Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Role I Will Play For My Service Learning Group

The role I will play for service learning is to stay with the group I was with, which was the "Paper Group". My partner and I will continue working on how to show the next generation that come to our school next year how to present a A+ paper. Also we will play out an act about why friends should'nt always work together. Also we will play out many other situations that may be an bad outcome.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WHAT WILL MY GROUP DO TOMORROW

I WILL CONTINUE DOING WHAT I WAS DOING LAST FRIDAY. I ALSO WORK WITH A NINTH GRADER THAT ALSO WORKED ON A PAPER THIS YEAR. HOPEFULLY MY GROUP FINISH WHAT WE WERE DOING AND MOVE ON TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

REFLECTION ON SERVICE LEARNING GROUPS

During our meeting with Mr. Romero last Friday (4-10-08), we sat and brain-stormed about what our group would do. We also divided our group into four small groups of two or three people. The group that I was in talked about the negatives and positives for doing a paper on NHD. David is working on documentry with one other person, and there is about seven other people in our group working on different sections that we would do for NHD.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

EMPIRE OF THE SUN

1940’s

Empire of the sun is a movie about a young boy that was in an internment camp in the 1940's. The young boy name was Jamie. Jamie was kidnapped from his parents in China. Jamie survived in the camp because he was a survivor and he was determined to see his loving parents again. Jamie parents were rich.

The most emotional part of the film for me: Jim is looking through the fence at the Japanese airbase, the sun is setting, he is dreaming of flying in those incredible machines, pilots are smartly uniformed and decorated, offices passing drinks to the young pilots, superb music playing, Zeros ready to go, Jim salutes the Japanese heroes as they are flying out. What we know is that the war is lost for Japan and these pilots are surely on Kamikaze suicide missions. We feel great empathy for these fellow human beings despite the fact that they are the enemy.

In the 1940’s a young boy was held hostage in china by the Japanese army. As a young boy Jamie had a young adult mentality. He had survival skills. A man named Basie showed Jim a couple of survival skills himself. Basie was from England also. Basie was selfish but he showed Jim a few things about the wild life. Jamie AKA Jim got the name Jim from the Americans. Jim earned his respect from the Americans because he showed the Americans that they could trust him by seeing if there were any traps or bombs for an escape plan. He earned respect from some Japanese troopers because he learned how to speak and respect their Japanese ways. Jim was already English so he was already family to them.