Girasol
What is a Girasol?
It is an ornamental flower, food source, sacred symbol, and medicine. It translates to sunflower.
What are the names of the Girasol Teachers?
Dayanara (daya) and Monica
What does Dignity show?
It shows that you are wanted and welcomed. Treat people with dignity and allow yourself to be treated with dignity.
Who says "deverai" on tiktok?
Shawty Bae
What does it mean when we ask how is your water today?
BONUS: What are words we use to describe our water or how can we describe our water?
It means how are you doing.
BONUS: we can say our water is cold, hot, warm, like a river, like a waterfall, etc.
What do we say when we are done speaking and pass the talking stick?
Palabra
Why do we give out tickets?
Theres going to be a raffle during the last Girasol class.
What is another sacred teaching we talked about?
You have sacred purpose, treat others with respect and allow yourself to be treated with respect.
Who performed at the superbowl this year?
Kendrick Lamar
Which way do we pass the talking stick?
BONUS: Why do we pass it that direction?
To the left because we are speaking from the heart and our heart is on the left
What is sacredness?
Sacredness is something special and important to you, it has value.
How do you earn tickets?
By participating.
We talk about an ancestral teaching being love: you have culturally based teachings/values, family, and community teachers to guide you. Whats an example of a rites of passage (something that shows you are growing into a young teen)?
Quincenera, bar mitzfa, promotion from middle school, sweet sixteen, etc.
Name one of the 50 states...
POINTSSS++++
How do stereotypes effect people.
People can be misjudged by sterotypes and labeled wrongly.
What are sterotypes?
False Beliefs about people or groups of people that are often harmful
True or False: Sunflowers will always face the sun (or each other when there is no sun)...
TRUE!
If you have a safe place with compassionate people and security to learn, heal and grow are you going to feel trust?
Yes, trust is a core value that we learn from too and practice in girasol.
Which of the following is not a real character in the cartoon Spongebob?
a. Karen
B. Barnicle Boy
C. Gary
D. Louise the Lobster
D. Louise the Lobster
Why is it important to understand that you are sacred and a blessing?
When you feel important/seen/sacred you will not allow anyone to put you down. You will be more in control of your choices and be more aware of how to treat others with respect and kindness.
What are forms of discrimination?
Racism, Sexism, Ablism, Classism
True or False: We do movement exercises to express gratitude
TRUE!
What are all the values?
dignity, respect, love, trust
Name a planet in the Solar System?
1. Mercury
2. Venus
3. Earth
4. Mars
5. Jupiter
6. Uranus
7. Saturn
8. Mars
True or False: Can we define ourselves and choose what kind of person we want to be everyday through our words and actions instead of what society and people's judgements define us as?
True outside judgements and labels do not define us, we show who we are through our words and actions.