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For me, the challenge with teaching multiculturalism to college-aged students is that many are not willing to make the connection that gaining an understanding of different cultures means acknowledging and exploring difficult histories. It's easy to say we are comfortable with the expression of culture from a pop culture or media standpoint, but we are often lacking in our knowledge of the story behind the heroes and icons we tend to celebrate or emulate. I'll give you two examples. To more deeply understand and appreciate the cast of the Jersey Shore and the tight-knit connection between them is to also appreciate that Italian- Americans share a particularly strong bond that happened as a result of immigration and discrimination in the early 20th century. To more deeply understand and appreciate the marriage of Cardi B and Offset as part of hip-hop, street, and trap culture is also to appreciate the history of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music as it developed over generations of colonization and survivance. Beats and music are key to the storytelling culture of African Americans and Caribbean peoples.

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If I were a student presented with this lesson plan, I think I would be able to achieve the goals set by the instructor. I particularly like the inclusion of so many primary sources because it makes the topic concrete. I think the reason so many students reject the material taught in history classes is that they have difficulty relating and comprehending that the events happened. The dialogue activity also provides a solution to this issue, but it could potentially lead to some negative outcomes. While it is true that instructing students to think like a black or white farmer will help them understand their thoughts/conflicts/fears, it also provides an opportunity for ignorance and racism. That being said, I think the intended age for the lesson should be high schoolers based on their ability to understand that the racism expressed in the dialogue occurred in the 1930s and does not translate to the present day.

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After reading this article and lesson plan it provides many examples that help understanding the topic. The author talks about inequality of education access and how people took matters into their own hands by having walkouts. I think that this lesson would be a great topic to teach students and to inform them what has been going on in the education world for a long time. They should be able to know about the Mexican Americans and be able to talk about this time in history. I learned about the Mexican Americans in history class, but it was short and brief, I didn’t have that much knowledge about it. For many people history can be hard to grasp This lesson plan can help students understand and memorize this point in history because in the article they talked about students having walkouts in 1968 and 2006 because of inequality of education access. This article talks about other major points in history and how people had walkouts and protests for them. I think that teachers also need to inform students that protesting and having walkouts are needed and they can help change a lot. No matter your ethnicity and where you live, everyone should be getting the same access of education because it’s not fair for everyone to have different levels of education access. I think that this should be taught in high school because the students are old enough to fully understand and engage in the conversation.

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After reading, “Pump Up The Blowouts” by Gilda L. Ochoa talks about the inequality of education. Also, the disadvantages for those who can’t afford the resources they need for their education. To better the curriculum in schools, they should add lessons that will inform students about the history of education. Additionally, then allow the students to try to make a connection between the past and now. In order, to see if there are differences and similarities in education they notice in today’s generation.  Another way to also better the curriculum being taught to students, teachers should also educate their students on protesting and or having walk-outs. In the article when the Mexican American students were having walk-outs. The walk-outs were happening because those students were apart of the inequality of education. Especially because they wanted to make a change. That was something that stood out to me because it should never matter how much money you have, your ethnicity, where you go to school, and so on. Everyone should be able to have the right resources and tools. It will allow people to have an education and be provided with practices to better their skills. I do believe schools consider this because of today’s generation.

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When reading the Cherokee Seminole Removal Lesson Plans, I was thinking to myself what do I get out of this? The plans have the intention of teaching kids the different racial and cultural biases that come about when befriending and interacting with Indigenous People. I feel like this can be a fine line to walk because it might not engage the students the way the topic needs to be discussed. The important take away for students is to learn why events in history happen instead of cramming history facts that will fall out. The role playing is a good activity to get student engagement up and take the role as a deeper learning experience than just reading about a person's experience.

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After reading the lesson plans and all the primary sources included, I found that this would be a great lesson for students to learn about some history between Black and White individuals. The students would understand how people were treated differently based on the color of their skin and they would understand why some people were hesitant to work together with the opposite race. White individuals felt like they were superior and Black individuals felt like they were inferior because schools were segregated and they were treated differently. This is definitely a good way to get a base understanding of differences that existed in history based on race but doing the dialogue activity could be challenging. I believe it is easy to understand what has happened in the past but trying to place yourself in others' shoes when you have not had similar experiences can make certain people feel like you are underestimating their experiences and challenges. This lesson is very important and I believe that it should be done in high school classrooms so that students can truly engage in these activities and actively learn about history.

