Summary
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Developing Emotional Literacy With Teenage Boys challenges young men to acknowledge the importance of emotional development and covers behavior-related issues. Statistics indicate that males make up a disproportionate number of children with behavior problems and with learning problems, giving rise to concerns about young men's ability to maintain relationships.Providing comprehensive facilitator's notes, this research-based book, with accompanying CD-ROM, covers topics that include:Appearance Girl friends Sex Tolerance Drugs awareness Crime and punishment
Session 4: Friendship
Session 4: Friendship
Introduction
Students are asked to focus on the following question:
What words come to your mind when you think of friendship?
Students can record their views on the blank Key Words Brainstorm sheet provided, or the facilitator may wish to record students' views on a whiteboard or flip-chart.
Tip
The facilitator can model initial thoughts and responses here in order to prompt the students (see the Facilitator's Notes for some suggestions). It may also be helpful to make a thesaurus available for some students.
Brainstorm
Students are asked to brainstorm and to identify all the words and phrases that they can relate to this topic. The facilitator may choose to model initial responses again. Ideas can be recorded on the blank Key Words Brainstorm sheet provided, or ...