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Seventh & Eighth Grade
LESSON
Eleven
Kinship, Connection, Love and Loss
45 Minutes
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Lesson Overview
Students will explore and discuss how grief shows up and is processed during adolescence. They will practice ways to talk about and make space for feelings of loss, and how to offer help, empathy, and kindness to those who are experiencing varying forms of grief or loss in their communities.
Lesson Objectives
- Learn strategies to discuss and make space for the painful feelings that accompany loss
- Define and explore the ways that grief shows up in adolescence
- Learn and practice ways to support a loved one going through the experience of loss
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Compassionate response reminder: Teaching prevention education helps provide students with language and tools to define and identify abuse. Often while teaching prevention education, students will disclose experiences of harm or abuse to trusted adults. This lesson is trauma-informed and has been designed to acknowledge the varied experiences students may have. Before teaching please be sure you feel equipped to respond to instances of disclosure with a compassionate, trauma-informed approach. Please also confer with other school staff on how to handle student disclosures and navigate sensitive topics raised during these lessons.
There are small group breakouts within this lesson. Be prepared to split your students into small groups.