PEACE ONE DAY COLLABORATION WITH MOROCCAN STUDENTS
Peace One Day is the life's work of Jeremy Gilley (Please visit his website at <http://peaceoneday.org>.) Juanita Sanchez Educational Complez (JSEC), has participated in commemorating this International Day of Peace (September 21) for many years. This year we are excited to share work for peace among schools in Morocco.
Peace One Day (September 21st, International Day of Peace) Collaboration
Ongoing Emails between M. Sprague and Colleagues in Morocco
On Sep 6, 2013, at 18:29, Marty Sprague wrote:
Hello all,
So excited to open communications with you all again and hope you and yours are well! I am hoping that we could have a collaboration of our schools somehow for September 21, the International Peace Day. Look at the website <http://peaceoneday.org> for some ideas, but something as simple as short wishes in written form on documents that we could send to each other to share in classrooms would be great, or even photos of what you and your students did to commemorate the day??? Any other ideas? Any other teachers you think would like to join this activity, please include them and send contact information to me. Thanks.
Samira, I know that you are not in a school any longer, so if you could send me contacts of teachers you think would be interested in a light collaboration?
Does anyone have the contact info. for Kawthar, because she was interested in collaborating as well.
All blessings to you and please respond as soon as you can. I miss you all!
---Marty Sprague
Hello Marty ,
I am glad to hear from you again after such a long time . I like the idea of celebrating the international peace day on September 21 st . Here in Morocco, We will resume work by Wednesday , September 11 . I will try to work together with my colleagues to work out a special activity for this special day. I will keep you updated with the latest news .
Keep up the high spirit
I wish you the best of luck. [Hamdi Srissar]
Dear Marty,
I hope you are doing well;
Thank so much for your email and thanks for the idea of collaboration on celebration peace one day. I will talk to colleagues and write you back soon. The 21st is so close but some colleagues who have already started school might be interested. For the public schools here school starts only Sept the 13th, so I don"t know if they have enough time to prepare something. I will put you in touch with those interested [sic]
have a wonderful year,
samira [Idelcadi]
On Sep 8, 2013, at 15:03, Marty Sprague wrote:
Hamdi,
Are these your students in the photo that you sent?
Create your own commemoration or go onto the website for some ideas and don't forget to share with us what you are doing/have done.
This is always short notice at the beginning of the year, but a good way to get right into international affairs and civic engagement.
Best wishes for a great school year.---marty
[Dear Marty]
Just four of them. We took part last August in the third edition of the international meeting of youth in Marl, Germany . By the way, I have shared the idea of celebrating the international peace day in my school with some of my colleagues. Apparently they liked the idea. We agreed on putting into action a one day program fir this event in which a teacher will share a presentation on peace with students. Then, we will have them write postcards and paint some pictures in memory to the peace day . We will see together how I am going to send the students hand wok to you. To distribute or show to your school community.
I am excited .
Best , hamdi
Dear Marty, Dear Idris,
I am happy to connect you again for a collaboration on an activity to celebrate peaceoneday . you have probably already met in CAI TIZNIT 2008.
wishing you both all the best,
samira
Hi Marty
I am glad to hear from you after such a long time and will be pleased to do some activities to commemorate this day even if it is a Saturday. I’ve already used the flag activity when I asked my students to describe what is peace for them and they came up with wonderful ideas. I think teachers all over the world should talk about peace because we really need it especially in this time when there is anarchy, civil wars which lead to the decimation of innocent people and the solutions suggested are wars again. We should all stand against these destructive decisions to create a better future for the other generations to come.
Regards,
Fatimezzahra
Hello my friends,
Idris thank you for joining us. I am so happy the Tiznet is joining in. The website to get some ideas and resources is <http://peaceoneday.org>
I am including the activities that my students have chosen to do this year and will later this weekend will follow with their first 2 reflections on peace in the world to share with your students.
Remember to share your commemoration activities with us all and with peaceoneday.org under "plans".
