SECTION 2 - Examples of Materials
The final activity for each small group is to prepare a presentation on its own article to share with the rest of the class. In this way, participants work together to "digest" the content in order to explain it clearly to others. Allow about an hour for all the presentations to be made - approximately 20 minutes per presentation, including time for questions and discussion. This activity is an example of the Jig Saw approach - a large reading or research task is divided into parts and delegated to different groups and then at the end they are all put together again - through presentations and discussion - to form the whole. Asa result of the presentations, all participants will be familiar with the content from all three articles.
After the presentations, the whole group considers the following question:
"You have heard about the global water crisis, the privatization of water and about NAFTA and the Canadian control of water. In your opinion, what are the problems and what are the solutions?"
Record a summary of problems and solutions in list form on the flipchart.
Finally, distribute copies of hand-out # 17 - Five Things You Should Know About Water. Explain that this article is from Canadian perspectives, winter 1999. This is a publication of the council of Canadians. Tell participants that the readings they have just read and discussed and the presentations they have just heard are all based on this article. They should now be able to read and make sense of the article in its original form.
