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Thoughts about our talk and invisible diablities

By ndifrank
October 8, 2014 - 01:35
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I too share a lot of these same feelings. I suffer from anxiety and I don't feel comfortable always saying that out loud. My anxiety has shaped me into someone who tends to be a listener within the classroom like Abby and a talkative person outside of the classroom. I really appreciated the conversation we had today and although I don't beleive we should have a fully structured course that includes hand raising or using cards, I still would appreciate more space to be who I am.

Texas Education

By aphorisnt
October 6, 2014 - 23:10
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Hey all, hope everyone is working on readings for tomorrow and papers for Friday and such.

So the reading for class tomorrow really struck home with me because I took that TAKS test* back in 11th grade. Granted I was in AP US history so my class didn't necessarily adhere to the TEKS teaching point curriculum because we were too busy dealing with the cirriculum suggested by ETS, but regardless we still had to take the test. Well I found a list of social studies TEKS for high school on the Texas Education Association website from 2012 and it's just very interesting to see what Heilig et. al. discussed actually in writing.

Mantrafesto by rosea and Hummingbird

By abby rose
October 6, 2014 - 21:04
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This is the Mantrafesto by rosea and hummingbird – We wrote this by pulling on direct quotations from Pratt and Clare. We wanted to examine the ways Bryn Mawr has both shifted and remained the same regarding its community and exclusivity. The lines in which words are bracketed may be read both with and without the bracketed word. This is predominantly a found poem. 

 

Past: we were women

women who were in a position of material advantage

advantage at the expense of others

other women --

women who did not have a degree