This page of directions will be discussed in class on Monday, 10/7.
The Random Acts of Kindness Project takes the idea that other people can do things like Stargirl, from the novel that we are currently reading.
We will keep track of ten days of Random Acts of Kindness.
Here is the form to keep track of your ten days of Kindness (you must be signed in to your lcm account to access):
Page One - start here
Pages two and on - print as many as you need.
Ideas for Random Acts of Kindness:
There are several ideas that we can glean from the novel itself. There are also plenty of other great ideas found on the Actiontracker website, which was the basis for a middle school wide project in Bristol, England.
Every culture has a set of good deeds that one can do:
1. that require a person to think about others before they think about themselves.
2. that brings people together, individually or collectively as a group.
3. that the doer does not expect to be noticed, rewarded, or acknowledged, doing the act anonymously.
4. that the recipient is not someone that the doer necessarily knows at all.
5. some acts are small, but these should be acts that stretch a person's normal behaviors.
6. some acts are planned out and require considerable effort and time.
7.
the acts may be unexpected or a surprise, but make sure that the act does not cross personal boundaries of the recipient as to embarrass or use excess resources that may prove costly.
8. the acts may be something that a person does from time to time, but many of the acts should be acts that the doer does not typically do, stretching the doer's personal boundaries.
9. acts should not be simple planned events that create artificial needs. For example, a doer should not ask someone to drop something so it can be picked it up.
The
Actiontracker website has several great ideas to complete this project.
Stargirl’s Actiontracker list (from a class discussion last week):
1. Sings Happy Birthday to people
2. Cheers for all teams
3. Gives holiday favors to people
4. Buys random people birthday gifts
5. She cheers for or praises people
6. She plays the ukelele at lunch
7. She doesn’t lose her temper
8. She remembers people’s names
9. She sympathizes with other peoples’ losses
10. What else might Stargirl do on the website?
