LESSON#24: My Adolescent Life

  • LESSON#24: My Adolescent Life

    Learning Goals: By the end of this lesson you will be able to

    (1) reflect more deeply on what it means to you to be an adolescent;

    (2) reflect on the influences being exerted on your life by social media and your caregivers.


    • THE POWER OF GOLD lyrics Lesson

      The Power of Gold (Dan Fogelberg)

       

      The story is told of
      The power of gold and its
      Lure on the unsuspecting


      It glitters and shines
      It badgers and blinds
      And constantly needs protecting.

       

      Balance the cost of the soul you lost
      With the dreams you lightly sold


      Are you under the power of gold?

       

      The letters and calls
      The letters and calls
      And everyone wants a favour


      They beg to remind you
      They beg to remind you
      But you know the past is a loser

       

      The face you're wearing is different now
      And the days run hot and cold


      Are you under
      The power of gold?
      The power of gold

       

      You're a creature of habit
      Run like a rabbit
      Scared of a fear you can't name.


      Your own paranoia
      Is looming before you
      And nobody thinks that it's a game

       

      Balance the cost of the soul you lost
      With the dreams you lightly sold
      Then tell me that you're free
      Then tell me that you're free
      of the power of gold


    • WARMER SONG: The Power of Gold by Dan Fogelberg [8'16"] Lesson


    • Lesson #24.2: How to be a Hipster Assignment

      What does it mean to be "hip" and a "hipster"? This is an older term. Today, we would call hipsters - "influencers".

      Influencers have thousands of followers on the Internet, and attract commercial advertisers, so it can be a huge lucrative, profit-making opportunity.

      Read the article called How to be a Hipster and choose the right answer to the ten (10) questions that follow.

    • ACTIVITY 24.3: AN INFLUENCER I KNOW Assignment

      1. Describe a “HIPSTER/INFLUENCER” that you know or can research on the Internet. Submit your response in a question-and-answer format WRITTEN IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. 50-75 words
      These are the questions: Who is the influencer? Where are they based? What is their “product”? How do they influence? Why do people and advertisers follow them?

    • HOMEWORK: Once Upon a Time (short story by Nadine Gordimer) Assignment

      Once Upon a Time is a short story by Nadine Gordimer. 

      Answer questions #2 and #3 that follow.

    • EXIT CARD Assignment

      Please answer before the class ends at 12.