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Follow up to “The Color of Friendship”
Think of a time when your assumptions turned out to be wrong. How did you feel? Maybe shocked, scared, or disappointed? This is how Mahree Bok, an Afrikaner South African teenager, feels when she goes...
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Pecha Kucha Project Reflection
Imagine the government legally classifying you as “lesser” or “lower” than someone else – just because of your race. Because of this, your education wasn’t that great, you had to be moved into an area...
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Connections between Nelson Mandela and the Hero’s Journey: Poetry
Inside the Stadium I feel the soft grass underneath my shoes As I set my foot on the grass I look up at the stands And hear the cheers and see a rainbow of color Always in the background, I could...
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Book Review #2
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee How can the color of someone’s skin somehow make them guiltier? In the 1930’s in a small Alabama town, a jury deems a black man guilty of raping a white woman,...
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My Vacation Haiku (Nighttime Walk)
Dark Rustling Leaves Bright Stars Against a Black Sky And a Crescent Moon
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As I mentioned in my previous blog posts about South Africa and Apartheid, my humanities class is studying prejudice and discrimination. Now, everyone in the class did a research project about...
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Inside Mecca Documentary – Reflection
Yesterday in Humanities class, we watched a documentary called “Inside Mecca” by National Geographic. This documentary covers the journey of three Muslim pilgrims on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the holy...
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Reflection on Israeli – Palestinian Conflict Simulation: Round 1
Right now in my Humanities class, we are studying the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. In this process, we are doing a simulation where each group represents a different political group involved in the...
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Reflection on Israeli – Palestinian Conflict Simulation: Round 2
The Likud party logo If you read my previous blog post, you know that my humanities class is doing a simulation about the Israeli – Palestinian conflict and trying to find a possible solution to it. We...
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Reflection on Israeli – Palestinian Conflict Simulation: Final Round
Hamas Logo If you have read my last two posts, you will know that my humanities class is doing a simulation of resolving the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. We were put into groups representing the...
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