I is for Integrity (Project Explanation and Student Work)

The next blog will consist of a multiple week project.  Our class is going to take the S.A.I.L.S. acronym and represent what each means to us.  We will do a letter per week.  When the overall project is done, we will have each player's feelings on what S.A.I.L.S. means to them.  The students will also have to answer what the acronym letters mean to our school and to our A5 program.  This can be a writing, art or combination piece.  Students will be encouraged to use Photo shop, Pixlr or Prezi to represent their answers to what S.A.I.L.S. means to them.  We will view different representations of each WORD during the beginning stages of the class.   I also would like to add, we as an A5 class will try and watch the film, "Pay It Forward."  This movie displays all parts of S.A.I.L.S.  We will watch the film, when the 5 week period is over for our S.A.I.L.S. assignment.  Here is the IMDB link for that film:
Pay It Forward

Week 3: What does Integrity mean to you?  How do you represent or demonstrate this for yourself?  How do you see it represented in our school and in our A5 program? 

We started the class by looking at the definition of Integrity:

Integrity:

the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.

Synonyms for Integrity: honesty, virtue, straightforwardness, sincerity, goodness, wholeness, purity, (the inability to be corrupted)

Students could ask questions about integrity and give examples of when they have done it or where they have seen it.

We then watched the following video clips on Integrity:

A Life of Integrity:

Do what you say you will do (Abraham Lincoln Story):

Animation about Integrity:

Integrity gets you Everything (Motivational Video):

Mr. Epple

Integrity.  What is it?  How do we know if we do it?  Is it a part of us?  Do we have to try and live life with Integrity?  Ask yourself.  If you know you are someone who doesn't tell the truth, you are not living with Integrity.  If you do what is easy, rather than what is right, you are not living with Integrity.  If you need someone to watch over you, in order to do the right thing, you are not living with Integrity.  Look in the mirror.  What do you see?  If you see an honest, hard working, motivated, pure (will not be swayed by others) and straightforward person, then you are the definition of Integrity.  Your word should be your word.  A handshake counts, as your word.  You don't tell others what you think they need to here.  You tell others the truth, no matter the consequence.  You don't "yes" people, you are honest with people.  In the midst of criticism, negativity and anger, you do what is right.  You do not shy away from what is right because of difficulties.  If you are not living with Integrity, ask yourself why?  Why am I not living with Integrity?  This can not be taught.  We can see examples of Integrity, but it needs to come from within.  Integrity starts here........ with us.

Zachary Oliver

Integrity

What integrity means is that you are trustworthy, honest and people can rely on you. What is means to me is that people can really think you are a good person with a good attitude and never tell a lie.

Brady Lattanzi

    The word, “integrity” means a few different things to me: the most common way I would use the word, would be to describe someone's character. Like honesty, honor, ethical, decent, and truthful. These are some words I would use to describe someone who has integrity. Another way I would use the the word integrity would be to describe an object’s strength. For example: the integrity of that chimney had been damaged by years of weather and neglect.

Isabelle Nixon

Integrity

What does integrity mean to me .. It means to do the unexpected while no one's watching . Go the extra mile . It's like not to go and get that new video game when your parents told you not to. Or when a teacher leaves the classroom and you want to run up to your friends and talk to them but you don't because then you don't have Integrity. Being honest is characteristic of having integrity. That's a characteristic that most people have trouble with. Even I do . It hard to be honest about things . Being a role model is a characteristic. How those little things inside that can help this world is having integrity to me.

WE show Integrity in A5 and in our school in many different ways. You may not think it your showing integrity even when you are showing it. Not talking when the teachers talking , listening , keeping a secret when you're asked to and even just holding the door for someone is integrity . I see all theses things everyday at O'maley. In A5 i see it when Mr. Epple leaves to go grab something kids don't jump on tables or go crazy and take advantage that he not there . Also when people get out and know one sees it but they still go to the line again . There being honest and that's showing Integrity.

Raunak Anand

Integrity

To me integrity means doing the right thing. This can be not betraying your friends trust by not blaming  he or she on something you did to get in trouble. In O’maley, integrity means that helping others who are unaccepted,or bullied. To A5 it means accepting defeat but showing good sportsmanship about it. In all, integrity is learning to do the right thing.

