Blog post #4

My CP does not participate in public campaigns. The focus that Mr. Bennett (my community partner) is informing his students about the political process so when they are of voting age can make educated decisions for themselves. The students apply some of these skills to on campus organizations such as Amnesty international and Associated student body. Mr. Bennett provides the skill set for the students to go out and campaign for themselves, though how many of them actually do it, is debatable. I believe that the education of our possible future leaders is so important, because these are the people that will one day campaign for important issues.

Blog Post #3

My CP is working with a private school, so the relationship between the students and the teachers is a pretty standard student/teacher relationship. However, because the school (St. Lawrence Academy) is so small, the students are able to build life long, trustworthy relationships with the teachers. The teachers and students are involved in many school and outside school functions. There are events, fundraisers, sports, clubs and more that help to build friendships. I know from persona experience, that the teachers at SLA impact the lives of students beyond the classroom. Five years after my own high school graduation, I still see a handful of teachers on a personal level, whether it be going to dinner or getting drinks. This is common for graduated students to have these types of relationships with the teachers.

Blog Topic #2

Dr. King lead demonstrations to publicize the enforcement of voting right for the African American people. The demonstrations that were organized gained much media attention, mostly for the brutality used on the demonstrators by police officials. However, these demonstrations seemed to work as the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. As far these rights being in danger for those in the U.S. it could be seen that some minority group's rights are still in danger. For example, illegal immigrants could be seen as being in danger of their voting rights, or at least intimidation preventing any type of rights from happening. Intimidation can sometimes be worse then not having the right at all. If I were legally allowed to vote but because of intimidation didn't feel safe or was denied( like many were in the 1960's) I would be incredibly upset.

First post!

So, I'm not 100% sure what our first blog post was supposed to be, but I think it had to do with our community partner? Warm? cold? Anyway, I guess i'll just explain a little about my community partner.  I aspire to be a high school history teacher, so last semester I sought an internship at Saint Lawrence Academy in Santa Clara working as a teacher's assistant. The teacher I work for is my former history teacher, John Bennett (yeah, he has the same name as Mark Wahlberg's character from Ted!.. pretty cool). Mr. Bennett has new administrative duties, and re-structuring (if you will) the teaching method's that the teacher's use is one of them. Lucky for me, I get to help out in his classroom, he teaches AP U.S history, regular U.S. history, and World history and I get to assist him in his administrative duties as well. I think it's pretty cool, I really enjoy it and I look forward to doing it again this semester.