Olympic Guided Visualization

Olympic Guided Visualization 

Close your eyes and take a deep breath, in through your nose and out through your mouth. Now imagine, you are an athlete who has put years of training, dedication and commitment to experience this moment and represent your country. You take your first steps through the entrance of the building where the opening ceremony is held. You start to feel all different emotions running through your body. You feel nervous, excited, scared, anxious and proud. This is the moment you have been waiting for. You and your teammates representing your country are waiting at the entrance just before you walk into the stadium. You can see the crowd, you hear loud cheers and the chill runs through your body. You see the team in front start their walk and wave their flags and then you look behind you and see all of your teammates dressed in their uniforms. Now it’s your turn. The moment you’ve been waiting for. You walk out and have over 100,000 people on their feet cheering and waiving flags. You and your county are waiving to the crowd, snapping pictures, maybe even a selfie and dancing to the loud music.  You are there celebrating your country. You walk around the stadium embracing the moment as excitement and nerves start to take over your body. You come to realize this is what you’ve trained for. All those day, hours and minutes you’ve put into this moment. As you near the end of the opening ceremony, you realize your Olympic journey has begun!

Curriculum Connections 

Grade 6 Curriculum

Guiding Theory: Multimodal Authorship

Drama:

Overall: B1. Creating and Presenting: apply the creative process to process drama and the development of drama works, using the elements and conventions of drama to communicate feelings, ideas, and multiple perspectives

Specific: B1.1 engage actively in drama exploration and role play, with a focus on identifying and examining a range of issues, themes, and ideas from a variety of fiction and non-fiction sources and diverse communities, times

Social Studies

Specific: B1.1 explain why Canada participates in specific international accords and organizations, and assess the influence of some significant accords and/or organizations in which Canada participates