As Thanksgiving draws near, invite your students to watch this inspiring Channel One News story about former NFL player Jason Brown. Once a star center for the St. Louis Rams, Brown walked away from his football career to become a farmer and help provide food for the hungry. His farm, First Fruits Farm, donates the first harvest of every crop to food pantries in his North Carolina community.
Why does Jason Brown feel that farming is more meaningful than playing for the NFL? Do you agree? Why or why not?
Visit the United States Department of Agriculture’s website to learn more about Food Security in the U.S.
Student pairs answer the following questions:
Why is providing food for others necessary in our country? Use details from the video, the U.S. Department of Agriculture website and your own experiences to support your response. Call on student volunteers to share their responses aloud.
What can you do this Thanksgiving to help others? Describe a problem that you see in your community. Then, outline an action you can take to help others. Be specific about the problem you’d like to solve and the steps you could take to solve it.
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Jason Brown feels that way cause he wants to feed the hungry and homeless.Yes I agree with him because he’s doing the right thing.
if he wants to quit football and be a farmer he can it is his dream he can do what he wants.
if he wants to be a farmer and not a football player let him be what he wants to be
I think why Jason does it because he care’s about people in america and where he can help people that don’t have food in america and to help feed his mother and kid’s.
I think this a really really cool idea he should be able to do whatever he wants to do with his life!
I think it’s cool that he grows crop and than gives away to the people who really need!
Definetly because this is America
I think he can do what he wants because this is America!!!!!!!
We should have a we can Wednesday were we all try something we don’t think we can do though it does not follow the idea of this page (witch I would have commented on the giving Tuesday but I could not find a comment area) but on we can Wednesday we try to accomplish what we consider something we CAN’T do . I have learned at my school that we can do anything if we try hard enough . Thank you Channel One News
I think if that is what he wants to do he should be able to do it.
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I think that he can follow his dreams if he wants to.