Updated, June 3
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Our weekly online meetings will take place on Wednesdays in MS Teams. Before our next meeting, please read Gray Wolf’s Search with Mr Tsougrianis and explore these ideas after reading/listening. Then please leave a comment ON MR TSOUGRIANIS’S BLOG.
Please see the list of and ongoing assigned activities to work on over the rest of this week. Please also have a listen to “Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push“. I’ll be interested to know what you think of the father’s reaction to Chris’s dream, whether you think it is harder for Chris or for his dad and what you think about how they are reacting to hardship.
It’s the first week of June. Where I lived when I was in elementary school long ago, the first week of June would have been our last week of the school year, so it seems more than a little odd to be writing about heading back to school right now, but I suppose that’s not all that’s a litttle out of the ordinary at the moment.
We welcome many of our students back to classrooms today while the rest will continue working from home. With this mix of working partially in person and partially from home, our schedules will change. We will move our weekly online meetings for the whole class to Wednesday mornings. I will continue to support students with their work and their questions, but I will not be able to be available for as many open drop-in sessions online. As ever, scheduled meetings will be found in our Teams calendar.
There will be a few new tasks to tackle this week, but for the moment, for those wtill working from home, taking some time to revisit unfinished comments, writing, problems and music tasks from the last week or two would be time wisely spent.
I hope to see all of you, via one means or another, very soon indeed!
I liked the story, “Sometimes a dream needs a push”. What I think about the fathers reaction to chris’s dream is strange because he always mumbles that words. But, think the father is proud of chris. I think it is harder for chris, because he has a wheel chair to play basket ball. What I think about how they are reacting to hardship is, that I think it is hard for both dad and chris to achive their goal, but they are trying really hard.
father’s reaction to dream:
happy to help his dream
harder for:
chris
Chris’s reaction to hardship:
he didn’t care if he was in a wheelchair or not
Father’s reaction to hardship:
he was always the quiet one and thoughtful
Thanks for thinking about the story and the different ways Chris and his father seemed to be dealing with Chris’s wheelchair and their mutual interest in basketball. It is interesting that you thought that it was harder for Chris. Maybe it was; after all, Chris is the one having to cope in a world designed mostly for people who move around on two feet. I thought Chris seemed ready and willing to take on those challenges and still pursue his interests. What other choice die he really have. His dad doesn’t really have much of a choice either, but I wonder whether he is finding it harder to deal with Chris’s disability that Chris is. I wonder if he feels responsible. Chris doesn’t seem to blame his dad, and that is probably healthy for them both (especially since his dad has started helping out the team).
I like the story because it tells us that everyone is important.
It does seem like it is just too easy to blame others or just to fail to recognise how much we do (and should) rely on one another. We are all in this together, after all.