Lesson 9

Lesson Title: "Encouraging Family Unity"

OTHER RESOURCES:

• Resource Guide for Young Women Manual 3 at lds.org.

OBJECTIVE:

Each young woman will encourage and strengthen unity in her family.

PREPARATION:

1. Provide paper and pencils for the class members.
2. Provide pieces of rope, twine, or yarn with one frayed end to use in the demonstration and to give the young women at the conclusion of the lesson. Be sure the rope has several strands that can be easily separated and broken. Practice the demonstration before presenting it.
3. Prepare copies of the situations in the third section of the lesson.
4. Assign young women to present any stories, scriptures, or quotations you wish.
5. Note: Be sensitive to the needs and feelings of young women who may come from troubled homes.

ATTENTION GETTER:

Give a piece of rope to a young woman. Ask her to try to break it using any method except cutting. Then illustrate to the class how the rope can be broken by breaking one strand at a time.

Teacher presentation:
Explain that a family has the same characteristics as this rope. A family is strong when all its members are working together and, like the rope, cannot be broken easily. But when individual members no longer work in unity with each other, the family becomes weak, just as the rope did, and can more easily be broken. Everyone in the family benefits when individual members are working together.

LESSON:

CONCLUSION:

Encourage the young women to decide on a way in which they could increase the unity in their families this week. Hand out pieces of paper and pencils, and have them write down the thing they have selected.

HANDOUT:

Give each young woman a piece of rope. Ask her to tie it to the doorknob of her bedroom door. Every time she leaves she will be reminded to do her part help make her family strong to have unity.

MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA: