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Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: Be That Friend

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on two often connected topics: depression and suicide. The message here is that depression need not lead to suicide. It offers information on symptoms, misconceptions, and other topics.
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Psy Com: Suicide and Suicide Prevention

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of resources aimed at helping people understand suicidal feelings, avoid suicide, and help others to avoid it.
Website
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Save, Suicide Awareness Voices of Education

For Students 9th - 10th
Information and education about suicide and its prevention. Links to facts, misconceptions, Q&As, books, and other articles on the topic.
Online Course
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Biological Basis of Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Major depressive disorder is a major cause of distress disability and death from suicide. This video examines the brain and its connection to depression.
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Do something.org

For Students 9th - 10th
Do Something is a nationwide network of young people who know they can make a difference in their communities and take action to change the world around them. As part of Do Something, young people are asked what they want to do to make...
Website
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Suicide and Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated to helping those in need of help during rough times when they may be considering suicide.
Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Postmodernism: The Confessional Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on the Confessional Poets: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Robert Lowell, who all suffered from depression which is reflected in their poems. It gives short bios of each poet and provides a link to one poem from each:...
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American Association of Suicidology

For Students 9th - 10th
The web site of the American Association of Suicidology which presents information, links, and resources dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide.
Primary
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Bonnie & Clyde's Hideout: The Poems of Bonnie Parker

For Students 9th - 10th
Written one week before their capture, Bonnie Parker penned "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde," a poem she gave to her mother for safe keeping. Read many of her poems here, including the first draft of "Suicidal Sal."