We started day one with an exercise that involved candy and an activity.
We told the students that each color candy that they're going to be handed represents
possible relationship where they may have already experienced a death.
Number one, red: a parent or sibling.
We asked them if that was true for them, to put it in the jar
Number two, orange. If they'd lost a grandparent, an aunt, uncle, or cousin, put it in the jar.
Three, yellow.
If they'd lost a teacher, or a counselor, or coach, put it in the jar.
Four, green.
A pet. Who here has not lost a pet?
Put it in the jar.
Just one.
You can eat all the other green ones.
You can keep them.
And fifth, purple.
Someone in the stratosphere, someone who's an icon for us in the public eye.
If someone died that meant a lot to you, changed your world, put it in the jar.
And then feel free to eat the rest.
Which they did.
We then held up the jar after it had gone around the room and every student had added
their appropriate colored candies and we said, what do you notice?
In every single classroom, every time the students noticed two things.
First, there were more candies in the jar than there were people in the room.
And second, every single color was in the jar.
Our job of creating context was done.
They realized that death had already touched them, was likely to touch them again.
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