Activity 1: Vocabulary

What is a connection? Review the vocabulary word first. The first step to spirituality is connecting to something more than just yourself. 

• Show students any selected pictures of nature and art, and play a classical song while they look at these pictures. Have them think about how these images and music make them feel. 
• What does it connect them to? 
• They can shout out rapid answers to help other classmates brainstorm and think of more ideas. 

Activity 2: Grammar

What does it mean to imagine something? Review the vocabulary word “imagine” first. Then introduce the future tenses by using “will” and “going to”

•  What is the main difference?

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• Elicit some examples of the future tense “will” and “going to” before starting the activity.
• I will be a doctor.
• I will live in Alaska.
• I will have a large family.
• I am going to be happy.
• I am going to graduate from college. 
• Students are going to perform “The Deathbed Test.”
  • Share their answers with a partner.
  • “I wish I would have______” 
  • “I wish that I ______”
• First, have them imagine their BEST selves in 10 years: What will they be doing? Who will they be? How will they feel? Where will they be? 
• Then, have students imagine themselves at their funeral. They are going to think about what they wish they would have done better or changed. 

Activity 3: Speaking

What are values? Review the vocabulary word first. 

• Read the first part of this handout Values Clarification together so that students can have a better understanding of what is involved with values and why they are important. 
• Have students rank their values according to the instructions. They might not know some words. They can use the dictionary to help them.
• Values Exploration: Use the following Values Discussion Cards. In pairs or small groups, have students pick some of the discussion cards to ask each other.

Activity 4: Speaking

What is a role-model? Review the vocabulary word first.

• Show some examples of a spiritual role-model such as Ghandi or Mother Theresa. This is someone who has good values and character strengths such as love, compassion, forgiveness, honesty, temperance, patience, etc.
• Let students pick their own role-model. They will spend a few minutes finding a picture and preparing a short presentation to summarize the following:
• Who is this person? 
• What did this person do in his/her life that shows good values or character strengths?
• What do you want to do to be like this person?
• Depending on the class size, the students can all take turns presenting for the class as a whole, or for a smaller group.

Activity 5: Listening/Speaking

What does it mean to let go in a hard situation?

•  Is it hard to forget this?

• •  Why is letting go important?
  •  Give an example: A friend said something mean to you and decided to become friends with someone else.
  •  Letting go means that we don’t “hold on” or “hang on” to our emotions or bad feelings.
  • Interpret these quotes in groups:

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• Forgiveness
• As a final thought to the class, if there is extra time, you can have the students listen through a forgiveness meditation. The audio is found at the bottom of this link retrieved from: soundcloud.com (Full website:Forgiveness Meditation)