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Teacher Page Making Peace |
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| Watching or listening to the news can be very disturbing to anyone of a peaceful nature or inclination. We hear daily updates on the war in the Middle East. We hear of terrorists’ attacks on innocent civilians and children. We hear of multiple deaths as the result of a shooting in our schools as well as other nations’ schools around the world. Daily, we read of injuries and deaths resulting from road rage. While most of us can do little to stop any of this violence, we can do something to make peace more of a reality in our own world. We can get in touch with the violence in ourselves and begin to learn how to deal with that violence. In other words, while we may be powerless in stopping wars and terrorists, we can begin making peace. We do this by first of all becoming sensitized to our own tendencies towards violence or getting “in touch” with ourselves, and then learning how to effectively change those tendencies. One such activity to help us do this is the making of a Mandala, and that is what the students will do in this project. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| What can each of us do to help create peace in the world? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Access: Investigate Internet sites, books, magazines, newspapers to find symbols that tell something about themselves.
Interview different individuals and have them tell how they created peace in their own lives.
Observe art, music and literature that illustrate or tells stories about people gaining peace in their lives. Interpret: Analyze
information gathered to identify specific activities individuals use (d) to
create peace in their own life, Determine
one, two or three ways of attaining peace that best appeal to you. Analyze
art, literature and music to find pieces which illustrate the ways you have
chosen as effective personal ways to create peace in your own life. Interpret: Analyze
information gathered to identify specific activities individuals use (d) to
create peace in their own life, Determine
one, two or three ways of attaining peace that best appeal to you. Analyze
art, literature and music to find pieces which illustrate the ways you have
chosen as effective personal ways to create peace in your own life. Communicate: Publish
your mandala along with other student mandalas on a class website and ask for
feedback from people who visit the class Peace Site through email communication. Dialogue
with people who email you feedback by responding to their email. Evaluate: Critique
and update your site based upon any valid criticism or suggestions from email. |
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