Loss & Grief links to English

Understanding life changes result in loss and grief 

Change - pages 22-23

Grief reactions - page 24

Grief stories (video) - page 24

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

7 - thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Reactions to loss and change 

Grief reactions - pages 25-26

‘Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 28

Extension activity - page 27

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Reaching out, reaching in 

How to help - pages 29-30

Helping yourself, helping a friend (handout) - pages 31-32

Helping a friend - page 30

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Helping friends 

Types of support - pages 33-34

Giving advice - page 34

Dear Dr Wright letters (handout) - page 36

Seeking help - page 35

Newspaper article (handout) - page 37

What to say - page 35

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

7 - thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Feelings and fears 

Different fears - page 38

Similarities & differences in our fears (worksheet) - page 40

Ranking fears - page 39

My fear (worksheet) - page 41

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts.

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Grief in a zoo community: funerals and grief rituals 

Exploring grief - page 42

Newspaper article (handout) - page 44

Funerals - page 43

Newspaper article (handout) - page 45

Research - page 43 

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

7 - thinks critically and interpretively using information, ideas and increasingly complex arguments to respond to and compose texts in a range of contexts

8 - investigates the relationships between and among texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Loss: a universal experience 

Change and loss - page 46

Feelings - page 47

Categories of loss (handout) - page 48

Holmes-Rahe survey of loss (worksheet) - page 49

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Grief is normal 

Change and stress - page 50

‘Normal’ grief reactions (handout) - page 52

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Understanding loss in response to death 

Different deaths - pages 53-54

Determinants of grief - page 54

Determinants of grief (student handout) - page 55

Determinants of grief (teacher information) - page 56

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

10 - questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness

Supporting grieving friends and relatives
(2 lessons) 

Grief reactions - page 57

Masculine and feminine grieving patterns - pages 58-59

Unhelpful strategies (handout) - page 60

Guidelines for being a supportive person (handout) - page 61

1 - responds to and composes increasingly sophisticated and sustained texts for understanding, interpretation, critical analysis and pleasure

2 - uses and critically assesses a range of processes for responding and composing

4 - selects and uses language forms and features, and structures of texts according to different purposes, audiences and contexts, and describes and explains their effects on meaning

5 - transfers understanding of language concepts into new and different contexts

6 - experiments with different ways of imaginatively and interpretively transforming experience, information and ideas into texts

9 - demonstrates understanding of the ways texts reflect personal and public worlds

10 - questions, challenges and evaluates cultural assumptions in texts and their effects on meaning

11 - uses, reflects on, assesses and adapts their individual and collaborative skills for learning with increasing independence and effectiveness