....This year....
Has really opened my eyes to all the things that I never realized were a part of my culture and the society that I live in. Or perhaps I did realize it but it just wasn't as obvious to me as it is now. Now I cannot ignore the rhetoric that is such a big part of society. I cannot ignore the racism and the prejudices. I cannot ignore that or the lies and distortions of U.S. history.
This year we studied racism and how U.S. history has been distorted and twisted over the years and how that affects us and the way we see the U.S. We also read "Huckleberry Finn" and explored how that book has shaped the thinking of people as well. Another book that we read was "A Peoples History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. A very rhetorical book but one that definitely makes the reader think more critically.
We studied Columbus and researched what exactly it is that he did. I have to say, when you go back and look at how things really were it becomes really confusing. When you ignore the history books that are distorted to make kids feel patriotic and actually read the truth it takes a little while to sort everything out.
We also studied U.S. interventions and we all researched an individual U.S. intervention and created a power point along with a paper.
We read the book Cat's cradle by Curt Vonnegut and also learned about the rhetoric of food, read the Omnivores Dilemma and created individual projects for exhibition that explored some kind of relationship to food.
For our final project we studied food rhetoric and all portrayed some sort of relationship with food through visual rhetoric. I chose to show how society tells us to eat unhealthy food but look like a model and how that effects us.
This year we studied racism and how U.S. history has been distorted and twisted over the years and how that affects us and the way we see the U.S. We also read "Huckleberry Finn" and explored how that book has shaped the thinking of people as well. Another book that we read was "A Peoples History of the United States" by Howard Zinn. A very rhetorical book but one that definitely makes the reader think more critically.
We studied Columbus and researched what exactly it is that he did. I have to say, when you go back and look at how things really were it becomes really confusing. When you ignore the history books that are distorted to make kids feel patriotic and actually read the truth it takes a little while to sort everything out.
We also studied U.S. interventions and we all researched an individual U.S. intervention and created a power point along with a paper.
We read the book Cat's cradle by Curt Vonnegut and also learned about the rhetoric of food, read the Omnivores Dilemma and created individual projects for exhibition that explored some kind of relationship to food.
For our final project we studied food rhetoric and all portrayed some sort of relationship with food through visual rhetoric. I chose to show how society tells us to eat unhealthy food but look like a model and how that effects us.