Friday, October 12, 2012

October 17, Marking Period 1 Grades and Enemy of the People

Hi everyone,


Today we will do two things: 

  1. Review and reflect on your grades for the first marking period. 
  2. Prepare to see "An Enemy of the People"with two assignments.



  • I am using a program called Engrade to calculate your grades. Please go to the Engrade website to register and see your grades. You need your access code to do this.
  • Now please answer the questions below in Google Docs:
  • Please give me feedback (comments/suggestions) about your experience in the class. Please be specific and honest as this will help make the class better for you and everyone else in the coming semester.
  1. What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.
  2. What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
  3. Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
  4. Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover?Which ones?
  5. What can I do to make the class better for you (aside from no homework J )? Please be specific.
  6. What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful?
  7. Where are you doing community service? How many hours have you done so far? What have you learned or gained from volunteering?
  8. Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is _______________ and one thing I will give is ________________."
Now, post your answers as a comment to our class blog.

Preparation for "An Enemy of the People"

Both assignments below will be graded as a test!!!

They are both due next Wednesday, October 24, printed and completed. 

1.     Choose a social issue related to human rights that you feel very strongly about and have knowledge of or can do research on. 

·      Write a monologue (like a speech, where you talk by yourself) in absolute, certain terms that we can overcome this situation as a society. 

·      You may choose a human rights situation from this country or their country of origin.  

·      USE TOTALLY OPTIMISTIC WRITING! 

·      Convince us that this is possible: for example, that women will have equal rights, that all humans will have justice, that detainees will be will be released, etc. See guideline worksheet and rubric for details.

·      You must include research (facts, statistics and details)

·      It must be at least one full page typed! Times New Roman, 12 pt font, 1 inch margins, double spaced.


2.   Do internet research on one modern-day whistle blower (a person who exposes illegal or unjust activity, often taking great risks to do so (like losing their job or even their life) in our culture, or your country of origin. 

·      Track what happened to this person. 

·      Is this person made into a hero or is he/she turned into an outcast? 

·      Often, they are outcasts turned heroes in the end. 

·      Track one person's journey, someone who has risen up to “blow the whistle” on a situation for the good of all.  

·      You must find two articles about this person and complete a research log for each one. One should be in your native language.

·      You must then write a one-page summary about his/her story, in your own words.

Our Teaching Artist, Stephanie Alston, will be expecting the materials from you next Wed 10/24! 

Don't let us down!!!  We will continue this work tomorrow!

63 comments:

  1. jean-Luc antoine

    1.What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.

    In this marking period I enjoyed all the activities we did in class
    Sylvia. I enjoyed the activities about we did human rights concerns. Best of all I enjoyed the different community services.

    What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
    I enjoyed everything, everything was fun.


    2.Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
    No I am still the same because I always participate in every class.

    3.Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover?Which ones?
    No we covered everything.

    What can I do to make the class better for you (aside from no homework J )? Please be specific.
    To have Sylvia there more often.

    4.What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful?
    Always do HW and participate.

    5.Where are you doing community service? How many hours have you done so far? What have you learned or gained from volunteering?
    I did community service in many different places. I have 14h.

    I have learned training skills and experience.
    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is Facts in the world and one thing I will give is more attention to concerns in the world.

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    1. Great Jean Luc! I'm so glad you are learning so much from your community service. That is wonderful. Good for you. I love your last answer too.

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  2. 1. What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.
    I enjoy the works with my classmate and we still have to make the project that is about hunger.
    2. What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
    I enjoy every works in the class, because is class is very funny and interesting. I like group works, in the class.

    3. Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
    I think the teacher should take us to do some community service in the outside school. We can help together and make a helper group .
    4. Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover? Which ones?
    Publicity. That is a good activities for the student . we can make a AD. In the school tell the student to take care the poor people , no discriminate and love each other.

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    1. If there is something we can all do together, I will let you know. For now I don't know of events but I'm sure this year there will be things we can all do as a group for community service.

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  3. I enjoyed the most about the class this marking period was the cocktail party. Because its fun, we get to talk to our classmates about a specific topic and also we get many ideas from them about that.
    Basically I enjoyed everything.
    Yes, my English is improving very much.
    I don’t think there was any topic that you didn't cover.
    This class is perfect. :)
    Everyone has to share their thoughts and anything they do outside of the class like the community services, if they share those experience then the other people who doesn't know something could know it.
    I went to the high school fair so far and there I got 6 hours. I learned more about our school while explaining to others. And also we got to practice our English more.
    “From class this marking period, one thing I will take is knowledge and one thing I will give is respect ."

