Assignment #16: Peace Studies - engine of souls

mre · Senior Member

Assignment #16: Peace Studies

Lili D · Member

A peace study is a way to learn more about history and the people that helped it. In this Crouse u will learn bout the people that help the world get together and learn about what peace and non violence will do. Everyone will learn about the people that showed us the way to solve problems. They will also gain more education in history around the world where people risk there lives to save the world from war and find peace.

-The classes will read and get to know some of the peace makers and will write a page on it. And will choose one of them and then do a PowerPoint to on there choice

-The class will learn about the nine noble women that won a peace prize, they will also do a 3 page paper on any woman they choose

-The class will participate in the take a stand which they will learn more about there own voice, while getting in a class discussion and paper writing

-The students will also see a video on history of peace makers and do a worksheet on it and reflect on what they learned

-Major project- Students will pick any country around the world and find a peace maker from that country and do a paper on it, and also will reflect on what they learned and show the class.

-The class will read the close book and discuss the issues and will do worksheets

- The class will get to participate in an election for the next president. They will choose one of there class mates to run as the real election, and learn more about the people that are running for the real presidential election. By doing their own speeches and trying to get the other class mates to vote for them. They will also discuss what makes a good president and what dont. And write a paper on why they would vote for that president.

-Major project- Students will Choose a peace maker and Be that peace maker for a day, they will prepare speeches and will tell everyone on what they did, who they were, so the class can get a better understand what peace is and how they use none violence to make peace. They will also reflect on what they have learned

-The class will watch a movie on a selected peace maker and do worksheets.

-Students research a president of the United States and find one thing they did to make peace in the United States. They will also present what they find to the class of the class can get an understating of what the president did to help the united states be peaceful.

-The class will participate in the music in lyrics, they will be assisted music from one country and they will write a paper on what they thing the music stands for and get a better understanding of another countries music

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Krystal · Member

1) Program of studies: This course will teach students the acts of violence and non-violence and how they differ. The students will also learn what peace can do for a country or group of people. This will include opinions of multicultural groups, as well as historical stories.2) Outline: Unit 1- Students watch and take notes on Gandhi and learn about the acts of non-violence.Unit 2- Students will watch more of Gandhi and still take notes.Unit 3- The Gandhi movie will finish, and students will have a discussion and compare notes from the movie.Unit 4- The students will make charts comparing and contrasting violence and non-violence, while highlighting the pros and cons of each.Unit 5- Students will be put on teams, one being the violent team and the other being the non-violent team. They will then choose a scenario and plan out what they would do in that case.Unit 6- Students will perform their acts of what they chose to do in that certain situation. After each team has gone, they will discuss which they think would be better nowadays.Unit 7- Students will research case studies of non-violent actions.Unit 8- Students will play computer games that teach how to fight real-world adversaries.Unit 9- Students will decide whether they would prefer violence or non-violence, and write a short essay explaining why.3) Two major projects: 1.Poster board focusing on the pros and cons of non-violence. 2.Powerpoint focusing on everything the students learned.

sagitta620lyc · Member

Peace Studies Class

This Peace Studies Class will make its students aware of the violence and hate around us. They will watch documentaries and listen to public speakers and presentation. From this, they will learn of the various real life stories that occur in our countries. These stories range from school bulling to school shootings. The students will also watch documentaries that show how one can peacefully fight bulling physical and verbal. They will watch movies and documentaries such as Gahndi and they will see that it is possible to fight oppression even against the most powerful forces. They will watch movies such as Freedom Writers and Remember the Titans. They most importantly, will see that even the most different people can come together in peace.

Unit Reviews

* For each unit, the students will complete various, worksheets, written and oral reports, as well as projects and presentations.

Unit 1
Students will watch new clips from events such as L.A. Riots, Jena 6 protests, various civil rights era protests. They will see that violence and protesting is prevalent even in todays world.

Unit 2
Students will listen/watch speeches made by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Gandhi.
They will watch the movie Gandhi and Ali as well as The Hurricane. These are all famous figures of history, all of which are noted for their take in fight against racism and discrimination.

Unit 3
Students will watch the movies, Freedom Writers and Remember the Titans.
They will hear about various incidences of school bullying and school shootings.
They will learn about the infamous, Columbine High school shooting.

Unit 4
Students will learn about Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience.
They will learn also of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his work and relation to Thoreau as well as William Channing.

Unit 5
Civil Disobedience and the Dali Lama of Tibet.
They will also Listen and talk about the lyrics of John Lennon, Bob Marley, and Bob Dylan. The students will see that peaceful messages seen in the various areas of music.

Unit 6
They will learn about various sit-ins, boycotts, and non violent protests, which are notable in history for their success.

Unit 7
Students will learn of Albert Einstein the Albert Einstein Institution which works with non-violent actions (even though he was the key person for the development of the Atom Bomb.)

