i got a feeling
that this English project's gonna be a good good one

Five people in the group,
-Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
As a group, we will be doing a project on Graciousness.
Our mission statement is
"We plan to change the mindsets of typical Singaporeans and to teach them the importance of being gracious. We want to make Singapore a better place for people to live in whereby most of the population will learn how to be gracious so that they can teach their future genrations how to be gracious and also to attract more foreigners into Singapore to help boost it's economy."




THINGS-TO-DO

*Watch the videos
*Comprehension articles (Theatre slobs) [group]
*Argumentative essay
*Intervention drama
*Project planning [group]
*Debate/Forum
*Formal letter [individual]
*Project blog [group]
*Video [group]
*Posters [group]
*Self and peer review [individual]

Blog

!1st reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
- Jezelyn
- Steffi
- Zul
!2nd reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
- Jezelyn
- Steffi
- Zul
!Argumentative essay Intro
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
!3rd reflection
- Anthony
- Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
- Zul

Assignments
*Argumentative essay
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Argumentative essay re-write
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Formal letter
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul
*Individual report
- Anthony
-Dan
-Jezelyn
-Steffi
-Zul



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We have been talking about being a gracious people for
many years with campaigns and leaders teaching and guiding the people on how to
be gracious. I think being gracious must be something good and desirable. It
speaks a lot about what a person is when the person is being complimented as a
gracious person.



Straits Times Senior Correspondent, Lim Siew Hua, wrote an article about how
gracious McCain was in his concession speech after losing the Presidential
Election to Obama. Or was it American graciousness rather than the graciousness
of a single man? Al Gore was equally gracious when he lost to George Bush. And
that incident was particularly disturbing and veered towards the element of
fraud or misdeeds. It would be disastrous if it happens here. So were the other
losing Presidential candidates. They all had kind words to say about the
victors.



But graciousness is not only from the losers. The victors were equally gracious
and magnanimous to their defeated opponents. They only have praises for them and
could have hugged and kissed them once the election is out of the way. Obama
talked about what a wonderful man and hero McCain was. And after the election it
begins a healing process when both parties come together as one people.



There will be post mortems, but not to find out what wrongs were committed by
the other party and to settle scores. No one is going for the butcher knife.
That is the graciousness of a people of a great country. But America has more
than 200 years of history to learn how to be gracious. It takes time to learn
the nice things about life. Learning to be an expert in expletives, in being
bad, is easy. In fact it is so natural that no learning is required.



To be gracious is a difficult thing to learn, and to be.

Source: MySingaporeNews.blogspot

By: Dan.