The discussion started off smoothly with different sides providing their points and what their mission is. After the first few topics, its started to become a roast fest on who has its the worst. They went over religion, lack of food, influence over the land, trading, and the very last, trading deals. I think the fishbowl conversation went very well once the roasting fest was over and the arguments and facts started to come up. I think the natives did the best expressing their points and ideas although the promoters ended up winning. The promoters had a trap card they can play "God made me do it" or "God guided me in that direction" whenever someone would put an accurate argument against them. The natives, however, had some good points to their argument of what they wanted and had a reason when someone proposed an argument against them. The most important point made was the hostile interaction between the natives and colonists and how the promoters had something to do with it even though they were not there. They both claimed that they burned each other's villages down and the promoters influenced the colonists to do so. The native's point was because the colonists were hostile to them once the natives help them there for the natives just fought back. Mostly everything made clear sense once the conversation was finished it just was a matter of deciding if it was important to the argument or not. I think I understand everything it makes sense so far and I look forward to the future.
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The two figures sit silently in the dark room with little to spare. They sit in the corner huddled together to keep warmth from the cold winter breeze. They’re food supply is slow and cannot obtain more due to they’re mutinied mindsets. Food is only acquired when the people respect authorities beliefs of slavery, witchcraft, and other harsh rules. The authority thwarts anyone who denies they’re beliefs and lets them die without any questioning. The people who hide in the darkness without belief of the authorities like to think narcissitic of themselves and believe that someday the higher ups will be taken down by a higher rule. Anyone dead was considered a canonizing spirit. The woman in the long white blanket was in Omissions for the authority council. A man superseding the woman's position due to more solid beliefs of the council. She now sits in a rotting room with her son and little to no food hoping for a change. For our first project of the year, we wanted to kick start the project through an integrated field trip. I noticed patterns in the scavenger hunt such as hunting down different architectural designs or different painting/artifacts. I noticed connections from the hunt we did at school and the hunt we did at Balboa such as the children activities (the puppet show and the stuffed animals). The most interesting artifact for me is the horse statue in the middle of Balboa. I thought the statue looked very well-crafted and you could tell the artist intentions it really brought the park together. The scavenger hunt didn't affect my claims of what the project was going to be in fact reinforced it with all of the stories, architectural and Spanish information we received. I can add that we now know it has something to do with children that's pretty much has been confirmed to the amount of exposure we have had to children activities. The museum was filled with useful information to answer any questions we had about culture, or social construct during that time period. It also had a lot of fun interactive activities to play with and stay entertained.
The last of the field trip would be the puppet show. I thought the puppet show at first was kind of creepy considering we didn't know what type of puppet show. With didn't know the actor very well so seeing him up on stage dressed in an unusual way with a clown nose was confusing. I began to like the show's creativity on how it presented the "puppets" by using normal objects spread around the stage to create these characters and story. I appreciated the creativity the man put into his work and how he didn't just purchase custom puppets but instead found objects that resemble the puppet and used that instead. I think through the lens of a child these would be really great because when you are a kid you have a lot of imagination. When seeing this as a kid you would see all of these everyday things that could be around your house and then come alive into these characters could be really fantasizing to a child. My first impressions so far with the 11th grade are for one a lot of work for the first week, I find myself spending an entire day when I get home working on homework. Spanish, Math, and Humanities are making sense although there are some things I don't quite understand and I need work on and eventually get ahold of. I'm looking forwatf for the independent project we are required to do for humanities honors and also looking forward to any future projects. So far on the topics, readings, and discussions, we have done. I find some of those challenging like the readings can be difficult because of the large reads. But reading does help me learn just as effectively. I think the best way I learn is through projects where you need to study, plan, and create I think you should have a tiny bit of joy when being taught. My strengths in humanities that help me with reading or projects is annotation and being persistent. I do need to work on my writing or possibly new strategies to keep long reads interesting. Although one of my goals this year is improve in those departments.
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