Thor s Day, 10/ 22: The Karma Warrior

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1 Thor s Day, 10/ 22: The Karma Warrior EQ#1: What are dharma and karma? EQ#2: How can one be both a fierce warrior and a creator of good karma? EQ#3: How does The Ramayana exemplify and teach these concepts? Welcome! Gather GRADED WORK, BROWN LIT BOOK, READING GUIDE SHEETS, paper, pen/cil, wits! Freewrite: Karma Warrior Reading: Ramayana o Complete Reading Guide and Karma chart ELABLRL2: Student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme ELABLRL3: Student relates literature to historical and modern contexts ELABLRL4: Student writes in various genres: essays, narratives, poems ELABLRL5: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing ELABLRC1: Student reads 25 books/one million words per year, all subjects ELABLRC2: Student has discussion related to learning in all subject areas ELABLRC3: Student acquires new vocabulary; uses correctly reading/writing ELABLRC4: Student establishes context for information acquired by reading ELA12LSV1: Student has student-teacher, student-student, group discussions ELA12LSV2: Student judges various media products; gives presentations

2 Freewrite (100 words): The karma Warrior You are a Hindu warrior, and a giant is coming to your village. This giant must eat one person every month, or he will die. If he does not get a person to eat, he will squash everyone in the village into jelly, and eat the jelly. What would you do? Consider your answer well you don t want to create bad karma! You must deal with this threat in such a way as to fulfill the dharma by minimizing bad karma.

3 Reflection: Karma in Ramayana Example of good karma Example of bad karma 1. Page # Describe how Rama s 2. Page # Describe how Rama s 3. Page # Describe how Rama s 4. Page # Describe how Rama s

4 Example of good karma 5. Page # Describe how Rama s Example of bad karma 6. Page # Describe how Rama s 7. Page # Describe how Rama s 8. Page # Describe how Rama s

5 Reading Guide: The Ramayana Don t cram answers into tiny spaces write on some other paper! Notes on The Ramayana: Build Background (textbook p. 131 don t worry about 130) 1. Who is Rama s girlfriend, and what does he do to win her hand in marriage? 2. Rama s father, the king, wants Rama to be when he grows up, but Rama s stepmother his father s second wife wants whom to have this job instead? 3. The evil stepmother commands that Rama be sent where, and for how long? 4. What do Rama and his brother do while there? 5. Who is angered by this, and what does he do? 6. This angry evil one is described as immensely powerful. What s odd about his body? 7. What does this angry evil being want from Rama s wife? 8. While searching for his wife, Rama makes an unusual alliance with what group? Notes on The Ramayana (tr. R. K. Narayan, textbook pp ) 1. At the start of your reading, who is winning the battle, and what does Ravana decide to do? 2. Ravana prays to the god. Remember lecture what is this god the god of? 3. In the picture on page 133, what color is Rama? Remember lecture what does this tell you? 4. Ravena promises that either his wife or Rama s wife will soon be what? 5. Who comes to help Rama, and what does he bring? Which gods sent him? 5. When Rama looks at the gift, what doubt does he express? Who convinces him? 6. Rama likes to use a sword and what other weapon? 7. What is the difference between Ravana s and Rama s chariot speed? Why does Rama do this?

6 8. Ravana s greatest warrior the giant among giants wants to attack Rama, but what does his charioteer advise instead? What does the giant do, what happens, and how long does it take? 9. Ravana does not care because, he says, Rama is a mere. 10. Ravana blows on a to start the battle. What responds? 11. Ravana sends thousand of what weapons towards Rama? How does Rama stop each of them? 12. Next, Ravana orders his chariot to go where? From there, whom does Ravana attack? 13. Rama pursues Ravana across the dome of the and rim of the. 14. Ravana was bent upon destroying everything in the. 15. Whom did this frighten? 16. Next, Ravana uses asthras against Rama. What are these, and how does Rama respond? 17. Next, Ravana creates what illusion? 18. To fight it, Rama at once invoked a weapon called Gnana which means what? 19. Next Ravana uses his deadliest weapon, which is what? How does Rama escape this? 20. Next Ravana sends a weapon that turns into what? With what animals does Rama respond? 21. Ravana sends more arrows, and Rama causes what to happen to them? 22. Rama now begins to chop off what? What happens each time? 23. When Ravana finally faints, what does Rama do? 24. Finally, Rama sends a weapon which attacks what body part of Ravana? 25. Rama is ashamed at the end because he thinks he has attacked when Ravana was doing what? 26. What does he find out that relieves this shame?