Difference between revisions of "The Bird of Happiness"
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##Life conditions | ##Life conditions | ||
##Tibetan customs and practices | ##Tibetan customs and practices | ||
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| − | Give the students a set of pictures and can they tell a story | + | ####Give the students a set of pictures and can they tell a story |
#Idea 2 - Discussing the story | #Idea 2 - Discussing the story | ||
##The key actors | ##The key actors | ||
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##What belief systems | ##What belief systems | ||
###Activity | ###Activity | ||
| − | + | ####Students can make a mind map of what they picked up from the story | |
| − | + | ####Share the mind maps and discuss | |
| − | ###Activity | + | ###Activity 1 |
| − | + | ####Give the series of images of a scree | |
| − | + | ####Ask students to write a story | |
| − | ###Activity | + | ####Read out the stories and record and correct pronounciation |
| − | + | ###Activity 2 | |
| + | ####Make a series of pictures and role play and tell the story | ||
| + | ####Reflect on the belief systems shared | ||
#Folk Tales and how they are organized | #Folk Tales and how they are organized | ||
##Comparison with other folk tales locally | ##Comparison with other folk tales locally | ||
| + | ###Activity 1 | ||
| + | ####Show other nature cultures/ mountain cultures stories and make a comparison of the ideas | ||
| + | ####Activity 2 | ||
##Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images | ##Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images | ||
Revision as of 07:57, 11 February 2015
Concept Map
Additional Information
Life and culture in Tibet
- Tibetan landscape
- Climate in Tibet
- Images of Tibetan Life
- Tibetan People
- Barley and barley bread
- Tibet Oral History
- Tibetan food
- Religion in Tibet
- Images for Tibetan Mythological creatures
Compilations of Tibetan folk tales
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
- Idea 1 - Life, climate and culture of Tibet
- Context of the story
- Life conditions
- Tibetan customs and practices
- Activity 1
- Give the students a set of pictures and can they tell a story
- Activity 1
- Idea 2 - Discussing the story
- The key actors
- The key ideas
- What belief systems
- Activity
- Students can make a mind map of what they picked up from the story
- Share the mind maps and discuss
- Activity 1
- Give the series of images of a scree
- Ask students to write a story
- Read out the stories and record and correct pronounciation
- Activity 2
- Make a series of pictures and role play and tell the story
- Reflect on the belief systems shared
- Activity
- Folk Tales and how they are organized
- Comparison with other folk tales locally
- Activity 1
- Show other nature cultures/ mountain cultures stories and make a comparison of the ideas
- Activity 2
- Activity 1
- Translate one of the Kannada stories into English with images
- Comparison with other folk tales locally