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Lesson 3: “People Who Love Me Will Care About Me”

I. PICTURE 

Mind Picture

Teachers: Read the following questions to your students, pausing occasionally to give time to envision details.

“Picture in your mind a person that loves you. How do you know they love you? How do they show their love? What do they do for you? Think about and picture all the things this person does to show their love for you. How do you feel when they are doing these things for you?"

Now take some time to have the students write their ideas in their notebook or draw pictures. Some may even want to share their ideas.

II. PRINCIPLE 

1) Have the students draw a person they love. Under the picture list some ways the student shows their love for them. Have the students refer back to the Triangle of Happiness and fill in a name on the corner labeled “Someone to love.”

2) Discuss the idea that gifts can come in non-tangible forms. Some examples: the gift of listening, the gift of laughter, the gift of a compliment, the gift of solitude, the gift of a cheerful disposition, the gift of appropriate affection, the gift of a favor, etc. Have the students think of someone they love. Have them decide on an intangible gift they could “give” that person. Students may draw a picture of a gift in their notebook and inside the gift; write what that gift is that they are going to give their loved one that week.

3) Discuss the fact that at their age it is not appropriate for someone to ask or force them to engage in “bad manners”. Their bodies are not to be used for that purpose at this time. Sexual advances are not appropriate ways of showing love to children. Give the children the right to say “no” if someone forces them in this way. 

III. PRACTICE

Dramatizations

•  Divide the class into three groups. Have students look at the pictures at the beginning of the lesson and have each group pick a picture and act out what they think is happening. Have them demonstrate the picture using appropriate displays of anger or affection.

•  Have the students think of someone they love and have them write a scenario about a way they can show their love and then dramatize it.

IV. PLEDGE

Have the students write a pledge in their Stay Alive Notebook:

I, _______________________, pledge that I will do
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this week to help someone I love to be happy.

V. PARENT/GUARDIAN PARTICIPATION


Lesson 4: “I Will Not Do Anything to Hurt People I Love”

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