Love Letters to the Next Generation

Learning Reflection Journal – Week 11

Rationale Reminder: Many times, we try to hurry through the assignment, get the grade and move onto the next thing on our agenda without grappling and thinking about it. I would like us to slow down, reflect on the material and make meaningful connections to ourselves, other ideas and interests. The title Learning Reflection Journal describes the purpose of this assignment. This journal is to help you to start to reflect on your learning process and also the historical material throughout the semester. By keeping a Learning Reflection journal, I am hoping to instill the practice of slow and deep thinking in addition to helping cultivate your own voice, thoughts and ideas. Each week the questions will vary, but I am looking for you to demonstrate that you have engaged with the material and growing in your analysis and interpretation.

Questions for Week 11:

1. This week we have been exploring the historical thinking idea of characters and chronology. Identify one individual (character) that you learned from watching The Abolitionists – why were you drawn to this character? What did you learn about that individual? What do you want to know more about?

Place your response here. I think angilena stuck out was she was strong in religion and she made a big choice by leaving to escape from the slavary I would want to know more about these people who helped abolish slavery

2. We often think of the 1960s and 1970s as a period of incredible social growth, experimentation, questioning and challenging traditional forms of authority and organizing to change or reform society for the whole or larger common good. However, most people did not support these movements (think Civil Rights Movement, Black Power, Women’s Liberation, farm workers movement, Students for Democratic Society, American Indian Movement, anti-war, communal living, environmental movement, etc.) and responded negatively which led to a period of “conservative” backlash. I would argue that the 1960s/1970s are the second wave or attempt at these reforms and many of these “reforms” to perfect society first occurred in the 1820s to 1860s in America- utopian communities (religious and non-religious), reforming education, free love, women’s rights, abolitionist, dress and diet reformers, and prison reforms to name a few. Pick one nineteenth century reform movement that we learned about this week to examine – how and why did they propose to change society? What did justice look like for that group?

Place your response here The civill rights movement was a powerful movement. It was a move for a better society and world, this movement was not only to abolish slavery but to better the rights for African American. Such as allowing them to vote

3. One of the lessons this week that I took away is that specific individuals were willing to move beyond centering their personal and group/community experiences and to think about the well-being of the whole collective, democracy or nation (or all of the above). If we think beyond individuals or individual reforms, what issues could be identify in American society (the cracks in American society)? What does this tell us about equality, justice and democracy in America?

In the early 1930s the movement for equality justice and liberty was just about to start. Change was shortly apprroching but this took much from them as many would not agree with the new government rule as the Northern states got rid of slavery many southern states would continue this creating much

4. Reading opens up new worlds and possibilities. Reading helps expands our learning. What is your favorite book? What lesson did you learn from the book?

Place your response here I don’t do much reading but one of my favorite books that use red before is I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson before Jackie Robinson most baseball players were all white this book speaks a lot about Robinsons story and how hard it was. He had to overcome many negative views form people to actually make it where he wanted to be a pro baseball player and to open up diversity in sports as this was a big movement but it started with him.