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Connections : The politics of Service Learning While reading this article it reminded me of Amazing Grace By Johnathan Kozol. This article was talking about poor people just like Amazing Grace was. However in this article they were talking about how high school kids do community service and help out the poor. When in Amazing Grace it was talking about the poor people and how the poor people get free lunches at school. Another article that I can bestly connect it to is the Kristof Article. In the Kristof Article they talked about parents incomes and children's poverty. I think that all high schools even middle schoolers should do community service hours for the poor. I think it would make poor families feel better and make them feel happy that people want to help them.  I think it was great for students to interact with those less fortunate than themselves. They experienced things that I have not even experienced. I had to do community service for a graduation requirement b...

I choose option one for this week. I read about Gender and the 2018 election. I thought that these articles would have been more interesting than they actually were. I found them pretty boring. We have been learning and reading about Gender so I wanted to read more about it.      The first article I read was Soloways article. This was about locker rooms and what goes on in locker rooms. It was kind of interesting because I am a girl and reading what goes on in a men's locker room you would have never known what goes on in there. As the article stated when men are alone together, they assess and talk about and point to women and girls that they don't know. The article mentioned that most violence done on this planet is done by men. Which I think is true. What I found so funny and didn't realize it until I read it. But on Sundays what do you think of when you hear the word "Sunday." First word that popped up in your head was most likely not God. It was probably foo...

Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Metrosexual -- Amanda, Marissa, and Scarlett Lesbian Women who have the capacity to be attracted (romantically, emotionally, sexually, etc.) to other women    Ellen DeGeneres  - Came out on the  Oprah Winfrey Show - Married to Portia de Rossi   LGBTQ Umbrella term for all folks who have a non-normative gender or sexuality Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and/or questioning  Laverne Cox - Trans woman - First trans person nominated for an  Emmy - LGBTQ activist  Metrosexual A man with a strong aesthetic sense who spends more time, energy, or money on his appearance and grooming than is considered gender normative                                               ...

Journal number 5    Quotes    There were some quotes in this article called Safe Spaces,  that really stood out to me and I feel like they need to be shared to others.    “ Youth who struggle with Lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender identities or who are bullied for the perception of being different often feel as if they have nowhere to turn.”  With this quote I feel like children should just feel  like themselves. Sometimes I see teachers in daycare setting making fun of little boys who play with dolls and they even tell them to go play with the  blocks. I feel like they should just let them play where they want to play.    “Death should NEVER be an option. ” If you know someone who is sad and says they want to kill themselves, you need to speak with them. Ignoring the problem will make things worse.    Another quote that stood out to me was, “For many youths people suicide feels like a b...

Blog 4 Hyperlinks             In the article “Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us” talked about a lot of myths that cartoons do and people believe it all. People think that cartoons actually mess up the child’s brain. I mean as a child I don’t think ANY cartoon made me a different person, I don’t think the princesses made me realize that life isn’t like a fairytale. I honestly don’t think kids understand until they get a little bit older what the story is really about then by that time they know it’s just a movie and life isn’t really like a fairytale. In the article it said that there’s never any Asian or Hispanic people in cartoons. Honestly growing up I never realized there was no black princess until Princess and the Frog came out. Now we have Moana that children now love.   I have a link here that I never knew what the show really was about until like just now while reading them and they are all shows that were pop...

Aria and teaching multilingual Children Blog number 3 Argument These authors both argue that speaking two languages in households is a good thing and it needs to happen. According in Richards’s article in Aria, the three nuns that went to a house to ask parents if they only spoke Spanish to their children while at home seemed to be upset that they only spoke to their child in Spanish at home. I don’t know why they would be so upset that they only speak Spanish with them at home. It’s how they are raising them. Maybe the parents don’t know English that well. Why should nuns go out of their way to go to a house to speak to a child’s parents? If a child can’t pick up on English at school there’s programs at school that can help the child learn more English than their parents know. But then I can see why the nuns were mad that they only speaking Spanish to them at home. When they are at school most likely their teacher doesn’t know Spanish. They probably only know a few words i...

  Johnathan Kozol Amazing Grace Thinking Piece number 2 Reflection                   This was an interesting article to read about New York. I always loved New York, but never really knew or thought about the atmosphere. It’s really interesting how they said from Manhattan to the South Bronx. that your one of the richest when you jump onto that train to go there, but by the time you leave your one of the poorest. It’s pretty sad to be reading about these children who go to church just to get food, comfort and to play, as their parents are praying at the church. It’s said to be that they are the poorest people in New York. I never knew that poor people go to church to pray.                 I honestly think that it’s a really good idea for children to receive free/reduced lunches. I have some poor families in the ce...