Junior High Resource Index

			Junior High Resource Index

About Your Sexuality

Author: Deryck Calderwood

Theme and Description

A comprehensive program on human sexuality. Contains leaders' guides; audiovisual aids; resource books for leaders, participants, and parents; pamphlets; and games. The 12 units include Femininity and Masculinity, Male and Female Sexual Anatomy, Conception and Birth, Birth Control and Abortion, Masturbation, Lovemaking, Sexual Minorities in Society, Opposite-Sex Friendships, Same-Sex Friendships, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and an AIDS Supplement (1989). Also included are guides for a parent orientation program and a section called "How to Begin the Program."

Beyond Pink and Blue

Exploring Our Stereotypes of Sexuality and Gender

Tracey Robinson-Harris and Ritch C. Savin-Williams

Theme and Description

Invites participants to examine our cultural understandings of gender identity and gender roles, sexuality and what it encompasses, and how stereotypes and prejudice influence the way we think and act as males and females. Through small group work, experiential exercises, and discussions, participants assess their own attitudes, actions, and feelings about gender roles and identity.

How Can I Know What To Believe?

Authors: Charlene Brotman and Barbara Marshman

Theme and Description

Helps young people explore, formulate, and articulate their attitudes and beliefs about people in the Bible, God, death, and Unitarian Universalism. Explores humanist roots through the history of great ideas and the lives of Erasmus, the Buddha, Bertrand Russell, Margaret Sanger, Felix Adler, and others.

How Others Worship

Author: B. June Hutchinson

Theme and Description

A study of the beliefs and practices of Judaism and several mainline Christian groups. Beginning with Judaism before the birth of Jesus, the program traces the rise of Christianity, the Roman Catholic church, and the subsequent fracturing that produced the Protestant movement. The format includes visits to different houses of worship, and, usually, attendance at a worship service.

Messages in Music

Unitarian Universalism for Junior High

Author: Elizabeth May Strong

Theme and Description

Explores ways in which the UU Principles and Purposes are expressed and violated in our society. Using contemporary music as a focus, young people learn to incorporate and express UU values in their lives through two projects--a musical presentation and a congregational worship service. The first part of the curriculum focuses on the Principles, the second on the Sources of the living tradition.

Race to Justice

A Racial Justice and Diversity Program for Junior High

Authors: Jose' A. Ballester Marquez and Robin Gray

Theme and Description Promotes self-esteem, reduces prejudice, and affirms racial, ethnic, cultural, and familial diversity. Directly addresses the definition and nature of racism in age-appropriate ways, engages participants in hands-on activities, and builds community.