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Dating and courtship

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Term: 1st Term

Week: 7

Class: Senior Secondary School 2

Age: 16 years

Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each

Date:       

Subject:      Home management

Topic:-       Dating and courtship

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:            

  1. Distinguish between dating and courtship
  2. State the importance of courtship.
  3. Asses the guidelines for healthy boy/girl relationship
  4. Identify procedures for engagement

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES

PERIOD 1-2

PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITY

STUDENT’S ACTIVITY

STEP 1

INTRODUCTION

The teacher reviews the previous lesson on sexually transmitted diseases

Students pay attention

STEP 2

EXPLANATION

She distinguishes between dating and courtship and states the importance of courtship 

Students pay attention and participates

STEP 3

DEMONSTRATION

She further highlights the guidelines for a healthy boy/girl relationship and procedures for engagement

Students pay attention and participate

STEP 4

NOTE TAKING

The teacher writes a summarized note on the board

The students copy the note in their books

 

NOTE

DATING/COURTSHIP

Courtship is more serious and traditional than dating. It involves getting to know your partner with the expectation that marriage is the end goal. Dating is a broad term that can mean many things, including casual dating or being in a long-term relationship.

 

IMPORTANCE OF COURTSHIP

  1. Courtship gives chance to man and woman to appreciate each other’s physical appearance i.e beauty, this gives them joy.
  1. Courtship helps to understand each academic level and know the intellectual support they should get from each other for a better living.
  1. Courtship tests one’s patience and endurance because if one is able to wait for that specified period of time, then she/ he is ready to marry.
  1. Courtship helps the couple to establish each other’s health status through medical tests and observance, this helps one to accept each other’s health status without affecting the marriage
  2. They also come to understand each other’s status so that by the time they come together, they prepare for the financial constraints.
  1. Courtship is a time when they express love for one another like visiting, exchanging gifts and sharing inner feelings to one another. This helps to cement their relationship.
  1. Courtship helps the partners to know each other’s family background and appreciate each other leading to making a commitment from an informed point of view hence building a stable relationship.
  1. Courtship helps the couple to know their religious beliefs and get to find and agree on how to handle the identified differences in their relationship.
  1. Courtship helps to introduce relatives to each partner. This rules out the possibility of committing incest and draws closer commitment to one another.
  1. Courtshipis the time when the two share experiences in life like problems and how they intend to live together with them.
  1. Courtship helps the two to understand, identify and respect each other’s likes and dislikes (individual hobbies} this helps in determining as to whether the partners will in future share their leisure time together.
  1. Courtship enables parents of the concerned to advise or guide and give blessing to the children intending to marry, this leads to marriage
  1. Courtship helps the two people to recognize their cultural differences that they have e.g. language, food eaten, way of dressing etc. this helps them to adjust accordingly.

 

GUIDELINES FOR A HEALTHY BOY/GIRL RELATIONSHIPS
1. Saying “no” to sex before marriage

  1. Saying “no” to negative pressures from friends, relatives and family
  2. Mutual respect. Respect means that each person values who the other is and understands the other person's boundaries.
  3. Trust. Partners should place trust in each other and give each other the benefit of the doubt.
  4. Avoid late night outings and being alone in secret with the opposite sex.
  5. Be careful about the kind of friends you make or go out with.
  6. Children should learn to talk to adults about inappropriate comments or behavior made to them by friends or strangers.
  7. Children should focus on the friendship aspects of boy–girl relationships rather than boyfriend/girlfriend relationships.
  8. Set goals for yourself; be determined and focused on them and do not be distracted.
  9. Read together in a general library and hold discussions in open spaces.
  10. Learn to understand situations correctly. Run away from people who have suspicious intentions towards you.
  11. Think about the future and talk about your mutual interests together.
  12. Take part in religious activities and communal effort

 

PROCEDURES FOR ENGAGEMENT

  1. Step one: Determine if you're ready for marriage
  2. Step two: Talk with your partner.
  3. Step three: Plan the proposal.
  4. Step four: Shop for a ring.
  5. Step five: Propose to your love!
  6. Step six: Announce the engagement

 

EVALUATION:    1. Discuss the meaning of sexually transmitted diseases

  1. State the types and causes of sexually transmitted diseases
  2. How can sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS be prevented and controlled?
  3. Discuss ways we can care for people infected with STDs, HIV/AIDS

CLASSWORK: As in evaluation

CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively