Coming of Age Curriculum Guides

These publications provide comprehensive resources for educators, parents, and communities for meeting teens in American culture. The lessons provide learning experience for the teacher, parents and youth that are collaborative, artistic, and playful. One of the key features is the role-play scenarios developed for use by the students to work through the lesson themes.

Just Released!

   

HUMAN FERTILITY
for 10, 11, 12, 13 year olds – Grades 5-8

Fifteen 2-hour Lesson Plans

Lesson Topics:

  • Coming of Age in Indigenous Cultures
  • Comparison of the Past with Modern Experience of Adolescence
  • American Culture, Stereotyping
  • Communication & Cooperation
  • Signs of Female and Male Fertility, Body, Social. Emotional, Self
  • Study of Reproductive Systems
  • Beginning Embryology
  • Choices and Limits
  • When Does Life Begin?
  • Survey of Present Medical and Genetic Research of Human Reproduction

$24.95

Linda Knodle
Bennett & Hastings Publishing

Available Now

HUMAN FERTILITY

Linda Knodle
Bennett & Hastings Publishing

LESSONS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL ISSUES
for 12, 13, 14 year-olds - Grades 7-9

Fifteen 2-hour Lesson Plans

Linda Knodle
Bennett & Hastings Publishing

A comprehensive resource for educators, parents, and communities for meeting teens in American culture. These lessons provide learning experience for the teacher, parents and youth that are collaborative, artistic, and playful. One of the key features is the role-play scenarios developed for use by the students to work through the lesson themes.

Lesson Topics:

  • Defining Culture
  • Stereotyping, Communication
  • Self Image, Peer Pressure
  • Personal Boundaries
  • Sensuality, Sexuality, Gender, Sex
  • Relationships, Intimacy, Love
  • Choices and Limits
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Alcohol, Drugs, and Sexually Transmitted Illnesses
  • Depression, Addiction, Eating Disorders
  • Telephone and Computer Etiquette

Available in Late 2007

 

Lessons
for
Middle School Issues



Linda Knodle
Bennett & Hastings Publishing

 

     
Other Works in Progress    
     

MODERN PUBERTY RITES
Community Conversations

Part of the Creating Ritual Series of booklets

Linda Knodle
Coming of Age Press

Here is a framework for developing rites of passage specifically for the transition from childhood to young adult. The experiences of the adults who work through this conversation result in the creation of a clear step-by-step ceremony. The knowledge learned through this conversation could be applied to any rite of passage for adults as well.

Available in 2008

 

Creating Ritual Series

MODERN PUBERTY RITES

Linda Knodle
Coming of Age Press

     

RITES FOR ELDER WOMEN

   
     

FEMININE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Educating and Celebrating your Daughter on the Journey to Womanhood

   
     

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT & CURRICULUM

The Relationship between the Waldorf Curricula and the Developing Social Human Being: Grades One through Eight

   
     

A HEART CENTERED SOCIAL HUMAN BEING CURRICULUM SERIES

Part One: Addressing Sexuality

Part Two: Experiences for Adults & Children (Prenatal - 8 Years Old) in the Family

Part Three: Experiences for Adults & Children (9 - 13) in the Classroom and the Family

Part Four: Experiences for Adults & Children (14 - 28) in the Classroom and the Family