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Music, activity cards, song lyrics, story choices, and painter tape.

Copies of handouts, Pencils, color Markers, Constructional Paper, large Writing paper tape and or tacking up students responses, (White Board if available).

An open space for movement and large movement activities, table space for smaller groups to write and discuss ideas, plans and presentation practices, an electrical plug-in space to accommodate 3-6 plugs for music & computer. It would be great to have access to a screen to show video/power point information for teaching.

"¢I can take a negative situation and turn it into a positive reaction for me. I can empower myself by controlling my reaction to negative behavior or a negative situations with breathing and thinking before I respond. I can respond with self-control to not allow others to take my personal power. I can create a theatrical conflict situational plot with a partner and or within a group to explain and express feelings/ opinions in response to group discussions

Lesson 1
Introduction:1. Call and response Song Activity, Empowering Positive Choice "I know my Destiny song (with Mov't). The children will have the opportunity to discuss meaning of song (whole group),
2. Ice Breaker: Destiny name syllable movement circle activity.
3. Students will breakdown into small learning groups to establish their theater group name for the week through an activity.
4. Leadership Activity:
1. Leadership game/activity
a. (small theater groups), then brainstorm and discuss characteristics of a leader.
5. Close Out: Empowering Positive Choice Chant Ago A-may Group activity (Part 1). with Staging and movement

Lesson 2
Empowerment Chant: Ago A-may Group Call and Response chant/movement activity (adding Part 2).
Leadership Activity: 1. Leadership game. activity
2. Situational Story 1 "What we face Everyday at School" : Children are often teased, bullied and made fun of by peers. How the student decides to respond to this negative behavior will affect their response and behavior. Loosing self control is Giving away your personal power to the person who is trying make that student upset, angry or loose control.
3. The "Ah huh I gotchU " empowerment chant activity; which incorporates rhythm, words and music; into a verbal power shield to recognize and combat negative expressed attacks. The whole group will participate in the activity and then discuss.
4. Students will break down into created theater groups and design short Situational Group stories from theater card prompts. Then have the opportunity to act them out first silently. Allowing their peers to figure how the problem, solution and leadership skills, giving the children the opportunity to role play and write their first story skit draft of their story.
5.CloseOut:Empowering Positive Choice Song "I know my Destiny" (part 1) with staging and mov"t.

Lesson 3 Empowerment Chant:Ago A-may Group Call and Response song & movement activity (adding Part 3) .
Leadership Activity: 1. Leadership game.activity 3 in small theater groups, Situational Story
2 "Our support System at School" Helping the students to recognize who are their support team members at school, and understanding the process of getting their help.
3. K LA RUE 6 SIC Strategies (Stop, Think, Draw on the powers within, take a deep breath, blow out the fire, and spit out a positive spin) empowerment Chant activity (whole group). Using the two strategies learned the students will create with new groups and an enactment using the strategies then followed by whole group discussion.
4. Get into their created theater groups and build upon their own story skit draft into a short Situational group stories from theater prompts cards. 5. CloseOut: Empowering Positive Choice Song "I know my Destiny" (part 2)with staging and mov"t.
Lesson 4 Empowerment Chant:Ago A-may Group Call and Response song activity (adding Part 4). These Empowering Positive Choice song, chant and movement activities reinforce the lessons we are exploring together.
Leadership Activity: 1. Leadership game activity in small theater groups with whole group discussion. Situational Story 3 "The Eagles who thought they were Chickens" with discussion (whole group)
2. Break into small theater groups and identify leadership characters, "take away attitudes" to keep and behaviors to avoid in our characters based on the story just shared.
3. Rockin the RMS Method empowerment chant activity and discussion (whole group).
4. Break down into small theater groups to REFINE their own group short Situational group stories CREATED.
5. Close Out: Empowering Positive Choice Song "I know my Destiny" (part 3) with staging and mov"t

Lesson 5 Empowerment Chant:Ago A-may Group Call and Response song activity (review with staging opening piece).
Leadership Activity: 1. Review and discuss in small theater groups the Leadership games they participated in through out the week.
2. Select 5 helpful qualities they learn from playing the leadership games and share with the whole group.
3. LET'S PUT IT ALL TOGETHER NOW!: 1. Going through our created Situational Improvisational Stories. Go through learned songs and mov't which express "Empowering Positive Choice Strategies
4. Whole group Share on What I learned and can do and have a discussion.
5. Run through outline for Culminating Event.
6. Close Out: Empowering Positive Choice Song "I know my Destiny"
Culminating Event: The students, with the support of their teachers, support staff and K LA RUE crew will perform what they learned and experienced through the K LA RUE Empowering Positive Choice Residency. The Students will share their process with invited guests (another classmates, family, etc.) through performance, scenes, gallery walk, video, with a Q & A, etc. Assessment: Student learning will be measured through student-created work (performance, written, drawn, etc.), observations, and student reflections using tools, such as a rubric.