Monday, April 16, 2012

After Snack and  Gym today we took a look at a couple of videos relating to the issues of being resilient.  One concerns a young woman named Carly Fleischmann, who is on the Autism spectrum.  The other is based on some recent brain research into the power of music.

Here is a video, from Youtube, of Carly promoting her upcoming book:

The original link for the article I read about her can be found at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/04/11/toronto-carly-fleischmann-autism-book.html .

Here is the video of the elderly man who seems to come alive once he hears music from his past.  It is quite inspiring and says a lot about the power of music.

In relation to the body and the mind is the issue of the Health Project.  I mentioned this last week and wanted to post the more formal instructions for this project.  While it will be marked as a Health assignment, I will also use it as part of the Science and Language (Writing) mark for this term.

I apologize for the repetition of one of the lines.  When I copied it from the SMARTBoard it turned out this way.

More details about this project, along with some research time, will be provided but I am encouraging the students to take some initiative to work on this project on their own.  This may involve going to the local public library of arranging to do some research at AMG's library.

HOMEWORK:  A lunch is needed, in class, for tomorrow before we head off to the TSO concert in the afternoon.  If the Geometry or SBR homework was not completed on the  weekend, it needs to be for tomorrow.