Talking points #3 on Carlson
PREMISES
Gayness
Schools
Communities
Secrets
Misunderstanding
Hidden feelings
Classrooms
Stereotypes
Hate
Lesbian
Culture
Life
Struggles
Respect
AUTHORS ARGUMENT
Carlson argues that public schools should build a community which recognizes and supports not only different genders and races but an individual’s different sexual orientation.
EVIDENCE
1.”gay people have been for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological ‘other’”
2. "Homosexual is an ostensibly neutral category, one designed by scientists; and yet is usage may involve a scientific distancing from the homosexual object of study and a refusal to see the political and cultural elements of sexual identity. 'Gay' and 'lesbian'../ are the most 'politically correct' labels, although their usage tends to further divide and separate men and women when in fact homophobia and oppression are directed against homosexuals as a group"
3. “Three techniques of normalization and (hence) marginalization have been of primary importance in this regard: (1) the erasure of gayness in the curriculum, (2) the “closeting” and “witch hunting” of gay teachers, and (3) verbal and physical intimidation for gay teachers and students”
POINTS TO SHARE
At times this article was easy to read and at time I found it to be quite challenging. I found myself having to look up a few words and going back and rereading more then a couple times. I thought the ideas the author suggested were really interesting. I thought this article gives great background knowledge to us as future teachers. And many of these ideas I will keep in mind for when I become a teacher in my own classroom.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
think piece #2 Aria by Richard Rodriquez
Aria by Richard Rodriquez
Premise:
Confusion
Shyness
Lack of understand
Loss of closeness of family
Frustration
Denial
Americanism
Unfairness
Change
Silence
Hardships
Learning
Life lessons
Author’s argument:
Richard Rodriquez argues that when bilingual children are taught English they lose their ethnic backgrounds and at times tend to be ashamed of them.
Evidence:
1.”one Saturday morning I entered the kitchen where my parents were talking in Spanish. I did not realize that they were talking in Spanish however until, at the moment me, I heard their voices change to speak English”
2.” My mother! My father! After English became my primary language, I no longer knew what words to use when addressing my parents”
3.,"as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents."
Points to share:
I thought that this article was not a hard read. I didn’t have to go back many times and reread anything. Also I had to barely look anything up. I thought this article was very interesting never having to learn another language at such a young age I never knew what it was like. English was always the spoken language in my home. I can’t even imagine the difficulties this family went through and the hardships caused because of this. Rodriquez was very lucky to have parents that were willing to give up a lot for their children to be able to learn English. Teachers should not try to silence children’s second language but also incorporate it into their learning
Premise:
Confusion
Shyness
Lack of understand
Loss of closeness of family
Frustration
Denial
Americanism
Unfairness
Change
Silence
Hardships
Learning
Life lessons
Author’s argument:
Richard Rodriquez argues that when bilingual children are taught English they lose their ethnic backgrounds and at times tend to be ashamed of them.
Evidence:
1.”one Saturday morning I entered the kitchen where my parents were talking in Spanish. I did not realize that they were talking in Spanish however until, at the moment me, I heard their voices change to speak English”
2.” My mother! My father! After English became my primary language, I no longer knew what words to use when addressing my parents”
3.,"as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents."
Points to share:
I thought that this article was not a hard read. I didn’t have to go back many times and reread anything. Also I had to barely look anything up. I thought this article was very interesting never having to learn another language at such a young age I never knew what it was like. English was always the spoken language in my home. I can’t even imagine the difficulties this family went through and the hardships caused because of this. Rodriquez was very lucky to have parents that were willing to give up a lot for their children to be able to learn English. Teachers should not try to silence children’s second language but also incorporate it into their learning
Monday, February 11, 2008
Jonathan Kozol. Amazing Grace & Bernard Goldberg. “Jonathan Kozol” from 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
Premise:
~ Frustrations
~ Awareness
~ Unfairness
~ Disease
~ Decline
~ Life of children in poverty
~ Poverty
~ Drug abuse
~ America
~ Families
~ Tragedy
~ Helplessness
~ Religion
~ Death
~ Tragedy
~ Unlivable conditions
~ Suffering
Author’s argument:
Kozol and Goldberg both argue that declining conditions that children face due to poverty, disease, death and other issues causes them to lack the education that they deserve and the support for their American culture that hasn’t seemed to have treated them fairly.
Evidence:
1. “At the elementary school that serves the neighborhood across the avenue, only 7 of 800 children do not qualify for free school lunches.’ five of those seven’ says the principal,’ gets reduced-price lunches, because they are classified”(Kozol pg3)
2. “ in humid summer weather, roaches crawl on virtually every surfaces of the houses in which many of the children live .Rats emerge from holes in bedroom walls, terrorizing infants in their cribs”(kozol pg 5)
3. “ in 1981, 84 people, more then half of whom were 21 or younger were murdered in the prescient”(Kozol pg 5)
Points to share:
This article to me was a huge eye opener I can’t even start to imagine how hard it is for these children. They not only have to worry about school and playing that normally child do they have to worry about disease and death and everything in between. I can’t even being to comprehend going to bed at night on the coldest winter night and not being able to have heat. These conditions are awful. I thought this article was very easy to read and kept my attention throughout. I liked how this article included personal accounts from many different people throughout the neighbor I believe that their stories help to paint a better picture in my head of the situations that they were living in.
Premise:
~ Frustrations
~ Awareness
~ Unfairness
~ Disease
~ Decline
~ Life of children in poverty
~ Poverty
~ Drug abuse
~ America
~ Families
~ Tragedy
~ Helplessness
~ Religion
~ Death
~ Tragedy
~ Unlivable conditions
~ Suffering
Author’s argument:
Kozol and Goldberg both argue that declining conditions that children face due to poverty, disease, death and other issues causes them to lack the education that they deserve and the support for their American culture that hasn’t seemed to have treated them fairly.
Evidence:
1. “At the elementary school that serves the neighborhood across the avenue, only 7 of 800 children do not qualify for free school lunches.’ five of those seven’ says the principal,’ gets reduced-price lunches, because they are classified”(Kozol pg3)
2. “ in humid summer weather, roaches crawl on virtually every surfaces of the houses in which many of the children live .Rats emerge from holes in bedroom walls, terrorizing infants in their cribs”(kozol pg 5)
3. “ in 1981, 84 people, more then half of whom were 21 or younger were murdered in the prescient”(Kozol pg 5)
Points to share:
This article to me was a huge eye opener I can’t even start to imagine how hard it is for these children. They not only have to worry about school and playing that normally child do they have to worry about disease and death and everything in between. I can’t even being to comprehend going to bed at night on the coldest winter night and not being able to have heat. These conditions are awful. I thought this article was very easy to read and kept my attention throughout. I liked how this article included personal accounts from many different people throughout the neighbor I believe that their stories help to paint a better picture in my head of the situations that they were living in.
Monday, February 4, 2008
About Meee!!
Hiiiiii i'm Katie and i am a freshmen in my second semester. my major is elementry education and special education. I live on campus and love my suite mates. While I am not at school I work at Target and like to hang out with friends. I love driving my VW bug... one of my favorite activities is shopping I love anything on sale even if i dont need it. This semester i hope to do as well as i did last semester. I am really excited to start my service learning porject I think its going to be a great experience
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