Today we started a unit on tolerance. We looked at the The Southern Poverty Law Center and found a definition of tolerance that we really liked. Here it is:
Tolerance is respect, acceptance, and appreciation of the rich diversity in our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and the ways of being human. Tolerance is harmony in difference.
As an introduction Mrs. McKillop gave some of the students in the class candies in gold wrappers, and the other students candies wrapped in silver wrappers. We then got to eat our candies. That was the really good part. But then Mrs. McKillop said that the gold wrapper students could give their wrappers to the kids who go candy wrapped in silver. The silver wrapper kids had to throw the garbage away even though they didn’t create all of the garbage.
Many of the kids who had silver wrappers used words like betrayed, disrespected, awful and unequal to describe how they felt. The kids in the gold wrapper group used words like relieved, in control, unpleasant and like royality to desctribe how they felt.
We thought it was a good introduction in to the theme of tolerence versus intolerence. Mrs. McKillop then challenged us to find examples of tolerance and intolerance for out bulliten board.
Tomorrow we are going to learn about the Japanse Interment Camps.
Have you ever expereince intolerance or tolerance?
I have experianced intolerance.
Hi,
This past week went to Mendocino to visit Holocaust survivers Jay and Monique Frankston. We went to there house and Jay told us about his life when he was little while the holocaust was going on. His dad always looked out for him and was always there. He also talked about Moniques(his wife) family. Her mom along with the rest of her family went into the concentration camps and unfortunatly they were killed in the gas chambers. The only family member that didnt go to the concentration camp was her dad because he was a magnificant painter so they knew that they werent going to put him in the camps because he was so valuable that they didnt want to die right away. When he was in the hospital he painted a picture of his wife for memory. Monique now has that painting made from him so long ago. When he took the painting out and it made me cry! Then he read us little passages from the books that he wrote. then we played games and had cookies(they were really good) When we went to were we were staying(at sarahs house) we watched a movie called ” Boy in the Striped Pajamas” it was really good. The next morning most of us woke up and went for a walk at 6:30 in the morning. The rest of the day we went to the beach and my best friend found an abolony shell. Then, sadly we went home:(. The ride home and the ride there was very beautiful. Jay and Monique are very insperational, enterjectic, and fun-loving people who do random acts of kindness and dont ask for anything back in return.
~love,
Savanna
Hey,
This past weekend the peer Mediators and i got to take a trip to Mendocino to visit two holocaust surivors. Their names were Jay and Monique. The trip to there house was very interesting. The main reason to go there was to learn more about the holocaust, and also to here his story on how he recovered from it. His life now seems alot better than what is was. While we were there he told us many interesting stories. One of the ones i remember was when they took a trip to Europe to try to find paintings of there family. When they got there they had found out that the only place to find paintings from back then was closed for a while. After that they went out to dinner. While they were there they talked about how they had bad luck and also it was a shame that they came at this time. The good part was that they were sitting next to an old lady who had over heard them. It turned out to be that she was the manager of the art meseum. She told them that they could come in the next morning and try to find a paiting. They had ended up finding a painting of Moniques Mother that had meant alot to them. Now they always have a picture of her mom to look at an remember. That was just the start of the trip for us though. After that were had went out to dinner and got ice cream. After that we went to our sleeping quarters and we all watched a movie called “The boy in the Stripped Pajamas”. The movie was very interesting, and i would encourage for anyone to watch it. Then the next morning we all went home. It was a very fun and enjoyable trip!!!! If you have any questions, please ask !!
~Jason
i think that is is great that you guys are learning about being tolerant. I loved what you guys did with the candy wrapper project. Although the ones with the silver wrapper had to through both of them away, you just had to do it. Even though you really didn’t want to. Plus it wasn’t even your mess to clean up. You will be faced many times in life where you have to put up with being tolerant. Sometimes it is hard. I know i can be intolerant sometimes and that’s ok. Nobody is perfect, just be careful. You don’t want to say or do something that you will regret later on. 🙂
jasmit,
I have also experienced being intolerant. It’s ok, just as long as you don’t let it get the better of you. Do you have an example that you would like to share with me of how you might have been intolerant? 😉
i love the comment jason it is a really good thing you wrote it because alot of peaple have that experiment just like me love your comment
hi savanna i love the story you have on the comment i am so glad that your class is going to meet us tommorow i cant wait bye