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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 Carribean Peoples..

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I have always found history to be an interesting topic in school, but was frustrated that we continued to learn the same concepts over and over again. The lesson plans that we discussed in class would have provided another layer of depth to our education that I had not heard about before. The interactive manner of the lesson plans would have allowed me to take on different perspectives of history instead of being lectured about it. My greatest concern would be students who did not take the lesson seriously, making the experience uncomfortable and ineffective for the rest of the class. Maturity and understanding that these are serious topics would ensure that these plans were successful and give the students the perspective of those who do not have a strong voice in history.

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Sample Answer 2- As a future elementary education teacher, I think some of the challenges of teaching multiculturalism and social issues in the 8th grade level is the fact that they might struggle or have not learned the starter knowledge of equity vs. equality. A promise of these lesson plans there is opportunity for deep discussion. There must be a certain level of trust when talking about inequalities. There needs to be a lot of context and explanation to discuss this issue because of the complexity. It is important to look at how this topic will affect all students 

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Sample Answer 2- As a future elementary education teacher, I think some of the challenges of teaching multiculturalism and social issues in the 8th grade level is the fact that they might struggle or have not learned the starter knowledge of equity vs. equality. A promise of these lesson plans there is opportunity for deep discussion. There must be a certain level of trust when talking about inequalities. There needs to be a lot of context and explanation to discuss this issue because of the complexity. It is important to look at how this topic will affect all students 

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The lesson plan we looked at was, the "The Other Internments". The lesson plan explains another genocide that happened during WWII that is often skipped over in teaching history. This lesson plan would definitely be most beneficial to be taught to older high school students. The topic is pretty advanced for an 8th grade group of children; however, I feel like it can be introduced to them in some aspect. The severity of this topic may not be appropriate for younger children, but I feel like older students can understand and handle the material.
I loved learning about history in high school but I feel like I did not really learn too much about this topic. It is an extremely important part of history and crucial to understanding WWII. This topic is important to teach because it was a massive genocide that killed a marginalized group. It is completely necessary for it to be taught and talked about in our education system.

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Pump up the blowouts response- Jacqueline Spelman

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Pump up the blowouts response- Jacqueline Spelman

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This reading expressed the issue of what is taught in the education system. I express the injustices placed within the academics like language barriers, and also what is taught within the classroom being an issue. This paper shows the importance of implementing the learning of cultural histories for many other races rather than only teaching American history. It is also important to relate what is being taught to the students, and allowing students to select or say their point of view on what their learning or what culture they are wanting to learn more about their history.

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After reading my article, I think some promises the lesson plan offers are they are a great way to see all perspectives on history through their own shoes. A challenge with the role-playing activity is that if the kids are too young, they may not fully grasp the ideas and concepts of history. I personally like history but hate learning the same subjects over and over again.  After this article, I learned more about the Japanese Latin Americans during WWII and how it connects to other cultures. It helps teach students about social injustice.

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The reading I read in class discussed the idea of teaching children about social injustice. Teaching interments was geared towards teaching students through different activities such as poem writing, maps, journaling and role playing. I think that these were all great ways to see the different perspectives of other heritages and history.  I think a challenge with some of these activities is that the students need to be an appropriate age in order to fully understand these ideas and lessons. Personally, I did not learn much about this when I was younger so I find it interesting being able to learn more about it in depth. I think it is important to teach this topic because it makes a student have the opportunity to self reflect and put themselves in another person's shoes.

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Brandon Mendez - Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union

This reading explored the difficulties of farm labor organizing in the 1930s. More specifically, how racism and oppressive methods affected the lives of tenant farmers.  This reading consisted of two tenant farmers speaking to one another. It is not made clear which one is the white man or the colored man and students must use context clues to guess which one is which. As an instructor, I would have concerns of students referring to basic stereotypes to answer the question --which is not the goal of the article. I would also be worried about censorship and viewing. Students need to be mature/old enough to read and discuss this subject. Showing students at a young age can negatively impact their perspectives.

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The lesson plan I looked at during class was the "Southern Tenant Farmers". The topic of this lesson was the efforts made by black and white workers to overcome deep divisions and suspicions of racial antagonism. The hope was for students to understand how racism divides potential allies and will realize the importance of confronting and overcoming racist attitudes after the lesson. Some of the activities in this lesson were to have children create their own dialogues to try to convince others of other race to join their union. As an instructor this activity would raise some concerns for me by student's referring to offensive stereotypes for certain races they chose to act out. I also would be concerned that parents would be questionable about this activity as well. Overall, I think this lesson will teach children the importance of overcoming racist attitudes but to modify the dialogue activity to not have student's offend various races or cultures.

