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Peacebuilding
Making Peace Where I Live (MAPWIL)
A program for adolescents
Understanding the 200 year present is a challenge so, Kathy (a MAPWIL
instructor) came up with this idea after struggling with her first group
of students.
Another activity that I made up myself had to do with the 200 year present,
which I found was a very difficult concept for a previous, and less with-it
group. So, I did the following "How Long Is Now?" activity,
discussing the fact that when we talk about "now," that refers
to different lengths of time depending on the concepts. I asked them to
define how long now is in the context of the following sentences:
- Many of you are now 12 years old.
- Now, most people in Vermont drive cars to get to work.
- George Bush is now President of the United States (How we wish that
only lasted a second!)
- It's time to get ready to go home now.
- This is a Mad Minutes, Please begin working . . . now.
- The dinosaurs are now extinct.
- Now many of us use computers every day.
- I have to go to the bathroom right now!
- Our country is now involved in a war in Iraq.
- Ms. Long is your teacher now.
- The time is now 9:46 and 33 seconds.
Going from this to talking about "now" as a 200-year period
helped them to get it.
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