What does “Blindsight” mean to you and your 8th grade school year?

Read a transcript of a group chat/brainstorming session we had on the topic.

No.    Time     Sender      Message

1.     1:56 PM  Mrs. Morrow: I think the journey to the top is like trying to reach a goal of mine.

2.     1:56 PM  COLE: So true

3.     1:56 PM  MICHAEL H: Getting to the top of eigth grade with high expectations

4.     1:57 PM  BROCK: yea cause you get build up from 7th

5.     1:57 PM  MEGAN: i liked tashi

6.     1:57 PM  COLE: I cant really relate it to anything but...

7.     1:57 PM  Mrs.  Morrow: sometimes you feel like you fail, but it's more important to have fun on the journey

8.     1:57 PM  COLE: Tashi owned up

14.     1:58 PM  JESSICA: Tashi was brave and coo;

15.     1:58 PM  Mrs. Morrow: He came from rough background and still reached his goal of starting a massage clinic

16.     1:58 PM  DYLAN: I wouldn't be able to do that

17.     1:58 PM BROCK: sashi likes pop

18.     1:58 PM  DONNIE: mrs.morrow this is fun

19.     1:58 PM  COLE: i thought it was really cool how tashi is now serving cold drinks

20.     1:58 PM  MICHAEL: hes now selling cold drinks

21.     1:58 PM  BRANDON: it is har ot reach goals

22.     1:58 PM  SAVANAH: some times i feal lick i am climing a mountain with all these boockes 

23.     1:58 PM  BROCK: we were blinded like we didnt kno how it was going to be!

24.     1:58 PM  DONNIE: don't stop when it gets hard

25.     1:58 PM  COLE: I know how it wont relate! we will make it to the topunlike them

26.     1:59 PM  TAPANGA: good advice

27.     1:59 PM  Mrs. Morrow: work as a team -- the kids needed guides to help them "see" where they were going

28.     1:59 PM  BROCK: yea so true

29.     1:59 PM  SAVANAH: ok

30.     1:59 PM  MEGAN: gitting out of the 8th grade and reaching high school

31.     1:59 PM  DYLAN: i do not clibm mountains

32.     1:59 PM  MICHAEL: i do

33.     1:59 PM  TAPANGA: very true

34.     1:59 PM  COLE: Its like we are blind to how to us macs right and mrs morrow is our non-blind guide

35.     1:59 PM  BROCK: very

36.     1:59 PM  MICHAEL: always keep on going like what the girls wanted to do

45.     2:00 PM  MEGAN: to be a senior

46.     2:00 PM  BROCK: yep

50.     2:00 PM  JESSICA: I cant believe they all climbed the mountain.

53.     2:00 PM      DONNIE: it was a long way

54.     2:01 PM      COLE: i know now!!!! it was esy at first but itll get harder

55.     2:01 PM      BROCK: how high would you get to the top

56.     2:01 PM      COLE: we'll be very frustrated

57.     2:01 PM      COLE: but we need to press on!!!

58.     2:01 PM      BROCK: yea

59.     2:01 PM      MEGAN: getting through high school is a rough time

60.     2:01 PM      MICHAEL: that would be tough even if you were able to see

61.     2:01 PM      TAPANGA: sure

62.     2:01 PM      DYLAN: we get head aches

63.     2:02 PM      Mrs. Morrow: sometimes your goal has to change... they didn't even reach the top but they were still successful... they reevaluated their goals

66.     2:02 PM      BROCK: i think they made it in my heart

67.     2:02 PM      JESSICA: yeah no kidding

68.     2:02 PM      SAVANAH: ok  back to the ????

69.     2:02 PM      Mrs. Morrow: the more difficult the challenge, the harder we have to work

70.     2:02 PM      BROCK: i like that movie

71.     2:02 PM      TAPANGA: me too

72.     2:03 PM      DONNIE: it was great

73.     2:03 PM      COLE: mental climbing of mountains!

74.     2:03 PM      MEGAN: i wish i could climb a mountain

75.     2:03 PM      James: the idea was great cause then they wouldnt get picked on for being blind

79.     2:03 PM      BRANDON: it is hard 

80.     2:03 PM      MEGAN: climbing through 8th grade is rough

81.     2:03 PM      BROCK: i realy like the main guy who ever started the adventure

83.     2:04 PM      JESSICA: It has got to be hard to climb a mountain when your blind

84.     2:04 PM      BROCK: very

85.     2:04 PM      James: i can belive that

86.     2:04 PM      DYLAN: not everyone has the same things in life

87.     2:04 PM      Mrs. Morrow: What are your BLINDNESSES?

