Eagle Eye Legend

The Eagle Eye script comes in two formats, both word documents, for teachers to print out for classroom reading. One version has the 22 inquiries annotated in the margins and the other version has the inquiries deleted. The second version gives teachers the option to engage their students with selected inquiries separately from the dramatic reading or from viewing the DVD of the live performance. Several monologues from the script are also isolated and available for printing.

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Purpose of the Eagle Eye Project

Our purpose is to use the art of storytelling to engage the next generation of citizens in understanding and advancing sustainable prosperity in their lives. The Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival Society, through the generous support of the Fraser Salmon and Watersheds Program, commissioned storyteller and educator, Peter Donaldson, to create an original legend as a foundation story for a planned educational resource packet for secondary level students in British Columbia and beyond.

The Eagle Eye story is a classic legend full of archetypal animal characters, grand themes, dark corners and perhaps more riddles then answers. As a classic teaching legend, Eagle Eye embodies both the spirit and science of sustainability through the ancient dance of interdependence between Salmon and Eagle and all of the animals participating in this fiercely shared abundance. Including humans.

Eagle Eye was originally performed on November 16 and 17, 2007 during the twelfth annual Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival. The performances took place in the First Nations pit house at Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre near Mission, British Columbia. Eagle Eye was filmed before a live audience with follow up video interviews of a series of experts, including First Nations elders, addressing the real life implications of the story. The purpose of the legend is to make people curious through metaphors, drama and riddles. The purpose of the expert commentary is to ground the story’s metaphorical inquiries in the every day science and economics of sustainable behavior.

The resulting DVD set, including the Eagle Eye legend and Expert Commentary, is a new educational resource with a focus on inquiry-based learning.