Bridging Communities 2010

Hi everyone!

It was great meeting you all at session one.  I hope you had a good time and learned a lot.  I look forward to getting to know you all more as the program progresses!

Photos from the sessions are available at http://cloudsheep.smugmug.com/Bridging-Communities/ (*please note, this is different from what it says in the blogging tutorial copy you got in your folders.  Please check your email for a digital copy of the blogging tutorial.)

If you have photos that you’d like to share, please email them to me at dsohn[at]jaclpsw[dot]org and I will upload them to that same photo album.

Please remember that if you use photos that you did not take, you should credit them to the photographer, as this is good practice.  For the ones I’ve uploaded, I’ll include the photo credit as the caption for the photo.

Here are the guide questions for this session.  Please write your posts by March 7 (a week before the next session), so that people have time to respond.  If you missed parts of the first session, please feel free to skip the questions about those parts of the session.  If you missed the first session completely, I will be emailing you later, so don’t worry about this for now.

Session One Guide Questions

• What did you learn about others?  What did you learn about yourself?
• What activities stood out to you?
• How do you define “identity”?
• What parts of your identity are important to you?
• Did you find anything surprising about how others identified themselves?
• Does stereotyping have any affect on how you choose to define your identity?
• What stood out to you at Day of Remembrance?
• Why is it important to remember Japanese American internment?

(For the photo blog part, try your best to write your blog posts like a story.  The guide questions are there to help you write the story, but you don’t have to answer them in order.)

Reading Guide Questions

• Most history books that mention the Korematsu case stop at the point where the Supreme Court upheld the original decision, and don’t talk about how it was overturned.  Why is it important to talk about the case being overturned?
• In what ways is the Korematsu case significant to you?
• Is the Korematsu case and its being overturned still important today?  How?

Thank you all!  See you again on March 14 at the Islamic Institute of Orange County!

Dian

PS:  If you’ve sent me the link to your blog, they’re all linked at http://bridgingcommunities2010.wordpress.com/blogs/

Welcome to Bridging Communities!  This page will be updated more next week!  :)  I look forward to meeting you all!!