Tuesday, May 15, 2012

In the following video you will notice some of the skills the students are working on for this assignment.  While the subject is Dance, the students are learning to collaborate, organize, and develop some initiative.  All of the groups are working efficiently in coming up with their routines and should be ready to perform by Thursday.  Here is a short video capturing the groups in action:

The Geography homework was taken up for a couple of nights ago.  Two students did a very good job applying what they read to the two questions I posed.  We watched the following video to explain how the GPS works.  I only showed 3 minutes of the movie; it is quite heavily biased in favour of the military.

In the afternoon we began to watch the film, Exteremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

A very large image

This film is interesting in the fact the central character has Aspberger's Syndrome.  I think this film will allow students some insight into the complexities of the Autism spectrum.  We will continue the discussion around this a little more tomorrow.  I enjoy the fact that the main character has an Exceptionality or known to have a Learning Disability.  As we can see with his character (Oskar), we learn that his differences make him quite special and unique.  I suppose that would make him exceptional

 Here is a video I found on Youtube about Asperger's Syndrome:

Homework:  2 journal questions inspired by the film.  The two questions do not relate to the specific content of the film.  This means that the students don't have to know every single detail about what we have watched in but display some imagination, thinking, and curiosity in asnwering the questions.