MEAP+ELA

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THURSDAY 9/24/09

** MEAP ELA: Writing Applications – Harmony  ** Directions: Harmony ·  Working together ·  Loving one another ·  Peaceful disagreement ·  Positive human relationships Harmony Harmony Introduction Harmony deals with many things about how humans interact with one another. It is the key to maintaining and keeping relationships with other people. Harmony is working together, loving one another, having disagreements peacefully, and having positive human relationships. Working Together Working together brings harmony at the workplace, in an athletic competition, and in a volunteer project. In many workplaces adults are required to be complete projects as a team. This is demonstrated when people in an office work together to put together a proposal and coordinate a fundraiser event. In many sports teamwork and unselfishness are a requirement to getting the victory. In basketball a team needs at least four to five of its players to contribute to the scoring. Volunteer projects get completed quicker when more than a few people are involved. Habitat Humanity builds low income housing, and they use many people across the Detroit metro area to build the homes. Loving One Another Loving one another brings harmony to relationships that involve friends, strangers, and husband and wives. A good friend will often give to another friend without expecting anything in return. Sometimes a friend will loan another friend some money without expecting him or her to pay the money back. Strangers will often reach out to one another because of their concern for one another. There are neighborhoods where many of the people are strangers to one another, because they never interact with one another. Despite this situation, there is often a few people who will reach out to their unknown neighbors by bringing over a dessert to them in an attempt to get to know them better. Showing acts of kindness to other people goes a long way in marriage. A husband who brings home some flowers to his wife just because he wants to has a good chance winning some brownie points with her. Peaceful Disagreement Disagreeing peacefully with one another brings harmony to any relationship that might otherwise be unstable. There are couples who have an argument without shouting at one another. These types of people are more likely to consider each other’s viewpoint, because they are being courteous to one another. Thus, an argument without shouting means that chances are the couples will listen to one another without cutting each other off. At the end of the peaceful argument it is more realistic for couples to give one another constructive criticism and receive it from each other. Positive Human Relationships Positive human relationships bring harmony to entire section of society. When relationships are positive humans will talk to one another on a regular basis in a way that will promote and bring progress to almost any situation. Talking regularly is vital to people not holding grudges with one another. Grudges are a barrier to any relationship that could otherwise be a loving one. At the end of the day, loving relationships will cause more people give each other a hug. Now doesn’t that make everyone feel special? Conclusion Teamwork, showing love, and maintaining proper means of communication all help in allowing a society to function in harmony. This is demonstrated at work, in sports competition, in marriage, in friendship, and in interacting with complete strangers. With harmony all of these areas of life will experience success, victory, and love.
 * W.PS.07.01 **
 * 1) **__ Brainstorming __**** - Come with as many words/phrases that you can think of that relate to harmony (example below) **
 * 1) **__ Topic/Sub Topics (Outline) __**** – Pick 4 of your words/phrases as your topics and make a sub topic list for each of them (example below) **
 * 1)  Working Together
 * 2)  Multiple people working on group projects at work
 * 3)  Competing as a team in sports
 * 4)  People volunteering together to help in a clean up
 * 1)  Loving one another
 * 2)  Giving without expecting anything in return
 * 3)  Being concerned for people
 * 4)  Showing acts of kindness
 * 1)  Peaceful Disagreement
 * 2)  Not shouting in an argument
 * 3)  Listening without cutting the other person off
 * 4)  Giving constructive criticism
 * 1)  Positive Human Relationships
 * 2)  Talking to one another on a regular basis
 * 3)  Not holding grudges
 * 4)  Giving one another a hug
 * 1) **__ Essay __**** – Write an essay that is based off of your topic/sub topic lists. Be sure to include and introduction and conclusion. You should have 6 paragraphs in all (example below) **