Jasper Rose

what does Integrity  mean to me it means it means being honest because if you are not honest then you do dont have the trait of integrity. Plus integrity means have good strong principles. If the principles are bad that does not mean that you have the trait of integrity. Integrity is a good trait to have and it really means something!

Anthony Simonelli

Integrity

To me, integrity means being honest ,upbringing ,and just a good person to be around. An example of integrity in school is complimenting people about things like their shirt. An example of integrity out of school is if someone drops their wallet, instead of taking money ,you can give it back to them or bring it someplace if you can’t find the owner.

Zaila Dort

INTEGRITY
By: Zaila Grayce Dort

Integrity may have millions of definitions. Only this passage, is what integrity means to me. Integrity means loyalty and justice. Integrity is the quality of honesty and modesty and being able to behave in subjects such as these. Integrity is showing that you are a role model. Having integrity is showing general, overall uprighteousness. Showing that you are capable of any task and being able to focus and concentrate enough so you will always complete whatever challenge that steps into your path. Every community needs at least one person who can withhold the responsibilities of integrity. Though all should have it. Not every community has it but O’Maley does. Integrity, the third letter in S.A.I.L.S. Integrity relates to O’Maley in thousands of reasons. One reason is O’maley has hundreds of role models. From 6th-8th grade there are kids that get straight A’s, don’t swear, would help someone in need, are honest, thoughtful, and reliable. A second reason O’Maley relates to Integrity is because Honestly, loyalty, modesty and/or anything related to such is taught there. They have everyone respect eachother no matter what. These qualities are most important in the S.A.I.L.S rules like any other. There are many definitions and opinions on what integrity means. This is what they mean to me.

Thomas Elliot

Integrity

          To me, integrity means to be honest and truthful, no matter what the outcome is. I always tell myself everyday to be truthful to my companions and to make logical choices. Feelings may be hurt when being honest, but in the end, you know you made the right choice. 100 percent of the time, you’ll feel better about yourself if you tell the truth. Ask yourself, how would you feel to lie, compared to telling the truth. Integrity also means to make the correct choice. Don’t get involved in the wrong type of group, you never know what might happen in the future because of the group you hung out with as a child.

         To O’Maley, the word Integrity means to tell on your friends when they’re doing something wrong. If you aren’t friends after you tell on them, they probably weren’t the best kids to hang out with in the first place. Another description of Integrity in the school is, if some kid comes up to you and asks you to smoke a cigarette, refuse it. Smoking is a bad thing to do, if you start it, you can’t stop. The nicotine inside the cig will get you addicted and you’ll be a smoker for life.

         Integrity, a word that means to be truthful, and make the right choice.

Neville Clancy

Integrity

Integrity means you can be trusted by doing the right thing. Even if no one is watching you should do the right thing. If someone is bullying some you should step in in some way to help stop it. What it means to me is I should always try and do the right thing. What It means to this school is if the teacher is out of the room everyone in the room should behave. Or not let other kids not behave. Or if some kid is not listening to the teacher tell them they are not being kind. That's what integrity means to me and the school.

Jack Patten

Integrity

               To me, integrity means to tell the truth and be honest with each other. Integrity also means to be hardworking and motivating yourself to keep working hard no matter the circumstances. An example of Integrity at O’Maley could be someone that is motivating you to work hard while you are in class. It is also not lying to get out of something, you should tell the truth even if the truth is wrong. Another example is someone working hard even if they had a rough day or something went wrong. When you have integrity, it means you can get back on your feet no matter how hard you are knocked down. To have integrity, you also need to be trustworthy, nice, and an overall good person to people around you.

Caleb Grace

INTEGRITY

Integrity to me is not lying not being mean standing up to a bully practictly anyone in my mind that has integrity in them is immortal not mortal they stand up from anyone else the best of the best greater than everybody well in my mind everyone has integrity in them they just have to use it show it off and use it to stand up to the bullys and criminals and theifs they jusst have to bring it out!

