Poem
For my first project with a partner I was paired with Emily. Our job was to create a poem that had to do with the effects of hegemony. Our main goal for this project was to find a way to make our poem meaningful and reach out to people and ourselves. We learned about each other and created friendship. It has to be my favorite project so far and I know it will stay with me because it was my first time doing spoken poetry. In this project we learned how to use a graph to represent emotion in our story, to give a different view.
This was my first time doing slam poetry and I know for a fact that its not going to be my last. It felt amazing to be in front of everyone and being so passionate with my words. It felt right. It felt like I was meant to be in that room in front of droning off kids. All that really mattered was having that moment to remember forever. I don't even know how to explain it. It was just there, then gone. |
European Settlement/Sherman Alexie
In between the craziness of working on Poems and Graphs we took some time in Humanities to read the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian This book was about a boy named Junior and his struggles living as a Native American and trying to become something more then the role he has been shown on the reservation. This book gave me a different perspective on the European Settlement and the harsh truth of what really happened and what is still going on because of so. After finishing the book we started learning about what the history of the Settlement. Also the difference between the words empathy and sympathy. And how learning about how Native Americans live, it can cause you to correct the things going so wrong. Human kindness I suppose.
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Religion/The Alchemist
Me and religion have always had a weird relationship. With past experiences that caused religion to have a negative connotation, I never tried to understand the truth of Christianity, Buddhism, or Judaism. I new that these practices had impacts on people. the practices seemed so simple in my perspective. I came into this block with an open mind. As we continued to learn about religion(mainly Christianity) I started to become angry. I think it came from not caring for the thing we where learning about. As we started read The Alchemist I found myself really interested with the concept in the book. One of them was everything in the universe was tied together and everything spoke the same language, The Language of the World. When I finished the book I felt that some of the things in the book where true. Still I didn't believe in God. I learned a lot about how religion affects peoples live and how they find them self believing in it. Even though I can't really specify with a religion, I know that each one had an effect on history.
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