Optional Essay
The organization of the course by ethnic serves as a culturally valuable pedagogy. It helped me comprehend each group by its costumes and traditions. Even in class, professor Weidman used to make some remarks of the particularities of the members of some tribes. One that I remember was the skillful hunters (i.e. getting the neighbor’ animals), since, the same group was not specialized in harvesting the foods they eat. Also, the Mohawks from upstate New York who work in the construction of skyscrapers in Manhattan. More recently, Ofelia Zepeda’s poetry book Ocean Power boosted my little, until now, understanding of the Sonora people. In “Hot Tortilla” I found sufficient images to discompose life in the desert. This poem is a descriptive and self-explanatory representation of a hard-working woman whose tortilla-making skill catches all the attention of her children. These kids assist in the labor and witness the wearisome job she …show more content…
Even though the break in time from one text to the other during this semester was short, I still skeptical to what extent would have time helped in getting more out of them. If we have decided to organize the texts by time, then, the period covert in class should have been longer. In which case, I think may have been an advantage because we could have been learning text from the beginning of the Native American history. Let’s say 1800s. Further, it may have required to listen tape recorded stories. Another lost in was the historical context of the numerous events debated in class. I read the various wars and battles fought by the Native Americans; however, there was not much focused on them. The main locus of attention was ethnicity and location, which means the books read in class would shift from commenting to one battle to another. In other words, the various texts have different
The organization of the course by ethnic serves as a culturally valuable pedagogy. It helped me comprehend each group by its costumes and traditions. Even in class, professor Weidman used to make some remarks of the particularities of the members of some tribes. One that I remember was the skillful hunters (i.e. getting the neighbor’ animals), since, the same group was not specialized in harvesting the foods they eat. Also, the Mohawks from upstate New York who work in the construction of skyscrapers in Manhattan. More recently, Ofelia Zepeda’s poetry book Ocean Power boosted my little, until now, understanding of the Sonora people. In “Hot Tortilla” I found sufficient images to discompose life in the desert. This poem is a descriptive and self-explanatory representation of a hard-working woman whose tortilla-making skill catches all the attention of her children. These kids assist in the labor and witness the wearisome job she …show more content…
Even though the break in time from one text to the other during this semester was short, I still skeptical to what extent would have time helped in getting more out of them. If we have decided to organize the texts by time, then, the period covert in class should have been longer. In which case, I think may have been an advantage because we could have been learning text from the beginning of the Native American history. Let’s say 1800s. Further, it may have required to listen tape recorded stories. Another lost in was the historical context of the numerous events debated in class. I read the various wars and battles fought by the Native Americans; however, there was not much focused on them. The main locus of attention was ethnicity and location, which means the books read in class would shift from commenting to one battle to another. In other words, the various texts have different