Chapter 1Class 1EMPOWERMENT

What is Empowerment?Vision and Empowerment: The Spiderman MomentYouTube Clip: Spiderman gets his powersQuestionsActivity

TODAY’S CLASS

Pages 4-5 in your textPeople who are empowered feel that they have control over their lives.

They feel this way because they are able to make choices about important things. (example: deciding on a career or a place to live)

They have the authority to make decisions and the power to carry them out.

WHAT IS EMPOWERMENT?

What goes through Peter Parker’s mind when he fi rst realizes he has superpowers? This scene can bring chills to your spine!

What goes through your mind in a moment of vision? “I am alive, I am empowered, I have the capacity to think, feel, act and experience life in some way.”

In a moment of vision, we understand our sources of power and our powers themselves. We realize that we are empowered through having the capacity to think, feel, do and be.

VISION AND EMPOWERMENT: THE SPIDERMAN MOMEMT

Thinking, feeling doing and being are the building blocks of the human experience.

Together they encompass an incredible range of capacities and abilities.

Of all living creatures, only humans have the power the seize on an issue and think it through, to attune themselves empathetically to the needs and desires of other human and non-human creatures; to respond to a situation with a complex and deliberate set of actions, and to assume a social role and become a certain sort of person in social context..

THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

Peter Parkers gets his powers….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4BxQen6SMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk9_340xqeU

VIDEOS

Who is a super hero to you?What makes this person a super hero?What makes this person empowered?

QUESTIONS

Create your own super hero! What would he/she look like? What would be their strengths and powers? Give your superhero a name!

Draw on white 8x11 paperMust have colourMust have name/titleWill talk about our super Heros next class.

ACTIVITY