Nicholas Rapchuck

Integrity

My Meaning of integrity is Being honest even if no one's watching. An Example is if you are sitting on a bench and someone walks by you and drops his/her phone.To show integrity you give the phone to the person who dropped it.Not showing integrity is to keep it for yourself.Another example is when a teacher leaves the classroom you continue to do work instead of talking to someone. Therefore that is my Definition of Integrity

Emily Shea

INTEGRITY-What does integrity mean to me?Integrity means to me is  that is not to tell a lie to not to disrespect people like friends,strangers, teachers and family members.To never give up on your self or anyone else.It dosent matter if ur rich or poor ur not differnt and its the people that help others.Thats what integrity means to me.

Caleb Grace

Integrity to me is like if you're in war and your companion is going to get shot and you jump in front of them and you get shot but your teammate lives or if you are at school and you see a kid getting  bullied you go and break that fight up and you save the kid from getting pounded.

                                                             

A is for Acceptance (Project Explanation and Student Work)

The next blog will consist of a multiple week project.  Our class is going to take the S.A.I.L.S. acronym and represent what each means to us.  We will do a letter per week.  When the overall project is done, we will have each player's feelings on what S.A.I.L.S. means to them.  The students will also have to answer what the acronym letters mean to our school and to our A5 program.  This can be a writing, art or combination piece.  Students will be encouraged to use Photo shop, Pixlr or Prezi to represent their answers to what S.A.I.L.S. means to them.  We will view different representations of each WORD during the beginning stages of the class.   Enjoy!

Week 2:  What does Acceptance mean to you?  How do you represent or demonstrate this for yourself?  How do you see it represented in our school and in our A5 program? 
We watched this video:

And this video:

And this video:

Mr. Epple:

What does Acceptance mean to me?  Not putting labels on people.  Looking at us a one human family.  We define ourselves as black, white, catholic, agnostic, religious, non-religious, rich, poor, smart, dumb, lazy, motivated.  We are people.  We need each other.  We need to belong to something, hopefully positive.  We are more a like than we want admit.  We are a human family, that needs to work together for the common good of ALL on this planet.  We need to accept each other as our fellow humans, rather than separate ourselves with labels.  As Morrie Schwartz (Tuesday with Morrie)  once said, quoting the poet W. H. Auden, "Love is the only rational act," and "Love each other or die."  Great quotes and great ideas from some great people.

Isabelle Nixon

Acceptance

Isabelle Nixon

I think that Acceptance means to take someone for who they are and not for what like or their religion and so many more things that people in this world look at before they become friends with them . We even have a word for treating people differently because of their skin color. Its segregation . We should not have a word for treating people different. The body. Would we be able to live if we only had an eye and not an ear. Or 2 legs but not a stomach . We all need each other just like the body. Always nice and kind and have courage . Put yourself in  there shoes . Don't judge people by there skin color , their weight, religion,diseases or clothing. Acceptance means to this program is that don't judge people because if u just dig a little deeper into them the might be amazing and you won't be missing out . What it means to the school is that to help anyone and be kind .       

Jasper Rose  

    What does acceptance mean to me? It means peace, which means no war or slavery

also I think it means freedom, like the usa it is a free country more countries are starting to follow, like the UK and Sweden plus France. And a lot more! We need to accept each other if you are black or white no matter what the race.SWEDEN is following to the freedom! if the whole world follows we could do so many more things think of a world without war most people can't imagine it. That is why acceptance is important to me and o'maley plus A5

Geoffrey Callahan

                              What Does Acceptance mean to Me

To me acceptance is a way to let people in or to allow people to be what they really are. I demonstrate it (or sometimes demonstrate it) by being kind to others. I could help them with a problem they have and I could support them in some way. I see it in school for the teacher helping out students or other teachers and in stories or books we read. In A5 we show our teammates acceptance and we help support other people who can’t play that well.

Emily Shea

Acceptance by Emily Shea

What does acceptance mean to me?Acceptance means to me is not to make people feel like they don't belong here.In A5 we use acceptance for not making fun of people that get out.Acceptance is very important because it is helping people not feeling sad.Acceptance we use all the time in  omaley we help eachother and we care if they are sad or hurt.

