How to Deal with a Loss

Writing Activities:
1. Have you ever felt a loss?
2. How do you manage losing a loved one?
3. How would you help a friend through mourning?
4. What feelings are associated with loss?
Poems about Loss:
1. Loss and Gain by Emerson
2. One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
3. Loss and Gain by Longfellow
4. Sonnet 42 by William Shakespeare
Novels about Loss:
1. The Fault in our Stars by John Green
2. If I Stay by Gayle Forman
3. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
4. A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
5. Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
Class Activities:
1. A "Silent Conversation" about what it is like to lose a loved one
2. Read-Aloud Poetry about Loss
3. Bring in a song that describes the relationship between Cupid and Psyche
4. Read the myth of Cupid and Psyche

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	Created by per0006 over 8 years ago