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The lesson plan my group and I discussed in class involved the Cherokee removal. The Cherokees, along with other indigenous groups like the Seminoles, were stripped away from their homes and were forced to re-locate. They were brought somewhere they never lived before, with little to no resources, and a change in farm land. The teacher's lesson plan involves role playing among five groups: The Cherokees, the Andrew Jackson Administration, Plantation Owners and Farmers, Missionaries and Northern Reforms, and Black Seminoles. The goal of the lesson plan aims for students, "to see not only what happened, but why it happened-pheraps to wonder whether there were alternatives" (2). I feel like this lesson plan is promising for high school level classes, and can especially imagine it in advance placement courses. I like the lesson plan because it is interactive. Students are working with their groups, and because they have different roles, get to teach their classmates. It's also a good way for student's to recognize the racial and cultural  biases of even those who were considered close friends and allies of the Indians. Most importantly, the lesson plan teaches students how to better communicate, form rebuttals, and ask questions.Though there are many valuable aspects of the lesson plan, there could also be challenges. For instance, some students may not feel comfortable playing their assigned role. Students may even begin to loose control and become hostile and rude to their peers. Overall, I think the lesson plan is a great way to teach about the Cherokee removal because it is interactive and allows students to engage with the material.

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The lesson plan that my group read in class was involving the Cherokee removal. This plan utilized the tactic of role playing to teach the students about the indigenous groups, and how they were forced to leave their homes and start over. Within this lesson plan, students were placed into groups and each student was to learn and become an “expert” on the group that they were representing. The students then had to teach the others in their group about what they learned. I like this plan as it is very hands on and allows students some creative freedom. Like we have talked about before it is important for students to have a voice in the classroom and this lesson plan gives every student an opportunity to be heard. The only concern that I have for this plan is that the students are at a certain age and or level of maturity. When role playing, the students need to be able to understand the topic but also be able to take what they are learning seriously as some might consider joking around to be offensive. Overall, I really like this lesson plan and think that it would work well in a high school classroom.

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As a person who is studying education I believe there are multiple challenges when it comes to teaching multiculturalism in the classroom. The passage Pump Up The Blowouts seems to be for middle school, or specifically eighth grade. Implementing different cultures into the education system. My group and I came to the conclusion that the reading would be more appropriate for a high school setting. I feel that there is a difference in a level of maturity between middle and high schoolers and there needs to be a higher amount of maturity when it comes to reading this passage. One of the struggles of getting children to learn is getting them engaged in a topic that they do not care about. In high school, the students have more of an understanding about things and usually know what they want to learn, making it easier on both them and the teacher.

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The lesson plan that I looked into was Pump Up the Blowout which after reading this article, I learned how there’s a lack of resources and guidance to help teachers when it comes to expressing different types of cultures in the classroom to students. That being said, I find that as an issue in the educational system because I see that education involves topics of different types of cultures because it plays a part into our history and current life. However, most students do not fully understand the content of historical events until they are in at least high school which creates a challenge for the teacher. A short summary I would say when it comes to lesson planning is practice presenting the lesson ahead of time before class and try to avoid expressing any idea that can relate to racism such as personal experience.

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The article I read was Pump Up the Blowouts. This article touched on how all cultures and their history/events need to be taught in the education system. It specifically gave examples of how the history of Mexican Americans was unfamiliar to college students. When a student reaches the point of college, they are old enough that they should be at least familiar with all cultures and their history. Mexican American students organized to fix this break in the educational system by performing walkouts, which police officers did not handle well. This brought attention to this disparity in schools and lead to the formation of Chicana/o studies in schools. I think this topic of the Chicana/o Blowouts should be introduced in late middle school, but the video footage of the blowouts should not be shown until high school where students are mature enough to handle it and understand why Chicana/o Studies are so important. As a professor, I think the challenge in teaching this topic at a middle school level would be the students not understanding why the walkouts were performed and what exactly the outcome of them was. But, as a high school professor, as long as you are able to explain the information of these blowouts in the correct way, I think every high school student should be able to handle it and understand it correctly.

