#22 Belonging

other than family, identify the group you feel most connected to and explain why this connection is important to you.....it might be your basketball team, your church youth group, your 4H group, your writers' workshop class...whatever...what is it for you and what role do you see it playing in your life

# 21...lions and tigers and zebras...oh my..

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how can we apply the lessons of the zebras to our own lives here at home?

#20 Kim..Mike...and Brenda..three more me to we heroes

three different stories (page 85ish)

whose story do you admire the most ....and explain why

#19 pay it forward..the movie

a) your overall impression

b) was it too idealistic/was it realistic?...explain

#18 the blue and white overnight

in your opinion, A) how can we get people to attend (and have fun)

and B) any great money - making schemes/games/activities that you know of that you think might work on this night

#17 back to the book

page 82-83 says that we all can move from me to we just by drawing on 4 basic skills we already possess..which of these four do you think is the most important to develop if we are to become "more we"? it's not easy to choose but pick one and explain

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#16 back to the book

the road to me2we

read pg 50-64

and blog on one of the following:

Tim's story

or

rain in Kenya

or

surviving survivor ....respond to it and explain why you chose the one you did

#15 blue and white overnight

one good idea....that's all...only one

#14 a spring clean up

first response?

you in?

explain

#13 the roseto mystery

In the section, The Roseto Mystery, Gladwell investigates a town of Immigrants who left Roseto Italy in the 1880s and 1890s to come to America. Most of these people settled in one area of Pennsylvania which they eventually named after the town they come from in the old world. The new Roseto looked very much like their old town, everyone in it spoke Italian, and in the early 1900s it was a little island (like any other small immigrant towns around that part of America) unto itself.
Where the story gets interesting is in the 1950s. A doctor in the region of Roseto commented to a researcher that he rarely found anyone from that area who dealt with heart disease. At that time there were many people researching heart disease so this presented a mystery worth investigating. Also, at that time, before cholesterol lowering drugs, many men died young because of heart disease. As the research was done, sure enough, this little community had staggeringly healthy hearts. The heart disease in men was shockingly low compared to the surrounding area and national averages. The team researched the diet of these people, their exercise patterns, and all the usual suspects when it comes to heart disease. To their surprise, there were no dietary behavior or normal health pattern that surfaced to indicate why these people were so healthy. They finally concluded it was not a physical dynamic.

what was it then?...explain it