Health, Strand 2, Day 1

Objectives:

To define and discuss stress, anxiety, and depression
To identify, describe, and provide coping techniques for individual stressors (both stress and eustress)

First 10 minutes: Meet in the Little Theater for Guided Imagery Relaxation

Daily Quotation: "Anxiety is nothing more than repeatedly experiencing failure in advance."

Write the definitions for the following terms on page 56 in your books:

Stress: Any type of change that causes physical, emotional or psychological strain
Distress: Negative stress
Eustress: Positive stress
Anxiety: a feeling of stress, nervousness, uneasiness, or apprehensiveness
Depression: Sadness, discouragement or despair over a long period of time.

Videos on Anxiety:

Quietly do pages 58 and 59 in your books. Talk about them with your table buddies

Story about Jessie Owens and Luz Long in the 1936 Olympics (Overcoming stress)