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    1. That's great Masuma. You are taking and giving wonderful things!!

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  4. 1.I enjoyed the time with my friends. In the class, we can discuss many problems we have. I also enjoyed the time we were doing projects. Those projects taught us how to think in the point of view from people in Africa.
    2.I didn’t enjoy some topic. Topics like world hunger are too heavy stuff. It’s hard to change the situation. Every time I think of it, I feel very sad.
    3.yes. I feel I became more thankful about what I got. And I think I should take some responsibilities and try to change the situation.
    4.no, it covers everything that I’m interested in.
    5.we could talk about more about issues in Asia. Because, Asia is the home of many students in our class. The topic must interest us.
    6.we can do some acting. Because we can better understand the situations and have fun at the same time.
    7.i have done like 12 hours in total. I did community service with my friends. I learn more about my community and the world around us.
    8. From class this marking period, one thing I will take is the knowledge and one thing I will give is my passion to make the world a better place.

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    1. It's true that hunger and poverty are heavy topics. But actually, by working with Concern, you are doing something great to help improve the world! So keep at it and you'll see!

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  5. 1.This class is very interesting class. We do a lot of different things. Every activity,project and workshop is very enjoyable. The most I enjoy was writing letter to my buddy, because I good share things about myself. Also working with Concern is very interesting.

    2.I enjoyed everything. We have a lot of fun in this class. The best class in Newcomers High School.

    3.I think yes, now I know more things about human rights, which I can share with people.

    4.I want to know more about human right in different countries around the world.

    5.We should have more trips, which are related to human rights.

    6.We should work more as a team and share our ideas about the class. Also our experience from our countries about human rights.

    7.I am doing community services in many different events and places. I compleated 26 hours. I learned how to work in group, how behavior in many different situations, how to help people and also how to become different person depends on situation and people who I helped.

    8.From class this marking period, one thing I will take is that we should get more involved in human rights projects and one thing I will give is to don’t waste food.

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    1. Magda you are a community service star!!
      And I love taking trips but your teachers don't love it when we have too many. We have November 7 and then Dec 5. There might be another one in November. I"ll keep you posted!!

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  6. 1-I enjoyed doing class activities like clap games, i enjoyed working with Concern Worldwide because it got educate by learning facts of what is happening in developing countries. I enjoyed reading letters to my buddy and answer them back. I enjoyed writing an autobiography poem for my buddy.

    2-To be honest i enjoyed every single thing we did in class. I like to try new thing.

    3-Yes, i have changed because when we having a group project i try my best to express myself but sometimes i have the ideas and its hard to express or share it with my classmates.

    4-Like immigration because we are all immigration i think i mean our welcome stories. I think we should try to do it because when we all came to the U.S. we had internal and external conflicts.

    5-I want you to be a part of the class when Sylvia and Amanda are present in the class. I want you to help us like they do.

    6-I would advise them to participate more and do give their homework in time and complete. And also even that the teacher is absent they should still do their work because it is going to count toward your grade.

    7-I did community service for Light the Night By the Leukemia Lymphoma society. I also did community service at the Race for the Kids. I have learn that it’s great to give back to the country. I watch people in the race for the kids running and i felt happy about it because people lives depend on you running or walking. I never knew such greats things to do like that instead of staying home and surf the web, sleep.

    8-"From class this marking period, one thing I will take is Knowledge and one thing I will give is Devotion, Attention, Time."

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    1. Sarah I'll be happy to join your activities when Sylvia and Amanda come!!
      You've done wonderful community service. That is terrific.
      Great advice about doing work even when the teacher is out. Thanks.

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  7. I enjoyed working with “Concern” organization and Ms.Sylvia because I can learn more about the global issues that I didn’t aware of them before.

    I did enjoyed all the activities that we worked in the class, especially, with ‘’Concern.”

    I think I am the same as before because I participated more when I knew about the things.

    No, the class just the way is excellent.

    I don’t have the exact global issue that I want to learn. So, I will always try my best to learn all the things.

    We have to do the community service hours by the end of each marking period and more participation in class.