Unit 8
Students will watch and discuss the A Force More Powerful.
They will come to see that non-violent resistance against oppression works in many different countries and regions.

Unit 9
Students will watch and discuss the Blue/ Brown eye experiment documentary.
Through this, they will see that racism and discrimination can happen even among young children as well as adults.

Tyrell · Veteran Member

1) This Peace Studies Class will make its students aware of the violence and hate around. They will experience various struggles races/countries have gone through in the world. They will learn about indeginous people, violent confrentations, and what not.

But they will also learn about the lighter side of the world as they will see firsthand the power of peace and non violent protest.

2)
Week 1-2: Introduction to the class (They will learn a bit of how the class works)

Week 3-4: Ghandi in Africa and India (Students will learn about Ghandi and how much "butt" they didn't kick)

Week 5-6: Students will watch A force more powerful and Ghandi (Students will learn more about Ghandi and more about peaceful protest

Week 7-8: Students study/listen to the speeches made by some great
freedom fights like MLK, Ghandi, etc (Students will feel the POWER of friendship and peace through words)

Week 9-10: Students will watch Remember the titans and freedom fighters for the 214151 time (Seriously I've seen these movies to many times)

Week 11-12: Students will watch and discuss the Brown/Blue eye project then experience it thereselves (They will learn about the power of descrimination and how much it hurts)

Week 13-14: Students will learn about the African Americans struggle in America (Come on...)

Week 15-16: Students will learn of some other struggles that have happened in the world (They will learn that african americans are not the only people with problemos)

Week 17-18: The class will end in a final and the students will be able chill out for a bit (Time for cooldown plus a huge review)

3) One project will involve the students going through the Blue Eyes/Brown eyes project. Another will have students giving oral presentations about Ghandi.

mre · Senior Member

grades updated 3.30.08

jessica finnerty · Member

This course is designed to help students in the school. It's to help make people more diverse and understanding. We're aiming to end ignorance throughout this high school. This class is 18 weeks long and no tests will be given, in replacement we'll have projects and discussion groups. This is meant to expand our comfort zone. We aim to increase tolerance and decrease violence.

1-Introduction. Everyone learn about each other; where we can from and what be stand for.

2-our differences. We want to show that everyone my be similar but no one is the same. We want everyone t know that one cant tease another because of a difference because were all different.

3 a two week long project. Trace you family tree then compare and contrast to everyone in the class. Report on your findings.

4- letter to people all over the worl Write a letter to 10 other people in different counties. Next week write five letters to people all over the counrty. Compare your findings.

5-think of everything about people that annoy yo writ down why and then write the ways that yu can learn to tolerate them. Think of what they wouldn't like about you, write down how they can learn to tolerate you.

6- watch Gahandi. Discuss the movie. Debate whether or not these methods could work all the time or not.

7- discuss major problems with the school, debate ways to fix them by working together.

8- compare your old work to new work in a project. In full detail describe how your thoughts have changed and or why you still feel the same way.

9- reflect on what you learned, how will you pass this on.

Everything that we'll do will have a base on tolerance. Everything should reflect how the students feel, and what their beliefs are. What we will achieve is respact and all over tolerance which in turn should end a lot of violence in and out of school.

Jimmy · Member

Peace Studies
The Peace Studies class will focus on three major things. The first objective will be to learn all about the diffretn types of racism, sexism, and prejudice that are in the United States. It will mainly focus on the challenges that we face in our own community. The second objective will be to try and learn why people have prejudices and racisms. They will try and find out what makes a racist tick. The third objective will be to study the different peaceful methods of dealing with racism.

Unit Overview

1. Students will conduct a project on diffrent hate groups and organizations around America. They will make a poster board outlining their assigned organization's goals and history.
2. Students will study Racism leaders such as Adolf Hitler and write reserach papers on them. The papers will include parts of a biography, professional theories on why they acted the ay they did. Papers will also include a personal theory and opinion of the student on their leader.
3. Students will watch the movie Remember the Titans and learn how the characters deal with racism on thier very own football team. They will write a paper and express their opinion on the methods the coach used to bring the team together.
4. Students will study about the feminist movement and discuss the results. Whether or not the movement actually accomplished any og the goals it set out to achieve. Did things really change for women or no? They will try to answer this question.
5. Students will look at the different types of racism in our community and discuss personal experiences with eachother and the class. They will pass in a written paper on what hearing the personal experiences did for them.
6. Students will research and try to find out why people are racist. Is in all genes and hereditary? Or is it the product of the enviroment you are born into. A combo of both?
7. Studnets will conduct a research project on Ghandi and his peaceful protest methods. They will also look at the success rate of his methods. Did they make a difference without violence?
8. Students will pick out thier own topic dealing with racism and create a poster board.
9. Students will watch the Blue Eyed\Brown Eyed project. They will then conduct the project. After they will discuss how everyone felt during the experiment. Each will then write about thier experience as being the "lesser race."