Community Group

I absolutely loved the discussions within the group. It made class go by fast and it was very informative and interesting. I thought it was very interesting how they gave the class most of the floor for us to define community and what it means to be a community. I like how they made me think outside of my little world and into the bigger world, it was so exciting.

The game that we played was so interesting. To be able to play a character that I would never know what it feels like to be, felt great. This game not only showed how different communities fall into stereotypes and how different communities come to assumptions of others, but it brought out stereotypes that I thought to be true and even some of the bias that I have. To play as a rich white community made feel that I need to be pompous, rude and racist to others. Even thought this is how I believe this kind of communities to be I never took in the consideration, as one of my classmates mentioned, that even though they might be in gated communities, that these people in this community might not even been pompous, rude or racist. I never thought about it like that. It made me look at myself and check myself. Because even though I beleive I'm accepting to everyone, I really am not. I assume, I judge and I like that this group made me think about those things about myself.

Overall I truly enjoyed everything that this group brought to the table. I glad that I got to experience.

Multi genre Group

It was really nice to get all the information about doing a Multi genre paper. I think that multi genre papers are exciting. The first time I did a multi genre paper was in my sophomore year. I know that it was on Africa writers and I just brought all of it together in three separate papers. It was interesting to break up my paper like that because it made it easier for me to write what was initially a very long paper.

I really enjoyed the enthusiasm of this group. They had a lot of knowledge on this topic. I also enjoyed to debate between the pros and cons of a multi genre paper, because it made me think about all the other side.

When they assigned the homework for us to do our own group multi genre project I thought that it was interesting that they told us to do it as a group. But I never thought that that was what a multi genre paper was about. Many ideas and facts coming together as a project. I wish we had more time to really get into the multi genre project because I would have loved to do more.

Overall I really enjoyed the group , they did a wonderful job and made me less nervous about our group presenting later. :)

Christensen ?'s

1. What do you believe teaching will be like for the new teachers that are coming in and trying to get away from the textbook way of teaching?
2. What is the best way to help minority students learn Standard English? What are your views on Standard English?
3. What is your advice of a new teacher that doesn't know where to start?