    I have done the ‘’Light the Night Walk” volunteering. Now, I am doing volunteering at Kindergarten and Çampaign for Grace Meng. So far, I have done over 20 hours of community service.

    I learned many skills such as managements, setting up things and so on. I also gained more patience from teaching the elementary students.

    "From class this marking period, one thing I will take is real issues around the world and one thing I will give is more involved in those issues."

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    1. That is wonderful. And I'm so glad that helping younger children is teaching you about patience. Fantastic!

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  8. 1. I enjoyed what we learned in this class, because these are about social issues, and I am willing to help people who needed, also, I am interesting in solve the global issues with partners, friends, such as, the project we did for hunger day, I think it is helpful for more people know about issues about hunger.
    2. I didn’t enjoy doing blog, because the informations we learned are too general, and we just put our comments to our blog, there is no exact actions to help solve the issues.
    3. Yes, I have changed my view after participating in this class, the world of poor areas are quite different from where we lived, they are more wretched than I imagined.
    4. Yes, we did not have any activities that involved any exact actions from us yet. I would like to go out with partners, friends to help more people.
    5. Create more projects and activities for us to learn more about global issues.
    6. Regarding the global issues seriously, put our effort on our works.
    7. I am doing community service in bridge to life, I have done 13.5 hours so far, I learned how to work as a group and I practice my personal skills a lot.
    8. "From class this marking period, one thing I will take is concern of global issues and one thing I will give is my effort ."

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    1. Wen Hui I love it that you really want to make a change in the world. The blog is a place to get information, not really for action taking. But our work with Concern will be all about taking action and there will be other opportunities.

      Also, all the community service you are doing is taking action!!

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    2. Oh, I just realized that we can all volunteer together at the St Luke's Christmas Fair on Saturday Dec 3! It's a lot of fun!

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  9. During that first marking period i enjoyed the way i was discovering many facts about the world that actually make me more concern. I also enjoyed writing letters to my buddy named Stella and actually can’t wait to met her. We also did some mini debate about the global facts, we agreed and disagreed on some of them.


    There’s not a really specific thing that i did not enjoyed, everything was pretty good and knowledgeable.


    Yes i have change by the fact that i’m more concerned about the different things that are going on around me and that pushes to be more devoted to do something that will be in somewhat helpful to my community.



    I have no specific project in mind for now, we did group projects, we talked about pretty big issues which i liked.


    For my concern i think the class is just fine, the assignments that you gave were pretty much enjoyable, but most of all as you being my teacher i would like to see you more involved in the class, like not sitting in the back of the class and just listen or watch to us interacting.




    One advice i can give my classmate is that they should do all their work and try participate as much as they can.


    I do community service at the library next to my house, and i also went to the walk for Leukemia at Forest Park. So far I have about 16-18 hours. What i learned was that in a community we should not only think about gaining but also giving back.


    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is _Knowledge______________ and one thing I will give is _my devotion._______________."

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    1. Sophia I will be happy to join you in your work with Concern. Great.
      And I love it that doing community service is helping you see the value of giving back to the community. That is sooo... important!

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  10. 1. I enjoyed getting to know the new students in the class and to have a new buddy for the semester. I also enjoyed the work that Sylvia Wang is doing with us, teaching about issues in Africa and what we can do to help those countries in need.

    2. I think there is nothing I didn’t really enjoyed this marking period in this class

    3. I feel like a have learned a lot about the reality of human rights and about effective ways to minimize them through the workshops with Sylvia. I think that makes me more prepared for making a difference in the world.

    4. I think if there is one topic that we could have covered is discrimination, because that is a very relevant topic currently

    5. Even though the class is good as it is, I think the class could be better if you participated more in class, working with Sylvia and Amanda or working on a project with us.

    6. Take the class more seriously and do the necessary community service hours.

    7. I tried to vary my community service involvement instead of working on the same place I was working before, but that didn’t quite worked out. I ended up doing only 2 hours of community service this marking period.

    8.From class this marking period, one thing I will take is all the knowledge I gained and one thing I will give is my participation and commitment to the class.

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    1. Renan, I'll be happy to join you as you work with Sylvia and Amanda. Great.
      Also, your intentions were good in finding different places and ways to do community service. It will all work out in the end.
      You just have a lot of interests!!

