Some students will
enter a grade without Personal Development from the previous
grades. So there is a revision component at each grade.
Broad overview for each grade.
Families – nuclear and
extended
Needs of family members
Rights and
responsibilities of family members
Choosing a husband or
wife
Role models & self
esteem in family, community,
school and
work place.
GRADE 9
Unit 1 growth of a child from baby to
adulthood.
Unit 2 needs of a young child, abused children and healthy
living for a young person.
Unit 3 - Marriage, domestic violence in families, monogamy, problems of
polygamy, rights of women and girls, violence of some mothers and sisters
in-law against a man’s wife.
Unit 4 - Causes of HIV, pathway of HIV virus, physiology of the human body - heart
and blood vessels, immune system, liver, kidneys, with male and female reproductive
system.
Onset of AIDS, weight
loss, memory loss, dementia, antiretroviral (ARV) medication, rules of
treatment, timely commencement of ARV, immunity of the virus through medication
default, first and second line of drugs and death.
Dangers of cholera,
polio, measles, tuberculosis and malaria.
GRADE 10
Unit 5 - Revise units 1-4.
Unit 6 - methods of contraception, pregnancy
and birth, woman to attend anti-natal clinic, HIV test early in pregnancy,
positive nutrition, no smoking or alcohol, exercise, physiology of pregnancy, preparations of the mother for
birth with rights and wrongs of abortion.
Unit 7 – education and employment before marriage, need of married couple to
support and be supported by family, role models to children and extended family
members with family planning and danger of kwashiorcor, immediate steps for a
raped woman.
Unit 8 - Nutrition – fruit, vegetables,
grains and nuts, importance of protein in meat and plants, benefits and dangers
of vegan lifestyle, clean water, reduction in blood sugar that leads to
diabetes two, dangers of lipodystrophy for HIV sufferers on ARV, dangers of
breast, skin and colon cancer, dangers of betel nut in onset of cancer.
Unit 9 – role models in family, schools, workplace, and community, family
values, universal values, importance for values in society, extreme hate groups
such as Klu Klux Clan and Neo-Nazis, rise of anti-semitism across the world,
rise of political, sexual and religious cults.
GRADE 11
Unit 10 - Revise units 1-9
Unit 11 – Gender rights across the world. Christian and Islam gender roles for
women, break-down of families across the world, drug trafficking in the world,
killer drugs for young people, paedophile attacks on children, serial killing
of women in the USA, rights and wrongs of capital punishment.
Unit 12 – gender violence in Pacific countries, violence to women and girls?
Violence to men and boys? Sexual violence to women and girls in Moslem
countries, legalization of sex workers, effects of family break-down, lowering
of the age of consent, gay and lesbian rights, social rejection of paedophiles,
Papua New Guinea and same sex marriage.
Unit 13 – Christian faith, Catholicism and Protestantism, different views on God
and Allah, compare values promoted by Christians, Moslems, Hindus and
Buddhists. Is there truth in ancient legends? modern theories on aliens
visiting earth in eons past.
GRADE 12
Unit 14 – revise units 1-13.
Unit 15 – future of the world with global warming, supersonic arms race between
US, Russia, Iran, North Korea and India, overpopulation of the world and destruction
of plants and wild life, extremist politics to rise in all nations and search
to put people on Mars.
Unit 16 – Importance of family, freedom of opinion for world citizens, universal
values to remain, wars of the future, global warming to cause nations to be
covered in water, loss of food and clean water, loss of wild life and domestic
stock.
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