How to Deal with a Loss

How to Deal with a Loss

1. Writing Activities:

   • Have you ever felt a loss?
   • How do you manage losing a loved one?
   • How would you help a friend through mourning?
   • What feelings are associated with loss?

2. Poems about Loss:

   • Loss and Gain by Emerson
   • One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
   • Loss and Gain by Longfellow
   • Sonnet 42 by William Shakespeare

3. Novels about Loss:

   • The Fault in our Stars by John Green
   • If I Stay by Gayle Forman
   • Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
   • A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
   • Til We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

4. Class Activities:

   • A "Silent Conversation" about what it is like to lose a loved one
   • Read-Aloud Poetry about Loss
   • Bring in a song that describes the relationship between Cupid and Psyche
   • Read the myth of Cupid and Psyche