Civics & Community Awareness
Check In - Show & Share
Calendars from My Home or Calendar I found online. (15 Minutes)
Share a calendar you have in your home, a calendar you discovered online that we did not talk about yesterday, or which calendar you found the most fascinating from our discussion yesterday!
Tomorrow‘s Show & Share:
Tomorrow's show and share will look at how can track our dates and the habits we complete every day be a healthy decision for our wellness? Think of ways that looking back on habits you compelte every day would make you feel. Tomorrow we will review a few examples of habit trackers people have created.
Which Calendar, Which Culture? (20 Minutes)
Let's do a quick review of yesterday's activity:
Video: A Short History of The Modern Calendar
Article: Calendars and Their History - Britannica
Presenter Note: While reviewing the calendars from yesterday, allow participants to conduct a search for different calendars from different cultures. This activity can also be done as a search and sharing of your screen.
Calendars from the Past to consider:
We identified that different cultures often used calendars as a way to keep track of important dates and times. These tracking systems were in the form of calendars
- What were some of the things that people tracked in the past?
Now we are going to match calendars with the culture that they belonged to in the past. Bonus points if you can reminder how the culture tracked and why!
Holiday's Observed in Hope to Home Program (15 Minutes)
Presenter Note: Navigate to the attached Hope Services' Holiday Calendar for this activity. Let participants know that this is the calendar that Hope uses to let people know which dates in 2021 that program will not occur.
Holiday discussion:
Are some holidays always celebrated on the same day?
- Which holidays are celebrated on the same day?
- Which holidays are celebrated on different days each year?
- Why is it important to check the date of the holiday if it is not a specific date each year? For example: Christmas is always December 25th, but Thanksgiving 2020 was November 26th. What day is Thanksgiving in 2025?
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What did we learn today?
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What are we doing this afternoon?
