Constitution-Bill of Rights Brainstorm

What does our study of the Constitution and the first four amendments mean for you and others in your life, environment, and culture? Feel free to use list, cluster, or web format (not necessary to write in sentence/journal form yet). You are encouraged to describe these rights in terms of your future as well as currently. This is an open-ended brainstorm (no wrong answers).

Inclusion-Exclusion Comparison of 6th Grade and Chinese American Immigrants

In class we have analyzed inclusion and exclusion in the film The Chinese American Experience. Friday we had an intensive discussion about inclusion/exclusion of 6th grade in middle school now. At the end of today's class we brainstormed ways that these two exclusionary phenomena are similar and unique.

Homework: write a 20 minute journal entry on this prompt: Is exclusion of Chinese American immigrants like 6th grade exclusion? Why or why not. Please, note that you may site ways for both types of exclusion being alike in some ways and different in others.

Reflective Journal on Class Identity and "Race"

15 - 20 minute journal on:
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1) Share your feelings, questions, and comments about the group and class identity charts we created in class today.

2) (I understand this is an introductory question, and we will explore it over the course of the semester). This is intended to be your first, gut-level, own experience type response -- What part does "race" play in someone's identity? In a culture's identity?

**Bring both your note/comp book and journal to class tomorrow morning.