The Awakened Citizen Program

Objective To help students generate examples of a vast range of creative activities that they do as
children. The key idea by learning and growing, by facing and overcoming challenges, by taking
up big goals and accomplishing them and by improving oneself continuously. The review of this
session was done by showing four more slides, one after the other. In this exploration, there are two
possibilities unique (12), universal (6). And universal possibilities can be subdivided into two -
physical (6) and knowledge (6) possibilities.

Introduction:

As per schedule, The Awakened Citizen Program for class VII started on 16/10/14 and
continued on 23/10/14 also. The topic was: Expressing myself.The teachers were-Mrs.R.M
Saraswathi and Mrs.Krishnapriya. The teacher, Mrs. Saraswathi gave an intro. to what the
programme is about. The nine introductory slides were shown to the students and explained in a
simple way, very briefly.

During these classes,students were helped to recognise that when they choose to unfold this
possibility of expressing themselves, it opens up one more dimension to our personality and several
of our qualities and capacities that lie dormant within us get awakened through it.

Members Present: Different members attend different sessions, as follows:

1. The Prinicipal
2. The Vice Principal
3. The class Teacher Mrs. Vijayalakshmi (was present during all the classes)
4. Mrs. Dhanalakshmi Resources Dept.
5. Ms. Jessie Resources Dept.
6. Ms. Vishnupriya Resources Dept.
7. Mrs. Sudha Hindi Subject In-Charge

Organization: The sessions were organized and carried out in the following manner.

Semester I

S.No Month & Date Topic Properties used

1. October A Expressing myself. Slides,pictures, picture cards, youtube
16/10/14 and video downloads(Japnese Tea
23/10/14 B Engaging with culture and Ceremony), downloaded pictures,a
society. chart with the words and sentences in
Japnese language(It was put up in the
(Unique possibility physical) class in the drawing board and the
students were encourged to learn those
words and sentences,the model of a
Oogi).
2. October and A-Learning in all parts of my life Slides, lifetime examples
November
30/10/14 and B Extending the limits of Slides, Role models- The pictures of
06/11/14 human knowledge Sir.C.V Raman,Sir.Issac Newton were
shown and the interesting incidents
 (Unique possibility-Knowledge) from their lives were discussed.
3. November A-Creating value Slides, Creation of E.W Tetra pak
13/11/14 and company-founded by Ruben Rausing-
20/11/14 B-Expanding the limits of my swedish-was built by-innovatingly by
world Erik Wallenberg,a tetra hedron
(Unique possibility-physical) Samuel Zemurray -A Russian -how he
created value for the soon-to-be-rotten
bananas from Alabama(southern part
of America) to portland(Northern part
of America)
B-Discussion on several explorations
by many people in various fields
a)Wilderness explorer-Bear Grylls
b)survival expert
c)Artic explorer and so on
27/11/14 Consolidation of modules taught A quick re-cap of modules by showing
the slides and summarising them.A
quick review of asking the students
the way in which they have tried these
all already and can be in future also.
A quick quiz on do's and don'ts was
conducted.

Semester 2

S.No Month & Date Topic Properties used

1. January A-Playing games and sports Slides, discussion on-The rules of the
08/01/15 and different games(For ex.-cricket, kho-
22/01/15 kho etc.,),exploring our possibility of
playing games and sports, what
happens to us when we play games
and sports, how our social behaviour
improves, how it opens up one more
dimension of our personality etc.,
The stories of Olympics, Marathon
were told by the teacher to the
students.
B-Adapting to the environment I Slides, discussion on-adapting to
live in extreme cold and hot climates, how to
adapt to an environment with lack of
facilities and resources(For ex.-our
native village where power, water etc.,
(Unique possibility-Physical) are limited),how to adapt to a disaster-
stuck environment etc., were done.
The life-time examples were also
discussed
2. January Seeking perfection Slides,discussion on-How do we seek
29/01/15 & (Universal possibility) perfection in our day-to day life,why
05/02/15 is it important to seek
S.No Month & Date Topic Properties used
perfection,giving some real examples
of seekers of perfection(For ex.-
Jijabai-her perfect role as the mother
of The Great Shivaji),life-time
examples like how to draw or write
without wasting space,how to turn the
pages without stressing or spoiling the
pages,how to maintain the books and
the bag perfectly,how to eat and drink
perfectly without spilling etc.,
3. 12/02/15 & Living in Harmony Slides, discussion on how do people
19/02/15 (Universal Possibility) live in harmony? Why is it important
to live in harmony? Quoting the
example of the villagers of
Rameshwar (Rui) in Latur district,
Maharasthra, the Ziona family, in
Mizoram, the largest family in the
world.
The story of Stephen Leacock's On
saying please - the four magic words,
Please, Sorry, Excuse me, Thank
you, was told by the teacher and the
importance of being simple, humble
can awaken our possibility of living in
harmony.
The story of two goats on a bridge
was also discussed to stress upon this.
The Dharmas to be followed
according to the Manu Shastra to
live in a harmonious way was also
discussed.
A quick quiz on do's and dont's to
live in harmony was also done.
4 February Consolidation of modules taught Since our HA madam-Mrs.Revathi
26/02/15 Krishnamurthy had visited our class-
VII student's Science
Exhibition(Projects),this class was not
conducted.
Instead, it happened on 09/03/15 by
Mrs.Krishnapriya.

Responses from the children

S.No Topic Responses

1 A Expressing myself. Responses from the children:
The teachers gave a piece of
B Engaging with culture and society. paper to the kids asking for
(Unique possibility physical) their future plan how they want

2 A-Learning in all parts of my life
B Extending the limits of human knowledge
(Unique possibility-Knowledge)
3 A-Creating value
B-Expanding the limits of my world
(Unique possibility-physical)
Semester II
1 A-Playing games and sports
B-Adapting to the environment I live in
(Unique possibility-Physical)
2 Seeking perfection
(Universal possibility)
3 Living in Harmony
(Universal Possibility)
to express themselves. The
students wrote their wonderful
future plans and explained how
they would express themselves.
The students read about the life
history of their role-models and
discussed it during the
discussion.The students found
the ways to trigger their
knowledge(For ex.reading the
newspaper daily,solving the
crossword puzzle in The
Hindu)
A doll was made by waste
materials as a value created one.
Life-cycle of the Silk Cloth was
drawn(picture attached)
Assignment on various sports
people by students
Group Discussion
During this session,the students
started to arrange the desks,zip
the bags properly,sit in the
proper posture etc., The overall
neatness of the class was
improved.
Using the the magic words
aiways.Thereby,they report that
the conflicts among themselves
were becoming minimum.The
disagreements between them
were also minimum.