ou ino wo direcions in he end. Quesions Who can suppor you? Who are people you lised as suppor sysems? Wha is some posiive selfalk we can use o say on he second rack? You may wan o poin ou ha he prisons are full of people who made bad decisions ha caused hem o crash. eople in prison don have a lo of opporuniy or freedom and hey probably don have much self-respec, because hey have hur hemselves and ohers. 5. Choices + Goals When you wan o ride on a roller coaser, can you jus walk up and ge on? No, you need a icke. Anyone can ride on he firs rack. You jus ge on, do he easy ng ha ges you in rouble, and you always crash. Bu o ge on he second rack, you need someng like a icke. Emphasize ha whenever you do ngs ha ge you ino rouble i is like being on he firs ride. I may seem like fun for a wle, you may even ge away wih i for a wle, bu evenually you will crash. The shor-erm hrill is no worh he crash. Then go over wha he consequences are for hose choices. For example: Too much homework, don do i, ge a bad grade, miss recess, ge held back, ec. Does ha give you more opporuniy, freedom and hytry LLC 2013 self-respec? The firs rack has a loop and i always akes you back o he place ha you sared. (You may wan o Wha consequences poin ou ha hechoices? whole come from my firs rack is like a big loop.) The second rack coninues forwa in he same direcion and has opions. I also leads you owas your goal. The second pah is haer because i coninues o climb gher and gher. u worh i a Look up in he op righ corner of he picure and read wha i says: Goal. In oer o ride on s Realiy Ride you need a goal. Wha is a goal? You can pick any goal you wan, as long as i doesn break he following rule: Your goal canno hur yourself or ohers. www.whyry.o
6. Conclusion oher rack. Wha can moivae hem o ride on he rack ha creaes opions and helps give opporuniy in life, freedom, and selfrespec?) Wha does each rack do o your opions? (oin ou ha he rack wih he crash akes away heir opions and opporuniies in life, wle he oher rack gives hem unlimied opions in life.) Use he following quesions and he poser o finish eacng and summarizing he visual analogy. Quesions Wha choices will give you opporuniy, freedom, and self-respec? Who can suppor you? (elp hem idenify a suppor sysem ha can help hem sop crasng and say on rack.) Wha would moivae you o ride here? (Discuss how he realiy of he crash can moivae hem o ge on he 7. Review Lesson u worh i a Vocabulary For he review lesson, have Wha consequences sudens define he vocabulary come from choices? wosmy lised in he inroducory page of s manual in heir WhyTry Journals. Ts will help increase undersanding of he analogy and give you an opporuniy o assess comprewww.whyry.org hension and reenion from he overview lesson. Wha consequences www.whyry.org Visual analogy In heir WhyTry Journals, sudens have a copy of he visual analogy. ave sudens use s o do a review/walkhrough of he analogy. ave hem make noes, answer quesions, or use a personal example o explain he concep. 8. Reflecion Quesion Unil he nex WhyTry class, ask sudens o consider he Realiy Ride reflecion quesion: u worh i a Wha consequences come from my choices? Wha consequences www.whyry.org