Community and bm presentation 1

Why is ritual so important to creating and sustaining community? What rituals of our larger, shared culture have, regretfully, died out? What rituals do we want to keep/add for our own Eng. 101 community?

What did you learn about community by reading this essay?

What was your favorite point, insight or sentence. Why?

Share with a partner

Cities

Language and Art

Technology (Driven by curiosity, of course)

Complex institutions (government, economy, religion)

Job specialization (priests, nobles, warriors, merchants, peasant farmers)

Civilization: Complex culture in which large numbers of human beings share a number of common elements.

Community: Complex culture in which a smaller number of human beings share a number of common elements.

Shared culture and goals. Ideally, shared history and tradition (ritual).

Good communication. Face-to-face contact.

Caring, trust and teamwork; commitment to the common good.

Participation, contribution, and the sharing of leadership tasks

Create, grow, sustain, conclude and dismantle a vibrant 10-week community as enduring and ethereal as the Anasazi Indians.

Our writing will be the cliff dwellings that we leave behind.

What is the value in creating and belonging to a temporary community?

What other examples of temporary communities do we belong to?

And if we carry parts of these communities with us once they end – if we scatter the seeds of the experiences and knowledge we cultivated – were they really temporary at all?

Culture

Contributions

Rituals

Values

Language

Art

Other?

Finish your first Extended Journal Response

Brainstorm examples of what our Community culture, contributions, rituals, values, language and art can/should be.