Okay...so this week is devoted to writing papers. A remediation plan for Math, an assessment and evaluation for READ, my cultural knapsack for Social Studies. (Those are listed in order from most challenging to least challenging for me.) Because this blog is set up due to a social studies requirement, I'd like to address the cultural knapsack at this time......
I LOVE diversity (maybe that's the real reason I wanna blog about my cultural knapsack!) Diversity....what does that mean? What does that mean to me? What experiences do I have with diversity? Well, first of all, I'm older than all my classmates, so I've certainly got lots more experience, right? Hmmmmm.
Growing up in the North then moving to the South whilst a teenager is certainly gonna give me a variety of exposures to cultural diversity, right? Yes! Actually it has. Growing up in the 60's and 70's is gonna give me some pretty good stuff to write about, right? Yep! You see, I was around when President Kennedy was assassinated. When Martin Luther King was assassinated. When Medgar Evers was assassinated. When it wasn't okay for a black boy and a white girl to date. When a person with mental and physical disabilities went to a different school. I grew up in a time when segregation of all types was the norm -- especially in the South. I never saw so much emphasis on boy's sports until I moved down here. There were actually STADIUMS for high school boys to play in!!! I had never known that before.
Okay, so what seems to be the problem with writing this cultural knapsack paper? Well, actually, there isn't a problem, except to limit it to just a few pages!!! Because I have history, I have opinions, I have exposure. So, now what? I guess I just need to reread what I've written and see if it provides a flavor of what my cultural knapsack holds.
If you've read this entire post, I thank you for putting up with my rambling.
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