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 Address the following questions in your reflection:

1. In terms of service do you prefer working with people (teaching) or helping out in other ways (cleaning etc) ? Explain.
2. What has this third day of service taught you about yourself?
3. Within this site, things don’t always go as planned due to events beyond our control.  How have you been able to adapt and be flexible to the changing plans?
4. Yesterday, you were asked about “Marrakech”.  Today think about another piece of literature,  a movie or something that is happening in the world, that you can make comparisons to with the children and people of PCF.  Explain these comparisons.
5. Tomorrow is our final day. What do you want to accomplish?

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1.   What new roles/responsibilities did you assume today?
2. Were you able to collaborate successfully with your peers?  Why or why not?
3. How did the teaching go? 
4. What were your interactions with the children at the school like?  Give an example of one of the them.
5. What has this second day of service taught you about yourself?
6. In what ways could you have improved the service that you gave?
7. Read the following excerpt from “Marrakech” by Orwell.   Discuss how this relates to the people of Tondo/Smoky Mountain.

When you walk through a town like this–two hundred thousand inhabitants, of whom at least twenty thousand own literally nothing except the rags they stand up in–when you see how the people live, and still more how easily they die, it is always difficult to believe that you are walking among human beings. All colonial empires are in reality founded upon that fact. The people have brown faces–besides, there are so many of them! Are they really the same flesh as yourself? Do they even have names? Or are they merely a kind of undifferentiated brown stuff, about as individual as bees or coral insects? They rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for a few years, and then they sink back into the nameless mounds of the graveyard and nobody notices that they are gone. And even the graves themselves soon fade back into the soil. Sometimes,  out for a walk, as you break your way through the prickly pear, you
notice that it is rather bumpy underfoot, and only a certain regularity in the bumps tells you that you are walking over skeletons.

Address the following questions in your reflection. 

When you are finished, ask one of your teachers to check it over.

 PCF:

1. What were your thoughts about PCF when you chose this service project?
2. After today, have your views changed?  If so, which ones?  Why did they change?  If your views did not change, can you account for this?
3. How did you feel during the tour?
4. What have you learned about where your garbage goes and recycling?

 Self

1. What has this first day at PCF taught you about yourself?

The completed lesson plan is to be emailed to Ms. Arndt  (arndtk@ismanila.org) by Monday, December 6 by 730 am.

The Lesson Plan -to fill out 

On Monday, December 6 during ICARE homeroom, copies of this lesson plan will be distributed to the other groups on your team (Ms. Arndt will print off copies). 

Materials Used

Remember that you need to provide materials for all the groups on your team (if you are organising the arts and craft activity, you need to provide materials for all five groups).

Notes on reimbursement:

• If you are going to spend more than 1000 Pesos on materials for your lesson and you want to be reimbursed, you must get approval from Ms. Arndt before you purchase.
• If you want to be reimbursed for your materials purchased, you need to bring in a receipt!