Okay everybody, we had a SNOW DAY and it is time to get back to work. Although it is Tuesday, we are going to treat it like a Monday and we will be conducting public speaking in class today. Purpose of the Activity: Cause you to reflect on and analyze yourself, formulate an impromptu speech, and articulate your ideas verbally to your peers.
Class Activity: Take 2 minutes and select a quality or an area for your self improvement. Take another 3 minutes and draft bullet talking points for a short 2 minute impromptu speech that:
Introduce yourself
Identifies the specific quality or area for your self improvement.
Explains the reason you selected that particular quality or area for self improvement.
Give two specific examples of how you will improve that quality or area for self improvement.
Concluding statement.
You will be allowed to take notes up with you when you speak if you need to but only as a guide, not to be read from. ANY QUESTIONS??? No talking, you have 5 minutes before the first speaker....Get to work.
We discussed the concept of survival. We analyzed a complex camping trip that turned into the loss of two lives. Much of this may seem hypothetical, meaning how does this pertain to me as a student-cadet in Norwalk, CT. We have snow storms, hurricanes, and storm surge flooding; but a tornado or a earthquake in or near Connecticut...come on. Lets take a look at how you would need to survive an earthquake.
Survival is not just about getting lost in the woods and getting rescued. Sometimes it is about surviving from a natural disaster. During a natural disaster the first responders and city services will be overwhelmed and may not be able to help you for 2 or 3 days. You need to learn to prepare and in extreme cases solve your own problems as a person, household, neighborhood, and community. Lets see how one city dealt with a severe earthquake....
Yesterday, we were introduced to the concept of survival and a brief discussion of some of the key elements of survival. You were formed into groups and developed your own group definition of what survival is. (See the comment section from the previous blog post). Orientation to the video and the associated homework: We are going to look at a story of two young men who were stranded in the Canadian wilderness. They had experience being in the woods and a adequate amount of skills and equipment. They were confident in their abilities. Watch this video and I want you to take notes during the video viewing and afterward your homework is to make a comment today or tonight in the blog post comment section.
Homework Questions to post in the Comment Section of this Blog Post: Question 1: What was their plan for their wilderness outing? Question 2: Where they properly trained and equipped for this trip? Question 3: Describe what happened to them which they didn't expect or plan for? Question 4: What planning and preparation could they have conducted which would have helped them minimize the risk and increase their changes of survival? This is due tomorrow.
We are starting the third Marking Period of Academic Year 2015. We are going to talk about Survival. The topic of survival is in Unit VI of the book, Introduction to Navy JROTC which is part of the NJROTC curriculum. You should consider Survival as a part of your life skills.
Enduring Learning Objective for this Survival Module: Each student-cadet develops an understanding of the concept of survival in a variety of situations and conditions so that they can survive themselves or assist others. Additionally, the goal is to develop the concept for prior planning and preparation and survival skill development ensuring their safety, security, and mental well being.
Classroom Activity: Form into three groups and take about ten minutes to develop a group definition of the concept of survival without looking anything up. Have one person write down the group definition. Following the group discussion, you will share the group definition with the entire class. The intent of this activity is to generate each person determining their start point on an understanding of what survival means
Here is a 8 minute video about the concepts of survival from an experienced outdoor guide. Like many people with some survival experience he has many opinions, some of them you might agree with and some perhaps not. The goal is you need to be the "eternal student" (vice self proclaimed expert) when it comes to developing your survival capability.
This short video (3 minute) on the basic components of How to Survive. Final Comment: There is a tendency to think of survival in terms of big disasters such as surviving a plane crash or a tornado. But consider the following:
What about your family's care breaking down at night in an unknown location?
How about visiting your family in another country and you get lost in an urban environment?
A simple hike in a national park where you get lost and the weather turns bad?
What if there was a terrorist attack and you were separated from your loved ones? Dad is at work, mom is at home with your little sister, and you are away at college. How will you link up? What if there is spotty cell phone coverage and power is down?
What if you were on vacation on an enormous lake and the motor broke down and you were miles away from anyone? Everyone is just wearing their bathing suits and there is poor cell phone coverage. Would would you do?
How do citizens become terrorists against their own country and countrymen. Do they wake up one morning and turn to violence or is this something that is cultivated and groomed in them. Does it happen by chance or is their a deliberate process that transforms a citizen into a terrorist. How do we deal with this in a democratic society...?