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  11. LIN,XIAOYUE

    I enjoyed discussing about human rights with our classmate, and sent letter with my partner who is not in our school. This is very interesting to change our ideas and thoughts to each other, because its a best way to share our thinking and compare our opinions. The activities are very nice to help us to understand human rights , we played some games to know about American's life and environments. The projects in our class are very created, because we just have short time and we have to think about it as quickly as we can. About our workshop, we can discuss our opinions and how can we do for those poor and weak people to have a better life, I like it because I like to think about and ideas to help the poor people.


    I did not enjoy reading the facts, because I felt it is so boring to read it and understand it. Because I think we can understand it by ourselves. And I do not like to read too many words in a class, I like to do some activities.


    Yes, I think I have changed in this class in participation, because I knew how African lived and their environments are very bad. So, I had changed to participation to discuss those questions as possible as I can.


    I think we can have some real activities to go outside and to connect with their groups to help more people.


    We can have more video to make sure the environment about African’s life and get more news to adapt their lifestyle, then we can thinking about the method to help them.


    Reading more information about hunger and HIV, so we can give their more help immediately.

    7. I am doing community service in kindergarten, I have done 20 hours so far. I learned how to care about children, and how to teach them about hard problems as patiently as I can.

    8.Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is my hesitate and shy and one thing I will give is my love and help."

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    1. You are doing wonderful work as community service. And the facts are important because they help us connect with and understand the issues more. We will see more videos during the year.

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  12. R. In this marking period I enjoyed all the activities we did in class
    Sylvia. I enjoyed the activities about we did human rights concerns. Best of all I enjoyed the different community services.

    R. Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?

    R.No I remained the same because I always participate in class.

    R.No we covered everything.

    R. To have Sylvia there more often to do her fun exercises.

    R. Always do HW and participate in class...do blog.

    R. I did community service in several places. I have 11h.
    I have learned training skills and experience.

    R. Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is experience and one thing I will give is love and respect.

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    1. I'm glad you are there participating fully and that you are enjoying our work with Sylvia. That is great!

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  13. What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.
    i enjoyed to learn in this class about the poor people and what we could do by help them. I enjoyed it because sometimes we unknown many things about own world around us.
    What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
    i enjoyed everything, everything was fun.
    Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
    yes, maybe participate more in class because i'm so shy.
    Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover?Which ones?
    No, everything was fine.
    What can I do to make the class better for you (aside from no homework J )? Please be specific.
    i feel good with everything in the class so i don't think we should add something else.
    What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful?
    i think everybody could share own experiences when we do community services and everybody participate.
    Where are you doing community service? How many hours have you done so far? What have you learned or gained from volunteering?
    i did community services in Manhattan, the event called Rice for the kids, i did 6 hours, i learned that every child need a model by their lives.
    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is known more about humans rights and one thing I will give is participate in all the events we do."

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    1. I hope that you are feeling more and more comfortable to participate in our class.
      Your community service is excellent!

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  14. 1. This is one of the most enjoyable classes that I ever had. I like this class and working with the people and helping them. I enjoyed every project and activity and workshop what I did at this class.
    2. I have no complaints about any project or workshop that I did.
    3. I feel that I have changed a lot, especially when i was doing my community service I saw and talk to the people and I observed them, and I open a lot of new stuff for my self just seeing those people, what did they do.
    4. I would like to learn about the human rights more, their role in the world.
    5. We should visit some places related to the human rights .
    6. We have to work more together and maybe make some groups where we can discuss about our experience and give advices to others, but every time have different people in the group.
    7. I did 14 hours of community service, I really like to do it. I was doing Light the Night Walk, I went to the NY Digital Citizenship Day, and I did a High School Fair. I learned how to be more confident person.
    8. From class this marking period, one thing I will take is knowledge of the human rights, and one thing I will give is my truly response and my advice.

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    1. Oleg I'm so happy you are enjoying class so much! I love having you. You are rocking the community service!!

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  15. I really enjoy getting to know my buddy. As a matter of fact I just got a new friend and I just noticed that we have a lot of things in common. Writing letters and introducing ourselves. Working with Concerns Worldwide group is so exciting. I am looking forward to working with them. (Sylvia and Amanda)

    To be honest, I can’t mention anything that I did not enjoy, as a fact, I could not find anything that I didn’t enjoy. I am so grateful for being in this class, working with Ms. Mann and other groups to work and learn together.

