When it came down to my performance task this week, I was pretty much free. I had to write up a little bit and had to read more into my book, but for the most part I was finished with the performance task last week. All I really ended up changing was that I added some sub titles of the techniques I was using and that I fixed a grammatical error or two. Most of my time working on the performance task this week was making the text portion, which I feel like is still lacking in book references.
But what really got me wound up this week was what we all talked about during class involving white privilege. I'm all for having an open mind when approaching topics like this. During the gender unit I felt very informed and had to do some self-reflection about how I personally saw the codes of gender. That was all fine and dandy, I had a great time in that unit. What really got to me recently was our whole class discussion about white privilege and the various videos talking about the topic. I ended up realizing something about myself that I sort of knew before but never fully understood until that lesson. White privilege is something I really want to avoid until I spend more time looking into it. The problem that I faced was that the debate had no right or wrong answers, everyone's opinion can be correct when discussing white privilege. I could possibly debate about whether or not teachers should carry firearms on campus but I wouldn't even stand a chance trying to debate whether or not white privilege exists. I felt like I couldn't even give my real opinion on the matter because there could've been some loophole in my statement and I would've been outed as a racist or something. The topic is extremely broad and complex, I just don't have that knowledge to really share my opinion about it. It also doesn't help that I'm a perfectly average, normal white guy that has experienced some white privilege here and there, so I felt like my voice on the situation was null. What I'm going to work on is listening more than speaking, as I have much to learn. I'm very eager to grow in that sense.
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Pablo V
3/4/2018 08:04:56 am
Looking over your performance task, it’s evident that you spent a lot of time and became really invested in having a complete professional looking project. Next unit is shaping up to be interesting and I’m looking forward to sesing where you and your skills take you for the next performance task.
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