The Bird of Happiness

=Concept Map=

=Additional Information=

Life and culture in Tibet

 * 1) Tibetan landscape
 * 2) Climate in Tibet
 * 3) Images of Tibetan Life
 * 4) Tibetan People
 * 5) Barley and barley bread
 * 6) Tibet Oral History
 * 7) Tibetan food
 * 8) Religion in Tibet
 * 9) Images for Tibetan Mythological creatures
 * 10) For a sample of Tibetan music click here.

Compilations of Tibetan folk tales

 * 1) Folk Tales and Ethics-1
 * 2) Folk Tales and Ethics-2
 * 3) More folk tales
 * 4) More Tibetan stories

=What is this story about=
 * About a Tibetan village where people where poor and suffering (discuss reasons and the role of natural resources in human life)
 * A boy's search to help his village
 * About the boy's virtues, ethics and how that helps the village
 * We are introduced to the customs in the village
 * Names and characters in the Tibetan mythology

=Language used in the story=
 * Translated text (talk about the Sino Tibetan family of languages)
 * Who is the translator?
 * Some vocabulary specific to mountains
 * Some vocabulary which is a slang is also used (for grandfather, etc)
 * Written in the past tense
 * Third person narrative

=Teaching Outlines=

Idea 1 - Life, climate and culture of Tibet

 * 1) Context of the story -Where is Tibet?
 * 1) Life conditions
 * 2) Tibetan customs and practices

Activity 1

 * 1) Give the students a set of pictures and can they tell a story
 * 2) See the following link for how you can tell a story from photographs.

Idea 2 - Discussing the story

 * 1) The key actors
 * 2) The key ideas
 * 3) What belief systems

Activity 1

 * 1) Students can make a mind map of what they picked up from the story
 * 2) Share the mind maps and discuss
 * 3) Focus on words used, understanding of vocabulary
 * 4) Discuss multiple interpretations

Activity 2

 * 1) Make a series of pictures and role play and tell the story
 * 2) Reflect on the belief systems shared
 * 3) Sections of the stories can also be given to students for rewriting/ interpretation

Activity 3 Telling a story from images
For a sample of a story using pictures of a scree, click here.
 * 1) Give the series of images of a scree
 * 2) Ask students to write a story
 * 3) Using images of scree to write a picture book
 * scree4.jpeg

Activity 4 Making audio narrations

 * 1) Extend activity 2 by adding voice
 * 2) If you are interested, you can add music also

Activity 5 - Text comprehension worksheet
Please click here for comprehension and grammar activities.

Activity 6 - Build vocabulary using Kanagram

 * 1) Use Kanagram tool to build word lists and play games.

Activity 7 - Speak Well
Expressing gratitude



Tell a story looking at this picture

Idea 4 - Folk Tales and how they are organized

 * 1) Comparison with other folk tales locally

Activity 1

 * 1) Show other nature cultures/ mountain cultures stories and make a comparison of the ideas
 * 2) Race of the rivers is a story from Meghalaya about how a plain got its river. Compare ideas
 * 3) Native American folklore

Activity 2
Click here for a Kannada story.
 * 1) Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images