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Grade 6: Who Am I?
Objectives: To increase appreciation for the uniqueness and worth of each individual; Outline: A. Sexuality Defined Key Concepts: Each stage of life brings new changes and challenges.
Grade 7 - Fertility Awareness (Sessions separate for boys and girls)
Girls’ Lesson Objectives: To promote an understanding of and a respect for female fertility. Outline: A. Fertility Key Concepts: A clear understanding of and respect for fertility brings many benefits. Boys’ Lesson Objectives: Outline: A. Fertility E. Fertility and Chastity Key Concepts: A clear understanding of and respect for fertility brings many benefits. Grade 7: Prenatal Development Objectives: To instill an appreciation and respect for the power to procreate. Outline: A. Conception and the First Week of Life Key Concepts: Each person is unique and special. Grade 7: Peer and Parent Relationships Objectives: To increase appreciation for the family and to increase awareness of the growth that the family provides. Outline: A. Parent Relationships B. Peer Relationships Key Concepts: The family provides for the needs of its members in all dimensions.
Grade 8: Dating - Things to Consider
Objectives: To help adolescents recognize the importance of friendship in the dating experience. Outline: A. Friendship Key Concepts: The development of friendship with both sexes is a valuable task for an adolescent.
Grade 9: Practicing Chastity
Objectives: To promote friendship development as the essential reason for dating. Outline: A. Chastity Defined Key Concepts: Sexual identity involves all the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual elements of a person.
Grade 10: The Skills of Chastity
Objectives: To recognize responsibilities to ourselves and to others. Outline: A. Recognize the Responsibility of Chastity Key Concepts: A responsibility is a moral obligation that considers consequences and morals.
Grade 11: Healthy Relationships
Objectives: To develop a sense of self-confidence in chaste relationships, application of self-control, assertion of personal rights, and recognition of the rights of others. Outline: A. Being Yourself and Appreciating Others Key Concepts: Everyone is special and worthwhile.
Grade 12: Preparation for Courtship and Marriage
Objectives: To foster dating relationships based on mutual respect and self-discipline to form the foundations for lasting, committed and loving marriages. Outline: A. Intimacy Key Concepts: Friendship is a key component of lasting marriages.
Additional Presentations Available on Request:
I. Television and Movies Objectives To make adolescents aware that too much television is generally detrimental to their well-being. Outline A. Films and television as an influence Key Concepts Television has the power to influence in a positive and negative way. II. Rock Music and Videos Objectives: To assist young people in evaluating the positive or negative impact of current popular music. Outline: A. Music and Emotion Key Concepts: Music can affect human beings physically. III. Advertising Objectives: To recognize that advertisers design commercial messages to sell a product through association with images. Outline: A. Advertising Defined Key Concepts: Advertisers use a variety of techniques to help sell a product. IV. Pornography: Grade 12 only Objectives: To affirm that sexuality is normal and a good part of being human. Outline: A. Sexuality Key Concepts: Sexuality is a good and normal part of being human. V. The Internet Objectives: To inform students about valuable information available on the Internet. Outline: A. What is the Internet? Key Concepts: The Internet has the power to influence in a positive and negative way.
Public School Program
Grades 6-12: Core Presentations
To identify oneself as a human being of value in all dimensions.
B. Adolescence and the Five Dimensions - physical, intellectual, spiritual, social and emotional
C. Dealing with Feelings
D. You are Special
Each person is made up of five dimensions - physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social.
Sexuality is who you are. It touches every dimension of your being.
Adolescence is a time of growth in all dimensions. It is a process unique to each person.
No one grows up alone. We depend on our families for support and guidance.
Friendship is important. We can influence and support our friends in positive ways.
We can handle emotions in a constructive way.
To develop attitudes of responsibility, modesty, chastity and a holistic, healthy understanding of sexuality.
To encourage healthy and positive emotional and physical development.
B. Puberty
C. Procreative Anatomy and Physiology
1. Female Fertility
2. Menstruation
3. PMS
D. Myths and Misconceptions about Fertility
E. Fertility and Chastity
Changes following puberty are natural and normal.
Each person has their own individual rate of growth and development.
