Emily Vieira's Fall 2018 Blog

I am choosing to write this post off of Laura's blog . I love how she connected the readings back to her own life as well as, the service learning project. Laura talk's a lot about advanced placement classes in high school and how they were very different then the other classes. I would have to agree that the teachers who taught the advanced placement courses at my school also seemed very interested and enthusiastic about the course. However, these classes were not hard to get into. If you signed up for the class then you could take it. Everyone knew the level and ability you needed to do well in this class. I think it was great to have the opportunity to work at a higher level. Like Jeannie Oakes would say, these classes allowed me to have better instructors, better organization, more compelling work, and freedom. There are many pros to learning in this type of environment!  A quote I can totally relate to is " One quote that stood out to me from the article is 'I...

A quote that stuck out to me the most in The Problem We All Live With by This American Life was, “They celebrated that the transfer students were there.” I thought this was quite amazing. The students of Francis Howell School District treated the transfer students nothing like their parents had. The parents had believed the students from Normandy School District would lower the districts test grades, cause more violence and push families to move out. However none of this happened. The test scores stayed the same, no violence was encountered and families stayed in the district. The students from Normandy excelled in the new integrated school. I thought that the youth Francis Howell’s willingness and welcoming of the Normandy students was incredible to hear. The racism and rejection of the mostly black Normandy community for the most part was still present in the older folks of the mostly white Francis Howell community. Yet, the children of Francis Howell welcomed the new students of...

I am choosing to write this blog using Josh’s blog post . I thought he did a great job explaining the two different service learning project approaches. Josh makes the argument, “ I can't help but wonder if anything is really accomplished by the service learning project if the students aren't required to be involved in the community and developing actual relationships with those in need.” I couldn’t agree more. I think that Ms. Adams approach is appropriate for the restrictions of teaching a seventh grade classroom. The kids cannot go into the community to give service to the ones in need due to a lack of transportation. Having people come and talk to the students is a great idea to make up for their lack of communication with the community. However, I do not think it is as successful as Mr. Johnson’s approach. Mr. Johnson has his students working hand and hand in the community. They are able to build relationships with all sorts of people and learn through those relationships...

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In the New York Times’ article Stay Abrams Didn’t Play it safe . Neither do these female candidates, the author writes about the many women in today’s politics.  A great quote stated by Abrams was, “Today I stood here with people who look like my mother and represent our families and our struggle,” she told the union members. “And you said, ‘We choose you to lead this fight.’” The quote is essential in noting that women and black families are finally being apart of the political race. They are fighting for themselves and the people like them. Liza delpit’s article, A Silenced Dialogue is a great representation of what these women running in the political battle are crushing. Delpit argues that the people in power are the people who run what information is useful to the world. In this day, men are the people of power. Women are breaking away from being silenced by men. They are raising their voices and pushing through the silenced barriers. In Jill Soloway’s article on Donald Tru...

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