Exercise: Things We Lost Along The Way

For the first exercise, I wanted students to consider the journey as one taken by themselves. After discussing the word, its meaning and their own understandings of it we talked about how over time we loose things along the way, that we make decisions behind what to keep, what we discard and what is lost. Students were asked to select 5 items of personal value to themselves. Describe the object and briefly explain what makes it valuable. As a group we were to take a journey, imagining we had a long distance to cover. Along our way, we had to loose and/or leave behind one item until we were left with only one in our possession. As each object was left behind, students had to document the object in the space it was left.