Family Heritage Speech

Quarter One
Family Heritage Speech
The family heritage speech was my favorite speech that it really helps you see how your past family can really have an effect on the course of your life. After this speech I started to realise that people that I never met played a crucial role in how my life has played out played out so far in my life. This speech allowed me to see how my family has affected my identity.
Field Trip
This field trip was so much fun we went to several churches that were absolutely beautiful. I am not very religious, but I appreciated the work of the people to make these amazing buildings and in that I realised that it didn’t matter if I believed in the religion but to help me realise what i believe in. This field trip made me

This painting is not what you would think about doing in english class, however; it was important to this class to get us thinking about how race, ethnicity, class and gender affected what we made in our paintings.
Danger of a Single Story
This was a Ted talk that we watched and it really made me think about how I view others around me. The Ted talk was about stereotyping a group of people because of one action that they might have done. It really made think about have I ever stereotyped someone because of how they look or who their friends are and it made realise that I have even if I didn’t think that I was doing anything wrong.
Implicit Biases
This was a test that measured if we had any biases towards certain genders and races. In my tests my results showed that I had a slight preference for white people over black people. I am not racist so I thought these tests were pretty interesting. I believed that this test was an important part of the year to give us some insight on how we view people even if I don’t necessarily agree with the results.
The

Quarter three
1984
This novel is my favorite book that we read this year because it shows that we need to be unique and if everyone is the same the world will be so bland. I believe that one of the main themes is to find your identity, because you do not want to be the same as everyone else. In the book everything is the same for everyone. Which proves that we need to be ourselves which really contributes to the years goal on finding our identity and what that means to us.
Great Debaters
This is a movie that we watched that is about a small black community and their goal for equality. This movie taught me a lot about the privileges that I have because the kids in this movie are at the forefront of racism. I learned from this movie that even if there are a lot of obstacles stacked up against me that I can prevail it just takes grit.
Group Commercials
The group commercials were a lot of fun. We got with a group of friends and used the persuasive appeals that were talked about in class to influence our classmates into buying our product. This was my favorite project of the year because we got to work with our friends to make a fun commercial that we shared with the whole