Character Trait of the Week: Day 1 Courteous Thanks to the Leadership class for all your help!
Kindness Chain Synopsis – This week's character trait is courteous. Being courteous means to show polite and respectful behavior towards other people in social situations. Courteous behavior is also commonly considered kind behavior. As you watch today's video clip called "Kindness Chain," think about how being kind and courteous towards others can make a positive difference for people in our Avondale community and beyond. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmozPVUj-s
Discussion questions 1)What are some simple ways you can be courteous toward others? Peers? Parents? Are there different things you could do depending on the person?
Discussion Questions 2) Do you think that acts of kindness or courtesy like those shown in the video can really lead to a chain reaction of good deeds? Why?
Discussion Questions 3) How do you feel when you are on the receiving end of a common courtesy? Why? How do you feel when you give a common courtesy?
Discussion Questions 4) Share a courteous act you've extended towards another person or an act of courtesy you've witnessed in real life with the class.
Discussion Questions 5) Describe one way you plan to demonstrate courteous behavior at Avondale today.
Discussion Questions 6) How does being courteous relate to AMS core values (respect, responsible, always do your best)?
Courteous/Kindness chain challenge We are going to start our own Kindness chain. Each advisory class has been assigned a token. The goal is to have the token move as fast as possible by being courteous or giving a kind act to someone in the building. Each student will initial the token (use small letters) as they receive it. Once they receive the Token the new student needs to complete a kind/ courteous act and pass the token to the new person. At the end of the day the student will give the token to their sixth hour teacher. Tomorrow we will see how far our token made a difference in the school and how many courteous acts happened in one day school wide. How many random acts of kindness can we make in a day?
Character Trait of the Week: Day 2 “It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.” -Kirk Cameron Results from the Courteous/ Kindness Chain Challenge
Discuss -How many of you can think of an example where people were courteous to you? When people weren’t? -As much as we’d all like to believe that everyone has the same amount of respect for all people, it isn’t true. -Have any of you been disrespected because you were a teenager or for a certain reason pertaining to appearance?
Activity Write ‘happy’ on a piece of scrap paper. Then, crumple up the paper into a ball and then try and flatten it back to it’s normal state. What happens?
Results- this is what happens with others’ feelings when you aren’t courteous to them: they don’t feel the same happiness, and feel degraded or worse. In the movie, the Sandlot 2, two baseball teams are pitted against each other because of their opposing genders and differences within each team. Watch the following clip and answer the questions https://drive.google.com/a/avondaleschools.org/file/d/0B12ozoANzbJCRGNMWjhBRzZKd Wc/view
After the video questions What is happening in this video and what are some reasons the girls and kid who struck out, Mac, are being rejected/treated unfairly? What are some daily examples that are similar to this that you can see? Is this common? If so why do you think that is? Should people be treated this way because of appearance or gender? (excluded, looked down upon, etc.) Why is the Sandlot 2 a bad example of being courteous? *Have kids fill out the question sheet from your mailbox as a class, then give it to Zoe Williams, Dana Vulaj, or Mr. Thornbro. There are no wrong answers