The general flow of this conversation was really good, I think there was a natural flow and there wasn't really any awkward pauses. Some of the topics we covered during the discussion were why the Natives didn't want Europeans in America, why the colonizers didn't want to be in America anymore and why the promoters thought that they weren't responsible for what was happening in the conversation.
I liked the fishbowl discussion, it was fun and a little less serious than other discussions we have had, but I do think that next time we do it there should be different rounds and you switch the people in the fishbowl so that everyone in the class speaks. I think that the Natives presented their ideas the best because they used the most textual evidence. Some interesting points that were made were that colonizers realized that America isn't what they thought it would be and that promoters misled/forced the colonizers. I don't think anything was very confusing, I think we all presented our ideas well and came to a conclusion together.
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As the little boy was was outside, full of agog to play with his friends, he heard his mother yell for him. She called him in to eat his lunch, but he didn't want to, he wanted to play outside. He made his way back inside the house to "eat". He had a plan, he decided he would tell his mom a taradiddle, he would simply hide his lunch in the back of the fridge and then go back outside. He went back and continued playing with his friends, they were pretending to be fighters. They were rolling around, making shooting noises and pretending to do salvos. The boy's eyes got wider and he hid when he heard his mother yelling his name again. This time she wasn't so nice. He tried to palisade him self between some bushes in order to keep his mother away from him. It didn't work, she grabbed him by the arm and dragged back to the house. She sat down on a chair and put him on her lap, the food he tried to hide was on the table in front of him. She tried feeding him, but he wouldn't eat, she didn't understand why this was such a cyclopean task for her son.
One connection that I noticed during the scavenger hunt in Balboa Park was that a lot of the artifacts had to do with the history that we are learning in class. It was still US history, but San Diego focused. You were able to see how Columbus' actions influenced the other side of America. I learned that the Arawak Indians and the Kumeyaay Indians in San Diego faced similar treatment from different Europeans.
The most interesting artifact to me was the painting from Chicano Park. This was interesting to me because I have been there so to see that it is in a history museum. All of the murals from Chicano park were cool to see because it shows that we are living in a place with such rich history that is still currently being written. The mural was of a Native Mexican standing proud, it made me think that the message was, "I am here, we are still here." I think we talk about Native Americans and other indigenous people in the past tense and forget that they are still here and still facing struggles. The scavenger hunt confirmed my claim that we were doing a project on the history of America with a focus on Latin America and Native Americans. Also that we were going to work with children. It confirmed this because most of our scavenger items were Latin American or Native American history, also we went to a puppet show for children. This helped us learn more about how to convey information to children in a way that with be fun and informative. The history that we learned was mostly the history of the relationships between America and other countries, as well as Natives and Europeans. |
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