"Can Drumming Bring Peace and Strengthen Our Community?"
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Drum Lesson April 25th
Students Drumming
Student responses
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Agenda
Study Buddy Assignments
Introductions and expectations
Ideas about peace: a Think/Pair/Share activity
Read literature and then Think/Pair/Share
The Painted Drum: A Ceremony
Drumming
Ticket to Leave

The Four Agreements

Use your words for peace.
Dont take things personally.
Dont assume. Be brave and ask.
Do your best.

Mrs. Griffin's 6th grade students getting the beat
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Lesson Objectives
Today you will:
Discuss and experience drumming as communication.
Read and discuss literature that reflects our human desire to have peace in the world.
Synthesize your ideas with the ideas of others to create a message of understanding and peace.
Express yourself as a global citizen, a member of the “world community”.
Discuss ways to make DMS a better community.
Participate in a primal exercise that has united world cultures throughout human existence.
Mohamadou Diakite is from Mali.
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Mohamadou was a Science teacher in Mali. He speaks French,too.

Beginning of lesson tasks:
My ideas about peace right now are:
Rate your feeling of importance to your community on a scale of 1 to 10.
Do you think you are an active member of your community or a
bystander/spectator?
Here is a short list of things that all humans on Earth care about but don't do enough about.
What do I hope I will learn today?
Share these observations with a partner.

Reading Literature Directions:
In the folder is a document which you will read either with your study buddy or silently.
Next, you will answer the following questions:
1. What kind of text is this? This is a _____________.
2. What is this text about? The _______ is about _______.
3. What is the setting, point of view and cultural overtones of this text?
This _____ is set in _________. It is from the point of view of
___________________________________________
___________________________________
The culture it shows is _________________.
4. What can I compare this text to? This __________ reminds me of a
__________________________________.
5. What is my judgement of this text? I think this ________ is
____________________________ because
__________________________________________________.
Then, using the above questions as your guide, present your text to another person on the Study Buddy Clock. (Mrs. Griffin will tell you which).
Then, together you will answer the following questions.
1. What is the important message of this text?
2. How does it relate to the concept of peace?
3. What does it inspire you to do?

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Ticket to leave task:
Write a paragraph.
Using the prompt questions below and the information from your partner
discussions, tell me your reactions to todays drumming experience.
1. Did you learn anything new today? If so, then what?
2. What can you tell others about this drumming experience?
3. Do you feel like you can do something to increase the peace in your world?
Please tell what that is.
4. What can you give to this project that will add to it? Tell me what you will do....art, a poem, sing a song, help me edited a slide show, film a skit about this experience, bring a rock to add to the "Lets Rock For World Peace Rock Garden"? (Please ask me about ChildReach, so I can tell you more about their programs.)