Coming of Age Curriculum Guides
These publications provide comprehensive resources for educators, parents, and communities for meeting teens in American culture. The lessons provide learning experience for the teacher, parents and youth that are collaborative, artistic, and playful. One of the key features is the role-play scenarios developed for use by the students to work through the lesson themes.
Human Fertility
- HUMAN FERTILITY
for 10 - 12 year olds- Grades 4 - 7
- Fifteen 2 - Hour Lesson Plans
- Second Edition 2009
- $37.95
- PrintSource Seattle
Linda Knodle - Coming of Age Press This curriculum gives an opportunity for both student and teacher to address the social, emotional and spiritual questions that arise in every human being at puberty. It provides discussion, reflection, experience, and artistic expression in support for meeting many of the challenges of teens. It is a comprehensive education about the social issues in our American culture and a detailed explanation of the physiology of the reproductive organs and processes. This book contains color and black and white illustrations with detailed instructions and resources to present fifteen complete lessons, 110 pages.
I believe it is important to develop an atmosphere of openness, investigation and trust in a classroom in order to delve deeply into topics that touch upon the essence of what makes us truly human. During the first week of this curriculum, the Human Fertility lessons allow the students to inquire into the retrospective efforts of parents and teachers in their community. It builds shared experiences and draw upon the wisdom of adults seeking to foster the teen’s adolescent development. Students explore the relationships of cultural, familial and personal history with regard to pubescence and adolescence. Discussions take place surveying the opportunities and challenges facing today's youth in America through discussion and presentations by the students of current cultural images & messages. Lessons investigate stereotyping and gender bias.
The lessons of the second and third weeks help the students discover the signs of puberty common to both boys and girls. Puberty includes the changes socially, physically, in the soul & intellect. Out of this groundwork a discussion ensues covering the growth and development of the creative cycle in the female human being. The students receive a thorough presentation of the organs and processes of the reproductive systems of the male and female. The first three months of human embryology is also briefly presented. The students are challenged to reflect on when they think human life begins. The lessons conclude with a discussion about genetics and bioengineering and the moral, ethical and legal problems that arise from these topics.
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Middle School Issues
- LESSONS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL ISSUES
for 13 & 14 year-olds- Grades 8 - 9
- Fifteen 2 - Hour Lesson Plans
- Second Edition 2009
- $37.95
- PrintSource Seattle
Linda Knodle - Coming of Age Press
New Release Available Now!Lessons for Middle School Issues grew out of the Human Fertility curriculum developed for the seventh grade. It strives to provide some of the life skills and knowledge needed by eighth graders who were looking toward high school. It is clear to me that many students in middle school have a lot of misconceptions about the facts of sex, harassment, peer pressure and a host of topics tackled in this curriculum. I work in the classroom with these themes and believe our youth need knowledge and life skills that build self-awareness, self esteem and social skills. The book contains detailed instructions for preparation and delivery of fifteen lessons. The individual lessons are attended by resources, interview questionnaires and role playing scenarios. Carefully crafted, all the material in this book could be presented as faculty and parent education.
The first four lessons bring the students to some facts and experiences that encompass the threshold of truly becoming an individual. We look at the elements of an individual and that individual’s relationship to the other. The lessons show that success and self esteem is more likely if one works consciously. We sequentially dive deeper into the building of moral character and decision- making through real life scenarios played out by the students in modern day culture. We acknowledge the earthly life, the inner life and the spiritual life. The curriculum brings them to an understanding that maturity develops through experience and education and that adults have wisdom and experience valuable to them. During this first week a series of interviews take place between the students and adults to bring this evidence to the student.
The next six days are quite intimate. We explore self image, peer pressure, levels of human relationship, intimacy, and personal boundaries. Together, we define love, romanticism, sensuality, sexuality, sex, choices, boundaries, and commitment.
The third week we develop an understanding of want constitutes sexual harassment, addiction, eating disorders, & depression. The students share research of different legal and illegal drugs & alcohol including chemical makeup and the physical, social & emotional effects of their use. Finally, students discuss their points of view concerning the etiquette of telephone, cell phone and computer.
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Here is a framework for developing rites of passage specifically for the transition from childhood to young adult. The experiences of the adults who work through this conversation result in the creation of a clear step-by-step ceremony. The knowledge learned through this conversation could be applied to any rite of passage for adults as well.
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