Week of June 11 - 15th

Hi Gr.10's,

I hope you enjoyed your 'Safeteen' presentations last Friday. I look forward to hearing about them from you on Monday. Now that we are done covering the Sex Ed portion of the course, this last week we will be looking at and discussing 'Healthy Relationships'. We will be doing a number of activities and covering topics such as:

• The Influence of Media on Teens and Sex
• Peer Pressure in Relationships
• Rights and Responsibilities While Being in a Relationship
• What Makes a Healthy Relationship? / What Makes a Relationship Unhealthy?
• Deal Makers and Deal Breakers 
• Dear Gabby Advice Column
• He Said...She Said Q&A Class
• Final Mystery Box Q&A Class
• Ms.Sundin's Little Gem's of Wisdom

This will be a fun and relaxed week with highly relevant discussion on important aspects of relationships.

Hopefully we'll get through this material in good time. If we have a few extra classes I would like to show 1-2 movies that highlight issues we've discussed this term. This depends of course on time.

Let me just take this opportunity to say I have really enjoyed teaching all of you this semester and wish you all the best in the future!

My Final Last Words: "Take care, make good choices, think for yourself, resist peer pressure, don't drink and drive, 'Say NO' to drugs, and 'Be Safe'!!!"

 I hope you've learned something in this class that you can take with you into your lives beyond class.

-Ms.Sundin :)

Hi Gr. 10's,

This is a busy week. Please be prepared to present your STD presentations starting Monday. We will also have two different guest presentations this week. Here is a brief overview:

Monday
-STD Presentations
-Class will take notes on presentations in notes package (will be provided)

Tuesday
-Guest Presentation- HIV/AIDS

Wednesday (Double-block)
-STD Presentations continue
*Hopefully we can get through all or most of them

Thursday
-Finish STD Presentations if necessary
-VIDEO: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
-Mystery Box Q&A

Friday
Guest Presentation: Safeteen
ALL MORNING (Period 3 and 4)
Boys and Girls will be separated and join the boys/girls from Mr.Black's Planning Class.
Boys- Go directly to B206 (Ms.Tanino's Room)
Girls- Go directly to C101 (Mr.Mah's Room)

DO NOT BE LATE TO CLASS FOR GUEST SPEAKERS!!!

Now, please see below for the video we talked about in class on Friday. Warning: the descriptions and some images may be disturbing. However, since we just recently finished our Drug Awareness Unit I felt this was a highly relevant current event worth discussing. A fairly new form of "LSD: (Acid/Hallucinogen) nicknamed "Bath Salts" is blamed for what the media are calling the "Miami Zombie Attack". Just last week, a man clearly under the influence of these 'bath salts', went into a fit of violent psychosis and attacked a homeless man on the street- ripping off and eating parts of his face. The perpetrator (zombie attacker) was naked, because one of the effects of this drug is it causes your core body temperature to rise so much that your body over heats. I've heard it feels like your organs are melting!  Similar cases have been reported with this drug, although none quite THIS gruesome.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Ensure you get your 5-day eating logs and DPA 10 certificates in to the hand in tray on Monday if you haven't already and you have only 1 WEEK LEFT to get missing work in. My cut off day is Monday June 11th. I have to prepare report cards and have time to mark everything!!!!

See you in class on Tuesday.