1E ENGLISH CULMINATING ACTIVITY

RESPECT YOURSELF

• I keep my self positive.
• I keep only the good friends.
• Never inflicted self harm.

Keeping myself positive is a task I try to do. I try not to sweat the little things and keep a positive attitude. It helps to make respecting oneself easier. Choosing friends is also important to respecting yourself. If you choose a poor friend it is not helpful. If those around you do not respect you how can you respect yourself? Don't hurt yourself... just don't!

RESPECT OTHERS

• Be a active listener
• Give more then you take
• Be pleasant
• Be there 😳😳😳

Being a active listener is not easy but it is not hard either. The key to being a good active listener in my opinion is responding with thingsthat are similar but that doesn't take all the attention away from who you are talking to. Giving more in my opinion is not hard just make yourself available and that will show that you care and most of the time. if you are patient and understanding you don't have to give more or even the same but it seem like it.

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Be pleasant if you are negative or genuinely mean to people that is not vary respectful to other people. This is the most important of all to me being there. Especially when people really need you it,sounds easy but not always. If someone is having a bad day lots of people just avoid them or try to make them laugh but that just helps for a minute. So if you let them vent and take the frustration out on you it helps it go away but this is different for everybody.

BE ACCOUNTABLE

• Take responsibility good or bad

Taking responsibility for you actions is not easy when it is a bad thing but when it is a good thing it is very easy. Like if I break something I tell the owner of said thing immediately and if possible try to fix or replace it. I have never had to fix or replace something, most of the time if I break something it is my property so that simplify's things.

HONOUR YOUR COMMITMENTS

• If I say some thing I will do it come hell or high water
• A promise is your word and your word is a promise

Honouring a commitment is very important. This helps to keep and build a respectable credibility because saying something is a responsibility. if I say something I try my best to do so that is why I try to never say something that I may not be able to do. If someone asks me to hang out I give a very so so answer so people can not say you said so because I didn't and they feel like I tried my best .

DO THE RIGHT THING

• I try to do the right thing but don't always
• I try to do the right thing and to hell with the consequences

Doing the right thing is not always the easiest. Quite frankly it is rather difficult. Most people make mistakes and do not always do it but I believe we try a good portion of the time and do it regularly. I am not proud of it but I have not done the right thing and looking back I am not a bad person but I am not God. When I broke my first phone I told my mom I dropped it. Actually I hated it so I hit it on the corner of a table and when I totalled it I didn't feel that bad. 😋

When I broke my brothers laptop with a pellet gun I did not lie. I did it and I got in trouble but if I had lied I probably would have gotten punished worse. but then again since I did not lie and we did not spend all the time with how did what we decided that is was not just my fault is was both of ours he was the one who did not put it away.

This was my five rules from the novel "The First Stone" and how they have applied to my life.