    Frankly, as a person, I am totally changed. I am stunned after seeing that my attitude as a person is changed. I get the opportunities to do volunteer work for my community.

    A lot of things that I had in mind were done in this class. However, I would like to have a group work someday, like a group project that needs teamwork.

    Honestly, you really did a good job in running the class. I am surprised. But, I could give an advice that might be good if we can do some play or any group project.

    I would like to give an advice about doing volunteers. I would emphasize how important it is to do the community service for others and how the experience can change our life.

    I am doing community Service in and out the school. Light the night walk, SLT meeting, PA Meeting, High school fairs, etc. I have done 25 hours so far.

    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is the experience that I get from doing community services and one thing I will give is my devotion to the class and contribute my talents."

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    1. I love having you! And it's great advice that we do acting. There will be time for that next week!! Beautiful getting and giving statement.

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    2. I would love to sing in a group or play guitar to fight for the human rights!

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  16. What I enjoyed about this class these few days was being able to learn more global issues than any other classes. I had a chance to get involved in “Concern Worldwide” and “SAGE.” One of the best things was having only one homework which was to complete minimum 10 community service hours for this marking period.
    I had a little bit of problem which was to be able to meet deadline for community service hours. I had to juggle all school work and community service during weekends because community service events are mostly on Saturdays and Sundays.
    Yes, absolutely. I become more social as I get involved in more social activities.
    I really want to do “First Person American” project after I have seen my friends from last year Human Rights Class did it.
    Nothing. This class is going well.
    I want to suggest them to get more involved in community service events and have fun.
    I did one day event such as Light the Night and Race for the Kids. I have done total 12 hours. I am trying to add up more by involving in Big Brothers Big Sisters NYC program. I have learned to enjoy helping others and have fun cooperating with friends for good causes.
    "From class this marking period, one thing I will take is more experiences from community services and one thing I will give is my little effort of helping others.

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    1. Tin I'm glad you managed all your hours - I know it's hard but it's important. I hope we have funding to do First Person American again. That would be great.

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  17. I enjoyed the most about class this marking period is cocktail party, because its great, we had time to share our opinions with each other. Also I liked making poster for the world hunger concern.
    Basicly i enjoyed everything.
    Yes, I changed my speaking skills more and communicating skills by doing volunteering works. Get to know more about human rights.
    We covered everything
    Nothing special

    Respect everyone and share opinions.
    I did volunteering in high school fair and i got only 6 hours. I learned communicate people and group works.
    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is _knowledge______________ and one thing I will give is _respect_______________."

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    1. I'm glad you are enjoying everything. Wonderful to get knowledge and give respect!

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  18. I enjoyed doing the group posters and specially the buddy letter with my saint luke buddy Tom.
    I enjoyed every activities and learned something everyday.
    Yes, i have become more responsible and learned how to work as a team. I have acquired the habit of thinking critically and thinking about helping our community.

    Wanted to sing songs related to raising human right awareness
    More fun activities like trips, group works etc.

    Just go with the flow and have fun because at the end of the day we all are trying to make the best of our lives.

    Yes, so far i have done 12 hours. I have learned that giving back to your community feels great and you become a different person.
    From class this marking period, one thing I will take is the wonderful experience and one thing I will give is effort.

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    1. Songs would be fantastic! Can you lead that? Also, I'm so glad you are gaining from your volunteering. That's what it's all about!!

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  19. I enjoyed making an auto bio poem and also write a letter for my buddy from Saint Luc. I enjoyed working with Sylvia and learned a lot of things.
    I enjoyed everything
    Yes, I started thinking more critically about some concerns worldwide and changes that we can make together as a community.
    I wanted to go to a trip.
    We can watch videos or movies concerning world wide issues and also do more group works.
    I will tell them to have respect for each other in the classroom and be helpful to each other.
    I have done community services in the High School Fair at Brooklyn Tech and Francis Lewis high School and also in the Light The Night Walk at Forest park. I have a total of 24 hours of community service.
    From class this marking period, one thing I will take is the teamwork we did and one thing I will give is effort.



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    1. Wonderful. Critical thinking about the world is so important!

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  20. This class is very interesting, so I enjoyed many activities such as exchanging letters with my St Luke’s budd, and the making of poem painting. Working with Sylvia in the making of posters about the world’s problems.

    I enjoyed every single activity because I learned a lot from them.

