Life Choices: Teaching Adolescents To Make Positive Decisions About Their Own Lives (lucky Duck Books)

Life Choices A Lucky Duck Book Life Choices Teaching adolescents to make positive decisions about their own lives Phil Carradice © Phil Carradice 2006 First published 2006 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. Rights to copy pages marked as handouts, certificates or overhead foils are extended to the purchaser of the publication for his/her use. The right of the author to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him/her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. Paul Chapman Publishing A SAGE Publications Company 1 Oliver’s Yard 55 City Road London EC1Y 1SP SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. B-42, Panchsheel Enclave Post Box 4109 New Delhi 110 017 Commissioning Editor: George Robinson and Barbara Maines Editorial Team: Mel Maines, Sarah Lynch, Wendy Ogden Designer: Nick Shearn Illustrator: Mark Ruffle A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number 2005907005 ISBN10 1-4129-1816-2 ISBN13 978-1-4129-1816-9 ISBN10 1-4129-1817-0 (pbk) ISBN13 978-1-4129-1817-6 (pbk) Printed on paper from sustainable resources Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Contents Preface vii Introduction and Background 1 Aim of the Stories 3 The Story Topics 4 Using the Stories 5 References 6 The Stories and Activities 7 Session 1: Just Being Myself 9 Session 2: The Visitation 19 Session 3: A Beautiful Friendship 29 Session 4: Borderlines 39 Session 5: Your Cheating Heart 49 Session 6: You Were Wonderful Tonight 59 Session 7: Two Pints of Dark 69 Session 8: Bearding the Dragon 77 Session 9: Aunt Dotty and the Dog 87 Session 10: Choices 97 Session 11: To Be a Star 107 Session 12: Baby Won’t you Drive my Car? 117 How to use the CD-ROM The CD-ROM contains a PDF file labelled ‘Colour illustrations.pdf ’ which consists of posters for each lesson in this resource. You will need Acrobat Reader version 3 or higher to view and print these resources. The documents are set up to print to A4 but you can enlarge them to A3 by increasing the output percentage at the point of printing using the page setup settings for your printer. The CD-Rom content can be found at the beginning of each chapter Preface Making choices is central to the human condition. From the moment we become conscious human beings we can begin to choose how we respond and with whom we interact in the social world. The ability to choose increases through time. The individual’s self-awareness, self-esteem, locus of control (that is, the ability to gain internal control) all impact upon these choices and the ways in which they are made. The stories in this series are based around the problems and joys of living as a child and young person within the twenty first century. They highlight the essential choices that people have to make in order to survive and function in a world that can seem complex and, at times, difficult to understand. This series consists of thr