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Journal Entry 30: Mar.1.18

Cesar Chavez was born in Arizona, but he became famous for founding the National Farm Workers association in California. He used peaceful protests such as fasting and boycotting grapes. 

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Journal Entry 29: Feb.28.18

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Journal Entry 28: Feb.27.18

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Journal Entry 27: Feb.26.18

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Journal Entry 26: Feb.25.18

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Journal Entry 25: Feb.24.18

Review of the PORTS virtual field trip:

It was so cool to have the opportunity to take my students virtually to Point Lobos State Reserve. Although there was some issues with the technology since our ranger could not hear us, we still made it work since we could see him. We communicated our questions and answers with him by writing them down on a whiteboard. It was not ideal, but it worked really well. One of the student’s questions was why is it called Point Lobos? The answer was that when the Spaniards arrived their and heard the elephant seals they thought it sounded like wolves so that is how it got its name. Our guide answered several questions with so much enthusiasm and joy. A lot of the kids noticed he was really happy with his job and they loved asking him about the animals and plants. 11/10 would recommend to all teachers! 

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Journal Entry 24: Feb.23.18

Possible Field Trip Destinations in San Diego

-Chicano Park

-Museum of Man

-Ruben H. Fleet Science Center

-Museum of Natural History

-Olivewood Community Gardens

-Children’s Museum 

-Suzie’s Farm 

-Torrey Pines State Park

-Mormon Battalion Site

-Old Town

-Midway Museum

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“I have pictures of everything from the March on Washington to when the Bay Bridge was shut down because of Black Lives Matter protesters a couple years ago,” Shreiner says. She has students go to each photo, then use questions and sentence frames they’ve practiced. “They can say things like, ‘I notice that _____’ or ‘I wonder why this person is _____’ or ‘I think this person feels _____ because _____.’” Schreiner is careful not to tell her students what to think about the images, letting them come to their own conclusions. “A lot of them will notice things like, ‘Some of these pictures are from a long time ago. Some of them are from now,’” she recalls. “‘A lot of these pictures involve the police. A lot of the pictures involve the police treating people in ways that aren’t nice.’” If she hears students say things that reflect assumptions or implicit bias, she interrupts them to ask that they provide evidence. Her approach works, she says, because she establishes trust in her classroom and prepares students all year to talk about issues of identity, diversity, justice and action.

https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2017/bringing-black-lives-matter-into-the-classroom-part-ii

Journal Entry 23: Feb.22.18

Roaming around the Teaching for Tolerance website, I found a series of articles on the Black Lives Matter movement. This quote is an example of how to incorporate BLM at the elementary school level which was provided by a second grade teacher in Oakland, California. She uses an approach with Visual Thinking Strategies which I think is a really good way for students to think about the social justice movements. They are learning by what they notice rather than what they are told. This encourages their critical thinking skills. 

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Journal Entry 22: Feb.21.18

History of Annie Jump Cannon

I found this student made video if Annie Jump Cannon, and it is really amazing! She created such a great presentation that was informational and visual. I think students would enjoy watching this, and it is especially a cool role model from a peer that is closer to their age. 

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Journal Entry 21: Feb.20.18

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Journal Entry 20: Feb.19.18

This link goes to the Museum’s guide of California’s history. It provides a really great summarized history to look at. Although this museum is only available in Oakland, it gives a good perspective of how to divide the history and what content to use. It makes me think that it would be fun to organize this history unit as a journey through history. Students could have passports that get stamped in class after we have “journeyed” through a specific time period. Students could keep journal of pictures, writing, and other collected media of what they “saw” as they were traveling through time. 

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Journal Entry 19: Feb.18.18

This website I found from a lesson plan on the Smithsonian website. This has lots of additional resources concerning Japanese Americans, including the internment. 

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Journal Entry 18: Feb.17.18

When I saw this comic for the first time I started crying. It is overwhelming to see all the children represented in the photo that have been victims to school gun violence. 

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Journal Entry 17: Feb.16.18

This is the official page for the Yurok of California. The history is comprehensive up until the present. This website is also nice since it is a primary source for the tribe today. Students can also read history written from the tribe’s own perspective of themselves. 

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Journal Entry 16: Feb.15.18

I went to the Smithsonian Museum website (https://www.si.edu/) and then found Native Knowledge 360 is a program attached to their website. I followed the link and found that it has a lot of great resources. It has lesson plans that you can search for based on the nation and grade level. They even have resources that are in English AND Spanish sometimes. I browsed some of the lessons and I really enjoyed reading about the Maya. The website is set up in a cool, visually interesting way that I really enjoyed. This is one of the activities that is offered bilingually. link: http://maya.nmai.si.edu/

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Journal Entry 15: Feb.14.18

I found out about the shooting in Florida because my Dad told me, otherwise I would have been unaware. I think it is strange how normal it felt, in an angry sort of way. Of course this keeps happening because things don’t change. I wonder about so many different things when this topic comes up. One connection I make to my school is how I know the boys are always playing violent video games. Violent shooting seems to be all too normal among young boys in a way that is so graphic and realistic, what kind of game is that?

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Journal Entry 14: Feb.13.18

Frank Waln -Sicangu Lakota rapper

The first time I heard about Frank Waln was in my Native American Literature class that I was taking. Later on he came to campus and I decided to listen to his music before I went to campus to the concert. While I was listening to his song, there was this intense rage and sadness mixed into a powerful emotion of courage. I was so moved that I decided I had to go. The concert was a great experience because he shared a lot of personal stories with each song. There are a couple things I will not forget. One of them was him talking about being forgotten people. He was really surprised and shocked when he told his fellow college peers that he was Native American and they replied “I didn’t know that they still existed”. He went on to explain that it was crazy that college educated students did not even know that much about the Native people’s history or current lives.