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Supporting Skills For Managing Feelings
Anger
management. Dealing with frustration. Dealing with grief and anxiety. Coping
skills for dealing with loss, abuse, trauma.Anger management. Dealing with
frustration. Dealing with grief and anxiety. Coping skills for dealing with
loss, abuse, trauma.
Write an essay explaining the things that make
you worry about your family, your school and your country today and how would
you like these things to be in the future.
(activity 2/understand
feelings)
When we are sad or confused, we just need a word
of encouragement from a friend. You are all part of the "global community".
Good friends love and protect each other. You know how your friends want
the world to be better. What can you do to help them make the world better?
(question
3/understand ways of managing feelings)
Write an essay expressing your ideas and your
feelings toward having a better future for all.
(activity
2/understand difference between ideas and feelings)
Choose one day this week and write a journal
entry for every hour on the hour. Take short notes during your learning day
describing where you are and what your feelings are at the time. If you are
in a learning situation that you really enjoy tell us why you like it. Be
sure to describe your feelings in greater detail that evening.
(activity 1/understand
own feelings)
How do you feel when someone respects you?
(question 2)
Share experiences of prejudice, when you felt
it and when you showed prejudice if you have.
(question 7)
Do you feel that people judge you by how you
look, talk or dress?
(question 8)
Write a short story
about a new student in a school who has recently moved from another country.
Be sure to use good descriptive words to capture the emotions new students
in a school might feel.
(activity 5)
How would you feel if you couldn't go to school
with your friends from your street but had to go to another school only with
handicapped kids? (question
5)
Get a partner from
your class. Use a handkerchief. Have your partner blindfold you. Do this
for one hour at school. Reverse the rolls. Write about how you felt being
blindfolded and what you missed the most.
(activity 1)
How do you feel in school? Is it a happy place
to be? It is stressful? Are students kind to each other? How do you want
your schoolmates to treat you? How do you think that you should treat them?
(question 18)
Do you feel that you are challenged to think?
Are you learning things that have meaning for you? Is your school helping
you with all your educational needs?
(question 19)
How would you feel about not being "chosen" as
somebody's friend? (question
4)
Do you know how it
feels not to have a friend?
(question 9)
Did you get any of your own words on the list
for the group or class? How did you feel when you did? If you didn't get
any of your words on the this list, how did you feel?
(activity 1)
Have you ever lost a close friend or family member
because of death? How did you lose this person? How did you feel at the time?
Was the loss sudden or was your loved one or friend sick for a long time?
(question 1)
What did you do to get through the feelings of
loss? Did you talk with others? Who can you talk to about these things when
you are sad? (question
2)
Did you try to stay very busy so you wouldn't
think too much of your loss? How can staying busy help you deal with loss?
(question 4)
Perhaps you haven't lost a friend or family member
by death but you have experienced the death of a pet you loved very much.
Do you think the death of a pet can be very upsetting? If you have ever lost
a pet through death how did you feel? How did you deal with this sadness?
Does getting a new pet help take away the sadness you feel?
(question 5)
What things can help you feel better when you
are sad about the death of a friend, family member or pet?
(question 6)
How do you now feel about the loss of your friend
or family member? Does the passing of time help us feel better when we are
sad because we have lost a loved one? Have your feelings changed very much
since you lost the person? If so, how?
(question 7)
How do you feel about death? Are you afraid to
think about it? Do you often think about death when a loved one is ill? Would
you like to share your thoughts with some of the others in your class or
with all of us working on this project?
(question 8)
Do kids whose parents get divorced sometimes
feel like they have lost a parent because they are not living with both parents
anymore? What can they do to deal with this "loss?"
(question 9)
Has an older brother or sister or other family
member moved to another city? Do you see them as much as you did before they
moved? Does this make you sad? What can you do to help you stay close to
friends and family members who move away?
(question 10)
How can we deal with anger when loved ones are
killed by accidents?
(question 12)
Do you think it is OK for kids to cry and be
sad or angry when they lose a loved one?
(question 13)
In groups, talk about memories of people that
were important to you and died. Please write down your thoughts about losing
a family member or a friend. Even if this hurts, try to tell us all about
it. Describe how he/she was (face, smile, words... ), what you remember most,
your feelings and thoughts when you first heard, what you have done to overcome
the sorrow and pain, and how you feel today. Write it as a story or a poem.
Please remember to send your texts to the list.
(activity 1)
Draw a picture of the loved one who is now gone.
Try to show in the picture the special things about this person or pet whom
you miss. (activity 4)
Pretend you have lost
a loved one in an accident caused by someone. Write a letter to this person
and express how you feel.
(activity 5)
How do you feel about this travel if you must
do it? Must you go with your family? Do you ever feel that you are too old
to travel with your family? Would you rather spend holiday time with your
friends instead? (question
5)
Are there holidays celebrated at your school
that you are not allowed by your religion to participate in? How does this
make you feel? (question
8)
Do you ever feel that your culture is under attack?
Do you feel that your culture is changing or losing its identity because
it is assimilating elements from other cultures? Share these concerns and
ask the other students in our mailing list how they feel.
(question 12)
Ask your parents or grandparents if they remember
when the TV and radio came. How did it change their lives? How do you think
they lived without these inventions? Share your feelings on this topic with
your online friends.
(question 11)
The Discussion Questions
are about participants' feelings while travelling
(did you like it? what did it make you feel?)
When you are leaving, what will you miss? What
have you learned? Have you made new friends? Do you feel that you are comfortable
with kids in a different place?
(activity 14)
What stories are you going to tell when you come
home? What was most exciting? Frightening?
(activity 15)
What did you feel coming back home? Some people
say "There is no place like home". Do you think that is true?
(activity 18)
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