Hi everyone,Today we are going to begin to explore the incredible work of Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea and founder of Pennies for Peace, an organization working to build schools for girls living in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Please watch this video to learn about him. His section begins at19.23 minutes, so please scroll ahead in the time bar to that piece.
Then, in MS Word, please answer the questions below:
1. What did you learn from the video?
1. What did you learn from the video?
2. What inspires you about Greg Mortenson?
3. If he came to our class, what three questions would you ask him?
3. If he came to our class, what three questions would you ask him?
4. Read and respond to someone else's post.
We will begin the book Three Cups of Tea on Friday and we will be raising money for Pennies for Peace!
1- What we learned from the video was that girls play a really important role in his life. He was the one who created a girls school and helped them to get education. In the memory of his sister, he climbed the 2nd highest mountain in the world, which is located in Pakistan. He also talked about how he helped the girls in Pakistan so they could get a better future. He said that when he ends this and when he dies, he would like them to put in his grave “ Died a happy person”. He felt very bad seeing how bad girls were treated and how guys would always hit them. In that country, everyone wants the first child to be a boy and if the first one is a girl they might kill them or treat them really badly. He was very moved by that and he started his own “community” about helping girls.
ReplyDelete2- What impresses us about him is one of the things he said about girls and boys. “ if you teach a guy, you teach one individual but if you teach a girl, you teach the whole community”. It is very interesting to see how he believes that when a girl grows up and has kids, she will pass on that knowledge to her kids.
3- We would ask him 1) why do you believe that girls will be the ones to pass their knowledge to their kids? 2) Why did you decide to title your book “Three Cups of Tea”?
3) Where did the idea of creating a girls school, come from?
Erblina Aga & Heng Lian
I learned that Afghanistan people are not that bad. They just want to express their religion. Most of the people in Afghanistan got the ideas from their holy bible wrong. Suicide is bad, but some people did it. Greg Mortenson inspires me in case of spirit. He can do something and think about something that other person wouldn’t do while they were kidnapped. He fundraise schools for Afghan people, even after they kidnapped him. If he came to our class, the first thing that I would ask is how could you think about fundraise schools for them, while u got kidnapped with AK-47 around you? What do you feel when you got surrounded by the kidnappers? And how do you feel now while you are free?
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ReplyDelete@Erblina : I think we should also fundraise and educate people in Afghanist, so they would know that suicide is bad and become a terrorist.
ReplyDelete1. From the interview for example I learned about the about the religion, Islam. At the same time I learned some thing which grabbed my attention by storm. I learned about the condition about Afghanistan and it was different than my imagination because when I though about Afghanistan I had a picture of ruin, destruction and death but now I see a new picture, the picture of hope.
ReplyDelete2. his attitude toward life and people in need. And hats off to his bravery too. Because there he escaped death by a inch but despite that he showed loyalty and courage by going there and doing something about it.
3. How does he plan to take the improvement to the next level?
And if he had a time machine is there something he wises that he could goo back to from the time to Afghanistan?
JIAJUN WANG/SAKIB RAHAT (RAY)
1. What did you learn from the video?
ReplyDelete2. What inspires you about Greg Mortenson?
3. If he came to our class, what three questions would you ask him?
I learned a lot from this video, we have to do something but not only think to do something. Mortenson is so helpful for this society, he help build school for girls and it inspired me to be helpful, too. If he come, I will ask what make him decide do such things.
.I learned that a woman went to study and, got a career when at that time women couldn’t go to college or study for something…Something that inspires me about Greg Mortenson is that he is a good man who helps others..Questions; how do feel by doing all of what you do?
ReplyDeleteBy the video, I learned girls are educated is important. They are educated as the community is educated.I think Greg Mortenson doesn’t like to say what he did,he just like to show by his activities.He has a heart with love.He gives the children free education and land.It costs a lots of money. If he comes to our class,I want to ask when he will end this activity.
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ReplyDelete1. I learned about Afghanistan. Greg Mottelson who working for rural people. He builds school for girls and trying to make them educate.
2. Greg Mottelson is inspiring person. He is trying to make peace in Afghanistan, where people are dieing everyday. And he also tries to make them educate at the same time.
3. * Isn’t he scared of Taliban?
* What he want to suggest American troops who are working in Afghanistan?
* is that possible to make peace by making people educate?
1.We learned from the video that even one penny is worth to make many girls happy just for having education and utensils to work with.
