E-Learning

This is the e-learning task assigned to me:

I am -
Inter-personal

Language Arts Task:

Write a 250- word response to the hypothetical question from Miss Kinnian: “I feel sad when I see Charlie lock himself up in his room and refuse to let anyone in. I want to help him, but he does not want to see me and I don’t know what else to do. What can I do to help Charlie?”

Response:

It has been very hard on Charlie, everybody who understands and cares for him knows that. I know that you care for him too. Although Charlie is a mentally-retarded person, he understands the feeling about being beaten by a mouse, although he does not understand that Algernon had been mentally engineered. Charlie had wanted to be smart, just for the purpose of understanding his ‘friends’, and making more friends.

You should explain to Charlie, with patience, that to become smart takes time. You can tell him about the benefits of being smart (like when he becomes smarter Algernon would be no match for him, etc, etc.), and only when he waits patiently and let people help him will he become smarter, and achieve his original goal. Tell him that the operation had succeeded, and if he closes the door to everybody who tries to help him he will never become smarter.

I am not trying to take advantage of Charlie’s mental ability (but actually he should be smarter by now), but that is just the plain truth. Charlie will probably listen to you, as he trusts you as a teacher and as a friend. In fact, you should be the person that he trusts most and listens to most. So when you tell him something, he cannot help but consider your words. Improvising on the things to tell him (like including more examples on the benefits of being smart?) would help in your helping him. It can also mend the relationship between the two of you.


-Caspar Zhou Yuan (1i4, 02)