Goa Aided December Activity-SHARE THE LOAD

1. To experience the importance of sharing responsibility at home.
2. To understand that duty starts from home and then goes to society.

Communication, Collaboration

Sharing responsibility

Notebooks, pens

1. Ask President and Vice President to write down the dialogues on a page given by the teacher from the Annexure 1.
2. Teacher can select the students to play roles as per the script.
3. Ask President and Vice President to distribute the dialogues to students to get prepared before the main activity day.
4. The selected students will have to prepare their dialogues 5 days before the activity.

Estimated Time: 30 minutes.

Role play – 20 Mins

1. Teacher will invite selected students to present the roleplay to the students and ask other students to observe the role play carefully and get ready for the discussion after the activity.

Discussion – 10 Mins

2. The teacher will then ask students the following questions.
   1. What are your observations from the role play?
   2. Do you agree with the daughter in the play?
   3. Do you share work with your family? Yes/No and what?
   4. Similarly, do you think that you have any responsibility towards your area/society outside your home?

NOTE - If time permits, teacher can give Office Bearer opportunity to do conclude this activity as mentioned below. Incase if time is short, invite the office bearer to ask the students – What did they learn from the activity?

Office Bearer to conclude the session - Divide the class into two groups – one led by President and one by Vice President.

Group A & B - List of daily chores (Any 5) they see at home and mark the member who is responsible for that work at home.

Mark the tasks where they can help in home. (Note: We can have more groups as per the class size. Teacher can guide the office bearers for it, all the notebook pages can be put on Desh Apnayen Wall)

Teacher will conclude the key takeaways for the activity.

1. Everybody should contribute as per their capabilities in home to finish tasks more quickly and support each other
2. The most significant benefit of sharing responsibilities is that it brings each family member’s involvement/bonding strong in the home.
3. As we are responsible for sharing duties at home, we also have duty towards our area/community to keep it clean, safe, follow rules, and take part in reporting and solving issues.

For this activity, the following can be updated by office bearers on the wall.

• Role Play script.
• Group work from the Office Bearer Recap section.

• Limit role play preparation time. Dressing up for role play is not required.
• Students can read the dialogues. Also, script can be played in local language.
• Avoid lengthy preparation for role play, focus is on learning through experience.
• Don’t overlook the importance of recap and discussing key learning points after the activity.

• For activity photos to be shared to engagement officers, please share clear pictures of
  • Role play pictures (3-4 photos)
  • Office Bearer Recap(2 photos)
  • Desh Apnayen Wall(2 photos)

https://bit.ly/Activity-Report-Share-the-Load-2

https://bit.ly/Reflection-Sheet-Share-the-Load-2

Annexure 1 – Role Play Script

Roleplay can also be done in local language, keep the meaning of the script same. This will help to save time to practice.

Character list:

• Mom
• Dad
• Son
• Daughter
• Grandfather
• Grandmother

Mom: Today, I will make potato vegetables as I am really getting late.

(She starts doing her work)

Grandmother: Mala, I am thirsty. Can you get me some water please?

Mala(mom): Sure!

(Mom fetches water for grandparents)

Grandfather: Can you make us some more tea Mala bahu.

Mala: Ji! Papaji.

Mala goes to the kitchen.

Mala: My vegetables and dal are getting cooked on the gas. If I start making tea by removing any one of them, I am getting late for work.

Grandmother: Bahu! Is the tea ready?

Mala: Please wait a little while.

Son: Ma, are you going to give me pasta in the tiffin today?

Mom: No, Beta! I will give you pasta this weekend. It is not possible for me to make an extra dish in the morning hours.

Son: Oh no! You are always busy.

Daughter: Ma! Where did you keep the shoe polish?

Mom: It is there only inside the shoe rack.

Daughter: But I cannot find it!

Mom: (goes near the shoe-rack, finds it) There you are. It just fell behind the running shoe. You would have gotten it if you had searched a bit more.

Father: Oh! Mala! Try to get up early so that you can finish your work!

Mom: I am already getting up at 5:30 a.m. You all wake up at 6:30 a.m. I am already getting up one hour early.

Father: In that case, I think you should wake up at 5:00 a.m. to finish your work.

Everyone (Except the daughter): Yes! You must wake up early!

(Mom makes a sad face)

Daughter: Why should she only wake up early? If all of us wake up early, just 10 min than our usual time and help mom! I think she will have a lot more time on hand. She will not have to struggle. Doing housework is not just her work! All the family members should share work. My teacher had told me this at the ACTiZENS club.

Grandmother: Yes, you are right! Let us try it tomorrow.

Next day-(everyone wakes up 10 minutes early than usual)

Grandmother: Bahu Let me chop the vegetables for you.

Father: I will water the plants.

Children: We will fetch water etc. for grandparents and we will pack our own school bag and get ready for school.

Grandfather: I will drop children at the bus stop for school bus.

Everyone starts helping.

All the work is done smoothly.

Mom: It is just 9:00 am and all my work is done! Today, I have extra time! Let me make some more tea and let us enjoy it together.