Spring quarter calendar
Week 1,
Start your Art journal by making drawings of the plants that you see everyday in your back yard, or in your neighborhood.
Week 2
Before the workshop with the New Zeland artist
June Grant please read:
http://www.maoriart.org.nz/profiles/june_northcroft_grant
short bio
http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=199
some work at Spirit Wrestler gallery
http://www.maori.org.nz/
A website on some aspects of Maori culture
Week 3
Visit the website of Seeds of Compassion at http://www.seedsofcompassion.org/ and watch archived telecasts.
Read about Chinese gardens at: http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3garintr.htm
and Persian miniature painting at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_miniature
Week 4
This is Passover and Earth week. In preparation for Passover please Read the story of Joseph, Genesis 37:3 - 50:26. http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Genesis-Chapter-1/
(This is an epic story and if you are not used to the language of the bible you may read it in adaptations for children. It would be good if you could retell a favorite part of the story at our potluck in class).
Read the story of Moses, or the story of Exodus.
Read the poem of Yusuf and Zeleikha at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1470jami1.html
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/Shokel/960102_Joseph.html a coat of many cultures
This week your analytical paper that compares Waldorf pedagogy, Dewey and Confucius (or educator of your choice) is due and you need to post your Project work on wiki.
Week 5 and 6
Pilgrimage, Journal Writing and Drawing, Letters from Travels, work in schools and on Projects
Winter quarter calendar 2008
Week 1,
The theme of this week is information. Check
out the Diamond
Sutra, the first printed book, in the collection of British
Museum and listen to sacred
stories at their great animation site.
Time line of world religions
on Silk Roads: Many historical religions are not represented but the big
five are
here.
Week 2
Religious Statistics in
China and the White
Paper on Religion from Chinese Embassy.
Syncretism of Buddhism, Daoism
and Confucianism during Song
Dynasty (960-1279)
Week 3
A timeline
for Martin luther King developed
by Kidpix
Selected poems for
MLK day
Waldorf schools' curriculum grade 1-8
Week 4
Focus
the Nation is on January 30, at 6pm in the Washington
Center for the Performing Arts.
An interesting article about Emerging
role of Asia in Climate Change from East West Center.
Red Pine's article "Dancing
with the Dead."
Week 5
Video capture workshop and Seminar on Geography of Childhood
Friday, Saturday, Sunday - Tai Ji workshop, please read ch. 1, from Embrace
Tiger...
Week 6
In preparation for this week's lecture and our upcoming forum with Native American educators please read about the work of James Loewen and "History Through Red Eyes"
Week 7
To continue with James Loewen's lecture and in preparation for Liberal Arts Forum with Native American elders and educators please read from the book "Native America and the Evolution of Democracy" by Donald A. Grinde, Jr. and Bruce E. Johansen, especially the first chapter "Vox Americana"
Some links from Fall 2007:
Program Calendar
for Fall 07
Week 5,
Wed., Oct 24, 5:30 pm field trip to Olympia Waldorf School located at: 8126 Normandy St. SE, East Olympia, WA 98540-0130
Please read about R. Steiner in 50 Major Thinkers on Education. Read about Eurythmy and 4 fould human constitution and lecture on Alphabet.
Sat. Oct. 27,
9:30am, Workshop at Flower Child pre-school, located at: 512 Puget St
Ne Olympia, WA 98506
Please examine Wikipedia on Reggio
Emilia approach and explore external links
at the end of the article. See also information about Hundreds
Languages of Children exhibit.
1pmGlobal and Local Visions art workshop at Evergreen
Sign a contract for doing volunteer work in schools and post your Project hours and reflections on the web.
Week 6
Wed. Oct. 31, Lecture Hall 1, Suheir Hamad
Listen to Suheir
Hammad's poetry. Read about current crisis
in Gaza.
Week 7,
Wed., Nov. 7
This week our focus is on Poetry.
In
preparation for the Poetry workshop with Therese Saliba on Wednesday
you need to memorise a poem. It could be a poem for children, or
a nursery rhyme. You can write your own poem, like a letter to Suheir,
or a Vision poem. You can memorise a poem in a different language,
or a poem as a song.
For inspiration listen to poetry of Langston
Hughes, Jack
Kerouac, the bomb
poem by Ginsberg, Everybody Knows by Leonard
Cohen, and other poems of your choice.
Friday, Nov. 9, 12 noon, LH 1, Public lecture "Weather
and Consciousness" by
Dennis Kloceck
read article "What
Is Goethean Science" also see programs at Rudolf Steiner College
Saturday, Nov. 10
Class will start at 1pm in A 1105, by 2pm we are planning to be at
Kennedy creek. At 4pm, at the Film Festival's screening of Among the
White Clouds.
Week 8
Week 9, Wednesday, Nov.
28
The film, Among the White Clouds and the upcoming puppet show Monkey
King and the Flaming Mountain are introducing us to the theme of Buddhism
on the Silk Roads and the role of religion in education. To deepen
your study please read about adventures of Monkey King. One good source
is the book by Arthur Waley. The episode that the puppet show is based
on is called the Iron Fan. There is an internet site for myths and
legends of China with an abbreviated story at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15250/15250-h/15250-h.htm
Please read pages 326-327, and 360-362. You will need to remember that
there are different systems of Romanization of Chinese names, so Monkey’s
name is Sun Wu-k’ung in Wades-Giles system and in Pinyin: Sun Wu
Kong, etc.For understanding on how Buddhism traveled on Silk Roads read
an article in Silk
Roads foundation.
Sat. Dec. 1, 2pm, SPSCC, Chinese Puppet show Monkey
King and the Flaming Mountain
SPSCC website
and directions
Week 10
For more information contact
diamanth@evergreen.edu