ReplyDelete2.What inspires me the most about Greg Mortenson, was when he was kidnapped in Taliban and told them that he had a wife pregnant for me that was very brave to do. Not everyone who gets kidnapped and still have strength to even speak out..
• How was it for you to write these letters to celebrities asking for help, without knowing that they might never even reply to your request?
• How does it feel to have approximately millions of people counting on you for such a good work?
• How is it for you, to have a daughter that has the same type of compassion as you do?
lovely,angie.
I did learn that he was capture by the Taliban and got release to go see his daughter’s birth. Something inspired me was that is his determination to promote education in one the countries where girls should not attend school. My questions are first how you feel about your determination of promoting education there? How did you feel when you were capture by the Taliban? And what makes you to keep building school there???
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The thing that I learned from this video is that before the schools don’t have a playgrounds for the students to play and also for this man was so difficult to see his daughter because his was capture for a long time by Taliban people.
The thing that surprise me is that many girls wasn’t accepted in the schools just because they was girls and that is not fair for all the people and also his daughter was not in the school.
How you feel living that kind of life?
What he think about the system?
What are the experiences that he can get from there?
I learned that fight for the peace is never better than educate for peace. In this video Greg Mortenson inspires me that we all can help the poor people in Pakistan and Afghanistan for better education. If he came to our class, I will ask him that what is you final goal for founding Pakistan and Afghanistan, why you went to Pakistan and Afghanistan at the beginning, and what did you feel after you help them?
ReplyDeleteDear Weiwei,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, we all can help poor people for education by a littile money.
Weifeng
The most valuable thing I learned from the video is that how important it is to promote girls to get their education which they usually get as a human rights but couldn’t for the threat of Taliban in their country. Some group of girl were about to lose their one of the most important human rights. Mr. Greg was the one who helped girls to get their education and made them schools for their education. His quotation about girls which is- if you teach girls, you teach the whole community” inspired me a lot. It shows the value of girls in a society. If he would come to our class I would like to ask him that- what inspired him to do a great thing for girls? 2) why did you decide to make such a title of your book and how successful was it?
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ReplyDeleteit was the excellent beginnning when you said education for peace is better than fighting for peace :)
1.What did you learn from the video? I have learned that peace is not a simple word but an attitude that we should all practice, and that Greg Mortenson understood that very well and put it in practice, he is a great man that we should all look up on.
ReplyDelete2.What inspires you about Greg Mortenson? What inspires me more about him is that even though he's been kidnapped by the Taliban, he won't hesitate help them. And what he is doing now for the freedom of education not only in Afghanistan but across the world, is just great and inspires me to later on do the same.
3. If he came to our class, what three questions would you ask him? I would like to ask him, is that when he was kidnapped by the Taliban, did he thought about death?
How was it during those seven days with them ?
From his point of view, what does he really thinks about the Taliban, they tradition, and they way the live?
I learned Greg wants to make a peace world. This is why he boiled a school in Afghanistan. He referred to the Taliban, so I guess Greg wants to try to stop the war. Education is very important for children because the knowledge could be teach people what is right or wrong, and also let them know what is should we do.
ReplyDeleteI really admire to Greg because he could made a school in Afghanistan. We know there is unsafe. Greg is not just said he wants to make a peace world, he do that.
I want to ask him “Will you building more school over the world, if you can?”
1- What we learned from the video was that girls play a really important role in his life. He was the one who created a girls school and helped them to get education. In the memory of his sister, he climbed the 2nd highest mountain in the world, which is located in Pakistan. He also talked about how he helped the girls in Pakistan so they could get a better future. He said that when he ends this and when he dies, he would like them to put in his grave “ Died a happy person”. He felt very bad seeing how bad girls were treated and how guys would always hit them. In that country, everyone wants the first child to be a boy and if the first one is a girl they might kill them or treat them really badly. He was very moved by that and he started his own “community” about helping girls.
ReplyDelete2- What impresses us about him is one of the things he said about girls and boys. “ if you teach a guy, you teach one individual but if you teach a girl, you teach the whole community”. It is very interesting to see how he believes that when a girl grows up and has kids, she will pass on that knowledge to her kids.
3- We would ask him 1) why do you believe that girls will be the ones to pass their knowledge to their kids? 2) Why did you decide to title your book “Three Cups of Tea”?
3) Where did the idea of creating a girls school, come from?