Sanctuary A place of refuge or safety.

Agenda Brainstorm and choose your sanctuary. Describe your sanctuary. Illustrate your sanctuary. END GOAL: Become more familiar with the term sanctuary and be able to describe and explain your own sanctuary.

Plan Day 2 (Tomorrow) o Illustrate your sanctuary. o On one side, a pictorial representation of sanctuary. o On the other side, the explanation of your sanctuary. Day 1 (Today) o Brainstorm sanctuaries. o Choose the most important one. o Describe your sanctuary o Explain WHY it is your sanctuary and what it is so important to you.

Brainstorm Be specific, where are some of the places that you feel safe? Try and think of at least ten. o Your bedroom? o Your kitchen? o Your grandma’s kitchen? o The living room at your friend’s house? o The swimming pool? o The lake? o The soccer field?

Share Out Share out your list with the person sitting next to you.

Selection Look over that list. Circle the one that you think is best. o You feel the most safe there. o You feel the most comfortable there. o You wish you could spend most of your time there.

Selection Take 5 minutes and write as much as you can about your sanctuary. o Why do you like it so much? o Why do you feel safe there? o What is in there? o What does it look like? o Where is it located? o How often are you there? o How do you feel when you are there? o What are some of the sounds you here? o Have you ever taken anyone there? Why? Why not? Who? o Would you change anything about it? o What is the best part about it?

Breakdown of your senses. In your notebook, divide a piece of paper into five equal squares. Label each square for one of your senses o Touch o Taste o Smell o Hear o See You are going to brainstorm different ways your senses are engaged in that place.

TasteTouch SmellSight Hear

Adjective Help: Touch Spongy Soft Soggy Fuzzy Furry Warm Velvety Thick Tacky Moist Chilly Creepy Cold Crips Cuddly Hairy Hot Humid Icy Smooth

Adjective Help: Taste Hearty Heavy Salty Spicy Plain Rich Refreshing Roasted Minted Mild Crumbly Crispy Chewy Cheesy Chocolaty Doughy Bitter Bittersweet Fizzy Gooey

Adjective Help: Smell Savory Delicious Sweet Smoky Sweaty Stale Strong burning Burnt Aromatic Dank Fishy Fragrant Fresh Moldy Musty Perfumed Rancid

Adjective Help: Hearing Squeaky Sweet Thunderous Loud Low Harmonious Raspy Whispered Screechy High Enjoyable Faint Gentle Melodious Muffled Noisy Piercing Shrill Silent Soft Smooth

Adjective Help: Sight Elegant Disheveled Homely Long Muddy Spotless Sparkling Colorful Bloody Beautiful Alluring Attractive Bright Clean Graceful Gorgeous Glowing Plain Shiny Drab

Taste Cheesy nachos Chocolaty cake Stale air Touch Fuzzy slippers Warm Blanket Smell Salty sea air. Freshly cut grass Sweaty soccer cleats. Sight Sparkling diamonds Spotless floor Hear Screeching cars Melodious singing

Sanctuary Questions 1: Why is your sanctuary so important to you? Why do you feel safe there? (3 sentence min) 2: Who would you like to share your sanctuary with? Anyone? Explain. (3 sentence min) 3: What is the best thing about your sanctuary? What is the worst? (3 sentence min) 4: In perfect paragraph format, describe your sanctuary.

DAY 2 Agenda Revisit Sanctuaries Complete a visual representation of your sanctuary. END GOAL: Be able to completely describe and explain your sanctuary with both pictures and words.

Illustration Side 2 o Your name o Perfect Paragraph that describes your sanctuary AND explains why it makes you feel safe. Side 1 o A picture of your sanctuary.