Reflection 6

Angelyns Nacier
EME 2040
July 7th, 2010
Reflection 6

Invariability, uncompassionate, unwise are all false adjectives to describe middle school students. It was once said “not to judge a book by its cover”, I believe that statement is more than correct. Middle school students seem to be exactly the opposite of what are minds think. Although middle school students does not show or demonstrate vulnerability, wisdom, deep authenticity and compulsion, if you catch them when they are not aware, you can see that inside them has something more than just organs and blood. Two classes from two different sides of the earth has shown and demonstrated vulnerability, wisdom, deep authenticity and compassion. A group of students from Israel and another group of students from Albert Canada was once working on a project. During the project the students explored the right to a safe place and I believe that it is more significant to explore the right to a safe place that exploring space itself.
The student discussed how safe their environment and classroom are. Because they were located on the opposite side of earth, they communicated through e-mail. Thirteen and fourteen year olds are mostly interested in sports, music and fashion. They shared their interest over the internet but are seemed as if none of their interest included the frequent terrorism attacks in Israel. Even though the exchange of messages through email didn’t express or give any expression on how they viewed the situation in Israel, their reflection written was more than reflection writing, more than a poetry but created a portrait on how unsafe Israel is. Through their Pivotal and touching words, the Israeli students expressed how they had fear going to the street, going to the movie. The movies theater is protected by guards or not being free to ride on buses or take trips.
The Israeli students expressed such things really affected the Canadian students because although the two classes were on the two different sides of the earth, they were all the same age group and cared about their peers. The students showed compassion when they were watching a CNN photo essay on the recent terrorism in Israel. Maybe if we really took our time to read middle school students a book, we will see that they are fascinating people. These two different groups of students learned about each other’s environment, and showed how much they cared on such situation that did not include then and now passionate they were though their words. I guess middle school students are fascinating books to read after all.