RE: virus: Question: Rites of passage

Nick Knowles LDN (Nick_Knowles@oti.com)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:18:44 -0500


strip them naked, paint them white and send them out into the nearest piece
of desert for a week.

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>From: virus
>To: Church of Virus; SOCIOBIO
>Subject: virus: Question: Rites of passage
>Date: 23 January 1998 04:21
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>This is from a friend of mine teaching an interdisciplinary 7th-8th grade
>class. I thought I'd pick all of your collective brains on this one since
>it seems like an interesting and surprisingly unique project for a
>prodominantly white upper middle-class suburban junior high to take on.
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>Any thoughts or URLs?
>
>-Prof. Tim
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>From: John Moen <john_moen@qgate.norshore.wednet.edu>
>To: proftim@speakeasy.org
>Subject: Rites of passage
>Date: Thursday, January 22, 1998 2:53 AM
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> Subject: Time: 9:49 AM
> OFFICE MEMO Rites of passage Date: 1/22/98
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>So here I am, Mr. Teacher Guy, and my school is doing this big
>multi-disciplinary "Island" project. As part of this they are creating a
>new culture based on several that they research. As part of this we're
>having them do a little work on Rites of Passage and they're going to
>create their own ceremony in their small groups based on their new culture
>and then they will perform their ceremony after we do a bigger ceremony
>with everyone.
>
>I was wondering if you have any web resources that you might be able to
>forward me that you may have collected on the issue in your wanderings
>on-line. We're giving them the assignment on Monday so I don't want you to
>go way out of your way or anything, but if there's something handy I'd like
>it.
>
>thanks wads
>-John
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