Woden’s Day, February 20, 2013: Jataka
o EQ #1: How do afterlives differ?
o EQ #2: How do the Jataka tales illustrate Buddhist concepts?
o EQ #3: What can bodhisattva-hare and bodhisattva-monkey teach each other?
· Welcome! Gather in your groups with pen/pencil, wits!
· Zero Makeups
o Saturday School
o Presentations Today, Tomorrow
o Notes to those 0 - 72
· “Getting” nirvana
o How do different notions of the perfect afterlife differ?
· Group Teaching: Jataka
o Rabbits teach Monkeys
o Monkeys teach Rabbits
o All achieve Total Awareness
· ELACC12RL-RI1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis
· ELACC12RL-RI2: Analyze two or more themes or central ideas of text
· ELACC12RI3: Analyze and explain how individuals, ideas, or events interact and develop
· ELACC12RL6: Distinguish what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant
· ELACC12RI8: Delineate and evaluate the reasoning in seminal International texts
· ELACC12RL-RI9: Analyze for theme, purpose rhetoric, and how texts treat similar themes or topics
· ELACC12RL10: Read and comprehend complex literature independently and proficiently.
· ELACC12W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis
· ELACC12W10: Write routinely over extended and shorter time frames
· ELACC12SL1: Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
· ELACC12L2: Use standard English capitalization, punctuation, spelling in writing.
· ELACC12L3: Demonstrate understanding of how language functions in different contexts
· ELACC12L4: Determine/clarify meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases
· ELACC12L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, nuances
· ELACC12L6: Acquire and use general academic and domain-specific words and phrases
UPCOMING
· ZERO MAKEUP – this Saturday
· GHSWT #2 – Friday
· NB, RJ – Friday, March 1
· TEST – Tuesday, March 5
Eternal Peace:
Does one DO it or GET it?
· The Epic of Gilgamesh
· Vikings/Norse
· Greeks/Romans
· Abrahamic
· Hindu/Buddhism
Freewrite 100 words: Describe a situation in which creating good requires understanding good, not just doing good.
Group Teaching: Jataka
o Rabbits teach Monkeys
o Monkeys teach Rabbits
o ALL INDIVIDUALS submit BOTH SIDES of Reading Guide
o ALL GROUPS FREEWRITE (100 WORDS): Discuss a specific scene from each story that shows EITHER an important SIMILARITY or an important DIFFERENCE between these two incarnations of the bodhisattva
o All achieve Total Awareness ….
World Literature and Composition: Jataka
Lecture/Presentation: Introduction to the Jataka
1. The Jataka is a collection of ______stories nearly ______years old.
2. They follow a ______, or “wise ______,” through its ______.
3. According to tradition, the ______of these stories is the same soul that, in its final reincarnation, is born as ______, and becomes ______.
The Hare’s Self-Sacrifice tr. H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas, The Norton Anthology of World Literature
1. In this story, the bodhisattva is incarnated as a ______who lives in a ______.
2. Who are his three friends? ______
3. What “Truth” does he teach to his companions?
a. that ______are to be ______;
· Put this in your own words:
b. the ______is to be ______;
c. and ______are to be ______.
4. Looking at the ______, he knows that the next day will be a ______day.
5. What does he tell his companions to give to beggars who come by?
6. When the hare’s friends find food, each asks what? ______
7. Each does what?______
8. Each thinks what?______
9. The bodhisattva-rabbit knows that, unlike his friends, he cannot give his food to a beggar because ______.
10. Therefore, he promises to do what?
11. At this point Sakka, a mischievous spirit, decides to test this promise, and comes to earth disguised as a beggar. What do the three animal friends do when Sakka asks them for food?
12. What does the bodhisattva-rabbit offer to do when Sakka asks for food?
13. Why doesn’t this thing he offers happen?
Freewrite (100 words) – explain how the bodhisattva creates good karma and fulfills the dharma.
World Literature and Composition: Jataka
Lecture/Presentation: Introduction to the Jataka
1. The Jataka is a collection of ______stories nearly ______years old.
2. They follow a ______, or “wise ______,” through its ______.
3. According to tradition, the ______of these stories is the same soul that, in its final reincarnation, is born as ______, and becomes ______.
The Monkey’s Heroic Self-Sacrifice tr. H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas, Norton Anthology of World Literature
1. In this story, the bodhisattva is incarnated as a ______who lives in the ______mountains with his “retinue” of 80,000______near the ______river in a ______tree.
2. The bodhisattva predicts that one day, the fruits of this tree will cause danger how?
3. What does he command his followers to do?
4. Despite this, one fruit is found by a ______who gives it to ______.
5. This person becomes “possessed by ______of the flavour” of this fruit, so does what?
6. What do the monkeys do that makes him mad?
7. What does he say he will do to the monkeys?
8. The monkeys come to the bodhisattva, who says “Do not fear, I will give you ______.”
9. Summarize what the bodhisattva does to save his followers:
10. ______, the bodhisattva’s cousin, is an evil monkey. What does he do to bodhisattva?
11. When the king sees this happen, what does he think?
12. The next day, what does the king do?
13. What does the bodhisattva do for the king?
Freewrite 50 words: How did the bodhisattva-monkey’s actions create good karma for the monkeys?
Freewrite 50 words: How did the bodhisattva-monkey’s actions create good karma for the king?