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November 2000
http://www.tolerance.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html
Teaching Tolerance magazine is distributed free twice a year. Text from the Teaching tolerance magazine can be downloaded from the internet.
Curriculum resources include the free video-and-text teaching kits America's Civil Rights Movement and The Shadow of Hate, which chronicle the history of hatred and intolerance in America and the struggle to overcome prejudice. A third teaching kit, Starting Small, is a teacher-training package for early childhood educators.
Other Teaching Tolerance resources include a free set of eight full-color One World posters with teacher's guide. The project offers grants of up to $2.000 for K-12 teachers and a one-year research fellowship for educators with strong writing skills and an interest in equity issues.
These and other educational materials are available free, and can be ordered from the Southern Poverty Law Center (address below) or through the web site.
Along with your November newsletter, the Community Unity Educational Resource Committee has included Responding to Hate at School and Ten Ways to Fight Hate. Both these booklets are put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and are avaliable from them at no cost. Their address is:
Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
www.splcenter.org
WISE CHILD
by Monica Furlong
Reading level: Ages 4-8, but older readers will also enjoy this book. Our reviewer recommended it for readers ten and older.
Paperback - 240 pages (December 1989)
Random House Childrens Pub; ISBN: 0394825985
Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 6.86 x 4.16
In a remote village in Scotland during the middle ages a young girl is abandoned during hard times by her parents. Adopted by the village sorceress or wise woman, she learns to live in rhythm with nature. Through encounters with dangerous people and events, she finds the depths of her capacity for courage and love. Wise Child points out the dangers found in misconceptions and the strength of heart in those who can look beyond them.
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at Indiana Civil Rights Commission's Fifth Annual Hate Crimes Conference and Town Hall Meeeting: Many Communities...One Indiana United Against Hate November 27-29, 2000 For more information, contact Judy Kochanczyk Best Practices Coordinator jkochanczyk@crc.state.in.us 800-628-2909 FAX: 317-232-6580 |
http://www.tolerance.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html
Teaching Tolerance magazine is distributed free twice a year. Text from the Teaching tolerance magazine can be downloaded from the internet.
Curriculum resources include the free video-and-text teaching kits America's Civil Rights Movement and The Shadow of Hate, which chronicle the history of hatred and intolerance in America and the struggle to overcome prejudice. A third teaching kit, Starting Small, is a teacher-training package for early childhood educators.
Other Teaching Tolerance resources include a free set of eight full-color One World posters with teacher's guide. The project offers grants of up to $2.000 for K-12 teachers and a one-year research fellowship for educators with strong writing skills and an interest in equity issues.
These and other educational materials are available free, and can be ordered from the Southern Poverty Law Center (address below) or through the web site.
Along with your November newsletter, the Community Unity Educational Resource Committee has included Responding to Hate at School and Ten Ways to Fight Hate. Both these booklets are put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and are avaliable from them at no cost. Their address is:
Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
www.splcenter.org
by Monica Furlong
Reading level: Ages 4-8, but older readers will also enjoy this book. Our reviewer recommended it for readers ten and older.
Paperback - 240 pages (December 1989)
Random House Childrens Pub; ISBN: 0394825985
Dimensions (in inches): 0.66 x 6.86 x 4.16
In a remote village in Scotland during the middle ages a young girl is abandoned during hard times by her parents. Adopted by the village sorceress or wise woman, she learns to live in rhythm with nature. Through encounters with dangerous people and events, she finds the depths of her capacity for courage and love. Wise Child points out the dangers found in misconceptions and the strength of heart in those who can look beyond them.
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It is a general practice throughout the rural districts of Northern Europe to take special care of the animals and birds. A sheaf of wheat or some other grain, or even just seeds and bread, is placed on a pole and set up outside where the birds are known to congregate. In Sweden, goats made of straw are popular as toys and for decorative purposes. The goats were formerly made from the last sheaf of straw harvested which was supposed to possess special power because the spirit of the seed lived in the last sheaf. In France, on December 4th, lentils are soaked and planted in a bowl so that they will be well grown by the end of the month. The bowl of growing green blades, called soucope, is a symbol of life in the "dead" of winter. The Yule log holds a prominent place in many mid-winter festivities. In several of the Balkan countries, grain and wine are sprinkled upon it, and as sparks are struck from it, the head of the house chants wishes of good fortune and a good year for the animals of the farm and for the family. In South and Central America, the mid-winter season here is the mid-summer there! In Brazil during the season, there are open air fiestas, picnics, excursions, and fireworks! In Mexico, the pinata is an important tradition. The pinata is an earthenware bowl or paper sack which is suspended from the ceiling and filled with fruits, small gifts, and lucky charms. It is decorated, sometimes with the face of a man or animal. One after another, children and adults are blindfolded and given a turn at breaking the pinata with a stick or club. When the pinata is broken, there is a general scramble for the gifts which pour out. |