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Online Learning SuggestionsSuggestions for using online classrooms such as Google Classroom or Brightspace (D2L)
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CONTENT SECTION:
Upload the video “Omdendum - Hope” from the website and provide a link to this page.
Have students refer back to the Fisher Story and provide the link.
Upload the video: Should We Manage the Earth or Should the Earth Manage Us
http://www.helpingourmotherearth.com/managing-earth.html
Provide the quote, written by Chief Tecumseh.
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
DISCUSSION SECTION:
Consider the quote by Chief Tecumseh, what direction do these words give us in reflecting upon the direction of our lives?
ASSIGNMENT SECTION:
Investigate
Create a list of current environmental issues that are causing a negative impact on the Earth. Examples should include resource extraction in Canada such as the Tar Sands, mining, fracking, etc. Reflect on the list and share how it makes you feel.
Remember how the animals in the Fisher Story were faced with a similar situation and may have experienced some of the same emotions that you have identified. Instead of giving up, what did the animals in the story choose to do and why did they make the choice they did?
Create
Watch the video: Should We Manage the Earth or Should the Earth Manage Us
Watch the video: Mother Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWn_zETY1JQ
Reflect on what your action of hope might be in order to help support our Earth. Create a media work (collage, poster, iMovie, powerpoint, etc.) that depicts your action of hope and includes the statement “I Can Make A Difference…”.
Summarize
How is the concept of hope so important for us in how we look at the world around us?
When Isaac speaks of us being in a story right now and that we can be hopeful “to gather the strength of the spirit of this land and move forward”, what does he mean?
Upload the video “Omdendum - Hope” from the website and provide a link to this page.
Have students refer back to the Fisher Story and provide the link.
Upload the video: Should We Manage the Earth or Should the Earth Manage Us
http://www.helpingourmotherearth.com/managing-earth.html
Provide the quote, written by Chief Tecumseh.
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about their religion;
respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
even a stranger, when in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people and grovel to none.
When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
DISCUSSION SECTION:
Consider the quote by Chief Tecumseh, what direction do these words give us in reflecting upon the direction of our lives?
ASSIGNMENT SECTION:
Investigate
Create a list of current environmental issues that are causing a negative impact on the Earth. Examples should include resource extraction in Canada such as the Tar Sands, mining, fracking, etc. Reflect on the list and share how it makes you feel.
Remember how the animals in the Fisher Story were faced with a similar situation and may have experienced some of the same emotions that you have identified. Instead of giving up, what did the animals in the story choose to do and why did they make the choice they did?
Create
Watch the video: Should We Manage the Earth or Should the Earth Manage Us
Watch the video: Mother Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWn_zETY1JQ
Reflect on what your action of hope might be in order to help support our Earth. Create a media work (collage, poster, iMovie, powerpoint, etc.) that depicts your action of hope and includes the statement “I Can Make A Difference…”.
Summarize
How is the concept of hope so important for us in how we look at the world around us?
When Isaac speaks of us being in a story right now and that we can be hopeful “to gather the strength of the spirit of this land and move forward”, what does he mean?