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RAINBOWSPACE

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READY FOR THETHREE

AGREEMENTS?

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AGREEMENT 1:

WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT!

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AGREEMENT 2:

WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT THOUGHTS!

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AGREEMENT 3:

THE WAY WE THINK COMES FROM THINGS WE

HAVE SEEN, FELT, TASTED, HEARD and SMELLED.

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READY FOR THEBIG

CHALLENGES?

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BIG CHALLENGES:

To think VERY hard

To LISTEN to each other

To work as a TEAM

DO YOU ACCEPT THECHALLENGES? YES OR NO

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DO YOU WANT TO

KNOW WHAT WEARE GOING TO

DO?

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WE ARE GOING TO

1.LISTEN to a STORY

2.TAKE A PICTURE of our THOUGHTS

3.EXPLORE some QUESTIONS

4.TALK ABOUT what we have

LEARNERD FROM EACH OTHER

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READY FOR

TODAYSSTORY?

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THE ELEPHANT STORYRETOLD by VANESSA ANDREOTTI and LYNN MARIO DE SOUZA

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Once a group of curious people came to an intelligentman called Buddha. They asked Buddha:

Sir, some people say that what is real is what we

see with our eyes and can feel with our hands.Other people say that this is all an illusion, thatour minds cannot understand what is really real.What do you say?

Buddha told them a story similar to this one

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Four blind men were given the task of finding out what an elephantwas. None of them had known an elephant before. Each one created adifferent story about the elephant.The first touched its tail. He said 'an elephant is a rope'.

The second touched its ears he said 'an elephant is a rug'.The third touched its leg he said 'an elephant is a pillar'.The fourth touched its trunk he said 'an elephant is a hose'.

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The blind men started arguing. They each thought his story aboutthe elephant was true and the only possible story to be told.They all said:

I know I am right!

I know I am right!I know I am right!

I know I am right!

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After that interesting discussion they started listening toeach other and their ideas about the elephant started tochange.

Hose

&

rope

Rug,

rope &

pillar

Pillar&hose

Rug&hose

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Finally, after some more discussion and thought, they came toonly two conclusions. Two blind men agreed that the elephantwas a man and the other two agreed that the elephant was a

bird. So, they went all around the world trying to convinceeveryone that their stories were right!

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Buddha concluded that all people are like the blind menbecause different people understand the world in differentways according to where they are coming from.

Like the blind men we keep trying to convince each other

that our stories are right that what we think or experienceis what everyone else should think and experience.

But no one knows for sure what the elephant/reality

REALLY looks like.

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THE END

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NOW IT IS TIME TO1.LISTEN to a STORY

2.TAKE A PICTURE of our THOUGHTS

3.EXPLORE some QUESTIONS

4.TALK ABOUT what we have

LEARNED FROM EACH OTHER

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DRAW A PICTURE OF YOUR THOUGHTSOR WRITE THEM DOWN

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NOW IT IS TIME TO1.LISTEN to a STORY

2.TAKE A PICTURE of our THOUGHTS

3.EXPLORE some QUESTIONS

4.TALK ABOUT what we have

LEARNED FROM EACH OTHER

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I WONDER

1. Is the elephant everything around us?

2. Do different people see things in different ways?

3. Is what we learn at school only one version of astory?

4. If Buddha is right, why do people keep fightingfor their stories?

5. Is Buddha also a blind man?

6. What did the elephant make of the blind men?

CHOOSE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS BELOWTO EXPLORE OR WRITE YOUR OWN

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NOW IT IS TIME TO1.LISTEN to a STORY

2.TAKE A PICTURE of our THOUGHTS

3.EXPLORE some QUESTIONS

4.TALK ABOUT what we have

LEARNED FROM EACH OTHER

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WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED

1. ABOUT YOUR OWN THOUGHTS?

2. ABOUT DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN YOUR CLASS?

3. ABOUT DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?

THINK ABOUT