Pasadena Marathon and GOTR 5K
November 16th Website
Curricula Objectives
Part 2: Community
Begins with Me. Designing our Community Project
You Call It
• To provide participants with an opportunity
to make choices, review their GOTR experience and
to simply PLAY! The Girls will decide what games they
want to play with coach’s support and provision
of equipment
• To build community
Community Begins with Me
• To demonstrate the importance of upholding
the community
• To begin to understand that a community is
representative
of the circumstances and values of the people in it.
• To gain a better understanding of discrimination
and begin to consider ways to stop discrimination
Finalizing the Community Project
• To finalize the group’s community project
plan
It’s a Girl Thang!
• To increase awareness of the negative ways
in which the media portrays girls and women
• Participants will learn the specific ways
in which the media portrays women and girls in a manner
that does not place us in high esteem
• Participants will create their own poster
that counters the typical media and uplifts them into
high esteem.
Doing the community project
• To work diligently on the community project
• To have FUN!!
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
• To enjoy the last official day of Girls on
the Run before Run for a Reason and the banquet
• To administer the attitudinal post-survey
RUNNING FOR A REASON
• To complete the last group workout and provide
healthy closure to our Girls on the Run experience.
• Raise money for scholarships for other girls
to participate in GOTR
Celebration: The banquet!
• To recognize and celebrate the individual
spirit of each girl and the community established
over the course of the twelve weeks together
• To have fun and say “good-bye”
