Okay, I am going to try and use this blog to keep everyone updated on what we did each week. As this is a public blog, and we are working at building our own small community, I will keep the content fairly generic to protect everyone's privacy. With such a dynamic topic, I want to be able to structure the class around our needs, which may or may not be reflected in the syllabus.
Week One: We did your introductions, went over the syllabus and read the 4 excerpts from Luiz Rodriguez, Annti Jalava, Amy Tan, and Victor Villaseñor.
Week Two: We received new students . . .so, we discused the concepts of naming and normalcy, as well as introduced the concepts behind the contect of your personal history of otherness papers. . .Draft due on Mon, Feb 12.
Week Three: We shared reading journals, had an amazing discussion of the Robert Jensen piece, and watched "Shadows of Hate: History of Intolerance in America." It was both good and bad that we didn't have time to really debrief after the movie. It was good in the sense that you were able to process it on a personal level without my and other opinions influencing you; bad in the snese that that type of processing is necessary for many people to fully process.
For Week 4: Please don't forget to bring your essays. We will work with them for the first 1/2 of class and then Nieto, chapter 3 for the second 1/2.
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