Fertility must be treated with care and respect.
Living the chaste lifestyle has many advantages.
Understanding how physical change affects how we feel helps us to better handle our moods, and control our emotions.
To promote and understanding of and a respect for male fertility.
To develop attitudes of responsibility, modesty, chastity and a holistic, healthy understanding of sexuality.
To encourage healthy and positive emotional and physical development.
B. Puberty
C. Procreative Anatomy and Physiology
1. Male Fertility
2. Male Hygiene
D. Myths and Misconceptions about Fertility
Changes following puberty are natural and normal.
Each person has their own individual rate of growth and development.
Fertility must be treated with care and respect.
Living the chaste lifestyle has many advantages.
Understanding how physical change affects how we feel helps us to better handle our moods, and control our emotions.
To establish respect for our sexuality by emphasizing the relationship between sex and procreation.
To renew respect for the miracle of life.
To enhance the realization that people are special because they exist, not conditional on the expectations of others.
To recognize the value of the new life developing in the womb.
B. The First Trimester
C. The Second Trimester
D. The Third Trimester
E. Prenatal Care
F. Father’s Role
G. Birth
Prenatal growth is the first stage of development in life.
All of our physical traits are determined at conception.
The growth of the unborn baby is fascinating.
The unborn baby has many abilities and can respond to stimuli.
Changes occur in the mother during pregnancy.
Proper nutrition and prenatal care are important.
The father’s role is important during and after the pregnancy.
To help adolescents in nurturing friendships that help develop a positive identity.
To help adolescents identify and combat the peer group’s power to enforce conformity.
To lead adolescents to recognize the qualities of genuine friendship and discover ways to foster it directly with individuals and within positive peer groups.
1. The Family is Important
2. The Family in Today’s Society
3. Building Strong, Loving Families
4. Communication within the Family
5. Your Responsibilities
1. Friendship Qualities
2. Building Friendships
3. Peer Pressure
4. Positive Peer Groups
Parents are a valuable source of love, support, guidance and values.
Although today’s society places many stresses on the family, we can continue to strive to build strong, loving families.
Building friendships takes time and involves the development of social skills.
There are many ways to resist negative peer pressure and to build positive peer groups.
Adolescents can engage in rewarding and wholesome activities within their family and within their circle of friends.
To help them establish standards of conduct and decision-making during dating.
To enable students to recognize sources of support as they face issues related to friendship and dating.
To introduce the concept of chastity as the only truly positive and healthy lifestyle.
B. Dating Defined
C. Reasons for Dating
D. Levels of Dating
E. Ready for Dating
F. Staying Chaste
Many creative, healthy activities can be undertaken in a group.
The delay of single/serious dating has many advantages.
Dating is a time for decision making. Every decision has consequences.
There are many positive purposes for developing friendships with the opposite sex.
Dating guidelines should be established with parents.
Sexual feelings are controllable.
There are many advantages to practicing chastity.
To provide a foundation upon which adolescents can practice chastity as a positive lifestyle.
To initiate student consideration of skills needed to live a chaste lifestyle.
B. The Freedoms of Chastity
1. Freedom from Physical Consequences
2. Freedom from Emotional Consequences
3. Freedom to Develop to Your Fullest Potential
4. Freedom from Sexual Manipulation
5. Freedom to Build Positive, Personal Relationships
C. Responding to the Pressures
D. Renewed Chastity
E. Living Chastely
We can use sexual powers to support and enhance self-worth.
People must take responsibility for their own actions. Sexual behavior is a decision.
Teens can handle pressure to be sexually active assertively.
The chaste lifestyle brings many freedoms.
Unmarried sexual involvement can interfere with future goals.
Anyone who has already become sexually active can stop and practice chastity at any time.
Sexual feelings are controllable. Handling sexual feelings and relationships in a loving, respectful and controlled way is called chastity.
To develop effective skills to improve communication with family, friends, and dating peers.
To gain confidence in being assertive, especially in dating relationships.
To enable students to act upon a positive decision for chastity.
B. Make a Commitment to Practice Chastity
C. Learn to Communicate Assertively
D. Apply Assertiveness to Relationships
Chastity is a responsibility and a virtue.