    Yes, I have changed due to my participation because I enriched my knowledge little by little. I learned about hunger issues, health issues, and education issues in our world.

    I would like to know more about how the actions of rich countries influenced living conditions in the poorest ones. How others’ intervention are beneficial and harmful at certain aspects?

    The class is pretty swell the way it is right now maybe we may watch more informative videos in order to improve our knowledge on human rights.

    They should be more involved, and also do their own personal research in order to learn more about the world problems. They should achieve their community service hours and make their blogs.

    I am doing community services at the YMCA, and I have 25 hours so far. I have learned how to socialize and how to fix lights.
    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is ___________working as a team____ and one thing I will give is _____strong effort.___

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    1. More videos are in our future!! Wow you have a ton of community service hours already. Great!!

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  21. 1.I enjoy when we have to give our opinion about the theme and said if we agree or disagree with the statement. Also I enjoy to write a letter to Cypress and when she send me back her letter.

    2.I didn't enjoy when we have to make the blogs because ...

    3.yes. Now i can know how important is help people of our community. Also I learned how to work as a team.

    4.yes. I saw in the tv that a girl of 14 years old was attack because she wanted to fight for the education of women and they become equal in her country. I want to know more about women rights

    5. You can plannify more trips and activities to make us see different point of view.

    6. Finish the blogs activities at time and be on time everyday so you can enjoy it with a good grade.

    7. I did community service in Forest Park. In there I did 6 hours and I learn who people collaborate with other who had the same problem than them.

    8.From class this marking period, one thing I will take is more experience of each other and one thing I will give is my respect and participation."

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    1. Why don't you like blogging?
      So happy that you are doing all your community service hours and enjoying it!

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  22. I enjoyed to have like 3 teachers, that was cool, and also that we were talking about something really important "human rights"
    There is not anything that I didn't enjoy, i really liked this class.
    I think I'm the same because I have always tried to participate in the class and i still do the same.
    We have time yet, so until now, we have covered everything correctly.
    We could get some time to play and also to talk to our friends about the theme of that day.
    To participate and also to listen when the teacher is talking.
    I am a tutor in the school, it is a very good experience to teach my own classmates.
    "From class this marking period, one thing I will take is to share my ideas about human rights at home and also to my friends and one thing I will give advice to people I see with bad behavior."

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    1. Tutoring is very important work. And I'm glad you are enjoying everything!

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  23. 1 - I enjoyed the learning and the activities that have been done for this marking period at this class, I am interested on this class because we have been doing fun activities such as having a body and exchanging letters to each others, and also learn about the organization and do community service on them based on are interest.

    2- I enjoyed everything in this class, besides my final grade i’m not enjoying it at all

    3- Yes i have changed in a way of thinking of other people around the world,and the hunger that is around the world killing every child and parents, also people with sickness, people with disabilities who can’t get help. i have gotten a feeling out of this people and what i have learned about them.


    4- I think we need to do more activities at the class with others that is fun and also teaching us understand the lesson better
    5- We have to do all the assignment all the work, and many hours we need in community service.
    6- i haven’t done any hours for community service for now, but i am willing to do my best on this second marking period
    7-Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is learn more about the organization around the world and try to volunteer on them and one thing I will give is efford to help others

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    1. I'm so glad you are enjoying class, and I know your grade will improve with the hours you are going to do!

