Breakfast Club

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Breakfast Club
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Breakfast Club
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Terms to Know

• Big If Conditions
• Cliques Two essential ingredients
• Person expects the group will fulfill his need
  for belonging
• Group puts expectations or conditions regarding
  membership
• Slab of Concrete
• Whatever offers false security
• An attachment to an object, behavior or
  conditional relationships that substitute for our
  deepest desires for love, belonging, and God

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Two questions that face each person

• Who am I?
• How do I fit in?
• Problem Most of asks the second question and
  then hide our real selves from others in order to
  fit in with others.
• Reality We are multi-faceted individuals.
• In each of us, there is

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brain
criminal
athlete
basketcase
Prince/princess
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Single-dimensional Masks

• Listen to each of the characters words.
• How does what
• They say,
• How they dress,
• Their attitudes about sex, academics, other
  cliques, sports, drugs
• indicate what each of the characters believes is
  the price of fitting in with his or her
  particular clique? (Slabs of Concrete)

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Small Group Activity

• Describe attitudes, preferences, lifestyle,
  relationships, actions, activities the characters
  have
• What hinders them from being multi-dimensional?
• How does each fear hinder them?
• Which fear is operative?
• Give two examples of how fear is operative?
• Why do they tolerate and support each other?

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Mr. Vernon
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Brian
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• Academic excellence
• Academic clubs
• Parents wet dream
• Interested in politics
• Virginity is not macho
• Trade courses are for dopes
• Friendly to all
• Respectful of administration

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John Bender
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Claire
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Allyson
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Andrew
Why does he smoke secluded from the others?
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Single-dimensional Masks

• How does what the students say, how they dress,
  and what opinions they hold about sex, academics,
  other cliques, sports, and drugs, indicate what
  they believe is the price of fitting in with his
  or her particular clique?
• (Slabs of Concrete)

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• What hinders them from being multi-dimensional?
• How does each fear hinder them?
• Which fear is operative?
• Give two examples of how fear is operative?
• Why do they tolerate and support each other?

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• How does Bender engage in turf wars to protect
  his slab of concrete?
• When does he take the risk of truly revealing
  himself.
• How are their lunches representative of them?

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• What will happen on Monday morning when the teens
  see each other at school?