I am including the flash mob dance that I created in 2011. If you feel that this may be appropriate for your students, then please feel free to use the teaching video to set this up. You may adapt and adopt this choreography in any way you want. http://www.schooltube.com/video/225b31f7f2fd372234da/Peace-Day-Flash-Mob-Dance
Fatimezzahra, I showed the videos of your students explanations of the symbolic design of their peace flags and they loved them! I will also include the reflections on these flags (which are hanging on my ballet barres in my classroom).
Best wishes for peace, ---Marty
Peace One Day - ACTIONS 9.20 and 9.21, 2013
1. SOCIAL MEDIA – FACEBOOK, TWEET, TEXT, EMAIL – FIND LINK ON http://peaceoneday.org
2. FLASH MOB DANCE – REHEARSALS IN DANCE CLASSES AND HOW THE WORLD WORKS; PERFORMED AT TWO LUNCH PERIODS
3. SEND STUDENT REFLECTIONS AND ESSAYS TO MENA STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
4. ADVOCACY FLYERS POSTED AROUND THE SCHOOL
5. JSEC TEAM FOR PEACE WALK DOWNTOWN SAT. 21ST (?)
6. RUN THE 24 HOUR EVENT IN FOYER OR AT LUNCH
7. PEACE MUSIC DOWNLOADED AND MIXED FOR PLAY AT LUNCH NEXT WEEK
8. I HAVE A DREAM STATEMENTS ON “ABASSADOR FOR PEACE” CARDS (WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PEACEFUL ACTIONS) - TO BE GIVEN TO PEOPLE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND FAMILIES.
STUDENT TASKS FOR PEACE ONE DAY UNIT
1. Students will watch “The Day After Peace” film and fill out one of 2 video viewing guides. Students will share information with the other group. In table groups, students will generate civic engagement activities for the Peace One Day/International Peace Day.
2. Students will read (“Alone on the Bench”-suggested) article about how an individual positively impacted an event. Students will select an event and make a visual representation (suggested – group tableaus of events with other students “witnessing” and reflecting on the event depicted).
3. In partners, students will conduct a websearch (“Great Peacemakers like You and Me” is suggested at www.myhero.com/peacemakers). Students will share answers from worksheet with other students on the attributes of peacemakers. Students will write a short reflective piece on a personal peacemaker in their lives. Students will create a poster/nomination for their peacemaker that persuades the participants of International Peace Day to vote for their nominated personal peacemaker.
4. Students will read excerpts from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and create their own statement with the stem of “I have a dream that…”. Students will create a class, giant idea map using these statements and personal artwork [to be displayed on International Peace Day].
5. Students will create and plan civic engagement activities. Students will design and make informational pamphlets on Peace One Day movement and flyers for the International Peace Day celebration at JSEC.
6. Students will participate in the JSEC International Peace Day celebration.
7. Students will write a reflective essay on the impact of their actions to bring attention to the issue of global peace.
2. Students will read (“Alone on the Bench”-suggested) article about how an individual positively impacted an event. Students will select an event and make a visual representation (suggested – group tableaus of events with other students “witnessing” and reflecting on the event depicted).
3. In partners, students will conduct a websearch (“Great Peacemakers like You and Me” is suggested at www.myhero.com/peacemakers). Students will share answers from worksheet with other students on the attributes of peacemakers. Students will write a short reflective piece on a personal peacemaker in their lives. Students will create a poster/nomination for their peacemaker that persuades the participants of International Peace Day to vote for their nominated personal peacemaker.
4. Students will read excerpts from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and create their own statement with the stem of “I have a dream that…”. Students will create a class, giant idea map using these statements and personal artwork [to be displayed on International Peace Day].
5. Students will create and plan civic engagement activities. Students will design and make informational pamphlets on Peace One Day movement and flyers for the International Peace Day celebration at JSEC.
6. Students will participate in the JSEC International Peace Day celebration.
7. Students will write a reflective essay on the impact of their actions to bring attention to the issue of global peace.