One’s sexual lifestyle is linked to moral values and has a profound influence on family, society, and moral values.
Sexually active teens can make a commitment to practice renewed chastity at any time.
Effective communication is the cornerstone to successful relationships with others.
Students can learn assertive behavior as an effective tool in dating relationships.
To recognize that within healthy relationships of dating exist fundamental personal rights and responsibilities, including chaste behavior.
B. Respecting and Developing Values
C. Caring for Physical and Emotional Health
D. Being Free from Manipulation
E. Saying “No” to Pressure
F. Practicing Chastity
G. Ending and Letting Go of Relationships
You are the total of all dimensions - physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual and social. You deserve respect for the complexity that makes up YOU.
We all have values in life. They are a reflection of who we are. We need to develop our values and ensure others respect them.
You have the right and responsibility to care for your physical and mental health.
Healthy relationships are free from sexual manipulation.
You can say “no”. You have the responsibility not to ask.
You have the right and responsibility to practice chastity.
Teens can end unhealthy relationships in a respectful way.
To explain the benefits of chastity in serious dating relationships and marriage.
To distinguish between serial dating relationships and courtship. To develop an understanding of why delaying serious dating relationships until one is ready for marriage is advantageous.
B. Genuine Love
C. Compatibility
D. Marriage and Building a Family
E. Chastity and Courtship
A courtship relationship means that one or both partners are considering marriage, not that they are sexually active.
Committed, lasting, loving marriages are possible, even in today’s society.
Sexual intercourse in marriage is not only a physical expression of intimacy, but also a symbol of love, commitment and fidelity.
Reserving sexual contact for marriage has many advantages.
It is not possible to put love “on trial”.
It is possible to remain chaste before marriage.
It is possible to make a new commitment to chastity even in a serious relationship where the partners have been sexually active.
A serious relationship is not marriage.
To attract adolescents to a lifestyle more creatively interactive than that provided by television.
To encourage students to be assertive selectors rather than passive respondents to television and movies.
To help students become critical of the sexual values portrayed on television and in movies.
B. Research on Television Viewing
C. Film and Television As An Escape from Reality
D. Values and Sexuality
E. Evaluation and Selection
Television viewing is generally a passive human activity.
Adolescents can learn to think critically and evaluate the messages conveyed by television and movies.
Excessive television viewing is generally detrimental to the well-being of a person.
To help adolescents define standards in their music selection that will enhance the positive influence of music on their lives.
B. Music and Basic Themes
C. Music Videos
D. The Value of Chastity in Music
E. Evaluation and Selection
Human beings respond emotionally to music.
Music conveys messages that are emotional and intellectual in nature.
Messages can be found in the lyrics of music.
Adolescents can learn to think critically and to evaluate the messages conveyed by music.
To encourage adolescents to purchase through product evaluation rather than product association.
B. The Influence of Advertising
C. Themes in Advertising
1. Portrayal of men and women
2. External appearance
3. Personhood ignored
4. Sex sells
5. Diverse sexual behavior
6. Portrayal of youth
D. Evaluation and Response
Advertising portrays images that are positive and negative.
Adolescents can learn to think critically and to evaluate the messages conveyed by advertising.
To explain the impact of pornography on our perception of men and women, and on our own sexuality.
To understand the correlation between pornography and societal problems such as rape and child molestation.
To understand the addictiveness of pornography.
B. Pornography Defined
C. The Spread of Pornography
D. The Effects of Pornography
E. Regulating Pornography
F. Response to Pornography
G. The Reaffirmation of Positive Sexuality
Pornography has a negative impact on men, women, adolescents and children.
Pornography is an addictive medium.
To help students discern helpful Internet use from harmful exposure.
To show students how to avoid inappropriate material on the Internet.
To encourage students to clarify their values regarding information available on the Internet.
B. Regulating the Internet
C. Protecting Yourself on the Internet
D. Values and Sexuality
E. Evaluation and Selection
There are ways to avoid harmful information on the Internet.
There are ways people can protect themselves on the Internet.
Adolescents can learn to think critically and determine their values regarding the Internet.