Lesson 10.5: Relationships and Violence

Overview

This lesson focuses on understanding the ways in which relationships can be violent.

Learning Targets

  • LO20: Compare and contrast abuse and neglect.
  • LO21: Identify signs and symptoms of child abuse.
  • LO22: Explain how domestic violence usually begins and identify the consequences of domestic violence for the victim.
  • LO23: Provide examples of how coercion and sexual coercion may be used in a relationship.
  • LO24: Explain how to recognize and protect yourself from human trafficking.

Preparation

For the Warm-Up Activity: Write the Journal Question on the board or identify (and copy as needed) the worksheets you plan to use:

For the Content Focus: Open the Lesson 10.5 PowerPoint slides or make copies of the Lesson 10.5 Note-Taking Guide.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Making Healthy Decisions.

Warm-Up Activity

Select a warm-up activity to help get your class focused and on task.

  • Journal Question: How often does the media you use portray violence in romantic relationships? Do you think these portrayals reflect what happens in real life? Why or why not?
    • Option: Write or project the question and have students respond in their journal or on their “bell ringer” sheet as they enter class.
    • Option: Have students discuss the question with a partner or in a small group.
  • Vocabulary Review: Have students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to complete the Lesson 10.5 Vocabulary Review Worksheet.
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 10.5 Quiz to assess their prior knowledge.
    • Option: Collect the quiz and use it alongside a posttest to demonstrate student learning.
    • Option: Have students share their answers with a partner and then go over the answers together as a class.

Lesson Content

Review the content from the textbook lesson.

Lesson Focus: Making Healthy Decisions

  1. Provide each student with a copy of the Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Making Healthy Decisions.
  2. Allow students to work individually or with a partner.
  3. Have students complete the worksheet. Remind them to use a good decision making process as they work.
  4. Have students share their decisions with the class. Compare responses and reinforce effective decision making and safe relationships.
  5. As time allows, have students write their own scenario and to use the decision making process to come to a safe decision.

Challenge Activity

Have students needing an additional challenge work on the following Thinking Critically task.

Research human trafficking and write a paragraph analyzing strategies to avoid becoming a victim of human trafficking. Consider which strategies would be most effective.

Reflection and Summary

Review the critical content from today’s lesson. Review the learning targets and ask students to answer each question posed.

Can you...

  • Compare and contrast abuse and neglect?

    Abuse is a type of violence that can be physical, emotional, or sexual in nature. Neglect happens when a person’s basic human needs, such as food and medical care, are not being met.

  • Identify signs and symptoms of child abuse?

    Child abuse can involve physical, emotional, and sexual abuse as well as neglect. Physical abuse can result in broken bones, bruises, and burns. Emotional abuse of a child happens if the child is not shown love or affection or is shamed, teased, or bullied. Emotional abuse can leave a child withdrawn and anxious. Sexual abuse happens if a child is forced to engage in any sexual contact or activity. Sexual abuse can make a child afraid of being touched or the child may engage in inappropriate touching of others. Neglect involves failing to provide basic needs to the child such as clothing, food, and medical care.

  • Explain how domestic violence usually begins and identify the consequences of domestic violence for the victim?

    Domestic violence occurs in romantic relationships or marriages. It usually begins with verbal insults and controlling behavior. The victim often suffers physical injuries resulting from assault, battery, rape, and even murder. Emotional injuries, such as anxiety and depression, often occur as well.

  • Provide examples of how coercion and sexual coercion may be used in a relationship?

    Coercion can be used in any relationship for one person to control another or to get what they want from the other person. Coercion can happen when one person makes another feel like they owe them something or when they use pressure, even though the other person said no. Coercion often leads to abuse and violence.

    Sexual coercion is similar to coercion in that the person is being pressured, but in this example, it is to have sexual contact with the other person.

  • Explain how to recognize and protect yourself from human trafficking?

    Signs of human trafficking may include signs of physical injuries and abuse, lying or not answering questions, spending time with someone older, and appearing to be in poor physical or mental health.

    People can protect themselves by paying close attention to their personal safety, avoiding walking alone or going to public places alone, not giving out personal information, and avoiding being romantically pursued by an older individual who tells you not to tell anyone about it.

Assessment

Complete one or more of the following assessment tasks for this lesson.

Take It Home

Research your community’s available resources including local hotlines for victims of child abuse and sexual exploitation. Provide a brief explanation of each service and how it can be contacted. Show your list to someone in your family to see whether they know of any other resources you should add.