Zachary Oliver

Acceptance

What acceptance means to me is helping people you don’t know out and let them hang out with your group. When here is a new kid say from Florida and he just moved to MASS. don’t let him just hang out with himself because his is new, maybe he or she is some what like you! Always let someone feel like they are important and not just a pile of trash.

Neville Clancy

Acceptance

Acceptance is letting people join in or help with things. If someone looks different treat them like they are like any other person. If someone is sad let them join in in what they are doing.It means to  that all of omaly need to work to gether and be kind to each other. If someone does not understand something in school help them out. You could help them understand their homework. People can't always do everything alone so people need to work together. People need to more positive.

Jakob Parpart

Acceptance is when you see someone that got hurt or is getting bullied you go up to him and stand up top the bully.

Another example is when you see a kid that wants to be part of a gang but instead of the people allowing him to be in the gang they exclude him, to show acceptance you would go up to him or her and ask them if they want to join their group, club or gang.

Thomas Elliot

                                                   What Acceptance Means To Me and the School and A5

To me, acceptance means taking people for who they are. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, is a saying I always remember. If a person is black, white, Mexican, Latino or Asian, don’t automatically give them a label. Get to know the person, invite them over your house, you never know when you might make a new friend.

To A5 and the school, acceptance means show the new kid around, give him some pointers. If a kid falls, help them back up. If you see someone getting bullied, intervene and help the victim. Don’t think someone wears weird clothes or has different styles, you never know what they think about you.

Avery Emerson

What does acceptance mean to me

acceptance to me kind of means to not judge a person basicly dont judge a book by its cover!! For example if you saw someone and they looked really poor and they didn't really look like they were good at anything, and one day you faced him in say basketball or any sport and he turned out to be really good. Or another example is don't judge people by their race. don’t judge people by their color or where there from basicly just don't judge don't be mean don't be rude! This is one of my favorite things to say… don’t judge a book by its cover it means a lot to me!!

Caleb Grace

acceptance in my mind is when you see a kid getting bullied and you go over and you help the kid up to his feet and then you let him chill with you or go and let him toss a football with you or something like that and also acceptance is to strive and help people that don't have any friends to have a lot of friends,in a personal experience i actually hung out with some kid and he didn't have many friends than i introduced him to one of my other friends and now they hang out more then me and that other friend dont hang out that much anmymore and also some popular kids actually let that same kid in there group and there fine with it.   

ACCEPTANCE

Jack Patten

What Acceptance Means to me

acceptance to me means that we as a nation are united. We are a nation that works together no matter what you believe in or the color of your skin, we have eachothers backs and work together no matter the circumstances. Acceptance also means that we have to accept people from other countries who do not feel safe in their homes. to O'Maley and A5 Acceptance means that we need to be nice and caring for people around us. this will keep us more united at O’Maley and A5. Acceptance is important and will help a lot of people.

                 Acceptance

Acceptance to me means not judging people by their physical features such as race. In a5 Acceptance is not making fun of somebody that isn't that good. Not befriending somebody because of looks of how popular someone  is or what they have financially would be the opposite of acceptance in my opinion. Nobody should be degraded by anything on the outside. Better yet don't judge anybody because you don't know how their life is outside of school or in the past. We’re all people.

Anthony Simonelli

             

Daniel Hafey

 What acceptance means to me

What acceptance means to me is when someone accepts one for who they are no matter who they are. An example of acceptance to me would when someone made a mistake in the past and some people don’t accept her for what she did but deep down you know that she is really an amazing person and if you don’t believe that you are wrong. An example that people in A5 that we could do is when someone maybe is not that good at what they are you doing you could still accept them even though they aren’t that good.

Zaila Dort

ACCEPTANCE

By: Zaila Grayce Dort

Acceptance can mean thousands of things to everyone around us. Yet this, is what acceptance means to me. Acceptance means that no matter what you can accept everyone around us no matter what skin tone, religion, disability, or gender. Acceptance means that you may not like that person, but you are still nice to them, help them, and even comfort them when they are in need. Acceptance is very important in every community and every community needs it. But does very community have it...no. That is the sad part. Acceptance just like many other of the S.A.I.L.S letters needs to be used everywhere. Many people don’t use it and that is what causes many cases of bullying. If a new student entered a school they are very vulnerable and many people may pick on them. When people start picking on them, it grows. Not being accepted can make people depressed, feel left out, angry, and some cases result in suicide. Acceptance is VERY important and if not used, it can result in horrible outcomes. Acceptance can make someone feel happy, and can make you feel happy too. Acceptance can also mean friendship by making somebody feel welcome. These are a couple things that mean acceptance to me.