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I believe that the lesson on Southern Tenant Farmers and black and whites uniting is very important. I think this lesson would allow students to gain a better understanding of the relationship between Black and white people in the south. I like that there are a variety of questions for the students to consider when writing the dialogue; I also think that working with peers for this assignment would be beneficial for the students because it allows them to share ideas and create a more realistic dialogue. This lesson is a great way to engage students with the material and acknowledge the differences between Blacks and whites during this time period.

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Southern Farmers Tenant United  Julia Lockery

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Southern Farmers Tenant United  Julia Lockery

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This lesson plan is extensive and provides many resources to encourage understanding.  I think these resources are crucial to the students' understanding of the material, because from my personal experiences, history can be a hard topic to get students to be intrigued in, and these resources can help change that.  I also like how the students would be put in groups for the activity.  Group work is important in the classroom because having your thinkings challenged and being exposed to new ways of thinking can help expand your educational abilities.  Although, I believe this dialogue assignment is a good idea, there are many possible negative outcomes.  Students may not be educated enough on this topic prior to be able to make realistic dialogue, in which modifying this assignment to be less controversial would be ideal.  This is a lesson plan that should be done by high school students, as I think any year younger would not be able to grasp the message and teachings well enough.

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Southern Farmers Tenant United (Alyssa Baker)

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Southern Farmers Tenant United (Alyssa Baker)

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The lesson plan of "Southern Farmers Tenant United" had a very strong outline that I believe would be beneficial in the classroom environment. I picked up on how interactive the teacher wants their classroom to be and I think that is one of the best ways for students to fully embrace and understand what they are being taught. I think the biggest challenge when it comes to doing interactive projects on such a sensitive subject like racial segregation is the parental opinion. There are some parents, especially in the south that don't want their kids to learn about slavery and racism towards Black people in America. I think if a student were to go home and tell their parents about what they are learning in class and acting out real people's experiences that might pose a threat to this strong lesson plan.

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Southern Farmers Tenant United -Sarah Brown

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Southern Farmers Tenant United -Sarah Brown

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I believe that this lesson plan promises that the students will be able to gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between the white and black communities in regards to the farmers union however I do believe that the lesson plan poises some challenges. The lesson plan aims to have the students write detailed dialogue between two farmers with contracting views. I think the assignment is a good means of having the students place themselves into the situation and gives them the opportunity to really see what the time period entails however I do think there should be proper discussions in regards to what terms should be used or what is appropriate in the classroom setting as well as in the outside world. The lesson plan overall enables for group work which I personally think is the best way to learn and grasp topics as someone might have a better means of understanding the subject at hand. Also with the current time period we are in group work is especially important as students were not able to interact with one another for the past two academic school years. Group work allows for the students to build connections with one another which could lead to them feeling more comfortable and confident sharing in the classroom. Overall I think the lesson plan has the correct intentions of providing the students with the necessary skills of realizing and overcoming racist attitudes and actions however I think the lesson plan is geared towards that of high school students due to the readings and the maturity levels needed for these important and serious conversations to take place.

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These lesson plans I find to be very informative and proactive in educating students on races. I found the main goals very educational and important including how students would explore the difficulties of farm labor occurring in the 1930s. Students also will learn and understand how racism divides people. Also, the students will reflect on ways to overcome racism while at the same time trying to change oppressive conditions. These lessons and goals are very engaging for students to be able to actively learn more about the history and the differences between black and white people during this time in history.

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While reading through The Other Internment, I saw the struggle of the instructor trying to come up with ideas on how to teach young students to imagine the experiences of other people from another time in history and make connections to today. The idea of starting almost backwards here, from traditional teaching methods, really showed a lot of promise to this class of diverse students. They walked through a photo galley displaying the treatment of Japanese Latin American’s during the 1940’s. The students were confronted with their own raw emotion from the photos and allowed themselves to make connections to their own lives through the photos. The next part of this lesson plan was to have the students role play in different characters of individuals during this internment period. Students represented people from all sides of this political problem and analyzed it from that perspective. This allowed students to see the perspectives of the individuals that they were representing which also led them to connect their own personal experiences to those of people more than 60 years ago. This active lesson plan made students passionate about the issue they were studying and sparked their curiosity to learn what the actual history behind the topic was. This gave the class the ability and courage to call out race and racism as they analyzed both the historical and current events. Which led them to reflect on how race impacts their own lives today. I believe that this lesson plan was extremely beneficial regarding student engagement, it allowed students to find their own curiosity about a topic required to be learned about. I don’t see how parents could be upset about this topic, but I think if this classroom would have been a less diverse one, maybe students wouldn’t have been able to make as great of connections with the topic.

