We had a lot of fun this week with new team building games like the Hula Hoop game, the Toilet Paper game, the Action Name game, and more! Tuesday we took a closer look at other youth-led service projects to see what other young minds are accomplishing all over the world. We also started to work on developing our own mission statement (we will post it when it is finalized next week!). Students were asked to work in groups to define TEAM. Here were their responses:
Group One:
T - Together
E - Everyone
A - Acceptance
M - Make a Difference
Group Two:
T - Togetherness
E - Excitement
A - Agility
M - Me and You
Thursday we got serious and had our Diversity discussion. To start it off, we watched the school version of The Teen Files: The Truth About Hate*, which challenged groups of teens around the US--even one from Georgia--to confront their prejudices around race, religion, ethnicity, and sexuality. Following the movie, we held an open discussion where students were able to talk about and define diversity, tolerance, and compassion. All students were very respectful of one another and many profound observations where made. Eighth grade students were even able to draw on previous class discussions in Mr. Fine's advisory about gender.
We tied this discussion into our Kick Off for Service which will be on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Dr. King's ideas surrounding the Beloved Community. The students even were even inspired with project ideas from the discussion. Next week we are getting into Community Asset Mapping and we will be gearing up for service projects to come in the new year!
*AIMS Multimedia: An Arnold Shapiro Production, 1999
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