Choose your Top Tips + Make your Book (30 mins)
Goals
Learners summarize
for themselves the messages they feel are most important, inspiring, comforting or life-changing for themselves and for peers, the tips they want to remember for living a nonviolent life.Learners produce
their top tips Book in PowerPoint or on paper.The idea is for learners to really use this book to initiate discussion with their peers. They should try to make a book that serves this purpose.
Guidelines
Learners can look back at each lesson and then summarize for themselves which message they find the most important to remember and to share with their peers. Get the learners to encourage their peers to take the pledge too.
They should then devise a way of presenting their points in one short sentence or slogan.
Tip
The language they use is up to the learners themselves; slang should be allowed, as this can often be a way to make a message more attractive and meaningful to young people.
Use this PowerPoint template or, alternatively, they can work on paper.
Tip:
Have a look at the example book made by Shumang.
Everything in the styling can be changed: colors, images and fonts. Learners choose one main picture or slogan for the cover and add their names. Learners can use different fonts, sizes, effects or images as they like.
Printing
The books should be printed. Rather than spending class time, you may get a few students to help you afterwards to print all the books. Before printing, select '3/6 slides per page' in the PowerPoint print option for handouts. In this way, the printouts of each book page will be smaller in size, which uses up less ink and produces a pocket-size book. Printing done, the students should carefully cut out each page. Then the pages are sellotaped together to form one long string, folded like an accordion.