Entry week 3:

After reading this week articles, I realized that there was a misconception of what really happened on the bus that Rosa parks was riding on.  In school they taught us that she rode in the “front seat” of the bus. When in reality she sat in the front seat of the colored section and was asked to move from her own designated area since the bus had two different sections. The reason I decided to pick this song was because there was a serious time where blacks went through a thing called segregation. Segregation was something that separated the blacks from using the things white people used. This song portrays a time where things have slowly changed and will continue to change hopefully for the better. The connection of this song was between the time around slavery and the civil rights movement. I love this song and this genre of music; it’s so soulful and has great meaning behind it.Teaching slavery in schools would be a tricky concept to touch on but as we educate ourselves more on what went on through both sides it educates us to teach it correctly.  

"Rosa did not sit in the front row of the bus. She sat in the front row of the "colored" section. It is important to point this out. It was not her intent to break the law of segregation."

Entry week 2:

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After reading the articles for this week I learned that History has been taught wrong in schools for decades now. I read that it can affect us and our perspectives of society because there is really only one side told. The history books have been "white washed" and very one sided. There's a whole other side to history that students are not learning. It is important for us to learn the truth about history so that history does not have a way in repeating itself. I hope that as an educator I get the chance and opportunity to include important topics into the student’s curriculum. It is important to take the time to inform the next generation of children the truth about history. I honestly think it is sad that as we got older, we started learning the real truth about history. It’s scary to think that it is being taught wrong, I hope to be a part of the change and teach what is real.

"History helps students be better citizens by enabling them to understand what cause what in society. History helps students become critical thinkers"

Entry week 1:

For this entry, I decided to draw a picture of what this article meant to me. In which relates a little bit to my dads story growing up. My father was born in Montana on the fields where his family worked. He was a child of 11 and was the youngest one of the family. My father's family originally grew up in a small town named Eagle Pass, Texas which is less than a mile away from the Mexico border. Down south of Texas there was no jobs that they could legally work for at a young age so his whole family would drive up north to work on the fields. They picked cabbage and other vegetables while not getting paid very well. My father had to drop out of high school in the 10th grade because my grandmother needed help paying for the bills of his sister who was 2 years older than him that has down syndrome. Doctors bills were expensive and each sibling felt the need to contribute.
          After reading the article, I made other connections through my father because it talked about people of different cultures being taken advantage of because they were clueless to the English language. My father said he wasn't taught the language in school and they we not very diverse. In my opinion one of the hardest ones to learn with all the different context and spelling. It talked about culture not being as important as it should be in our education system. I believe that we should incorporate all cultures and learn a little more about our students and their families traditions and language. If people understood different perspectives and cultures, the world would be a better place.

"Multicultural education is a process of comprehensive school reform. It challenges and rejects racism and other forms of discrimination in schools and society an accepts pluralism. Multicultural education is a process."