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When reading the lesson plan for The Cherokee/Seminole Removal Role Play, there were different thoughts going through my mind. One way in which I was thinking, is how would this lesson plan work without seeming bias in any types of ways. I think that being that the teacher crated the lesson plan, there should be no issues about bias, but it is always something to look out for because you never know what specific views a teacher may have. The idea itself is very strong, however it just needs to be executed in a non-controversial way. The second thought I had when I was reading this article, is the personal benefit of acting out history. I never have liked learning about history in school, and I believe it is because of how students are just fed information and there is no engaging way for them to retain it. I believe that allowing students to get up out of their seats and read and act this removal out, gives them something to remember as a reference about learning this historical event.

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These lesson plans are very important for today's world because it gives a better perspective of how terrible the conditions were. These lessons give students a true and first-hand experience of segregation between white and black people in the south during the 1930s. Racism is a very prominent issue in the south, so reading this article will make the students more aware of how fortunate they are.

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This lesson plan involving having students participate in a Cherokee removal is definitely an interesting and engaging way to teach students about history. I know within my own experiences as a student history can be a hard topic to grasp so acting it out may help retain this info for students, especially because it is teaching about an event that is typically taught from one perspective. I understand splitting students into groups to play the different roles but do think it may skew kids opinions on the event when they see it from the perspective of one group. It is also extremely important that there were additions within this lesson such as the sympathetic white role, as it makes the lesson more fair and accurate as to what actually occurred in the real events. I think this kind of lesson plan in regards to history especially when involving controversial events due to racism and hatred is an interesting way of having students understand events and envision them themselves.

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After reading this lesson plan, I do think that the role play will be a successful way for the teachers to teach these times in history. The goal is to not only teach the students what happened but have them think about what could have happened differently. I know that I have always liked the interactive activities because I think that it helps keep the students engaged with the material while also gaining a deeper understanding of it. One thing that was mentioned in the lesson plans that I think would need to be changed is the lack of a sympathetic white role. This is where I think that the challenge comes with a plan like this- you need to make sure that you are betraying the role of everyone involved, no matter what it is so that the students can get the full picture and their thoughts are not being skewed in any way.

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Upon reviewing the Cherokee Seminole Removal lesson plan, I was impressed with the way the lesson plan was set up in order for students to be able to experience something that they otherwise would not be able to. The most important and useful part of this plan in my opinion is the way that it allows students to experience empathy since they are able to step foot in another person's shoes. Furthermore, it allows them to think about what their response would be to the person that they are portraying in order to learn more about them. The only thing that I think would be challenging about a plan like this is making sure that no lines are crossed by the students who still may not be as open to empathy as the others. Getting to play a part that is against what they believe in might just instill more hatred or ignorance into the student. Hopefully they would take it as a learning experience instead. I think that it will allow for students to be engaged and an opportunity to learn the material in a more hands on way rather than just reading about it in a textbook.

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After reading Southern Farmers, I've realized how students learning about farm labor and racism back then is very important. Students need to understand these topics more especially in today's world with racism still happening. This will help if we teach about it in our schools. It will also keep the history more engaging for each of their learning experiences.

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In reading about the structure of the lesson plan on the Internment on JLA's during WWII I was pleasantly surprised. I consider myself well versed in most areas of US History and have actually never even heard of the story of JLA's specifically. Obviously I have studied the Internment camps in the United States and the mistreatment of Japanese Americans but was not familiar with this particular subgroup. This may present some sort of challenge to me as a teacher but not anything daunting due to my knowledge of the topic for the most part. I think that the way the teacher took the students through a series of photos on the horrors of the camps and then had the students take the actual roles of people going through the hardships of the era allowed them to further visualize what it was like. This maximized the engagement of the students as they got to be in groups with their friends whilst stepping into the shoes of the oppressed.  Just like the actual people they were going through the problems with their friends. I do not like parents would be too upset with the content of this lesson because however difficult it may be to comprehend, it did actually happen and still has implications today.

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After reading the article, "Pump Up The Blowouts", there was a lot to think about regarding the inequality of education lessons.  When I think back on high school I barely was taught about the Mexican Americans. The Mendez v. Westminster—a 1947 case I don't remember learning about which is bizarre. Not teaching certain parts of history makes people feel as if it is not important and irrelevant, but the elimination of de jure segregation for Mexican students is very important. I think educators need to be teaching a curriculum that includes the history of education. The students participated in walkouts and protests for their history to be taught, and make change. High school students should be taught this and be able to have a conversation.