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Bonus Worksheet 3: Student Activity

Writing Workshop

Name: __________________________________

You’ve learned about the effects of underage alcohol use on your brain and your body. Imagine that you are an artist writing a story on how a character’s decision about alcohol might affect his or her life. Use the blank panels in the comic strip below to finish the story that’s been started. Create two different versions of the story—one in which your characters decide to drink alcohol and one in which they decide not to drink alcohol.

Two kids are at a party where some older teens are drinking.

Comic-book illustration of a girl and a boy at a party. People at the party are drinking alcohol. The girl says to the boy, “Everyone looks they’re having a good time. I know we’re not twenty-one yet, but maybe we can try a drink.” The boy replies, “I don’t know…”

 
 
Complete the story in which characters
decide to drink alcohol.
Complete the story in which characters
decide not to drink alcohol.

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