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Peer Pressure and Mr. Bilbo Baggins

SCED 341Mr. J. Anderson

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• How teachers, coaches, group moderators get others to do specific things?

• Are there other ways to convince someone to do something?

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Objective:

Students will demonstrate an understanding of good and bad peer pressure by explaining an example of each.

VSC standard: 3.A.6.a

Peer pressure example

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Transition

• We just….• You did….• Next, we will….

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What is peer pressure?

• Peer pressure is the feeling that someone your own age is pushing you toward making a certain choice.

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There are different types of Peer Pressure!

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Rejection

• Threatening to end a friendship or a relationship. This pressure can be hard to resist because nobody wants to lose friends.

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Put Downs

• Insulting or calling a person names to make them feel bad.

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Reasoning

• Telling a person reasons why they should try something or why it would be OK if they did. (Nobody said these were good reasons.)

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Unspoken Pressure

• This is something you feel without anyone saying anything to you. You feel unspoken pressure if you want to do the same things others doing. Some unspoken pressure tricks are: – The Huddle: A group of kids standing together in which

everyone is talking and maybe looking at something you can't see, laughing and joking.

– The Look: Kids who think they're cool give you a certain look that means we're cool and you're not.

– The Example: A group of popular kids decide to get the same backpack and you want one too.

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Peer Pressure Can be Good or BadBad Good

Lying to authority figures Being honest

Using illegal substances Avoiding illegal substances

Committing a crime Being an upstanding citizen

Performing a dangerous activity Encouraging healthy activities

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Purpose for Reading• While reading look for examples of peer

pressure that are used between characters. • Please mark the examples of peer pressure

that you find on your reading sheets. • When you finish the readings go back and

label the types of peer pressure you have found. The different types are:

•Rejection, Put Down, Reasoning and Unspoken

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What should Bilbo Do?

To Go – Positive Not to go – Negative Explain

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The Right to Resist

• If someone is pressuring you to do anything that's not right or good for you, you have the right to resist. You have the right to say no, the right not to give a reason why, and the right to just walk away from a situation.

Right to resist

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