Being Kind

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A spontaneous act of kindness - - - change someones life.

You - - - - - encourage people to be kind to you too.

Can you tell me why is it important to be kind to the environment? (HINT: Use vocabs given at the start of the class)

How can being kind affect your social relationships?

• Being kind can show people the best version of yourself

• Being kind can encourage others to be kind

• Being kind can bring you closer to people

• Being kind can encourage you to cut out selfish people in your life.

The author claims that being kind to others...

• Isn’t about the personal benefits, but about helping others

• Brings happiness and encourages additional acts of kindness.

• Becomes easier and easier the more often you do it

• Provides you with more benefits than the person you helped

The author wrote this selection most likely to

• to encourage readers to be kinder to one another

• to emphasize the disadvantages of only being concerned with yourself

• to explore the different explanations for why being kind make us happy

• to suggest that humans are kind for largely selfish reasons

Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?

• Most people are kind towards others without realizing they are actually being selfish, as they expect something in return.

• People are only ever truly kind when they do something good for someone else without receiving anything in return.

• The brain recognizes acts of kindness as rewarding because positive social interactions are an important part of human survival.

• Showing kindness towards others can improve your mood through positive social interactions and reinforcing the notion that you’re a good person

How does paragraph 1 contribute to the author’s explanation of kindness in the text?

• It shows how people have conflicting opinions about why people are kind.

• It introduces the idea that being kind to others makes us feel good.

• It emphasizes the idea that people are kind more often than we realize.

• It highlights the darker motivations for why people are kind.

Why does the author include the section “ Making Connections” in the text?

• It tells about how to apologize and make right something that went wrong.

• It encourages you to get to know other people and make them smile because smiling is contagious.

• It encourages kind acts for others to help improve your overall mood.

• It encourages a kind identity.