Understanding Thoughtful and Thoughtless Behaviors

WEEK 13 DAY 1 THOUGHTLESS, THOUGHTFUL, DESERT/DESERTER

Speech Class (for Joe) by Jim Daniels Mrs. Clark, therapist, was also god, friend, mother. Once she took us to the zoo on a field trip: Aw, ya gonna go look at the monkeys? Maybe they ll teach you how to talk. We clenched teeth and went and felt the sun and fed the animals and we were a family of broken words. We were outcasts you with your stutters, me with my slurring and that was plenty for a friendship. When we left class to go to the therapist we hoped they wouldn t laugh took turns reminding the teacher: Me and Joe have to go to shpeesh clash now, or M-m-me and J-Jim ha-have to go to s-s-speech now. For years we both tried so hard and I finally learned where to put my tongue and how to make the sounds and graduated, but the first time you left class without me I felt that punch in the gut I felt like a deserter and wanted you to have my voice.

Thoughtless: without thought for the feelings of others When Jim and Joe s classmates make fun of their speech, they are being thoughtless.

thoughtless The suffix less means without or having no

Thoughtful vs. Thoughtless Thoughtful and Thoughtless are antonyms. They have opposite meanings.

Based on the definition of the word thoughtful, what do you think thoughtless mean? SAY: I think thoughtless means

THOUGHTFUL MEANS, FULL OF THOUGHT FOR THE FEELINGS OR NEEDS OF OTHERS.

Tulip accidentally walks into her neighbor s flower bed, crushing many of the flowers. If she were thoughtful, what might Tulip do or say? SAY: If Tulip was thoughtful, she might

Tulip accidentally walks into her neighbor s flower bed, crushing many of the flowers. If she were thoughtless, what might Tulip do or say? SAY: If Tulip was thoughtless she might

Tulips friend Ross is wearing a belt he made himself and it looks peculiar. If she were thoughtless, what might Tulip do or say? SAY: If Tulip was thoughtless she might

Tulips friend Ross is wearing a belt he made himself and it looks peculiar. If she were thoughtful what might Tulip do or say? SAY: If Tulip was thoughtful, she might

Speech Class (for Joe) by Jim Daniels Mrs. Clark, therapist, was also god, friend, mother. Once she took us to the zoo on a field trip: Aw, ya gonna go look at the monkeys? Maybe they ll teach you how to talk. We clenched teeth and went and felt the sun and fed the animals and we were a family of broken words. We were outcasts you with your stutters, me with my slurring and that was plenty for a friendship. When we left class to go to the therapist we hoped they wouldn t laugh took turns reminding the teacher: Me and Joe have to go to shpeesh clash now, or M-m-me and J-Jim ha-have to go to s-s-speech now. For years we both tried so hard and I finally learned where to put my tongue and how to make the sounds and graduated, but the first time you left class without me I felt that punch in the gut I felt like a deserter and wanted you to have my voice.

A deserter is someone who abandons, or leaves, something that should not be left behind The word deserter is used often to describe a soldier who leaves the military without permission. In the poem, Joe feels he left, or abandoned Jim in speech class.

Tulip walked her little brother to school on his first day of kindergarten. When she leaves him at the kindergarten room door, she says I'll pick you up at 2 o'clock and she does. Did Tulip desert her brother? Why do you think that? Tulip did/did not desert her brother because

Tulip is at a movie with her friend. In the middle of the movie, Tulip leaves and does not come back. Did Tulip desert her friend? Why do you think that? Tulip did/did not desert her friend because