OWL for Grades 7-9

• Administration

• Sessions 1, 2, and 3: Intro, Values, and Language

• • Additional OWL 7-9 activities about values

• Sessions 4 and 5: Anatomy and Puberty

• Session 6: Gender Roles

• Session 7: Disability and Sexuality

• Sessions 8 and 9: Sexual Orientation

• Session 10: Gender Identity

• • Language and gender variance: Constructing gender beyond the male/female binary (article)
  • I'm Not There, autobiography by Jennifer Boyle

• Sessions 11, 12, and 14: Relationships

• Session 13: Thorny issues in Friendship|Session 13: Thorny issues in Friendship

• Proposed OWL 7-9 Add-on Session on Relationships and the Internet

• Sessions 15 and 16: Lovemaking and Masturbation

• Session 17: Contraception|Session 17: Contraception

• • Planned Parenthood on Birth Control
  • FC2 Female Condom
  • OWL-L Condom Obstacle Course

• Session 18: Teen Pregnancy

• Session 21: Unintended Pregnancy Options

Session 22: Decisions

Questions to ask before getting involved in intercourse

• How do I feel about intercourse? When would it be right for me? Under what conditions and with what kind of person?
• How does the other person feel? How do those feelings fit with my own?
• What makes me feel I want to have intercourse right now? Is there any chance I am pressuring or exploiting them? Are they pressuring or exploiting me?
• What do I expect it to be like? What if it’s bad and I don’t enjoy it? How would I feel about myself? About my partner?
• How would we feel if others found out about our relationship?
• Do I really TRUST my partner completely?
• What if this turns in to a strictly sexual relationship and that’s all we ever do? Is that OK?
• What extra strains might come up in our relationship once we’ve had intercourse?
• How would I feel if we broke up?

- from Champlain Valley UU Society, Middlebury VT

Sessions 23 and 24: STDs

• Fact sheet on HIV & AIDS
• Listing of all fact sheets
• "It Can't Happen to Me! True Stories About Kids and AIDS"
• "The State of AIDS Today" by Christina Tourigny
• "Nonoxynol-9 ineffective in preventing HIV infection" from the World Health Organization

Books and Movies

Books:

• Elissa Webber's list of recommended GBLT books
• Elissa Webber's list of recommended love and sex books
• Laid: The Book, reviewed by Karen Rayne
• Sexpertise: Real Answers to Real Questions about Sex (2008), by Robin

Sawyer. He's a University of Maryland professor who teaches a very popular Human Sexuality course. Book is Q & A format, based on questions his students asked & what he taught, very funny & factual & conversational all at once.

Movies:

• List of Movies for OWL Groups. This is a spreadsheet of the movie recommendations that have passed through the OWL-L listserv, which leaders have found to be helpful in facilitating discussion inside and outside of the classroom lessons.
• Lost Children or Lost Parents of Rockdale County (PBS)

Parent Resources

• Cyberbullying

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