Final Reflection

I think my experience has definitely challenged stereotypes or prejudice. Working with mentally challenged and autistic people has taught me that they are just like a regular person, regardless of any handicaps that they have had. Most people I know have never given them a chance simply because they are a little slower and cant communicate as well. When I volunteer with them, it makes me realize that they have interests, such as basketball, which one boy plays every week without failure.

I think that a lot more needs to be done to help with this situation. Especially, with the autistic kids. People don’t really get them, and will write them off as weird and never understand them. Even though they express them differently than us , they have feelings too. To really help the situation there needs to be more acceptance of their conditions and so on.

Service learning has forever impacted my future behaviors. I will never ignore or make fun of people with these disabilities. Through working with these kids, I have learned to accept them for who they are. Others feel uncomfortable around these people. I’m not going to lie, the first time I volunteer I felt awkward. I have gotten more friendly with these kids and have learned a lot from them.

service learning

This week in service learning we got some work done. We recorded the right way to complete the display for the pictures. In the clip, I pretended to glue something on a poster board, and my partner told me to make sure that everything was straight and placed on the board neatly.

May 9th Meeting

From Service Learning, I learned about what goes into making a display board and a paper for NHD, since I already did a documentary.I learned that i am very shy in front of a camera. I also learned that I like to volunteer. To be honest, if I was in charge of the group, I wouldn't change anything,because it is going really.

Next week, I think we will shoot the right way to do the display board
http://www.nationalhistoryday.org/
http://www.mililanihs.k12.hi.us/trojan_times/Trojan%20Times%20-Web%20Edition-/News%204/22D180DD-3D1D-4628-AD18-EE64EA6A118A.html
http://projectboards.com/history_fair.htm


One group, is helping with homeless people in the city. One is raising money for childhood cancer research. Another group is helping make school look better

service learning

Service Learning Update

Since one of the people playing a person doing the wrong way to do NHD was not in school. So, yesterday our group came into the computer lab and we shot the people doing the right thing sitting at a computer and researching our topic of police brutality

Service Learning

Last week we did a good job. We recorded the section about picking partners. We shot the wrong way. Two people were discussing their NHD and talking about all the fun and partying they would do. We decided that for next week we would shoot the right way with people talking about all the work that they would get done for NHD

Service Learning

For service learning, we did alot of work. We decided the way we were going to teach about NHD was to make a documentary. In the documentary, we will have mini papers, exhibits, and the other types of projects. We chose a topic we are going to do the
mini projects on crooked cops. It was a very long and tedious time,but we dragged though it and i think the documentary will turn out good.