Service Learning - Where am I?

We first started off by looking at a person who you feel should be commemorated and why. Everyone looked at their relatives how they have all been successful in history, for example, someones granddad was the second person ever to sail around the whole world. I had nothing like this in my family so I started to research some inventors who's ideas had been stolen and came up with Nikola Tesla. He worked for Thomas Edison and invented the light bulb, however Edison, like many other inventions we think, was stolen. Also he created the first ever radio, but due to his house being burnt down, another inventor, called Guglielmo Marconi invented it before him, it was none as the race for the invention of the radio.

After finding a person who should be commemorated we next had to write the 5 W's how for reporting, where we had to talk about, 'Where' they came from, 'What' they made, 'How' they made it, 'When' they made it, 'Who' they are, and 'Why' they decided to invent for a living.

Our final task for who we should commemorate was to write up a conversation with our person who we should commemorate, so I wrote down an imaginary conversation with Nikola Tesla, it was about me asking him questions like where he came from, what university he came from and its where about's, then going on to what was his most successful invention was and why, how this invention worked and finally going onto how do you feel about not being as well known as you would have hoped.

We finally finished this topic and went onto service learning, our first assignment on this topic was to understand what service learning is, Service learning is a method of teaching that combines classroom instruction with meaningful community service. This form of learning emphasises critical thinking and personal reflection while encouraging a heightened sense of community, civic engagement, and personal responsibility[1].

For our Friday lesson, where we were E-mailed a task from Dr James, our English teacher, the task was to open the attached document and to complete each box on the screen, we were wanted to think hard about every option, the opportunities and challenged that come with writing, say a poem, or a short story.To think hard about what we want to write about and the conversations of the genre, then read more around the subject of the chosen person who think should be commemorated and think about what you are going to write about. However, our teacher covering us decided to give us give us a task of writing a short exciting story. Writing this was great fun and I enjoyed the lesson a lot.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-Learning