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Part of Exploring Our Values Through Poetry, High School

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Introduction
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Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. — James Arthur Baldwin This workshop has...
Workshop-at-a-Glance
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ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Different on the Outside 25 Activity 2: Alike on the Inside? 25 Faith in Action: Millennium Development Goals Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: Face Forward 30 Alternate Activity 2: Diversity Pie 30 Alternate Activity 3: Reconciliation 10 Alternate Activity 4:...
Spiritual Preparation
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This workshop is rich with possible topics to explore, both alone and/or with your co-leader. The answers to questions about how we see ourselves versus how others see us lead to further questions about how safe we feel when we show our true selves. Have you felt safe showing your true self while...
Opening
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Use the Opening designed by your group or the one provided below. Gather around the chalice. As a volunteer lights the chalice, ask the group to focus on the word "me" in silence....
Activity 1: Different On The Outside
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Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Drawing paper Pencils Mirrors, one for each participant Handout 1, "The Face in the Mirror," by Robert Graves Newsprint or dry erase board and markers Journals and pens or pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, "The Face in the Mirro...
Activity 2: Alike On The Inside?
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Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint Three markers Journals and pens or pencils Handout 2, "The Same Inside," by Anna Swir Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 2 , "The Same Inside," one for each participant....
Closing
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Singing the Living Tradition Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by your group or the one provided below....
Leader Reflection and Planning
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With your co-leader, discuss which activities were successful and which ones were less so. The next workshop (Workshop 11, Transformation) is the last one before you start planning the Poetry Slam. Review pre-arrangements related to the performance and the fund-raiser (if you are doing a...
Faith In Action: Millennium Development Goals
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Materials for Activity Information about the UN World Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Optional: Leader Resource 1, One World Worship Service Optional: Leader Resource 2, Components of a Traditional Worship Service Optional: A computer with Internet access and the ability to access or download...
Alternate Activity 1: Face Forward
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Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity An instant camera and enough film for an individual photograph of each participant Arts and crafts materials for a bulletin board or other gallery-style display Preparation for Activity Identify a space in which to display self-portraits when...
Alternate Activity 2: Diversity Pie
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Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint with easel, or dry erase board, and markers Drawing paper and markers, crayons, or colored pencils Preparation for Activity Determine where you can display finished pie charts at the close of this activity, and make sure you have tape, pu...
Alternate Activity 3: Reconciliation
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Journals and pens or pencils Stationery Description of Activity Participants write poems or letters to people in their lives who seem quite different from themselves and with whom they have had difficult relationships....
Alternate Activity 4: Journal Review
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Materials for Activity Journals and pens or pencils Description of Activity Participants review their journals and finish incomplete work. As the date for the Poetry Slam approaches, encourage participants to use whatever time remains at the end of the workshops to review the writing in their...
Taking It Home: You and Me
From Exploring Our Values Through Poetry

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. — James Arthur Baldwin DURING TODAY'S...
Handout 1: The Face In The Mirror

Robert Graves

From Exploring Our Values Through Poetry

From The Complete Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 2003). Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment still inhering, Skin deep, as a foolish record of old-world fighting. Crookedly broken nose — low...
Handout 2: The Same Inside
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Anna Swir, "The Same Inside," translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan, from Talking to My Body. English translation copyright © 1996 by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan....
Leader Resource 1: One World Worship Service
From Exploring Our Values Through Poetry

You can use the following ideas to design a worship service to present the UN World Millennium Goals to the congregation. Keep in mind that, although a worship service can include an educational piece, it needs much more to be spiritually fulfilling....
Leader Resource 2: Components of a Traditional Worship Service

Barbara J Pescan

From Exploring Our Values Through Poetry

Gathering—Call to worship, choral call/call with music. Marks the intentional gathering of religious community for the purpose of common worship. Opening—Opening words, lighting the flame in the chalice, covenant, hymn. This indicates the opening of the sacred time we have chosen to spend with...
Find Out More
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The St. John's College Robert Graves Trust website has a very complete biography of the artist. The enotes.com biography of Anna Swir tells about her life in Poland.

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