The projects that we have done in
the class all have been very valuable and meaningful to me. Not only have all
of these projects been self-reflecting, they have taught me a great deal about
literature and global history. I think the most useful project would have to be
the Group Book Talks because I will be including many of these books in my
future classroom and lessons. The most meaningful project would have to be the
knowledge that I have acquired learning about the history that these texts that
we read in class revolved around. The most valuable piece from the class
projects was the Museum Display project, because it took a lot of
self-reflection and I was able to reflect more on my life than I normally would
do.
We have explored a very diverse
amount of issues and ideas during this quarter. Many of these issues were out
of my comfort zone and I would have not explored them had it not been for this
class. I really enjoyed our classroom discussions, we were able to take 25
different people and talk about the same subject and issues. Many of these
conversations became more valuable taught me more about the topics than any
research would have ever done for me. The borders project was very valuable to
me because it introduced me to many border issues that I was not aware of or
that I knew little about. All of these issues and ideas that we explored during
this quarter have encouraged me to question my knowledge of history. This has
caused me to begin researching on other cultures, the history of them and what
has happened in global history.
My participation within this class
has greatly influenced my thinking about myself as a citizen of the world
because of this; I have found that I as an American am very privileged. I also feel that it is important for citizens
of the world to be greatly educated on global history. Before this class, I
felt like I was in great need of educating myself for on global history, but I
did not have an authentic way to do so that I knew I would enjoy. While this
class has shown me a small amount of history and global culture, it has started
a cycle for me to want to learn more. I greatly enjoyed connecting diverse
texts to their cultures and learning about the cultures through my research and
what information the text provided.
The name of this class is A Global
View through Children’s Literature and while we have learned great amounts of
history, much of the history has been provided to us in the texts through
children’s eyes. I am going to be an elementary teacher and I will be teaching
a group of students every day, a group of children everyday. I feel that it is
important that my plan of action be revolved around children as well.
While my plan is small, I know that
it will eventually grow and build upon itself. My next step is to work with the
social worker, Tina Heimbigner at Evergreen Elementary School in the Mead
School District. Evergreen is the school that I am placed in and many of the
students receive free food services through the school but on the weekends they
are left without food on their tables. The school sends home care packages to
students on Fridays so that students have some food to help feed their
families. I will be helping Tina collect food and put together these packages
and I will also be helping her with small projects here and there that will
help provide services to the students of Evergreen Elementary. I feel that it
is good especially when starting small to help at home base and since I am
placed at Evergreen I feel that I would more than likely succeed in helping
with the social worker than if I were to try to go above and beyond and help
some place else.
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