Group 2 Questions March 14 (Patel Stevens and Stovall, Camangian)

Group 2 Questions for March 14, 2013

1. Patel Stevens and Stovall

I find it difficult to form a question about the topics and issues discussed in this reading - rather I am more comfortable shaking my head at the whole situation, but here goes. (1) If you were an Arizona legislator, and you were hypothetically concerned about the number of undocumented individuals in your state, how would you attempt to craft a law different from this one, if you would at all? (2) There are a lot of hypothetical questions in this one, but how should one distinguish documentation from race?  I think too often the lines between the two become blurred. (3) What message is HB2281 sending to students? (4) What classes have you taken in your lifetime that might promote or support racial or ethnic solidarity? (Consider Eurocentric histories, literature, music, for example) (5) Is BH2281 banning all ethnic courses, or just nonwhite ethnic courses?


2.  Camangian

(1) How do you connect to students' concerns and problems if you don't fully understand the depth of those problems? (2) As a "socially conscious teacher," which I assume we all will be upon graduation, what do you feel equipped to encounter in a classroom?  What do you feel unprepared to encounter? What, if anything, do you fear encountering? (3) What is a critical literacy and how does it differ from traditional classroom literacy? (4) How do you break students out of the system and give them the tools necessary to develop a critical literacy?