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  24. 1. Ans: Progga: I enjoyed working with Silvia and our group works,making posters, learning about lots of biggest issues going in our world.Also, i enjoyed writing letter to my buddy.
    Fahameda: This marking period, I enjoyed many things such as working with our Ms. Silvia and working with her, making project, and learning about the world’s greatest issues that is now affecting in our world. Also getting letters from my buddy and write it back to them .
    2. Ans:- Fahameda: Actually I enjoyed most of the things from this class like working with Ms, Silvia and Ms. mann and having a lot of fun with them. So Everything was enjoyable for me in this class.
    Progga: I enjoyed all of our activities but i most enjoyed the group works because in group we discussed lot of things which helped to increase our knowledge.
    3. Ans: Progga: I do my best in participation but sometimes i can’t so i’ll try my best for next activities too.
    Fahameda: I think I have changed a little bit in participation and I’ll try to do even better in next marking period.
    4. Progga: I don't think you have anything that you haven’t covered yet. :)
    Fahameda: I think you did everything with us that we need to do to move foreword. So you covered all the activities and topic with us.
    5. Progga: To make more interesting we can do more group works and beside that we can make interesting posters,debates,drawing,playing interesting games.
    Fahameda: To make this class more interesting, you can give us more assignment to do in groups, debate about the biggest issues so that we can gain more knowledge, writing and getting interesting things from our buddy, and doing interesting activities.
    What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful.
    6. Progga: My mates are really funny and interesting so don’t have any advice for them.
    Fahameda: My mates are really funny and interesting so don’t have any advice for them.
    7. Ans:Progga: I did in River side,Francis High School and then did in Peapod in Howard St. I have 12 hours of community service. I learned so many thing from those community services such as how to communicate with other people, how to help people do to things and how to help the society.
    Fahameda: I did community service in school fair which was in Francis High School and another one was in Peapod adobe youth voices with was in Howard St. I have 9 hours of community service. I learned so many thing from those community services such as how to communicate with other people, how to help people do to things and how to help the community.
    8. Ans: Fahameda: From class this marking period, one thing I will take is a lot of knowledge, great team and one things I will give is respect and effort.
    Progga: From class this marking period, one thing I will take is a lot of knowledge, great team and one things I will give is respect and effort.

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  25. 1. I enjoy making posters, especially about the world hunger day. Because it’s creative and we can give out our opinions about the hunger issues.
    2. I didn’t enjoy doing blogs. Because sometimes we need to share computer which wastes a lot of time, even though we can get some information about the global issues.
    3. Yes. I have changed my view after having this class. I saw the people in some areas have poor life that I never imaged.
    4. I want to have some activities that we can really do some contribution to the poor people.
    5.You can cover some activities that students can go out and have fun in addition to realize the global issues.
    6. They should be more serious about the global issues. Image that happens to ourselves, what will you do?
    7.I am doing community service in the walking and cycling about the cancer and blind people. I have done 17 hours so far. I learned how to be patient with people and some serving sklills.
    8. From class this marking period, one thing I will take is ___the concern of people____________ and one thing I will give is my passion and effort."

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    1. I'm glad you enjoy the work with Concern. Too bad the computer room is a mess and we have to share, but you are managing. I agree that the issues we talk about are very serious! You are doing great with community service!

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    2. 1.What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.
      2.I enjoyed everything in this marking period.for example, we did a poem about ourselves. That was interesting.Also we have special guests came to our class and had class with us.They told us something which I did not know in the past. I knew that there are many people suffer from misfortune. It made me feel sorry about them.
      3.What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
      4. We have to do the community servise. I went to a church for my servise.But in order to do it.I have to wait like 2 weeks to listen a speech something like this. Sometimes my schdule is not fit in community servise.I felt so bad.
      5.Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
      6.Not really.I think that It`s ok for now.
      7.Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover?Which ones?
      8.Everything was find.
      9.What can I do to make the class better for you (aside from no homework J )? Please be specific.
      10.Blogs. sometimes people have alreadyposted, but there is nothing in the blog.
      11.What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful?
      12.Everybody should be more serious about global issues and do something good things as possible as we can.
      13.Where are you doing community service? How many hours have you done so far? What have you learned or gained from volunteering?
      14.Sorry . I have done nothing yet.
      15.Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is __painting_____________ and one thing I will give is _____effort___________."

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    3. Jing Liang, I hope that all gets settled with your community service. I think it will. I like the advice you gave our class!

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  26. 1. I enjoyed this class working with group and did different assignment because
    this class is different than any of my other classes.We have done our own
    poem and the end of the marking period we have done a project which was
    about hunger day.

    2. To be honest I have enjoyed this class even though it was little tough
    sometimes.

    3. Yes it has changed my mind totally different.This class we have learned world issues
    and their facts and it made me think something to do for the world.

    4. I don’t think so.We have learned more than that.

    5. We should work as a team and sometimes outsider visitors need to come to our class.

    6. I would tell them do your work right on time,work hard that's the way you will success.

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    1. Fahim you will catch on!! You are doing great. Just keep up with community service please!! I'm so glad it's changed your way of thinking.

