Today Mrs. Turner picked random people to partner up, and read an article together. She chose people from popsicle sticks, and got us to interact with people that we haven't worked before. This was a good way for us to meet some classmates, and for us to work together. We had to read the article with our partner for a few minutes, and find facts that would be important to share with the class. This was a good exercise because we got to learn how to teach in front of a class, and give facts to our audience. The first group that went up to teach the class was Sydney and Rebecca. The topic they had was "Abuse and Neglect." A fact that stood out to several people were that kids who are abuse are more mad at the people who didn't help, than the person who actually hurt them.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Today more groups went up to present to the class. Each time someone went up, Mrs. Turner us advice on how to be a better teacher, by not reading to fast so people can right down facts. This helped us in several ways because people were learning how to teach verbally to a class. We learned about very interesting topics such as sleep deprivation, substance abuse, eating disorders, teen pregnancy, death, bullying, etc. A very shocking fact that we learned was that we need 9.2 HOURS of sleep to help us through our whole day. We know that not even half of us sleep that much especially in high school, with all the work that teachers give us!!
Wednesday, September 26,2012
Today, in the first 20 minutes of class, we took a "field trip" outside to take pictures for a special project Mrs. Turner is making for us! This is was really fun because of all of the different faces and positions people were doing, pretending we were looking down at people. After we got back from out trip outside, we finish up our presentations. Today the presentations were about ADD/ADHD, ESOL, depression and suicidal, poverty, etc. Some of the presentations were very heart touching on people, but we connected closer together by sharing these stories to each other. It is shocking how everyone in our class and relate to one of the topics that we have learned through out the week.
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| Maddi as Miss "Future Homecoming Queen" |
Today is our FUN DAY! We recreated several disabilities that people have, so that each of us could feel how people go through this everyday. For speech impairment, we stuck marshmallows in our mouth. For visual impairment, we covered goggles and braille reading. For Dyslexia, we had to write while looking in a mirror. For physical impairment, we had to paint with no arms. This was a very amazing activity because it makes us so grateful for how health we are, and there are so many people out there in the world who can't do half of the things that we do everyday.
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| Using their MOUTHS to paint. |
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| Saige was really good at talking with marshmallows in her mouth. |
Friday, September 28, 2012
Today we turned our very first BIG assignment to Anderson University about ourselves. Remember that our next one is due November 27, and it is the newsletter article. Mrs. Turner told us that we're are going to have a special guest coming to talk to us about Autism from Project Hope. To prepare for this, she showed us a video about Autism. Autism is a development disorder, and it affects the brain's normal development social and communication skills. We can not wait to work with the Hope Academy again, since we already worked with them during Spirit Week 2011.
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| MHS ♥ Project Hope! |
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.” - Martina Navratilova
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