By: Lacey Andersen
Mask Project Reflection
1) It’s a lot different for me because my old school would do every thing out of textbooks and just have final tests to see if we knew the information. I never did very well at the test so my grades were never as good as I wanted. PBL is a lot like the science fairs that I did in past year at my school but we only did that once a year. PBL is so different then textbook work that I have done in the past. But I am enjoying it and liking to be able to really put a lot of work and thought into every project and make it my own
2) I need to work more in advocacy because I wait to long to ask for help when I’m stuck on something. Intern wasting my time in class that I could be using.
3) I am most proud of my seesaw that my mask was sitting on. I got many compliments on the seesaw at exabition intern busting my confidence and making me feel much better about my mask and paper.
4) I really like that part in my paper that says, “My coach tells me to always be like a pouncing cat.” Because it really catches my readers of guard and made them want to keep reading to understand what I meant by a pouncing cat. As well though I liked how I incorporated my love for mountain biking into my paper.
5) I’m taking away from this project a better understanding of how society works as well as how I have been socialized. But more then that I want to always remember from this project to not get over come with what society says and to listen to my self, do what I want not what society wants my to do.
Mask Project Reflection
1) It’s a lot different for me because my old school would do every thing out of textbooks and just have final tests to see if we knew the information. I never did very well at the test so my grades were never as good as I wanted. PBL is a lot like the science fairs that I did in past year at my school but we only did that once a year. PBL is so different then textbook work that I have done in the past. But I am enjoying it and liking to be able to really put a lot of work and thought into every project and make it my own
2) I need to work more in advocacy because I wait to long to ask for help when I’m stuck on something. Intern wasting my time in class that I could be using.
3) I am most proud of my seesaw that my mask was sitting on. I got many compliments on the seesaw at exabition intern busting my confidence and making me feel much better about my mask and paper.
4) I really like that part in my paper that says, “My coach tells me to always be like a pouncing cat.” Because it really catches my readers of guard and made them want to keep reading to understand what I meant by a pouncing cat. As well though I liked how I incorporated my love for mountain biking into my paper.
5) I’m taking away from this project a better understanding of how society works as well as how I have been socialized. But more then that I want to always remember from this project to not get over come with what society says and to listen to my self, do what I want not what society wants my to do.
Am I who society wants me to be or am I me?
(paper)
In class we talked about socialization and how it can make you the person you are. As a teen I’m still trying to find who I am, what I believe and want to stand up for, as well as all the expectations I have to live up to for my religion, family, society, ect. We watched the movie “Tough Guise” in class and it really impacted how I think. It talked about how all guys have to be manly men and nothing else, they shouldn't cry or show weakness, they have no other choice but to follow these things in society. This really opened my eyes to see the gender roles every guy and girl have. I really started to see all the ways we are socialized. If society effects us in every way, are we really are own person or just another person that society has formed? I’m the person I am today because of my religion, all the people that I hang out with like friends and family, my sports and society. Do all these have different expectations for me? All the research and studying we did in class really opened my eyes to who I am and how society has been influencing me. But more important how society has influenced my religion.
We are influenced and socialized in every way by society. Society tells you what is cool and what is not. Last year you could look around at any teen/middle schoolgirl and find most all of them wearing low top converse. This school year look around at any park in town you will most likely see a slack line set up with some high school kids hanging out around it and doing flips and other things. Why is this that every body is into the same things at once? Well like the girls and their convers they were socialized that those were cool and they wanted to be cool and follow the trend just like everyone. We all want to be in on the new cool trends. The same thing is going on with slack lining (a strap tied to two trees to stand on) its new and cool. Also we talk different around friends and family because the norms and what is exemptible to say is different, like I would not use slang or abbreviations with my parents. For instance you do not go up to one of your parents and say with swagger “Heyyyyyyyyyyy what up homey schnitzel dat was pridy epic trick you just did!!!!!!!!” You try to talk cool around your friends. You can be negatively affected by society if you do not fit in with what’s cool and you get pushed out. For instance if a boy came to school with a tutu, makeup on and skipping around, everybody would be who is that? And not include him in any thing. We are all affected by society. My mask is on a seesaw because you need to have a good balance of what society wants and thinks and what you want and think.
