Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Finalize Shipwreck & DDAP

EQ – How do I summarize a story?
  1. Final Hints for Shipwreck
  2. Finalize the Shipwreck Activity
  3. Review your notes regarding summarizing literature
  4. Read the following article and complete a DDAP
The following is directly copied from PlugIn.com
Now, some details of this may be slightly inaccurate but that is how it goes with older stories. There is a shop about 200m from where I’m typing this that sells groceries, meat and other necessary amenities. About 10 years ago there was a beggar who would go into the shop every day and plead with the owner for a job. The owner, although he would love to help, simply didn’t have any jobs available so kept refusing the homeless man’s offers.
This happened daily for a few months, until the owner decided to give the homeless man a job which involved sweeping outside the shop. Every single day from 5am the homeless man was there sweeping up and doing the very best he could for the owner, even if it did earn him pennies. Eventually, the owner saw how good a job the old man was doing and gave him a job working as a cashier. He was watched closely to make sure that he didn’t steal any of the funds, after all he was still homeless. The homeless man worked an honest job as a cashier for over 2 years, and did such a good job that he was promoted to handle the finances for the whole shop.
To my knowledge, this was the arrangement up until 2 years ago, when the owner passed away. In his will he only had one request, to give the whole shop to the now stable, ‘homeless’ man. Now, I could walk into that shop and see him working as hard as ever, with his own business that is still popular and active 10 years after getting his job as a sweeper. When I first heard this story I was blown away, it reminded me of a similar story in Do You! where Russell Simmons ended up hiring someone who kept cleaning his shops for free.

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