Thursday, April 23, 2015

Tolerance

From what I have seen on the website, It all looks very useful! Some lessons are very hard to find information and material for and this website looks like it would be helpful to fill those voids.
Movies always get students excited to learn about a subject because it (usually) keeps them interested and is something different from the normal lecture/activity.
This is also useful for lessons that you don’t know how to start or lessons that might be hard to talk about. Some of these topics can be a bit touchy especially when relayed to parents from the students so this website gives you resources to have these conversations with out hurting or offending anyone.

This also gives you the resources to teach kids these topics that are new to being necessary to raise students who are open and understanding.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Religion

Church was not a huge aspect of my childhood. The only time we ever really went to church was for Easter. I ended up exploring religion on my own but most of the features of Religion that were taught from a young age are still somewhat foreign to me. 
For this project I went to a catholic church although I would consider myself a baptist. I chose to do this because of a couple reasons. First, my whole family are catholic. Next, It is a religion that is out of my comfort zone but still easy to find someone to go with. 
This assignment, at first glance, surfaced a lot of feelings. Excited about the opportunity for exploration but concerned about the possibility of offending someone. I am use to very contemporary services, so it being a very formal service made it that much more extreme. 
My first observation of my experience is that i probably should have gone with someone else. They didn't inform me of all the different things to expect which lead to me not really understanding what was going on which than lead me to feeling a little out of place. 

I think doing things like this is very important. Times are changing, and they're changing quick. Having an open mind to everything is the best way to live your life and is soon going to be imperative. On top of that having experiences like this can open your eyes to how other people live, giving more understanding and even possibly strengthening your own faith.