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Remember
September 11
Middle
School (6-8)
Lesson Plans
Facing
Personal Feelings (rm01)
Objectives
Students
will:
- Identify
a range of personal feelings.
- Demonstrate
healthy ways to redirect uncomfortable thoughts.
- Identify
activities that can be fun.
Purpose
To
help students:
- Understand
their personal feelings following a tragic event.
- See
that a wide range of feelings is normal.
Key
Terms and Concepts
- primary
- secondary
- triggers
- mural
- imagery
- Pablo
Picasso
- evoke
- uncomfortable
thoughts
Activities
- "Coloring
Your Feelings"
- "The
Tragedy of Guernica"
Home
Connection
Linking
Across the Curriculum
Descrption
Following
a tragic event, a young person's view of the world
as a safe and predictable place is temporarily
lost. Students become afraid that similar events
will happen again and that they or their family
will be injured or killed. The damage, injuries
and deaths that can result from an unexpected
or uncontrollable event are difficult for most
young people to understand.
Positive
reactions from parents and other adults following
any traumatic event can help young people recover
more quickly and more completely. Adults need
to remember that middle schoolers express their
feelings and reactions in different ways. Some
young people will become withdrawn and unable
to talk about the event, while some will talk
incessantly, providing lots of gory details. Others
will feel intensely sad and angry at times and
at other times will act as if the disaster never
happened. Don't be surprised if some students
don't seem to be affected by what they have seen
and heard. Not everyonehas immediate reactions;
some have delayed reactions that show up days,
weeks or even months later, and some may never
have a reaction.
Files
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Lesson
Plan
Activity
Sheet 1
Activity
Sheet 2
Activity
Sheet 3
This
Lesson Plan was contributed by the American Red
Cross.
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