If your class is meeting online, invite your students to bring an index card or piece of paper, along with a pen or pencil, with them to class.
As your students enter, make index cards and pens/pencils available. Invite students to think about a time when their life changed, for good or for bad, and to write this instance down on their index card.
After all students have joined, invite volunteers to share their example of when their life changed, keeping their story to one-minute maximum. Examples: “I broke my leg skiing and was no longer able to play basketball that season” or “My parents announced last January that they were getting a divorce,” etc.
Things can happen suddenly that change a person’s life forever. For instance, a car accident that leaves a person with a limp, an overdose that causes a child to live without a parent, or a school shooting that leaves casualties and fear in its wake.
Sometimes, though, dramatic life changes can be good things.
- What kind of big changes might actually be good? (Answers will vary, but examples include: recovering from an injury, getting a new job, going to college, etc.)
Play the following video [1:36]:
Girl, 3, with cochlear implant hears parents for first time
- How do you think being able to hear will change things for Q’ela and her family? (Answers will vary. etc.)
Q’ela experienced big change with the cochlear implants—a change that allowed her to hear. A changed life…that is what today’s lesson is all about.
