Discovering Tibet

The Film – The Cup

The Cup is the story of a group of young Tibetan boys living as monks in a remote monastery at the foot of the Himalayas in Northern India. One of these boys, the tenacious and rebellious fourteen-year-old Orgyen is obsessed with the World Cup football (soccer) series and goes to great lengths to follow the games. He even resorts to sneaking out of the monastery at night and attempts to raise money to rent satellite television equipment to watch the World Cup in the monastery itself. The monastery’s disciplinarian must decide how to deal with the introduction of modern Western influences into their traditional monastic lifestyle.

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The Curriculum Guide

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This interdisciplinary curriculum guide for educators based on the film ‘The Cup’ includes 11 lesson plans that cover math, science, language arts, social studies, media literacy, visual arts and specialty areas. It is available in both print and electronic versions.

Additional themes explored through the guide are:

Living in exile
The refugee experience
Globalization
History of China and Tibet
Rural life
Belief systems
Buddhism
Coming of age
Responsibility
Tibetan traditions and culture

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Authors: John Egbert, Mari Haas, Pat McCarthy, Eileen Mattingly, Deenah Dunkelman Mollin, Sarah Rainsberger and Dede Sinclair.