April 27th-May 1st Supplemental Learning Tasks
Spring is a time where we witness the rebirth of everything around us. We begin to see new life take growth in many forms - it could be nature, or it could be something inside of you. During times of solace and quarantine, we are faced with many things that provide us with the opportunity to grow. If we sit and feel the emotions that arise, we are able to make sense of them - and are provided with clarity on actions we can take to move forward as individuals - and to grow. I hope you are all doing well. I hope you are all going to come out of this quarantine with a renewed sense of who you are, what matters to you, and what you want your future to look like.
I'm going to assign a bit less work this week, so that you are all able to create your blog post on our class novel that was assigned last week. Generally, it's quite broad - you're allowed to write about anything related to your initial thoughts of the novel. This may be difficult for some. If you are experiencing difficulties in figuring out what to write - write about one of the quotes that were noted on the last blog post. What can you relate to?
Assessment: Assessment will be completed at the end of this semester. Essentially, you will be assessing yourselves. Did you complete the blog posts? Did you complete the forum tasks? Those are the essentials. If you answered "yes" to those, your grade will increase.
Task 1: Reading:
Please read PDF pages 38-57. This will take you to the chapter titled "Grandmother Gives me Some Advice."
Task 2: Blog Post
In TATDPTI, Junior has many hopes and dreams. A quote that I find to be powerful from the book is: ‘You kept your hope. And now, you have to take your hope and go somewhere where other people have hope . . . You’re going to find more and more hope the farther and farther you walk away from this sad, sad, sad reservation.’ (p. 43) It appears that the message here is that for your hope and dreams to blossom, you must surround yourself with environments and humans that feed your hope and dreams instead of taking them away.
Create a 500 word blog post on YOUR hopes and dreams for this life. What are they? What life do you want to have for yourself? Dreams for your future, dreams for the next little while, dreams of where you want to be and the people you wish to be surrounded with - tell all. What will feed your hopes and dreams? What are the obstacles that may sabotage one's hopes and dreams that we have to be mindful of?
Please publish your blog post once completed. Keep writing! Good luck.
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