A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women

<p>This guide for girls and young women ages thirteen to twenty-one tears down the negative images presented in various media of African American youth and young adults.</p><p>While it's intended to be read with an adult mentor it can also be used by individuals who want to grow and develop on their own.</p><p>If you're a young female you'll engage in fun activities including:</p><p>��� Listen to Stevie Wonder's song Isn't She Lovely and then using the letters of lovely write a meaning for each letter to describe what is lovely about you.</p><p>��� Read the poems Mother to Son by Langston Hughes and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou and explain how encouragement is defined in each poem.</p> <p>��� Read 10 Challenges That American Women Still Face Today on the Ms. magazine website and list three challenges you face now or are likely to face in the future.</p><p>You'll also learn how journal writing can be an appropriate strategy for problem solving when talking it out with a friend parent or other adult doesn't seem possible.</p><p>Change the way you look at yourself others and life with <I>A Ninety-Day Empowerment Journal for Young Women.</I></p>