Your Blog

This Wednesday is catch up day. You should have two blogs on your website. The first should be about your experience as an ESL student or with people who have a disability and the second about a time you were kind to someone, or when someone was kind to you.

If you have completed both of these blogs, you have todays class to work on your project. If not, please complete both and include on your blog.

The blog marking scheme is:

BLOG ENTRY = /10 MARKS


Content /5

- Blog is on topic and appropriate
- Blog addresses the weekly topic
- Blog demonstrates thought and understanding on and of the topic

Structure /3

- 5 to 15 sentences per paragraph
- 2 to 3 paragraphs per blog

Grammar/Spelling /2

- Proofread for both grammar and spelling
- 1 mark deducted for every 5 errors

Random Acts of Kindness Week Feb. 12 - 18

This week is Random Acts of Kindness Week.

What is a Random Act of Kindness? When we go beyond duties that are expected of us and reach out to help another person or group of people, we are performing a Random Act of Kindness. Kindness and empathy are very closely related: kindness is the observable expression of empathy. We sense another person’s need, we understand how it feels to be in need (due to our own past experience), and we decide to offer our help. This profound process can happen almost instantaneously, even if the person in need is a complete stranger. When we are kind, we express the best of our humanity.

An Explanation of “Random” The word “random” can be interpreted in various ways. It originally was adopted simply as a response to the often-heard phrase “random acts of violence.” In this sense, a Random Acts of Kindness does not mean an unplanned act any more than a random acts of violence is unplanned. Almost all acts of kindness are planned to some extent. Sometimes the planning takes a couple of seconds. Other times, the planning can take weeks. All acts of kindness — planned and unplanned — are valuable and beneficial. When people are kind, they are improving their world by selflessly giving to another.


These definitions were taken from the Acts of Kindness Website.

http://www.actsofkindness.org/

For your blog this week, think of a time you have been kind or when someone was kind to you. How did it make you feel? Did you "pass it on"? Finish your entry by planning a way you can commit an act of kindness and then DO IT!!

Blogs

Here are some of your classmates blogs:

http://will-ordinary.blogspot.com

http://dimitriviljoen.blogspot.com

http://nehaseslblog.blogspot.com

http://abrahamesl.blogspot.com

http://rochellebrownie.blogspot.com

http://000SAMYZ000.blogspot.com

http://marieeslblog.blogspot.com

http://exPza.blogspot.com

http://maillouxesl.blogspot.com/

http://metalbar-gabriel.blogspot.com

Autism

Autism Spectrum Disorder, also referred to as autism, is a neurological disorder which causes developmental disability. Autism affects the way the brain functions, resulting in difficulties with communication and social interaction, and unusual patterns of behaviour, activities and interests.

Learn more about auitism on Autism Society Canada Webpage:

http://www.autismsocietycanada.ca/general_info/ten_common_questions/index_e.html

Find information on the web on "Kanner's Syndrome" and post a link on your blog.

This is the type of autism that Ray has in Rainman.

This week in class we will be studying Rainman.