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( !JESSON 33 Grades 9-12
Objective
Learner Outcome
There are skills to practice which lead to a healthful lifestyle.
Recognize and evaluate media messages regarding sexuality.
Comprehensive
Education
Health
Topic(s)
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V Family Life Education
XI Healthful Lifestyles
Values' Integration
Reasoning: Recognize explicit and implicit meanings of messages
and images.
Respect for Self: Awareness and concern for one's sexuality as an
ingredient of personal dignity.
Respect for Others: Awareness and concern for the sexuality of others
as an ingredient of their personal dignity.
( Motivating Aètivity Students willlist two or three examples for each of these categories:
II movies
• soap operas or TV serials
Ol commercials
• music videos
• magazine advertisements
Identification With teachers,students will identify messages about sex or sexuality
conveyed in the examples cited.
These might include:
• "Everybody does if! - Having sex is okay.
(II "Sex is fun" -There are no painful consequences or risks
associated with sexual behavior.
• ,"Sex sells" - It is what makes people and things attractive.
C
Effective Communication Students will discuss how these messages are communicated:
• directly or explicitly - through the words or behavior of an
attractive person or character
.. subtly or implicitly - through images, words, or behaviors
which suggest sexual meanings or attempt to arouse sexual
interest
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