Accompanies Lesson 24
Objectives
Students will:
- Discriminate between friendship and romance.
- Recognize responsibilities of friendship and romance.
Teacher Notes
Help students understand that two men or two women can be "just friends" or can have romantic feelings. It is their personal business. This is equally true for a man or a woman.
Teaching Questions
The people in this picture are friends. They are enjoying some time relaxing together. They share the same interests and keep each other company. They do not always agree. When this happens, they make up quickly because the friendship is valuable to both of them. Friendships can be with same-sex or opposite-sex people.
- What else do friends do together?
- How do you know if someone is a friend?
- What responsibilities do friends have to each other?
- How does friendship differ from romance?
- When people feel more romantic they usually want to spend some time alone, touch in more sexual ways, or think a lot about the other person. Friendship is a good thing if two people are responsible. Once in a while it turns into romance. Romance is good if feelings are shared by both and the relationship is responsible.
LifeFacts Assessment
Point and Ask: Can two women be friends? Two men? A man and woman? Sometimes friendship grows into romance. Can that happen to two women? Two men? A man and woman?
Important: These Teaching Questions reflect only part of the instructional content presented in the LifeFacts: Sexuality Teaching Guide. Please, carefully read the corresponding lessons) in the guide prior to instruction. We recommend that teachers develop their own discussion questions to fit the functioning levels of specific student audiences and supplement them with other materials as appropriate. Only heterosexual intercourse is illustrated in this manual. Bring in other resources as necessary to supplement your instruction for gay and lesbian students.