Assignment task: Choose one of the following three scenarios to respond to.
A friend of yours often smokes marijuana on the weekend. They invite you out with them on a Saturday, and you already know that you do not want to engage in smoking but do enjoy being with this friend.
You are often bumping heads with your parent over how much time you spend on your homework. They insist you aren't doing your best, and you are often tired when the time comes to do it
To complete a science project, you are assigned to partner with someone who is very different from you. You think that they will likely want to go in a very different direction than you in regard to how the project unfolds.
Use skills learned in this unit, particularly those related to negotiation, collaboration, and communication to determine a plan of action. List the steps you would take or create a mind map (a diagram used to visually organize information and show relationships among pieces) showing how you would respond. In your list or mind map, be sure to account for various reactions that the other person/people involved may have.
Note: There are free websites online that allow for creation of digital mind maps, or you could choose to make one on paper.