For me, society has made it hard to be confident in my religion to say what I believe because I do not want to be judged negatively from society for it. On the first day of school I met a girl in humanities and she told me she was Buddhist with confidence and did not care if she was judged for it. I went home that night and thought about that girl and how cool it was that she did that. I wish I could do that with my own religion with confidence like she did. That is a very rare thing to find in teens I think because I personally have a hard time standing up for my religion. For the reason that I would never want to offend any one or put them down for their religion by saying something the wrong way and not have it come across how I wanted it to. My class was sitting down in a discussion circle talking about the movie we just watched and one of the kids said, “I do not mean to offend anyone but I don’t get why people believe in God, heaven or any of that?” Everything went crazy in my head at that moment. I thought to my self what should I do, what should I say but I don’t want to offend any one, I don’t want to put him down for what he said! I did not know what to say but knowing my self I could not just let it go. So I had to say something. I commented some thing like this “ you know every body has the right to believe what they want and I personally believe in a God, what ever makes a person happy and content is cool for me.” Right after that the teacher stopped the discussion because she did not want any body to be hurt or offended by the discussion. After I felt really good about myself for standing up for what I believe. On my mask you will see a cross and the cross wearing a cross that’s on a necklace. Society has made me really test what I believe and find out what it is I want to stand for and not just ‘wear my religion’ saying you are a Christian does not mean any thing you have to be, act, and live as a Christian. Or whatever religion you are.
Society wants you to fallow the common and most used path. I am going to let you in on a little mountain biking point of view on this. My coach tells me to be like a pouncing cat. No good line is easy to see or find. That’s why they are good. And most of the time you do not see it till the last moment so you have to pounce on the opportunity. When every person takes the same line in their life there is nothing exciting or new about it. But if you are always looking for a new way fighting not to go with the norm you will surprise yourself what you can find and achieve. That is why my mask has bike earrings because I want to live my life like I mountain bike always looking for something new. As well society has this norm for girls and how they have to act and like. And I think the color pink is a good way to describe it. You have to be really girly but me I’m more a purple. I love sports, horses, and speed, not a girly girly pink girl! Purple is a mix of blue and pink and that’s me. I think my family has socialized me that way with camping, dirt biking, hunting…etc that’s what a normal girl in my family does.
Other countries have different norms and values because the way they have been socialized. In Africa there is a Native American society where people can pick their gender roles. If you are a guy you get to pick if you want to take the girls or guys role. If he chooses the girl he is a kind of a person called Zuni. Same thing for girls. But it is not at all homosexual at all that’s just how their society works. Or the Aka Fathers in Africa are the main caretakers of the children unlike how it is the women in America. In India there are Hijras people that have gotten a sex change. But in there culture Hijras are not looked down at all but looked up a peon and are high in the social class. Very different then America? It is very interesting to me how different countries have such different norms and values for gender.
This makes me wonder does the US still have a set of Christian norms and values. I see compared to all the other countries that we are the closest to having to same ideas and norms as Christianity does. Is this because our country was founded bye Christianity? On our money we have “in God we truest”, pledge allegiance “one nation under God”, national anthem “God bless America”. When I was writing this paper I was having a hard time with what our society and what Christianity say differently because they are a lot the same in many ways. Even if you do not believe in Christianity their norms and values are good rules to live by and I think America thinks that as well. For instance the Bible says don’t steal, lie, treat your neighbor the way you want to be treated, our society says the same thing to. Do you think that’s a coincidence?
