Opener:
Remind students of Jeremy’s story in The Day After Peace and explain POD’s objective of bringing about a Global Truce on Peace Day 21 September 2012. Lead a whole group discussion around the following questions: • What does Truce mean? • Is it possible to have a Global Truce? • In Jeremy’s film where was there a ‘Truce’ on Peace Day and what happened as a result? • Does violence happen only in conflict zones? • What could be done in our own local community/at school/at home to mark the Global Truce on Peace Day 2012?
Record emerging ideas in response to this last question on the board. Teacher/Learner Activity 1: DVD and discussion
• Ask the class to divide into three or four equal-sized groups. • Hand out Worksheet W3: Global Truce Scoring Sheet, one to each group. • Go through the questions on the worksheet with the class. • You may also wish to hand out Resource W2: Global Truce Suggestions • In their groups, ask the students to come up with a shortlist of activities for the Global Truce.
• Activities should only be based on students’ real interests and passions. • Once each group has a shortlist of ideas from its members, ask them to answer the questions on the worksheet (scoring 1-10) for each idea.
• Ask them to total up the score for each idea and hand in the completed worksheets to you.
Teacher/Learner Activity 2: ‘Peace One Day‘ Brainstorm
Whole class discussion/Quality Control • Given that students are identifying an activity to be carried out in school or under the school’s auspices on Peace Day, it is essential that the last word rest with you your colleagues, head teacher and so forth, but with genuine input from students. The following process will encourage lively and passionate debate, as well as the need to compromise and take into account a variety of important considerations:
• If you have a white board or chalkboard big enough, draw a replica/oversized worksheet table (Worksheet W3), writing down all the ideas and scores from the worksheets or invite a student to do it.
• As each idea is totalled up, pause and invite comment from the class. Do they agree with this scoring? Do any of the scores need to be revised for that idea? Can the originators of the idea make it more inclusive so that others score it high?
• For practical reasons, you make the final call on each score. • Once all the totals have been subjected to class discussion and your own quality control, you should have a winning idea, which can be taken forward through the proper channels within the school.
• Of course, you may want to take forward more than one idea. Ultimately, the more Global Truce activities there are on Peace Day 2012, the better. Ideally, the day would be embraced by the whole school and even the community at large.
• For the future development of the chosen Global Truce activity/activities, use Resource K: Action Committee Guidelines and Resource L: Commitment Countdown Diary
• Many of the other lessons in this resource can be adapted and used as a basis for a Global Truce activity.
Plenary:
• Ask students if they feel the class has arrived at a good idea/ideas to move forward. Emphasise that today’s lesson was just the start of the process and that they will now have a chance to take further action.
• In the next lesson, perhaps as the first task of the Action Committee, the class could build a presentation to be made to the head teacher/head of year/school council.
• Look at Resource W1: Example Poster 39
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