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WHO ARE YOU?
Who are You? said the Caterpillar (repeatedly).
ANIMAL ETHICS + Multicultural Perspectives And Diversity:
NATIVE AMERICANS
1-23 “Who is Your Animal Guide?+ Project One Instructions
TODAY'S GOALS:
[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics. Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.
*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
[2A2c] To practice tolerance for diversity for personality types and races/ethnic groups (African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native-Americans our prime examples), thereby advancing the goals of the Multicultural Perspectives and Diversity required flag courses [2C].
PROJECT ONE GOAL:1C] IMMEDIATE PRACTICAL GOAL: to understand how to read and follow directions;GOALS RELATED TO Blogs:[2E] Writing + preparing students for [2B] the technological revolution; [2E3]. experience writing as discovery learning. [2E7] get a taste of the new world-wide writing, the instant publication of web writing. [2E8] practice the new multimedia writing which appeals to multiple intelligences, the right as well as the left side of the brain.
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY SPECIFIC GOALS
[2I1] “to know thyself.” [2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities);
[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
ACTIVITIES:
Dass Guided Imagery focused on sending light and love
"Best and Worst" for 2nd half of alphabet, beginning with Veronica
Quiz: Must get two questions right or -10 without a valid blog this week
finding your animal guide, which guided imagery to use?
TODAY'S YOUTUBE VIDEO, DONATED BY ISABEL
homo sapiens vs. other animals
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:
Black Elk Speaks ....................................................... 928-956
Vizenor introduction...................................................957-959
Vizenor, "Squirrel" ......................................................960-964
Totemism and Power Animals, some definitions……….965-968
Animal Speak……………………………………………………969-979
Animal Guides.....................................................................980-983
Power Animals contents…………………........984-985
Animal Guides table of contents………………………………986
PowerAnimals in Ultima, Potter, Black Elk ..........................987-989
. New Age Guided Meditations -- need to put aside scepticism and disbelief temporarily and ACT AS IF you are willing to try this approach
Steven Farmer
Shamanic
Denise Linn
hawk's shape as it flashed by instructor at Waller Creek;
video of visit of red-tailed hawk to instructor at Waller Creek
videos of instructor "flying"; seeing from, feeling the perspective of red-tailed hawk
RECOMMENDED READING: more of Bless Me Ultima, Harry Potter, and Black Elk Speaks
REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: you and animals
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LOOKING AHEAD:PROJECT ONE INSTRUCTIONS
CONTEXT OF POWER ANIMAL ASSIGNMENT:
PowWow at U.T: the animal connection:
drumming cf. Austin PowWow drumming UT male dancers Mouse Female Dancer Little Girl Old Gourd Dancers
U.T. Powwow Movies and Images
Austin PowWow movie
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