6.3 Sacredness of life

• Meaning of sacredness of life
• Biblical teaching: Genesis 4:10-11; 9:6; Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 18:10; Proverbs 6:16-17; Matthew 6:25
• How the right to life is violated today
• Causes and effects of suicide; help and hope
• Causes of abortion among teenage girls; Psalms 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5
• Consequences of violating the right to life
• Values and life skills; safe road use; coping with stress with a resource person

• explain the meaning of sacredness of life
• elaborate sacredness of life from the scriptures provided
• discuss how the right to life is violated today
• evaluate causes of suicide in today's society
• examine causes of abortion among teenage girls
• analyse the consequences of violating the right to life
• compile values and life skills needed to uphold sacredness of life

“How do you uphold sacredness of life?”

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1. Meaning of sacredness of life
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   Explain sacredness of life as God's gift that must not be thrown away, with a help path if a learner wants to die.
2. Scriptures on sacredness of life
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   Read the set texts and summarise: Abel's blood, image of God, you shall not kill, no harming children, innocent blood, do not be anxious.
3. How the right to life is violated
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Discuss how the right to life is violated today: murder, suicide, abortion, harm to children, reckless roads, neglect — as types, not a crime-show.
4. Suicide: causes, effects, help
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Evaluate causes of suicide, name effects on family, and practise the help path: tell an adult, 116, you are not a burden.
5. Abortion: causes and scripture
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Examine causes of abortion among teenage girls and why the design calls it a sin using Psalm 139:13-16 and Jeremiah 1:5, with care not shame.
6. Consequences of violating life
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Analyse eight consequences of violating the right to life for individual and family, and debate with respect and hope.
7. Uphold life: values, roads, stress
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Compile values and life skills, compose a song on safe road use, hear a resource person on stress if available, and answer how to uphold sacredness of life.