WFS 2022 -Orientation Session

Orientation Session

 Music:  "Love Train," Yo Yo Ma and others, Playing for Change, Link to site

 Welcome: Rick, Andy and Tina

Essential Questions:

• What are the assumptions for this course?

• What are the intentions for this course?

• What is a learning community?

• How will the weekly agendas work?

• What are the zoom mechanics for this course?

Gathering: Introductions: Name, location (Chat room)

Rick's Rap 

• Homework, news of the day

• zoom mechanics: chat, breakout rooms, whiteboard, shared screen

• course overview

Gathering #2 "Something that I hope to learn in this course is.."(breakout room)

Exercises:

• Angle exercise

• video, John Green, " Nonviolence and Peace Movements,"' #228, Crash Course in World History, 2015  Link to Site

Readings/Resources:

 • Transcript, John Green, " Nonviolence and Peace Movements,"' #228, Crash Course in World History, 2015  Link to Site

• Howard Zinn quote: Link to Site

• Adlai Stevenson quote Link to site

• "Quaker Education: Four Essential Outcomes," Wilmington Friends School, accessed 12/29/21 Link to Site

The really critical thing isn't who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in - in the street, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating . Those are things that determine what happens.

                                                Howard Zinn

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better.

                                               Daniel Berrigan