Do You Know How Lucky We Are?
November 10, 2009 by Intrepidteacher
Hey Year Eights! You guys did a great job today. I have been working tirelessly to get this video posted to help you as you do your homework tonight! So take a look and try to gather your thoughts, so you can answer these questions:
- How did you feel about this kind of work before you started? How have your feelings changed?
- What did you learn about yourself while doing this kind of work? Was it easy? Was it difficult?
- How did you feel while doing this work? Did you enjoy it? Were you proud? Were you embarrassed? Why?
You can read the passage here or in the book.
If you would like to embed this video onto your blog, follow these instructions:
1. Find the Embed code on the lower right hand corner of the Youtube player.Copy or Cut it.
2. Go to your Blog editor and type any text you want to write answering the questions for your homework..
3. Find the words Visual and HTML in the upper right hand corner of the editor.
4. Click on HTML, then paste the Embed code from Youtube. The one you had cut earlier.
5. Click back to Visual and you will see a big pink box, once you publish this will be a Youtube player!
There you go. Feel free to embed the clip to help talk about your experience and answer the questions for homework. Feel free to leave any comments about the video below or directly on Youtube!
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What an innovative piece of work! John and I were looking at it this evening.
We are very grateful and lucky for the privileges we have in life.
Scenes like this are reminiscent of our 8 years in Africa. I remember seeing clothes being washed and food being made by the local people on our way to school in Lagos. The people were a happy community even though they were bringing up their families with very little money. They knew no other way of life unlike Esperanza who started life with everything.
Thank you Mr Raisdana
Mrs Todd
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There have been some amazing blog posts written about this assignment, so please take the time to explore some of your classmates blogs. Here are some of the highlights:
I thought it was going to be easier but it was a bit hard and now I know how much work you have to do and who tiered you get.
It was hard work and took a lot of physical strength to be accomplished.
Isabel
When I was doing this work I felt alive and active because it was an activity that got you moving around and making good use of the body which you don’t get a lot of in school these days probably because of technology.
James A
I found out it was much harder than I ever thought, and we only did it for 30 minutes! I couldn’t imagine how people stayed outside in the blazing heat for so many hours doing this kind of work. I enjoyed doing it. Though if I had to do it for 6 hours everyday for most of my life, I would think differently.
Rohan
Doing these “activities” has changed how I would look at the poor as we know it. I have more feeling for these people that are out in the world cleaning there dirty clothes and brushing up the mess that they might not have created.
James McKnight
I felt how hard anza’s life is and I feel understand the book more than I did before.
Mohammed
Sweeping was difficult.
Abdul Rahman
You have to feel sorry for all those people who do that 24/7.
Ed
It was much harder than it looked.
Gjis
What I learned about myself was that I have an easy life compared to esperanza’s life because we now have washing machines ovens to cook tortillas in and cleaners to clean our own house which makes us all lazy and we take that for granted
What I felt after was relief, exhaustion and sympathy. I was relieved because it was really hard and it felt great nto get the work load off my back and just relax.
i can’t imagine me doing all that work everyday, 365 days a year.
Jamie
I really found the sweeping and washing clothes hard because after i washed the clothes too much, my hands were sore from the soap and i felt my hands like ticklish and i felt i had too many cuts in my hands.
really find it really difficult because we only did it for an hour or so but esperanza had to do it everyday and my hands hurt from like 1 hour but just think of esperanza her hands hurt like even more worse than me and she couldnt speak a word.
Shereen
It was tiring because you had to keep moving your hands and arms, and it was really hot outside.
I have a privilege that I don’t have to do this kind of work everyday.
Meagan
I did know it would quite hard work for Esperanza but I never really thought of everything she had to do would be that hard. My feelings have changed because now I know how it really feels to be her.
What I learnt about my self was that I have not really done any thing like that before. And maybe I have to help round the house more or even thank the people who do it for me, or us.
I don’t think I would like to be doing it on my own 24, 7.
Rachel
But when I did those works I felt really tired and annoying and sticky from the salty sweat. Now I realized that cleaning maids or my mum, I know how they feel when they had to do these stuff
Sol
It is hard to do that if you are a child doing these chores every day.
Mads
Way to go everyone!
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