*To help students become sensitized to the endangerment/threat to species' existence.
*To begin to articulate what it means t be a threatened being.
* To explore what Noah and other Jewish texts have to say about protecting species.

Introduction:

On the board is write the line from Genesis 6:19

"and from all living-things, from all flesh, you are to bring two from all into the Ark, to remain alive with you. They are to be a male and female each, from fowl after their kind, from herd-animals after their kind, from all crawling things of the soil after their kind, two from all are to come to you, to remain alive. As for you, take for yourself from all edible-things that are eaten and gather it to you, it shall be for you and for them, for eating. Noah did it, according to all that God commanded him, so he did." (Evert Fox, translation)

Warm-Ups: Use movement warm-up here because the programs to follow involve the body and voice in motion, as central pieces. These movement exercises require percussion instruments to set a beat.

* Begin with "patterning": Model for them how to move isolated body parts, focusing on the upper, lower and then whole body. Encourage them to use different levels/planes of space by asking them to move as if they are very tall, or at the level of their waist, on the ground, wide, narrow. using the drum or another instrument, encourage them to open and close their bodies to the beat. Each time they open and close they should assume a different position and maybe a different place in the room.

Have them join in pairs, one does open the other does closed, they should do this in relation to each other. Switch. Once they are comfortable with this you can stop beating the drum and let them use their own internal rhythms.

*Other movement warm-ups:
1. Using all of the space, have the students move around the space leading with different body parts - elbow, nose, knee etc.
2. Standing in a large circle have them push an imaginary object using different body parts - push an egg with nose, push an elephant with behind, drag a piano up a flight of stairs.
3. Students pair in twos. they are given a controversy- one is "yes" the other is "no". The controversy may be cutting down rain forests, the two stand facing each other, all they can say is yes and no. Encourage students to use their entire bodies when saying yes and no. They are not permitted to touch the other person. After a minute or so have them switch. you can do this exercise using "why" and "because".