3.1 Beginning the planning phase
The IN PRACTICE activity below will encourage your young participants to consider how the clipping(s) they have chosen can help demonstrate the key message they want to convey in their docutube.
IN PRACTICE: Planning with the clippings
It will be important to allow the young people to spend plenty of time discussing their ideas about religious diversity and toleration, past and present. They may have already developed ideas during the Engage phase, but the Plan phase is about crystalising those ideas. To do this, you will want to divide them into the groups of 2–4 that they will be working in.
You can then follow the process outlined below.
- Get each group to focus on one or two clippings. You might want to ask them to discuss the question: ‘Which clipping(s) surprised or interested you the most, and why?’
- Now ask why they think the historic clipping(s) they have chosen is relevant to present-day issues of religious diversity and toleration. You could ask questions like:
Is it relevant to your own experiences of religious diversity and toleration?
Is it relevant to something you have heard about in the news?
- Now ask them to summarise in each group what their ‘key message’ might be in a docutube, which relates past and present.
Once the young people have done the groundwork, they will be ready to start planning their docutube in detail.