88.     2:04 PM      BROCK: school

89.     2:04 PM      BRANDON: school

90.     2:04 PM      BROCK: math

91.     2:04 PM      COLE: oh son..... i just realized! we are like the blind people! like the people pick on them for blindness....

92.     2:04 PM      TAPANGA: sometimes you can't see when people are hurt or need help

93.     2:04 PM      THOMAS: Math

94.     2:05 PM      DYLAN: directions

95.     2:05 PM      DONNIE: homework

96.     2:05 PM      COLE: adults think we dont know as much

98.     2:05 PM      MICHAEL: my blindness is math 

99.     2:05 PM      COLE: but learning is like climbing the mountain

100.     2:05 PM      James: english

101.     2:05 PM      ANDREW: a cant see why we have homework

102.     2:05 PM      MEGAN: math and history class and why my foot is broken

103.     2:05 PM      MATTIE: math

104.     2:05 PM      COLE: and proving that we can do more and we are capable

105.     2:05 PM      DONNIE: good tapanga

106.     2:05 PM      JESSICA: When people are sometimes getting bullied

109.     2:05 PM      MICHAEL: Trying new things 

110.     2:05 PM      DYLAN: English

112.     2:06 PM      BROCK: playing sports is a blindness

113.     2:06 PM      COLE: andrew..... we have homework for to make us smarter

114.     2:06 PM      BROCK: for some people

115.     2:06 PM      THOMAS: homework and math

116.     2:06 PM      JESSICA: this is so cool!!!!!!!!!!

117.     2:06 PM      BRANDON: math

118.     2:06 PM      James: BRANDON math is fun

119.     2:06 PM      COLE: But mrs morrow owns right guys?!!!

120.     2:06 PM      SAVANAH: my weakneses are seeing my homework

122.     2:06 PM      JESSICA: (Katie Morrow) I cant believe they all climbed the mountain.

123.     2:06 PM      MIRANDA: Reading books or reading musical notes

124.     2:06 PM      DONNIE: ya

125.     2:06 PM      MEGAN: inside we’re all blind- there are different things we all can't see

126.     2:07 PM      BROCK: yea

127.     2:07 PM      MICHAEL: Being in a big croud of people when you don't know any of them 

128.     2:07 PM      BROCK: true

129.     2:07 PM      COLE: i need to know

130.     2:07 PM      COLE: eric was cool

131.     2:07 PM      BROCK: thats scary

132.     2:07 PM      DYLAN: geography

134.     2:07 PM      Mrs. Morrow: Erik and Sabriye--- what do they teach you about yourself as an 8th grade learner?

137.     2:07 PM      BRANDON: juts keep climing

138.     2:07 PM      COLE: we are leading the sevies!!

139.     2:07 PM      TAPANGA: to care 4 everyone and watch out for people and don't give up

140.     2:07 PM      DONNIE: they were like a teacher

141.     2:08 PM      MEGAN: to appreciate life instaed of blowing it off

142.     2:08 PM      BROCK: eric wanted to make it to the top he really didnt want to give up all though he was bling he tried so hard and he put his mind to it

143.     2:08 PM      SAVANAH: to talk about your falings

144.     2:09 PM      JESSICA: They were  so brave and never let anyone behind and never gave up 

145.     2:09 PM      BROCK: yea'

146.     2:09 PM      COLE: we are somewhat like the guides.... and the sevies are blind to this school

147.     2:09 PM      MICHAEL: When somebody in class doesnt get it and you are having a hard time trying to get them to understand it imagine how they feel

148.     2:09 PM      BROCK: yea that is very true

149.     2:09 PM      COLE: ya man pound it

150.     2:09 PM      COLE: everyone pound it

151.     2:10 PM      TAPANGA: that's a good one michael

152. 152.   2:10 PM      Mrs. Morrow: it teaches you empathy when you understand where someone else is coming from
     

165.     2:13 PM      MIRANDA: that even though you are diffrent that you can still do the same thing like every body else

167.     2:13 PM      BROCK: i would be scared if i was blind

168.     2:13 PM      TAPANGA: me too

169.     2:14 PM      COLE: ya....

187.     2:17 PM      ANDREW: i think sight is the best sense ever