1. Getting What You Want Too Good for Drugs and Violence Lesson 5

2. What is Communication?

3. Communication The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings to someone else. With a partner, list all the ways people communicate.

4. SpeakTextSkype/FT WriteNewspaperMusic Smoke Social MediaPointing EmailInternet/BlogsFacial Expressions MailBody LanguageNews/TV PhonesSign LanguageAirplane/Billboards RadioWebsitesApps

5. Communication Activity 1 Speaker Cannot use hands or body parts. Can only speak/ cannot answer questions. Drawers Cannot ask questions. Must actively listen. Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.

7. Focus on what the person is really saying. Observe body language. Listen to the tone of voice Paraphrase to show understanding. Ask questions to clarify.

8. Use Active Listening Activity 2 Speaker Can use hands or body parts. Can speak and can answer questions. Drawers Can ask questions. Must actively listen. Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.

10. How Do They Relate? Communication Getting What You Want?

12. Polite Used to avoid making anyone angry Don’t want to hurt feelings Avoid Arguments Put other’s wishes ahead of their own. Often get hurt themselves.

13. It’s my way or the highway! Do not respect the feelings of others. Are often hurtful. Use name calling and ridicule. Always put others down.

14. Open, Honest and Direct Stand up for themselves and what they feel. Respect themselves and others.

15. Why? Why is this a focus in the Too Good For Drugs & Violence Unit?

16. Getting What You Want! Saying No! Setting Goals Unhealthy Relationships Peer Pressure Interviews