Making a Respectful Appeal WEEK 14 - PART 2

Our last Bible memory verse has only ten little words, but it packs a punch:

God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

1 Peter 5:5

Which would you rather be? Proud or humble? (I hope you said, "Humble.")

We have been learning about making a respectful appeal. Here is a great way to remember the STAR Appeal. 

S is for Stop, T is for think, A is for Appeal, and R is for Respond. Those words also spell the word STAR.


Look in your Workbook p. 12-4. Olivia, read the title of the page aloud and the words just under the title. Caleb, read the STOP and THINK sections aloud. Joshua, read the APPEAL and RESPOND sections aloud.

Role Play from Workbook p. 12-5 taking turns reading Tameka's part. If you were Connie, what would you say to Tameka after she is done?

WHEN TO APPEAL

There are good reasons, as well as selfish reasons, to make an appeal. If you want to communicate facts, concerns, needs, or even desires in a respectful way, then making an appeal is a proper thing to do. If you are making an appeal just to get your own way, then you are misusing the appeal process. For instance, you might try to appeal to your father to release you from cleaning up the yard because you are feeling lazy and you would rather watch television. Selfishness is at the root of that kind of appeal, and it is not a proper use of an appeal. (C. Sande, p 174.)


1. Open your notebook to the next clean page, and put your name and today's date on the top.

2. Write your ten-word Bible verse and it's address in your notebook. Can you do it without looking at it?

3. Now write what each letter of STAR reminds us when we make an appeal. (Stop, Think, Ask, Respond.)

4. Look at Workbook pp. 12-6 and 12-7. Read through the pages and discuss these four situations that warrant an appeal. With each situation, practice the two-part appeal you learned in the last lesson. What would you say in your appeal. (Start with an "I message" and finish with a question.)

5. Here is a scenario: Your school needs new playground equipment. In order to help raise money for this project, your class has challenged the teachers in your school to a basketball game. You promised your teacher that you would design and make all the posters that would be used to advertise the "big game." But you are not good at art, and you don't know how to design the posters. You hoped to convince your big brother to do it for you, because he is so good at his kind of thing. But he can't help you because he doesn't have time. You need to appeal to your teacher to be released from the project. Use Worksheet6.jpg to work through this scenario. When you are finished, tape or glue your worksheet into your notebook.

Our next lesson will cover a more serious aspect of making an appeal.


Sande, Corlette. The Young Peace Maker Teaching Students to Respond to Conflict God’s Way, Illustrated by Russ Flint, Wapwallopen, PA 18660, Shepherd Press, 1997.

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