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Hi guys. This is my second time being apart of a ram family. I went to John Marshall High School which is the home of the Rams in San Antonio, Tx. I hope you guys learn a lot about me by my culture roots project.

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This is me:
A: Apply myself to achieve more for my family.
M: Mostly grew up in a single parent household.
A: Animal lover that has 5 dogs.
N: Native of San Antonio, TX
D: Determined to be the change in my community.
A: A family oriented person.

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This is my family below. I am the youngest in my family and the little girl that is cuddling with her mother in the picture. My parents split when I was younger and my sibling and I grew up with our mother.

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My mom came from Mexico City when she was younger with her family and had to adapt to her new surrounding in San Antonio, Tx. My father is from Bogalusa, Louisiana. My father's family is traced back to European ancestry. My father did not tell us that much about his side of the family but my grandmother told my mother that she tried to trace her family and my grandfather's. However, my grandmother passed away a couple of years ago and was not able to share what she had found.

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On my father's side of the family the boys would pass down a middle name to their sons. So my grandfather's middle name is La Rue and he passed it down to my father which he passed down to my older brother. The family tradition that we do on my mother's side is getting together and celebrating a holiday or just simply geting together and making a fest.We usually try to have gathers but now that everyone is busy working and going to school it is hard for us to plan these events.

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The public schools in San Antonio have a very diverse groups of students and has showed me that not everyone is the same. In my high school there were a lot of minorities who grouped together but they also interacted with a lot of other groups as well. My experience of other ethnicies and cultures showed me that we could all interact with one another with minor conflicts if we took the time to understand them.

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My cousins from my mom side come from other diverse ethnic backgrounds such as being Jordanian, German,  African American and White. So at a young age I knew that people have different ways of life compared to my family and I's lifestyle. My cousins were Muslim while my siblings and I grew up without a religion to practice. Even in my family, my cousins and I had different cultural background even though we grew up together.

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I plan on using my knowledge of other cultures to possibly relate to my student and their background. I would try to understand where they are coming from to try and make connections to their everyday life because they will probably understand these examples compared to my own experiences that I would use as examples. By trying to make this connection with my students I would be showing them I care about their education and personal success.

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One tenet over my knowledge of cultural diversity that I would reflect in my classroom is to treat all my students the same and to have the same expectations for all of them. Yes, all of my students are different from one another but my common goal for my students should be that they understand the concepts that are in my curriculum. As a teacher I should be able to have multiple methods to teach different concept so that all of the students understand the topic. The reason my this is one of my main tenets is because not every student understand one style of teaching or method of undertsnading a certain topic and it may take more time for come students to learn.

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This assignment has taught me that my future classrooms would have a very diverse groups of children and that not all of my experiences may be similar to theirs. I would say that my awareness of the diversity of culture has increased a lot from this course because of the exposure of multiculturalism in the assignments and will grow in time. I believe that most of the issues that include culture, diversity and multiculturalism is that people should be more accepting and understanding to other people's way of life.  I believe that as a future educator that it is my reasonablity to connect and understand my students and their background.