Tuesday, September 13, 2011

This week's quote AND movie posting!

First - this week's quotes of the week are:

Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up. –Jesse Jackson

AND

The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer. –US Army Corp of Engineers

Claim it on the blog if it is yours!

In addition, here's your blog question to answer with your group:

In the movie you watched, there are many values illustrated in the lives of the characters. Pick the THREE values that you think MOST illustrated the MOST important morals from your movie. Here's what you should put on the blog for me:
1. The names of everyone in your group.
2. The 3 morals (lessons) you think are most important in this movie.
3. The 3 values you think are illustrated by those morals.
4. And finally, tell me the scene in the movie that best illustrates that value.
Be sure you do a good job because there may just be a lunch involved for the best answer.

11 comments:

  1. The Second one is mine- Connor Devlin

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  2. Never look down on someone unless you are helping them up. -Jesse Jackson
    This one is mine, Lillian c.

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  3. Kathrine, Zoe, Nia, Jamie, and GageSeptember 15, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    MOVIE

    ***Values***
    *Discipline
    *Integrity
    * perseverance


    *Morals ~
    -Don't Judge a book by its cover
    -Patience is the key to life
    -Treat others the way you'd like to be treated :)


    **Scene**
    -When Julius went to visit visit Gary in the hospital, after Gary's been paralyzed waist down, and Gary holds up his hand in the black power salute.

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  4. Shea, Allie B. Lillian, Dalia, and Kendall R.

    3 morals
    1. Don't judge people by the color of their skin.
    2. Overcoming differences.
    3. Stay true to your team

    3 values
    1. Respect
    2. Integrity
    3. Loyalty

    3 scenes
    1. When Louis sits with the Black players at lunch at the camp, and doesn't care about the color of their skin.
    2. When Emma gives Julius a handshake, at the football game after she turned him down the first time.
    3. When Coach Yokes tells the ref. to ref the game fair, even though he knew he would loose his place in the hall of fame.

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  5. Grace, Ally, Jalen, Nathan, Heba

    3 Morals

    1. Don't judge people by their appearances.
    2. Have the strength to stand up for your beliefs.
    3. Always think of others before yourself.

    3 Values

    1. Acceptance
    2. Courage
    3. Consideration

    3 Scenes

    1. When Emma (Gary's girlfriend) shook Julius' hand and finally accepted him for who he is and not what he looks like.
    2. When Gary tells the coach that he wants one of the players off the team because they are prejudiced and won't block for their black team mates.
    3. When Allen tells the coach he is not having a good game and that he should put the other player in for him.

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  6. Caleb,Cameron,Alex,Allie Lindwall,and Morgen

    Morals
    1. No matter what race, religion, or gender you are everyone was created equal.
    2. Respect your teammates and stand up for what you believe in even if you are standing alone
    3. It doesn't matter if you win or lose you are always a family.

    Values

    1. The first value is integrity.
    2. The second value is respect.
    3. The third value is friendship

    Movie Scene

    When Gary tells Ray to block for Rev after Julius makes the sack in the backfield and Gary starts the left side and Julius goes and says strong side and they finally become friends.

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  7. Sean, Ian, Katie, Grant, Sophie

    Values:
    Friendship
    Teamwork
    Self Sacrifice

    Morals:
    Friendship: is the cement that will hold out world together.

    Don't judge a person by the color of their skin.

    What you are is God's gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.

    When Gary's mom accepts Gary's friend, Julius and she tries to shake his hand but instead he embraces her.

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  8. Livia, Emma, Michael, Austin, Andrew

    1. Moral:Stick up for yourself
    Value:Self-respect
    Scene:Practice run at the Winter Olympics, everyone was making fun of them for being Jamaican and later they realized that to win they have to be themselves

    2. Moral:Believe in you dreams and never give up.
    Value:Courage and Confidence
    Scene:During their last run the crashed into the wall, instead of giving up they got out and picked up the bobsled and walked to the finish line!

    3. Moral:Always tell the truth
    Value:Honesty, Courage, and Compassion
    Scene:When the couch tells the Alliance that he cheated and he regrets it. Also, tells them not to take it out on his team, but to take it out on him instead.

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  9. Umama,Hannah,Kendall,Ben,Levi

    1. Moral is Never Give Up
    Value is Self-Respect
    Scene: When the sled got crashed the Jamaican people picked up their sled and made it to the finish line.

    2. Moral is Everyone is afraid of Change
    Value is Courage
    Scene: When the Jamaican people came to the Olympics they were laughed at. They didn't care what other people said about them, they had courage to ignore them and do the race.

    3. Moral is Act and Be Yourself
    Value is Integrity
    Scene: When they said they talk, eat and bobsled like Jamaica.

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  10. Shreeya, Daniel, Lily, Conner, Carmen, Sam

    1. moral: Dont morn over what you don't have
    Scene: The coach says "if your not enough with it you will never be enough without it"
    Value:integrity

    2. Moral: Always believe in yourself and don't let others bring you down
    Scene: Junior is looking in the mirror and says what are you made of? power and strength
    Value: Self respect

    3.Moral: finish what you start with courage, determination, honesty, and perseverance
    Scene: They crashed and they carried their bobsled to the finishing line
    Value: determination

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  11. Note to Mrs. Ramseyer: This is the group that had to post twice. Their answer may not be complete.

    Ruba Meagan Emily Jack Jacob Noor

    Stand up for yourself courage when he stands up to his dad.

    Never give up perseverence they weren't accepted at first because they were from Jamaica.

    When you stick together you succeed Friendship when they decided to make a bobsled team.

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