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  27. 1.We had done a lot of thing in this class this marking period. I really enjoy having the Global Concern classroom coming into our class every Monday and teaching us about all these global issues and how to take action. I specially enjoy the fact that we get to do lots of different activities every week.
    2.I don’t really have a specific thing that I disliked from the class this marking period.
    3.Yes I do feel I have changed in a way as a result of my participation in the class. Ever since we talk about hunger and how millions of people are dying around the world everyday, I started being considered on not to waste food.
    4.I think you pretty much did cover everything. We did a bit more than what we have done last year.
    5.We could maybe do one community service as a class all together.
    6.This class is all about participating in your community and give respect to everyone around. Don’t create hate. Stop bullying and be aware of what is going on not only around you but all over the world.
    7.I am kinda doing community service all over the place. I have done Light the Night for Leukemia, Big Brothers Big Sisters Race For The Kids, parents association meeting, Peapod Academy and much more in the future. I love doing community service because it is fun I get to experience things and meet new people.
    8.One thing I will take from this class is to be grateful on things we take for granted in our lives and one thing I will give is respect to everyone.

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    1. Hi Kanto,
      How wonderful that you are taking the Concern lessons into your life and actions. That is great.
      December 3 at St Luke's is a chance to do community service together. It will be great!

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  28. Li,Meng Yu
    1 I enjoyed the team work. We worked together. We helped each other. We got a lot of fun. We did poster for hunger day. And we wrote letter to our buddy. It was interesting.
    2 I enjoyed the work in groups. I enjoyed the work on blog, we can get information from the blog.
    3 Yes, I have changed. Because I start to think the problems. I start to think how to help the people. What can we do for them.
    4 I think we can make a handbill or poster to our classmates who is not in our class to realize the problems in our world. We can create a activity to collect clothes and books that we don't any more to help people.
    5 We can help people with real action to related our class. Such us collect clothes or books.
    6 We have to do community service, it's a way to help people.
    7 I am doing community Service in kindergarten, I have done 20 hours so far. I learn how to teach children, and they have to think how to solve problems by themselves.
    8 From class this marking period, one thing I will take is knowledge and responsibility and one thing I will give is respect and help.

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    1. Mengyu you are doing great work and I love your idea to make posters and teach others in the school! We will do that!

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  29. I enjoyed this class during the whole marking period because we treated about all the issues that people is passing by. I enjoyed the community service experience first ever.
    Well, i do not actually have any concern about this class rather i really enjoyed it.
    Yes, i do. It's been very interesting knowing about what is happenning to our rights, the human rights. I would like to fight in order to defend the human rights.
    I think we should have had a deeper campaign against bullying.
    Just keep being as you have done so far. I like your attitude.
    I am doing community service at school helping students from global history to prepare in order to pass their regents. I have done 8 hours so far. I have learned the importance of being a volunteer in my community.
    From class this marking period, one thing I will take is knowledge and one thing I will give is support.

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    1. Thanks Michell! Great to have you! We will be focusing on bullying the day our buddies come and many other times. It's a big issue!

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  30. What did you enjoy about class this marking period? Why? Please refer to specific activities, projects, workshops, etc.
    I enjoyed the activities that we done in Every Monday because our class has a teacher who works in Concern Worldwidely and she taught us a lot of things. She let me know about what happen in the world and let me understand what the world looks like. She always made the topic more interested and easily for us to absorb the knowledge . I believe “more early touch the society, more mature you are”. Thus, I like take Monday classes. It’s not boring for me.

    What didn't you enjoy and why? Please be specific.
    I didn’t enjoy the class because I feel so lonely. I don’t know why. It just comes from my self-feelings.

    Do you feel you have changed in any way as a result of your participation in this class? If yes, how?
    I think what I changed in the class is my knowledge is more profound . However, I never change my personality. It is so hard for me to correct my shy expressions.

    Were there any activities/projects/topics that I didn't cover that you want us to cover?Which ones?
    I think what you teach us is all good for me.

    What can I do to make the class better for you (aside from no homework J )? Please be specific.
    I think you can take part in our activities.

    What advice can you give to your classmates to make their experience in this class more meaningful?


    Where are you doing community service? How many hours have you done so far? What have you learned or gained from volunteering?
    I did my community service in the kindergarten and church. I have done about 16 in totals. I learned a lot from the volunteering such as I can keep in touch with different kinds of people and my english skills improve a lot.

    Fill in the blanks..."From class this marking period, one thing I will take is sadness and one thing I will give is happiness.

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