Semester Blog Reflection/Final Review

There were many things this First Semester that I learned about in Mr. Fielder’s class. Last year when I was thinking of high school, I talked with some former Global Ed students that are in the program or have graduated and have taken the program. While I was talking with them about Stevenson and the Global Ed program, I was told that Global Ed may have its ups and downs but it is completely worth it. I have been learning and understanding that more and more. Every day I come to my Global Ed classes I become more and more interested with this entire program.
One thing that I enjoyed to learn was watching and reading Rabbit Proof Fence. The reasoning of why I liked to view this story and have open discussions was because it really had a very interesting story about three young girls and their journey to survive. Molly, Grace, and Daisy are three little Aborigine girls who were taken away by the Australian government in Jigalong. The government and leaders tried to take away all of the Aborigine children, little girls mostly, and use them as their own slaves in order to completely erase the entire Aborigine race. After living under their headquarters, Molly had come up with a brilliant plan to sneak away with her sister and cousin, Daisy and Grace. They ran away to be together again with her mother and her tribe in the desert. This generation of children was also known as the “stolen generation”. This story interested me because I really was astonished with the leadership role played by Molly Craig. I was also very interested because of the harm and unfairness the Australian government was doing to these poor Aborigine children.
Another thing that I loved in Mr. Fielder’s class was to play a game called “Boggle”. This game was really fun and I would always be really excited to play. First off, Mr. Fielder would make a chart containing how many letters he wanted. Then once he was done making his list in a scramble order he would put it on the overhead. What we had to do what to make words out of those letters. This game was fun and it was a good reward at the end of the day.

One other thing that I learned in Mr. Fielder’s class was about the Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan genocide was a massive killing in Rwanda killing thousand upon thousand Hutu and Tutsi people, invaded Rwanda from Uruguay. In 1990, the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) was mostly made up of the Tutsi people. In 1994 the killing of Juvenal Habyarimana was a drastic change and it sadly created the massive killing in Rwanda. The Hutu was said to believe that the Tutsi were the ones who killed their beloved leader. So, the Hutu had a plan that since the Tutsi killed their leader, we should kill them. This was a war that went on for a very long time, it shouldn’t have even happened in the first place. This genocide was very drastic and unmanageable. It caused a great war and an unbelievable amount of pain and sorrow.

Something else that I learned in this class was about margin noting. Even though I thought of this as a pain, it helped me understand the meaning of the context I was reading. I really didn’t think that it would help that much, but it did. While we were reading the story called, “The Man in the Well”, margin noting helped tremendously. For example, for words I didn’t quite understand and so I would look them up in the dictionary and make a side note for what it meant. Now, I really like to margin note all my papers to help me and understand more. It helps me more than just reading a paper without really defining the context.

Lastly, one more thing that I liked to read about was Squirrel Cop. This story was hilarious and made me laugh throughout the entire time listening to the story. The reasoning for reading this story was to hear the descriptions the author made and try to imagine this actually happening right in front of you. For example, when the author was talking about when the police officer went into the attic and the squirrel jumped down and ran into the fireplace, then under the brand new couch. The author gave great descriptive words and really put a picture in my head and made me think that this was actually happening.
In conclusion, Global Ed is worth working for and at. I like to learn and I keep on learning every day in Mr. Fielder’s class.