PC Lesson Plan

Lesson aim: The aim of this lesson is to give students an opportunity to practise skills in resolving conflict and focus on what forgiveness is.

Recap: The Friend-O-Cycle and how to talk it out (on Google slides below)

This week: Choose relevant scenarios from the slides for students to role play in pairs - ask students to respond to positive and negative reactions. Although they may feel awkward doing it, it is a good way to remind themselves of the steps for when it happens in real life.

Game: Forgiveness

• Say to your students, “We’re going to play a little game called: Stand Up Sit Down! You ready? Let’s go… Stand up if you’ve ever made a mistake. Sit down if you’ve ever done something you regret. Stand up if you’ve ever said something you didn’t mean. Sit down if you’ve ever been angry with a friend. Stand up if you’ve ever hurt a friends feelings.” Get them bopping up and down with lots of examples of how we are all imperfect and mess up sometimes.

• Then say, “Congratulations! Guess what this means!? You’re all HUMAN!” Explain that being human means that we’re not perfect. We all mess up, make mistakes, fail, have hard days, do things we regret…

• Ask them, “Are your friends HUMAN too? Yep! Just like you, they make mistakes too!”

• Show them the Friend-o-Cycle and remind them of Friendship Fact #1: No friendship (or relationship) is perfect. Explain that today you’re going to be focusing on the Forgive & Forget phase on the Friend-o-Cycle.

• Ask them, “What does FORGIVENESS mean?” Reinforce that forgiveness is about ‘letting go’ and moving forward in a friendship.

• Ask your students, “What do we have to do before we get to Forgive & Forget?” Remind them that we can only get to Forgive & Forget if we Talk-it-Out until the Fire-is-Out. Once we’ve done that, then we can let it go and move on.

• Have a discussion around how it feels when we forgive. Prompt them by saying, “Have you ever forgave someone before? How did it feel? What words come to mind?”

• “Forgiveness helps us feel lighter and soar in our friendships”

Success criteria: Students apply the steps of talking-it-out with a friend through role-plays and practise how to respond to positive and negative reactions. Students will analyse what forgiveness means in a friendship, learning how to move forward in a friendship.

Resources Required

Laptop and projector