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Mi Nah Complain!
Health & Family Life Education
Theme: Sexuality and Sexual Health
Grade 9
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson students should be able to:
Knowledge: Explain at least five benefits of sexual abstinence.
Attitude: Display positive empowering behaviours while promoting
strategies to maintain sexual abstinence.
Skill: Demonstrate critical-thinking skill to use sexual abstinence as a
protection for future endeavours in a manner that shows empowerment.
Sexual Pressure - Empty Words
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REFLECTIVE
How can I
QUESTIONS maintain
sexual
abstinence
?
What can I do to
empower myself to
control situations
that may negatively
impact my ability to
remain abstinent?
CONTENT
SEXUAL Benefits of
ABSTINENC Sexual
E Abstinence
The practice of 1. It costs nothing and
refraining from has no side effects.
some or all forms 2. Allows for mental,
sexual activites for cognitive and emotional
various reasons maturing
3. It eliminates the risk
such as health,
of pregnancy and STIs
financial, religious, 4. Increases trust in a
medical, social, relationshiP
legal and 5. Emotional stability
psychological. 6. Completion of
education which leads
to job security
STRATEGIES TO
MAINTAIN
ABSTINENCE
● Establish your goals and remain
● Discuss your feelings with a
focused on them.
trusted adult.
● Surround yourself with peers
● Stay away from materials that
who have similar goals and
include sexual content -music,
values.
books, websites
● Set limits on how you are willing
● Get involved in extra-curricular
to express affection, without
activities
getting involved in any form of
● Avoid high pressure situations.
sexual activity.
HFLE LIFE SKILL & VALUE
CRITICAL
EMPOWERM
THINKING
ENT
SKILL To enable your
The ability to think capacity to become
clearly and rationally stronger and more
about what to do or confident in having
what to believe. control over specific
aspects of your life
To be empowered does not occur
instantly, it is a process that is similar to
a path or journey that an individual
develops working through each phase.
PLEASE NOTE
To maintain abstinence with all the
sexual influences and pressures,
teenagers need to be empowered to
ensure their actions and thought
processes are in alignment with
refraining from sexual activities.
EMPOWER
MENT TIPS
● Know your values
● Set positive goals for the future
and make a plan towards those
goals
● Educate yourself about your
body and sexual and
reproductive health issues
● Take control and avoid high-
pressure situations
● Practise saying “No”
STEPS
1. Identify the argument or problem that
needs to be solved.
2. Collect the information required to
understand the problem and facts that
are aligned to it.
3. Evaluate information collected.
4. Using logic to draw your conclusion to
solve the problem.
5. Evaluate your logical conclusion
Use the steps
of critical
thinking skill How did Ashley
use critical
to process the
thinking to
maintain sexual
abstinence?
video.
How can you
use these
What kind
strategies were
strategies to depicted in the
empower video to help
yourself? mainitain
sexual
abstinence?
Focus on Step
4 in Critical
Thinking Skill
Using logic to
draw your
conclusion to
solve the
problem.
What strategies can be used to
maintain sexual absitinence?
SEXUAL ABSTINENCE
VISION BOARD
ASSIGNM
ENT Ø The label, Sexual Abstinence Vision Board
must be present
Create a Sexual Abstinence Vision Board
that you will use to empower yourself. Ø Create a mapping using the steps of critical
These guidelines will be given:On a broad thinking to outline your path/jounrney to
piece of cartridge paper pasted on maintain sexual abstinence
cardboard or a computer programme to Ø For each step, use pictures, diagrams,
do the following. inspirational quotes, songs, etc. to provide
answers for each step
Ø For the last step, include your goals you want
to achieve in the next 10 years.
Ø Be very creative, so that your vision board
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