Hopscotch

In the perfect world, everyone would get along with each other, and it would be like strawberries and yogurt. However, in reality, not everyone gets along, and it could be difficult. Good afternoon fellow students and teachers. Have you ever been in a situation where you and another person can’t agree on something? Perhaps it's because you don’t get along. Today, I will be speaking to you about what you should and should not do when you’re around those people. I will also be explaining the word diplomacy, and why most people don’t get along with each other. Let’s say you're with one of those people during recess and you’re both deciding on a game to play. You may say, “Why don’t we play hopscotch?” Then the other says, “How about foursquare?”.…

Maya Angelou’s poem, “Harlem Hopscotch,” portrays the feelings of oppression and injustice experienced by the African American population through a game of hopscotch, as they are forced to succumb to the white supremacist societal structure in America. She utilizes devices, such as imagery and sound, to portray the emotions of people of color after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The speaker, who articulates on behalf of African Americans as a whole, maintains the innocence of a child playing a…

In the poem “Harlem Hopscotch”, the poet Maya Angelou uses the game this most children play (Hopscotch) to represent common human themes of unemployment, desperation, and food deprivation. She illuminates the game of Hopscotch as a representation of how life is full of many trials and tribulations and how a we as humans must push through and continue to “Hop” in hope of finishing the game. The way that Maya Angelou starts the poem off is “one foot down, then hop! It’s hot.” Showing how the…

applied through games activities like hopscotch games. C. The Concept of Hopscotch Games 1. Games There are some definitions of games. According to Dempsey et al. (1996), they define a game as …a set of activities involving one or more players. It has goals, constraints, payoffs, and consequences. A game is rule-guided and artificial in some respects. Then, Prensky (2001) mentioned that a game seen as a subset of both play and fun. A game is recognized as organized play that gives us…

people’s lives, to help them function again in their community,I realized that work as an agent of change in a community would begin with the relationship between treatment staff and participants in the program. ================ It was not an easy course to take. It required changing the way people did things in the institution. But it also required engaging the participants in a new way. So I started by making a game out of the recovery curriculum for the day. I started with my group. I…

Now while this might not seem to be that big of a deal, it is a pretty important detail. At the big playground there was enough room and space for each clique to do whatever they wanted. There would be: a game of kickball in the grass by the hill, tag or some imaginary game in the playground, a game of hopscotch or jump rope on the blacktop, and a place to talk to people and climb about in the wood chip section. On the small playground however, there was a larger blacktop area, but it always…

75 percent of Americans have a modern-day cell phone. Games, technology, and communication have changed greatly over time. First and foremost, the games have changed rapidly throughout the course of time. Football has changed greatly within the last 100 years, or so. They used to wear uniforms with leather (pigskin) helmets. Back in the early 1900s, they used to play with marbles, and they thought that was very entertaining. Individuals would draw a circle in the dirt, and try to hit…

All through life most people just I cannot wait for the chance to go to college. Awaiting the chance to have more fun and more opportunities to do things that were always looked upon as being mature and cool. I look back at a time of being 5 years old and dressing up in my dads' shirt to stand out among my friends. The many years of playing house and hopscotch, I never knew that my childhood would end so quickly. Looking back on the last couple of years of my life I realized that with…

In the article, “Language+ Movement: fostering steady competence in young children”, Ann McFarland discusses what the importance of beat competence is in music education and aptitude. Explaining that music aptitude is highest when a child is born and then either stays or declines based on a child’s meaningful music experience. Therefore, it can be said that music aptitude is a product of nature, what a child is born with, and nature, how we foster that natural aptitude. Activities that foster…

Adrianna shows good gross motor control, doing yoga is a great way to help her to continue to increase strength, body awareness, flexibility as well as coordination. It requires the use of the whole body (from head to toe), which is a great way to in engage all the muscles in the body allowing her to practice balance and coordination. This activity also requires her to use concentration as she focuses on shifting her weight to conform into various body movements and positions. Another activity…