We are influenced and socialized in every way by society. Society tells you what is cool and what is not. Last year you could look around at any teen/middle schoolgirl and find most all of them wearing low top converse. This school year look around at any park in town you will most likely see a slack line set up with some high school kids hanging out around it and doing flips and other things. Why is this that every body is into the same things at once? Well like the girls and their convers they were socialized that those were cool and they wanted to be cool and follow the trend just like everyone. We all want to be in on the new cool trends. The same thing is going on with slack lining (a strap tied to two trees to stand on) its new and cool. Also we talk different around friends and family because the norms and what is exemptible to say is different, like I would not use slang or abbreviations with my parents. For instance you do not go up to one of your parents and say with swagger “Heyyyyyyyyyyy what up homey schnitzel dat was pridy epic trick you just did!!!!!!!!” You try to talk cool around your friends. You can be negatively affected by society if you do not fit in with what’s cool and you get pushed out. For instance if a boy came to school with a tutu, makeup on and skipping around, everybody would be who is that? And not include him in any thing. We are all affected by society. My mask is on a seesaw because you need to have a good balance of what society wants and thinks and what you want and think.
For me, society has made it hard to be confident in my religion to say what I believe because I do not want to be judged negatively from society for it. On the first day of school I met a girl in humanities and she told me she was Buddhist with confidence and did not care if she was judged for it. I went home that night and thought about that girl and how cool it was that she did that. I wish I could do that with my own religion with confidence like she did. That is a very rare thing to find in teens I think because I personally have a hard time standing up for my religion. For the reason that I would never want to offend any one or put them down for their religion by saying something the wrong way and not have it come across how I wanted it to. My class was sitting down in a discussion circle talking about the movie we just watched and one of the kids said, “I do not mean to offend anyone but I don’t get why people believe in God, heaven or any of that?” Everything went crazy in my head at that moment. I thought to my self what should I do, what should I say but I don’t want to offend any one, I don’t want to put him down for what he said! I did not know what to say but knowing my self I could not just let it go. So I had to say something. I commented some thing like this “ you know every body has the right to believe what they want and I personally believe in a God, what ever makes a person happy and content is cool for me.” Right after that the teacher stopped the discussion because she did not want any body to be hurt or offended by the discussion. After I felt really good about myself for standing up for what I believe. On my mask you will see a cross and the cross wearing a cross that’s on a necklace. Society has made me really test what I believe and find out what it is I want to stand for and not just ‘wear my religion’ saying you are a Christian does not mean any thing you have to be, act, and live as a Christian. Or whatever religion you are.
Society wants you to fallow the common and most used path. I am going to let you in on a little mountain biking point of view on this. My coach tells me to be like a pouncing cat. No good line is easy to see or find. That’s why they are good. And most of the time you do not see it till the last moment so you have to pounce on the opportunity. When every person takes the same line in their life there is nothing exciting or new about it. But if you are always looking for a new way fighting not to go with the norm you will surprise yourself what you can find and achieve. That is why my mask has bike earrings because I want to live my life like I mountain bike always looking for something new. As well society has this norm for girls and how they have to act and like. And I think the color pink is a good way to describe it. You have to be really girly but me I’m more a purple. I love sports, horses, and speed, not a girly girly pink girl! Purple is a mix of blue and pink and that’s me. I think my family has socialized me that way with camping, dirt biking, hunting…etc that’s what a normal girl in my family does.
Other countries have different norms and values because the way they have been socialized. In Africa there is a Native American society where people can pick their gender roles. If you are a guy you get to pick if you want to take the girls or guys role. If he chooses the girl he is a kind of a person called Zuni. Same thing for girls. But it is not at all homosexual at all that’s just how their society works. Or the Aka Fathers in Africa are the main caretakers of the children unlike how it is the women in America. In India there are Hijras people that have gotten a sex change. But in there culture Hijras are not looked down at all but looked up a peon and are high in the social class. Very different then America? It is very interesting to me how different countries have such different norms and values for gender.
This makes me wonder does the US still have a set of Christian norms and values. I see compared to all the other countries that we are the closest to having to same ideas and norms as Christianity does. Is this because our country was founded bye Christianity? On our money we have “in God we truest”, pledge allegiance “one nation under God”, national anthem “God bless America”. When I was writing this paper I was having a hard time with what our society and what Christianity say differently because they are a lot the same in many ways. Even if you do not believe in Christianity their norms and values are good rules to live by and I think America thinks that as well. For instance the Bible says don’t steal, lie, treat your neighbor the way you want to be treated, our society says the same thing to. Do you think that’s a coincidence?