We watched this video on empathy and sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw
Students learned how sympathy drives disconnection and rarely do sympathetic responses helpful. Rather empathetic responses help foster connectedness which can only be done if the person helping shows their own vulnerabilities.
There will be a halfway test on Monday. Read up to and including chapter 13 of The Lovely Bones.
Today we worked through the three step process from last day with regard to writing about character. We brainstormed about the character Buckley and discussed and formulated some thoughtful interpretations we could make about him in a paragraph. Basically, I led students through the three step process.
Students, then, began work on their own paragraphs. The topic is "Discuss the character of _________ in the Lovely Bones." Students can chose any character: Abigail, Jack, Lindsey, Susie, Grandma Lynn, Ray, Ruth. Paragraphs will be due Tuesday or Thursday of next week.
After break we did a web quest where students broke into groups, researched, and then presented on the following five topics: Ecole Polytechnique, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, Slut-shaming, Defence Techniques for Women, Violence against women on Campuses.
