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Mr. Browne’s Oct. Precept

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The precept is: “Your deeds are your monuments.” I think the precept means that your deeds are what will stand out. Your deeds are what people will remember you for. Your deeds are not made of stone, but they are still monuments. Monuments might be defined as statues, or special structures. Your deeds are still monuments, but in a different way. In a different way, monuments might be defined as something people remember. That’s where the deeds and monuments thing comes in. People remember your deeds.

Some people won’t remember the bad things people do. We remember the main thing, the deed. Here is an example: Terry Fox. No one exactly remembers the streets he ran in or every person he has met. But, we remember he fought for cancer. This is what I think this precept means.

Mr. Browne’s Sept. Precept

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My class and I are reading a book called Wonder. It’s about this kid named August whose face doesn’t exactly look the same as ours. He was home-schooled for the beginning days of his life and now he has to go to school. He has his English teacher named Mr. Browne and Mr Browne gives precepts. August’s class has to write about what this precept means. So does our class.

The precept is: “When given the choice from being right and being kind, CHOOSE KIND.” This precept means you have to be kind. I have an example: Let’s say you do good in a test. You see your friend over there and he didn’t do that great. Instead of telling them what they got wrong, you could say “Good job!” Here is another example, this time in the story: Julian asked August if he had been in a fire. That could of hurt August’s feelings. That definitely would of hurt mine. He should of said, um, nothing. He should of treated August like he would of treated himself. Being kind will help others and help you as well. In a way, being right is good. You could be doing the “right” thing. In another way, you might be arrogant, rude, or you might be bragging. You could be bossy. Sometimes, being right is only about what you think. You can be right without anyone being in the problem. When you’re kind, you’re helping someone out. You have to think about others before yourself. This is what I think this precept means.

March precept

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This month’s precept is “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much” – Blaise Pascal

 

I think Mr. Pascal meant that it’s easy to use kind words and they achieve more than mean, rude words do.

Option 1: Let’s say that there were two girls and those two girls were having an argument.

Girl 1: Why did you say those mean things about me behind my back?

Girl 2: How do you know I said anything about you?

Girl 1: Because I heard you say them. I just want an apology.

Girl 2: No, I’m not giving you an apology, you’re so selfish.

Girl 1: Hey! Why did you call me selfish?

Girl 2: Because you are selfish.

Both girls start yelling and shouting at each other, then a teacher comes and hears them arguing.

Teacher: Why are you girls arguing?

Girl 1 tells the teacher why and the two girls make up.

 

Option 2: Instead of arguing and making a big deal out of it, the girls could’ve used kind words like this:

Girl 1: Hi, I don’t like it when you say mean things about me behind my back.

Girl 2: I’m sorry that I was rude to you, I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings.

Girl 1: It’s okay, I accept your apology.

In both options there was a conflict but it got handled differently, because in option 1, Girl 2 started making a fuss. In option 2, the two girls handled the conflict but they resolved it with kind words instead of yelling and shouting. So would you want a conflict that you have to be like option 1 or 2. I honestly would like a conflict of mine to be like option 2.

March Precept

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Hello! It’s really exciting today, as I am writing on WordPress!

Amusable, for me at least! But I am glad to share new stuff with you, on this site! It’s been a long time, but I hope you enjoy!

 

So, without further ado, let’s go on to the March Precept. The March Precept is,

“KIND WORDS DO NOT COST MUCH. YET THEY ACCOMPLISH MUCH”

-Blaise Pascal

What does this precept mean? Let’s break it down into 2 parts.

 

Kind Words do NOT cost much

This means that you don’t have to pay money to say kind words, now do you? You can just say kind words when you want. Well, they don’t cost much, meaning that maybe someone has to do that little piece of work to make you say good things, but in overall, you can say kind words when you fell like it, so they really don’t cost much.

 

Yet they accomplish much

This means that when you say something to someone, they will react (unless they’re ignoring you), and depending on that, it could be a good reaction, or bad. So if you say kind words, it’s likely you’ll get a better reaction. And you say something unkind, the opposite will happen. So if you say good stuff, they’ll take it as thanks, and perhaps do it more often. This can lead to them accomplishing something.  Hurray!!!!

 

For this precept, it’s harder to explain than to understand, so sorry!

 

You can make it happen!

 

March Precept

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Hi guys! I’m back to talk about the March Precept.The March precept is kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

What I think that means that kind words are better then saying mean stuff to other people.Example if you were in soccer and a boy came up to you and said you suck at soccer why are you even here and then he leaves.Then another boy comes and says, don’t worry you are good at soccer.

So what I mean by then another boy comes and says, don’t worry you are good at soccer if you were reading what the mean boy said to him and you read what the boy from his team said to him.would you like to be treated how the mean boy treated the boy that is on the other team or would you wanted to be treated like how the boy that was on his team said to him..

The part where it says yet they accomplish much I think it mean like if you are going to say words don’t say mean stuff to hurt other peoples feelings because i don’t think you would like to be treated like that.What I men by nice stuff Imean like you are good at soccer or like you are pretty or you are cute.

So thats what I think about the March precept means thanks for reading.

 

 

February Precept

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February Precept: It’s better to know some of the questions then all the answers I believe this precept means when you have some questions in a classroom and everyone also has the same question but everyone is too scared to ask because they think that if they ask questions they will be considered weak. But in my opinion I think the people that are too scared to ask their questions should considered weak. But if one person asks the question because there not scared I think they would help the classroom in figuring out the answer or even multiple answers to multiple questions. So you would be getting two for the price of one but if you knew all the answers you would probably keep quiet and everyone else who didn’t know what to do and was too scared to ask questions. I also believe this precept means the people that choose to ask questions get the benefit of getting answers from multiple people who probably have different opinions on the question you’re answering. So too conclude this is what I believe the February precept means.