Skills For Adolescence - Life stories

We drew timelines of important events in our lives and then compared them.

WALT see how our lives are like each others.

1.      Everyone remembered really bad and good things (especially bad).

2.    Most people have had close calls (been very sick or had dangerous accidents etc).

3.    People have remembered birthdays.

4.    Everyone has things in common.

5.     Most people have had dramas e.g. floods, deaths, breakups.

6.    Most people have visited and/or lived in lots of different places.

7.     People remembered special information about their birth.

Why learn this?

Because WALT see people as people – not objects.

1.      We don’t feel like we are the only ones to have faced problems.

2.    We can help each other out because someone who had already handled a problem might have ideas to help others.

3.    We can become closer to each other when we understand each other.

4.    When we understand others we can be more forgiving and include other people more.