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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNAuvquh4O4

http://www.inyatrust.com/editor/uploads/7/5/2/9/7529832/185003695108296584_10th_english_question_bank_-2014-15.pdf
=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= {class="wikitable"
 * 1) Idea 1 - Life, climate and culture of Tibet
 * 2) Context of the story -Where is Tibet?
 * 1) Life conditions
 * 2) Tibetan customs and practices
 * 3) Activity 1
 * 4) Give the students a set of pictures and can they tell a story
 * 5) See the following link for how you can tell a story from photographs.
 * 6) Idea 2 - Discussing the story
 * 7) The key actors
 * 8) The key ideas
 * 9) What belief systems
 * 10) Activity 1
 * 11) Students can make a mind map of what they picked up from the story
 * 12) Share the mind maps and discuss
 * 13) Focus on words used, understanding of vocabulary
 * 14) Discuss multiple interpretations
 * 15) Activity 2
 * 16) Make a series of pictures and role play and tell the story
 * 17) Reflect on the belief systems shared
 * 18) Sections of the stories can also be given to students for rewriting/ interpretation
 * 19) Activity 3
 * 20) Give the series of images of a scree
 * 21) Ask students to write a story
 * 22) Using images of scree to write a picture book
 * scree4.jpeg
 * For a sample of a story using pictures of a scree, click here.
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 * 1) Folk Tales and how they are organized
 * 2) Comparison with other folk tales locally
 * 3) Activity 1
 * 4) Show other nature cultures/ mountain cultures stories and make a comparison of the ideas
 * 5) Activity 2
 * 6) Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images
 * 1) Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images