Activity Supplement

AAccttiivviittyy SSuupppplleemmeenntt Intersect Activity Supplement A Note To the Youth Leaders: The Activities chosen for the Youth Nexus Curriculum are designed to interface with the content of each lesson. There will almost always be a reference to the activity within the Sorting it Out section of each lesson. If time allows, try to include the game each week. If for some reason the activity seems like it will not work for your group or for some other reason (time, etc…) be sure to cull out those questions in the Sort it Out time so as not to confuse the discussion. Activities are identified by the title Commotion in the lesson and can be found here in the Activity Supplement. This Activity supplement contains detailed rules for the Commotion activities which are listed in each lesson throughout the Intersect Curriculum. Each activity is printed on its own page(s) in order to make copying the rules for other leaders more convenient. Introductions/explanations of the game are all worded in first person in order to help those who may not want to wade through a set of rules to figure out what needs to be said. Feel free to reword these or pick out the key points. Whatever serves your need best! 2 Table of Contents: Lesson Game Page # Lesson 1.1 Pass The Story 4 Lesson 1.2 The Sentence Game 5 Lesson 1.3 Caricachurch 6 Lesson 1.4 What Can’t You Do 10 Lesson 2.1 The Race Race –or – I Am Who I Am 11 Lesson 2.2 Through The Hoops 15 Lesson 2.3 You Be The Judge 25 Lesson 2.4 Money Madness 29 Lesson 3.1 Under The Influence 32 Lesson 3.2 Reflections/ Avatars 34 Lesson 3.3 Team Scape 35 Lesson 3.4 Giving Tree/ Waste Not, Want Not 36 Lesson 4.1 Blind-folded Shoe Scramble 42 Lesson 4.2 What’s My Line 43 Lesson 4.3 Practice Makes Perfect 45 Lesson 4.4 Two Heads Are Better Than One 46 3 Lesson 1.1 Formed with Intent Activity: Pass the Story Rationale for Use: A common exercise used in improvisational theatre groups for a warm-up, Pass the Story, helps people to listen well and to think on their feet. It also requires people to use what is given to them and build on the past. In this lesson and the entire section of lessons, we will be looking at the whole idea of Formation in our lives and discussing ways we experience input and how we assimilate that into our own formation as disciples of Christ. Connections: Later in the Sorting it Out section, help students to think back to the game as they bring the concepts from this very ―fluid‖ game alongside the way they see their lives being woven together. The Game: Pass The Story Intro: Today (tonight) we will be playing an improv game called Pass the Story. Now you’re going to have to pay attention during this game because part of the fun in it is that you never know when it is going to be your turn. Here’s how it works… I will point to someone who will begin to tell a story, after they have told a few sentences of the story, they will then toss the ball to someone else in the circle. They may toss it at any time, mid-word ( so they might say… ―and then they went to a bar…. ―And the next person might say ―Mitzvah… ― to begin their part of the story ), mid-sentence, at the end of a sentence, so you really all need to be listening so you can pick it up where they left off. You then take it in your own direction and continue it for a few sentences and then pass the ball to someone else, and so on. If the story comes to a natural end, a person can decide to not throw the ball and end it. We can then start a new story. (To the leader: Play the game…. Enjoy the game and don’t process the game. That happens later…) 4 Lesson 1.2 Formed Inside and Out Activity: The Sentence Game Rationale for Use: This lesson will be focusing on different types of spiritual disciplines which help to form us. This game will assist us in seeing how the things which we are exposed to may make us think in a certain way. When we only have partial information, we can make some fairly interesting (and sometimes scary) leaps in our thinking. Later in the Sorting it out section, remind students of the game and the ways in which the sentences took form. What were some of the factors that formed it? How did personality and style affect it’s formation? How did the amount of time you had make a difference. Help students think about the ways in which they too are formed for good or bad by many factors in their own lives. What are some of those factors? The Game: The Sentence Game The Sentence Game has often been described as a cross between the games Pictionary and Telephone. It could just as well be described as a cross between a Rorschach test and a extemporaneous story. Supplies: Lots of pre-cut paper - 3‖ x 3‖ or bigger, enough to write a sentence or draw a small picture for a group of 10 people to play the game twice you will need 200 little papers. Enough Pens or pencils for everyone. Directions: Players sit in a circle. Each person has a stack of small papers equal to the number of people in the circle. Each person writes a short sentence at the top of their sheet of paper. (Often a completely abstract sentence makes for the most fun. ) Once everyone has written their sentence, they pass their stack to their right with their sentence on the top of the stack. The next person reads the sentence, moves it to the bottom of their stack of papers and then tries to draw a picture in what often ends up a futile attempt to depict the sentence. Once everyone is done, they then pass the paper to their right again with their picture on top of the stack. The person next to them will then interpret the picture , place it on the bottom of the stack and then write a sentence that describes what they thin the person drew. The process is repeated, alternating sentence and picture until all of the stacks have made it around the circle and returned to their owner. Once the paper has made it all the way around the circle (in a small group) or at least to 5 people (in a larger group), each person then reads their closing sentence or their closing picture depending on the number of people in the group. 5 They then show the process that the stacks went through, with some pretty hysterical transformations. There’ll be lots of laughs and the revelation of some pretty bizarre thinkers! Lesson 1.3 Formed by God’s People Activity: Caricachurch Rationale for Use: The point of today’s game is to help students see that what their thoughts about the church really are utilizing the idea of caricatures. Connections: As students play this game and interact with the focal points and other materials in the lesson, help them to begin asking the question ―Do I really know what my church is about? Do I know the other people in my church? Often, due to the fact that youth can be ―siloed off‖ into peer- based ministry, it is easy for our teens to miss the rich resource of knowing other believers in the church and benefitting from the growth that these intergenerational relationships can provide. This game challenges the students to confront their images of the church, and those that make it up, and to really struggle with how deeply rooted they are in the ―whole‖ body of Christ. The Game: Caricachurch Set Up: Supplies: - enough blank 8 ½ x 11 sheets of paper for everyone in the group. (If you can use some card stock, or at least construction paper weight, it may be easier to draw on and display later.) - Colored pencils or thin markers or art pencils (enough for everyone) Ask students if they have ever been to a Fair or a Carnival or other event where people were doing Caricatures. Ask if anyone knows what they are and how they work? If students don’t say this clearly, restate that a caricature is a picture or drawing of someone that accentuates a particular feature, often their most noticeable trait, so someone with a large nose may have a giant nose in the picture, or someone with a nice smile may have giant teeth in the picture, big ears…. Well you get the picture. The person doing the Caricature doesn’t know the person and generally has never met them before, so they are just going on first impressions of the features on their face. What results is an often contorted picture of what the person really looks like. Show some examples by downloading and printing a few of these pics below or finding others on line. 6 Hillary Clinton by Gary Varvel, the editorial cartoonist for The Indianapolis Star 7 Excerpted from http://www.tomrichmond.com/home.php 8 Today we are going to do caricatures of the church, not necessarily your local church, but the church as the followers of Christ.

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