Lesson plans
The second part of Anne Sewell’s story “Black Beauty” is focused on the pain horses go through due to human ignorance. As a result of this, he begins to resent humans for their idiot ways of only thinking of their pleasures and not of how they are causing pain to the animals they use as a vehicle to achieve these pleasures.
The class is going to experientially learn to heighten their senses to recognize other emotions in others by means other than speech. This can be by physical data, literature, drawing, or (my favorite) acting and performing.
We are going to play my revised of the game CRANIUM.
There are four color categories in CRANIUM: Creative Cat (blue), Word Worm (yellow), Data Head (red), and Star Performer (green).
The class will be split into two teams and a dice will be rolled to see what color that team must do.
Each category has several ways in which to communicate. On each term, one person from each team will be the “performer” and must try to get their team to guess the answer.
There will be a timer and Professor Bump will be the judge on some of these.
There will be a game board and whichever team gets to the end first is the winner. On the board there is a long path and a short path, due to time we will be using the short path.
Also, in the Star Performer there is a way of communication by humming. Unfortunately the acoustics in the room are very bad so we will have to sing. (Sorry everybody!)
I will take questions from the reading and from everyone’s blogposts.
Now that we have learned to be able to recognize what someone is trying to say, hopefully we are able to transfer this ability to animals as well.