Raunak Anand

Acceptance

Acceptance to me is accepting people for who they are. Not saying, oh that person is white or saying, oh this person dresses up like a clown. We people are all different but we share one thing in common. We all have a heart, you can decide to use your heart or you can leave it in darkness. Togather we should be one family, not different rivals. There are people out there who think too much of themselves. In school it means not judging people by their looks or actions. In A5 it means letting anyone be on your team and cheering them on. Not liking whispering to someone else saying “This kid is going to make us lose”.

Nicholas Rapchuck

What Acceptance Means to Me

acceptance means to give it a try and don't not do things that you don't want to do.Give it a try.Also it means to accept other people that may be different than others.Finally acceptance means to  accept people and not judge them. Therefore acceptance means many things to me.

Acceptance means  things to A5 too.it means to let people on your team and dont ghet mad that your not onyour friends team.

Acceptance means a l lot to our school too. It means to let people into your group and not exclude them.

Kylie O'Connell

What the A in S.A.I.L.S

Means to me

The A (Acceptance) in S.A.I.L.S means to include and accept your peers,friends, and even family in activities you participate in. I see examples of this everyday, at recess i see kids including their peers in ball games, conversations, and more! When someone gets hurt, is feeling down, or left out, other students in the our A5 program  go to help them. So next time you see anyone who is not being included, go talk to them, they might end up as your best friend!

Haily Shea

What does acceptance mean to me ? Acceptance  means  to me is to accept each other and  not worry what the other person looks like . Also it means to me is to let everyone do that activity . Another way acceptance mean to me is don't exclude anyone who doesn't do what you do or what they look like. Everyone should have the right to do what everyone one does even though they look different. This means to the schools that everyone can learn here and be happy here . This means to A5 is if someone isn't good than don't make infront of them and help them .What does acceptance mean to me ?      

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Pay It Forward

Please click on the following link to see the IMDB page for our A5 film we will be watching, which is a very good visual representation of S.A.I.L.S.:
Pay It Forward

Who are our A5 coaches? (winter session)

We have 3 students from the 7th and 8th Grade A-5 course, who were chosen as leaders/ coaches for this 6th Grade A-5 class.  We would like for all readers of the blog to know a little about them.  We are very proud of our coaches and thankful for their positive attitudes, leadership skills and work ethic.  The coaches have been in the A-5 program for at least 2 years and know what to say to the younger A-5 students and how to lead them.  The coaches assist with support in the writing assignments and in the athletic activities.  Each coach is responsible for one team (leading, advising and mentoring).  The coaches for this quarter are:

Silas Emerson
Toshawnka Jenkins
Jason Levereault

Silas Emerson:

I am an A-5 6th grade dodgeball coach. I wanted to be a coach because I love this program. I have played all three years we have had this program. I am respectful of others, I care about everybody equally. I am a good sport and like to have fun, however I am very competitive. This is why I wanted to be a sixth grade A5 coach and Why i think I got accepted to be one.

Toshawnka Jenkins:

I want to be a A-5 Coach because we needed to join another after school program.Another reason is I thought it would be fun to coach a sports team.Also it would be fun to interact with younger kids.Also I like to have fun with Epple because he is really funny and he is really easy to beat in sports.I also want to be the best coach and the best team in the sport.  

Jason Levreault:

Why did I want to be a coach for sixth grade A5 Coach? I wanted to be a sixth grade A5 coach because i thought It would be a lot of fun to be able Influence how some of the teams may play and teach them, I wanted to be able to get extra time at A5, I wanted to be able to keep A5 going, and I also wanted to just be able to help the 6th graders If they feel confused on what they should be doing. Lastly I feel like I got chosen to be a coach because I am a good role model, (Other than when I am misbehaving) I have good sportsmanship, and I am to the younger kids. This is why I wanted to be a A5 coach and why i think I got chosen.