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1) ¿Cuántos años tenía Rigoberta cuando empezó a aprender español?

2) Qué crees: ¿Por qué no pudo aprender el español usando un libro?

Ahora, lee:

At twenty years of age, Ms. Menchú had already lost her father, her mother and a brother as a result of the indiscriminate violence exercised by the armed forces of Guatemala in their attempts to control and suppress the indigenous people.

After growing up amid this violence and repression, Ms. Menchú decided to learn Spanish, using the language of her oppressors to fight for the rights of her people. Since then, words have been her weapon in her untiring defense of the human rights of all indigenous peoples.

Ms. Menchú states that, "We have seen repeated occupations of our land, long lines of colonists have arrived, and they remain today. In the case of my country, 65 percent of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a minority to protect an immense majority?"

Ms. Menchú also states, "Racism in our countries is a fact in that the Indian is not allowed to be a politician or aspire to being head of state. It has reached the point that 99 percent of the indigenous women have not gone to school. The indigenous are condemned to live in a situation designed to exterminate them. They receive a pittance of a salary, they neither speak nor write the language, politics dictates their situation. Is this slavery? I don't know what it's called. It is not the same as before because we are in modern times."

In 1992, Ms. Menchú won the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the youngest , as well as the first indigenous person to ever win the prize.

Responde:

3) Hay una creencia (belief) que los indígenas en la América Latina siempre son VICTIMAS y que no se organizan para luchar por sus derechos. En el caso de Rigoberta Menchú, ¿qué hizo para luchar?

4) Rigoberta Menchú aprendió español para luchar y defender. ¿Qué conexión ves entre los idiomas y la opresión? ¿Ves conflictos causados por los idiomas?

Kids who live in austria have pretty similar lives to those of the U.S.. They get up in the morning and do the daily morning rituals. Well for some of us that is. That includes waking up to brush their teeth, fixing themselves up in the mirror, then putting clothes on and gearing up for the day. They then partake in eating breakfast which consists of usual breakfast things like cereal or toast, eggs, Oj, and bacon. Afterwards they grab there backpacks and they head for the bus stop. They travel to school and their school day officially begins. After classes until about 3 they make their ways home. Thats when the real fun begins. (:. They watch TV, play games, and get into child like stuff. Of course this all happens after homework is done. Then they have diner with the family. Finally here comes bedtime. After a good nights rest they get up and do it all over again. 

Reflection

Doing research on how the kids live in Austria it didn't really surprise me how similar there daily lives as a child were to ours. When I was there age my life was pretty bland, well not bland but expected. The whole daily routine thing, and since I didn't go out like I do now it was really a routine thing. Being 40 in Austria I feel like there life would be pretty chill. They don't give off the hint that you need to be extra this to have this kind of job or anything. 

Globalization 4^th Quarter Benchmark

Big Idea: Evidence of globalization is everywhere in our day-to-day activities.  All around us, the influences of global factors drive decisions, impressions and understanding.  In order to internalize this influence and impact, we look to our familiar surroundings for images that represent the different topics and themes we study in Globalization.

Basics:

• Take 10 original photos that represent a different aspect of the globalization curriculum – reference the course outline for a list of the themes and concepts
• For each of the images, write at least two paragraphs that explain the connections between the image and the globalization theme.  These paragraphs need to draw clear connections between the theme, Philadelphia and reputable resources.
• A 10 source bibliography (not annotated) MLA format
• Choose a presentation tool that best represents your ideas (this are just a few ideas, there are many, many more)
  
o    http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp?gclid=COevzt3KrqECFQmU7QodCVMOAQ
o    Keynote has some great templates for creating an essay with audio and text
o    http://www.joggle.com/  

•    with this tool you can just record your analysis if you like, pretty easy to use.

o    http://photopeach.com/
o    Google Presentation
o    Here http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/

•    great site that has some of the best photo essays I have ever seen. Also we can use Imovie to make slide shows as well if people don't want to learn a new program.



• Post a link to your work on sla.org

Suggested Use of Time in Class:

Week One:  Brainstorm a list of images/scenes that you would like to capture and tie each of those to a theme from the Globalization course outline.

Week Two: Research each of the themes, looking for a reputable source to support the ideas you would like to represent in each of the different images and corresponding paragraphs.  When you write your paragraphs, you should specifically cite these sources in the paragraphs.

Week Three: Write your paragraphs and complete your bibliography, pull together the images, paragraphs and bibliography into a published format.

Outside of class homework: Collect images and finalize any requirements not finished in class.

Example:

The demographic shift within Alma Center, WI is best exemplified by these side by side signs.  Over the past 20 years, the number of Spanish speaking immigrants has grown dramatically in this small, rural farming town.  Interestingly the long settled families of this area match many of the cultural and societal norms of the new immigrants settling in the area with a focus on religion and families.  Prior to the recent migration of Latino immigrants, the predominant cultural backgrounds were from Northern Europe.

Immigrant migration into small farming communities was best explained in this article by …. (you get the picture)