Session One!
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/
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Session 2 Reminders! « Bridging Communities 2010
March 5, 2010 at 11:26 am
What I learned about others is that teenagers all think the same way, no matter what culture, faith, or color they are.
I didn’t stay for the whole session… BUT the balloon game was fun, and the shouting out of the stereotypes!
How I define my identity is by my faith because If someone knows about Islam, then they’ll know me!
Identity as a whole is important to me because that is who the person is, or that’s what they think of themselves. For most people their faith or ethnicity is a pretty important part of their identity.
I was surprised at how many other Muslims identified themselves not by their culture, but rather with their faith. That was very beautiful and unique to this session.
I think stereotyping definitely effects how I choose my identity. When people ask me who I am I will say Islam before I tell them about my ethnicity because I want to clear up those stereotypes and other misconceptions. So next time they see me doing something good, they’ll automatically remember the fact that I am Muslim.
I unfortunately missed out on the Day of Rememberance.
It is important to remember the internment because that is the only way we can not repeat our past mistakes. If we don’t learn about those mistakes, we are more likely to repeat them, and most likely it will be without knowledge.
Rabiya
March 8, 2010 at 5:34 pm