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Example of billboard activity in teen journal and how it works and how a facilitator relates a story:
"You know how when you are in your room enjoying your new Backstreet Boys CD, and your mom comes in to bug you with all kinds of questions about how your day was, and you get annoyed because you just want to be left alone? If you could have this billboard to park in your driveway so you parents could read it when they got home from work...and you could put anything on it you wanted that they needed to know so they wouldn't bother you with all those stupid questions, what would you put on it?" You can use whatever mode works best, drawing, writing, etc. Some kids just put the name of a song that expresses how they feel, others journal, one kid used anagrams. I don't have any examples but here is a neat one. A boy I worked with, in week one, drew a really cute picture of himself. He always meticulously spiked his hair, and in the picture, divided into four sections, he had drawn himself, hair spikes and cargo pants included, in a variety of situations, from talking to his friends to doing his homework. In one of them the hair was smashed and his ears were really big. I asked him about it and he said, "I'm listening to CD's at the mall!" It was the headphones and they smashed his hair. Anyway, one of the pictures
within that picture that he drew was of the control panel for
his Nintendo 64 game. As the weeks passed, more and more of the
other activities fell out of the picture and the N64 panel got
bigger and bigger. Finally, about 5 weeks into the program, the
ONLY thing he drew was a big N64. I asked him where all the other
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