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Robin Wall KimmererA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
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“Gestures of Gratitude”
After reading Kimmerer’s ideas about gratitude in Braiding Sweetgrass, students demonstrate their understanding by creating a presentation applying Kimmerer’s ideas to a specific natural resource.
Choose a natural resource that is central to your own way of life: water, fossil fuels, rare earth elements, etc. Conduct research and take notes about the many uses to which humans put this resource and what the implications would be should this resource become scarce or disappear. Then, create a presentation that shows how Kimmerer’s ideas about gratitude might be applied to people’s use of this resource. What would it look like if we were all genuinely mindful of what a gift this resource is? How might our behavior change?
Research and Reflect
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
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