aMuse Journey Workshop Day 1

12/15/2012 10:00 3:00

Time 10:00 10:05 10:05 10:15 Activity name Girl Scout Promise Flurry of Roles sticky notes Description Materials Needed

Prepare in advance

10:15 10:45

Review each girls Casting Call Log

(Girl Pre Work)

10:45 11:00

Role Play Charades

11:00 11:30

All My Roles Paper dolls

Create multiple sets of sticky notes with roles on them (see list at end of this plan) Ask each girl to pick 2 or 3 roles to put on herself and then ask each girl to pick one for every other girl- Girls discuss why they selected what they did and what was a surprise Discuss: How many roles women play, Which women play more than one role, Which are leaders? Why? What leadership traits do you see in them that you see in yourself? Which traits do you see that you aspire to? Compare these traits to the Girl Scout Law. Which of those values do these women seem to honor? Which of these values do you honor? Which roles played by these women might you like to try? Each girl picks one role from any list, tells it to a leader and performs the role for 10 seconds other girls need to guess the role Everyone gets a turn Make a paper doll chain to reflect the girls many roles

Sticky notes, Pen Need volunteer to make sticky notes

Casting Call Log pages 16 and 17 in the Girls book

11:30 12:00

Role Play Switcheroo Adult Guide - pg 3839

Girls choose if they want to play a boy or a girl. One volunteer (parent) will play the teacher, Girls should decide on a classroom topic (something they know well). Girls should then act out a typical classroom scenario with the girls acting like their gender sticky note. After the role, girls switch gender roles. Discuss: Who put their hands up the most? Who offered opinions the most?

Paper and scissors for each girl plus markers to decorate Need Volunteer to create cut outs for girls to color Dale McKay

12:00 12:30 12:30 1:00 12:30 1:00

Make lunch Lunch cooks Ads Assume Bring in ads or packaging that Stereotypes boys vs. girls

Who was most disruptive? Did being a boy or girl make you act differently? Individual pizzas

Adult help to keep things moving

1:00-1:30

Girls Eat lunch

1:00 1:30 1:00 2:45

Stereotype Busters! Your heart, your art, your project Clean up Friend ship Circle

Each girl should pick one ad or product packaging that is geared to a boy, a and neither. Girls will line them up in no specific order and try to guess which is which by placing post it notes on them Discuss changing at least one package to be less stereotypical First the Stereotype, Complete Stereotype tracker (pg 27 in Girls book) as girls eat Discuss which Stereotype they want to bring awareness Decide on project and begin to execute project

Supplies: Families Bring in ads or packaging that Stereotypes boys vs. girls products

Various art supplies to make mural, comic book, video or other

2:45 2:55 2:55 - 3:00

Depart

aMuse Journey Workshop Day 2

01/06/2013 12:00 2:00

Time 12:00 12:05 12:05 12:45 12:45 1:00

Activity name Girl Scout Promise Eat Lunch and Finish Your heart, your art, your project Defining Real Beauty

Description

Materials Needed

Role Up Sandwiches - premade

1:00 1:30 Now Head Out

Review a series of self portraits of women ask girls what they think the women were trying to say what roles were they playing Families bring Girls should each bring an accessory or additional accessories twoGirls take turns trying them on and perform a fashion show using a role for girls to try out that the accessory inspires- Why did you

Flat bread, cream cheese or hummus, sandwich fillings Needed self portraits of famous women

1:30 1:45

Roles we have discovered for our selves

choose this accessory? How did wearing it make you feel? Did it make you see yourself in a new way? Would you wear it again? Why or why not? Girls Take turns naming a role they now see for themselves that they never would have considered before this aMuse Journey they are now celebrating.

1:45

Closing and Awards Ceremony

Flurry of roles sticky notes: Girl Scout Leader Teacher Pastor Veterinarian Photographer Dancer Chef Doctor Nurse Lawyer Engineer Architect Pharmacist Girl Scout Pilot Computer Game Designer Computer Programmer Child care provider Mother Sister Daughter Aunt Cousin Accountant Soldier Scientist Chemist Environmentalist Politician Police officer Fire fighter EMT

Astronaut Marine Biologist Zoologist Muscian Actor Best Friend