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The lesson plan that we reviewed was the Cherokee removal. This lesson plan involved an interactive activity where the students split up into five different groups, learned about their group's specific perspective and then discussed it in a big group to share and learn each group's perspective/point of view. The overall purpose of the lesson plan was to teach the students about the grief Native Americans have due to displacement in culture. The students will learn mapping and research local stories of natives that were once there. I think this lesson plan is very informative and will allow the students to have more of a background on cultural history and help them gain a new perspective. I think a good age group to have this lesson plan for is for highschool students, so they can have a better grasp on the importance of the concept.

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A promise that these lesson plans give is that the students will be more personally engaged in the material. In the lesson plan described in The Other Internment, the students are asked to do a role-playing activity to position themselves in the points of view of different people in the situation. This gave students the opportunity to relate their own experiences to the people who lived through the historical situation. This way, students can involve their own experiences into the curriculum, which allows them to be invested in learning about this event. A possible challenge with role play is that some students will have to play immoral positions, so these kind of activities could be reserved for a certain age level. However, as long as everyone in the classroom is respectful about it, activities like this can cause everyone to bond over their unique experiences.

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My group read the Cherokee Removal lesson plan.  This teacher's idea was to have each table group represent a different group of the Cherokee (such as plantation owners, farmers, northern reformers), then someone from each group would interview with one student from another group.  I think the difficulty with this lesson would be that the students need to be of age of know what they are actually representing and so that they take their role seriously.  This is not a topic that should be joked around with. I feel as though this activity would fit with a High School AP class.  This is an engaging activity where the students, I think, could truly learn about culture if it is taken seriously and understood.

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My reading was about the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. This topic of the lesson was about how there was difficulties of farm labor organizing in the 1930s so their were efforts made by black and white workers to get rid of those divisions and how racism did affect farmers. What they want to get students to get from this lesson is that understanding of how racism can divide people that can lead to not being racial unity which is important for students to know and the effects of it. The activities included in this lesson are to have the students read out these dialogues and add to it so there is that understanding of how its important for other races to all be included and are able to join such unions. As an instructor, I think a good age gap for this lesson plan would be for students in their early years of high school. This age they would understand it better because of certain stereotypes. I feel like if this were to be given to younger students, they would not be able to comprehend it the more mature way.

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The topic we were assigned is the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Through this lesson plan, the students will learn how racism divides potential allies and reflect on ways to overcome racism. As there was no age/grade assigned to this lesson plan, we believe this should be given to 9th or 10th graders. The activity is given in the form of a play. It is possible that the teacher would encounter censorship from the students during this activity. People might not want to participate so as to not upset others. One of the objectives of the activity is to decide which union organizer is black or white. It’s possible that this could make students apply negative stereotypes towards, while not discussing it; since a reflection on the question is not shown in the lesson plan.

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I read the lesson plan the "Southern Tenant Farmers." The students would learn the importance of confronting and overcoming racist attitudes. The activity was to write a dialogue to convince the others of the other race to join their union. I would have concerns if the students were mature enough to do this activity. Also, I would have concerns if they referred to offensive stereotypes. I think for this activity is should be for students in high school so they could be mature enough to be able to discuss this topic. I think it would be more beneficial if this were to be taught for students in high school.

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The article that I was assigned is "Pump up the Blowouts." The topic of this article is about allowing a free, unbiased education and more learning about all different types of history rather than just the significant topics in America. I believe students will have a better understanding of all history and be more diverse about what goes on in the world. As an instructor, I believe that this topic should be introduced in early high school because they are maturing and starting to understand different concepts in life, and won't be too uncomfortable with the topic and the video footage that was shown.

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My group and I looked over the " The Other Internment" lesson plan. This lesson plan aims to explain the events in history that took place after WWII, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and ripped away from their families to be placed in camps, enduring terrible conditions, starvation, physical abuse, and death.   I think that this is a very important lesson to teach students and address its history regardless of difficult conversations.  I believe that it is without awareness that things often go unchanged and repeat themselves.  Although I think this lesson plan would be very beneficial to students, I would argue that it should be taught later on in schools toward the middle/end of high school and beginning of college instead of in eighth grade. During these times, kids are more mature and able to grasp the severity and realness of the events. They are able to bring context and experiences to these events rather than disregarding them as just an event from the past.