Justice Talking The Meaning of Service Facilitation Notes Facilitation Notes The Facilitation Notes correspond to the content found on the ServeOhio website: www.serveohio.org/professional-development/justice-talking Content selections include digital images for download, texts Below author and title information you will find topic areas. for download or from online sources, as well as online videos. Use these to help choose content depending on the kind of Each content selection is marked according to format: Justice Talking session you would like to have. Serving Poverty & Need Leadership & Motives & Values T I V Responsibility Change Diversity & Difference for text for image for video Identity & Community Table of Contents Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” excerpt .......................................................................................18 T Serving, Leadership & Responsibility, Diversity & Difference James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” .....................................................................................................................................................19 T Diversity & Difference, Identity & Community James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village,” excerpt ....................................................................................................................................21 T Diversity & Difference, Identity & Community Toni Cade Bambara, “The Lesson” .................................................................................................................................................................23 T Leadership & Responsibility, Motives & Values Alonso Alvarez Barreda, History of a Sign ..................................................................................................................................................24 V Poverty & Need, Motives & Values Charles Baudelaire, “Let’s Beat Up the Poor!” ............................................................................................................................................25 T Poverty & Need Bertolt Brecht, “A Bed for the Night” .............................................................................................................................................................27 T Poverty & Need, Serving Gwendolyn Brooks, “The Lovers of the Poor” ...........................................................................................................................................29 T Poverty & Need, Motives & Values, Serving César Chávez, “The Mexican-American and the Church” ......................................................................................................................31 T Change, Motives & Values V Adam Davidson, The Lunch Date ....................................................................................................................................................................33 Serving Adam Davis, “What We Don’t Talk About When We Don’t Talk About Service,” excerpt .............................................................34 T Serving Martìn Espada, “Imagine the Angels of Bread” .........................................................................................................................................35 T Change Alan Fisher, Lou Ambers Tips His Hat ..............................................................................................................................................................37 I Poverty & Need, Serving 16 Facilitation Notes The Facilitation Notes were created by Ohio Humanities program staff: Jim Calder, Robert Colby, David Merkowitz, Missy Ricksecker, and Patricia Williamsen. Selections were drawn from the Great Books Foundation’s The Civically Engaged Reader (2006) and the original Justice Talking curriculum (2010) created by the Center for Civic Reflection at the behest of ServeOhio. Table of Contents Lewis Hine, Newsies .............................................................................................................................................................................................38 I Poverty & Need Lowell Jaeger, “Okay” ..........................................................................................................................................................................................39 T Poverty & Need, Motives & Values Franz Kafka, The Helmsman ..............................................................................................................................................................................40 T Leadership & Responsibility John F. Kennedy, Jr., Inaugural Address ........................................................................................................................................................41 V Leadership & Responsibility Tracey Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, excerpt ............................................................................................................................42 T Serving, Motives & Values Etheridge Knight, “A Wasp Woman Visits a Black Junkie in Prison” ....................................................................................................44 T Serving, Motives & Values Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother ...................................................................................................................................................................46 I Poverty & Need Naomi Shihab Nye, “Gate A-4” ........................................................................................................................................................................47 T Serving, Diversity & Difference, Identity & Community Mary Oliver, “The Buddha’s Last Instruction” .............................................................................................................................................48 T Serving Nicola Poussin, Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man ...............................................................................................................49 I Serving, Poverty & Need, Change T Rachel Naomi Remen, “Helping, Fixing or Serving?,” excerpt ..............................................................................................................50 Serving Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker, excerpt................................................................................................51 T Poverty & Need, Motives & Values Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, exerpt .............................................................................................................................52 T Leadership & Responsibility, Motives & Values 17 Facilitation Notes Jane Addams, excerpt from “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements” (1892) Introduction: Jane Addams (1860–1935) was a pioneer of the settlement house movement, which provided social services and education to poor workers. Addams founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889 and was an early leader in the profession that would become social T work. In “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” Addams wrote with conviction and humility about the way in which the character of one’s life is connected to that of others. Content: Invite participants to read the text. Observation questions: What do you see going on in the text? What jumps out at you? Context: Settlement houses were founded in large cities in the United States beginning in the late 1800s, a time when foreign immigration and rural-to-urban in-migration profoundly reshaped American society. Settlement houses helped disenfranchised new arrivals—who made up a large portion of the labor force in industrialized cities—assimilate to life in their new urban settings. In this excerpt, Addams describes the motives of well-educated and idealistic young people who might staff the settlement houses. These two groups—the urban poor and educated middle-class young people— were frequently brought together in service activity. Interpretation questions: With this additional context, let’s turn back to the text. What more do you notice? What more jumps out at you? How does Addams describe the negative aspects of being a well-educated middle-class young person in 1892? Does this resonate today? What kind of relationship does Addams propose between those who serve in settlement houses and those who are served? What do you think Addams means by “the race life”? What does Addams promise the young, idealistic settlement workers? Implication questions: What message about service does the text hold for you? How does the text help you think about the service experiences you’ve had or about the concept of service? 18 Facilitation Notes James Baldwin, “Stranger in the Village” (1953) Note: The length of this text will require participants to read it in advance. Introduction: James Baldwin (1924–1987) was an influential African American writer and cultural critic who explored ideas of race and identity in mid-twentieth century America and Europe. T Baldwin grew up in New York City and left the United States for Paris in 1948 as a result of the tensions he experienced due to his race and sexuality in his native country. Though he would make France his home for the rest of his adult life, he was highly active in the United States and became one of the intellectual leaders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Content: Consider carefully how you will use the text to guide the discussion. Observation questions: What do