Author Archives: jennasakol

The meaningful issue in which I will be exploring in my final product is the outdated American school system and its negative effects on children and their learning. I, as well as many researchers have found that our current school system (which was compiled all the way back during the Industrial Revolution) has now becomeContinue reading “Blog Post #7: Storytelling as Resistance”

The Teen Vogue article What It’s Like to be Black at a Predominantly White School is designed to empower young adults as they enter the first steps in formulating their future in that they have the power to dictate the environment in which they surround themselves around. The article is written by Stephanie Tate whoContinue reading “Blog Post #6: “Rhetoric Triangle in Teen Vogue””

In her article “Critical Race Theory Counterstory as Allegory: A Rhetorical Trope to Raise Awareness About Arizona’s Ban on Ethnic Studies,” Aja Y. Martinez “define[s] allegory as a trope by which to render invisible forms of racism (structural or colorblind,) visible.” (Martinez pg.1, p.1) This definition goes deeper than just the already wide-scale concept ofContinue reading “Blog Post #5: “Showing vs. Telling””

Today, Min-Zhan Lu is a widely successful, published Writing & Composition professor in the United States. She has made so many accomplishments within her field that she has even created her own pedagogy. Within it, she advocates for a blending of students’ individual and educational discourses. To elaborate, in her teaching, she practices negotiating betweenContinue reading “Blog Post #4: “Educational Discourses of Our Youth””

In terms of my home life and heritage playing a role in my English language, I’ve honestly had to adjust in and out of many different speech patterns. My mother comes from a very large, passionate Italian family. This was the first thing I was exposed to in my earlier, developmental years. Every time myContinue reading “Blog Post #3: “The Tool of Language””

“It has preached against colonializing Indians, and in favor of individualizing them.” (Pratt) These are the ironic words of Captain Richard H. Pratt in his discussion of the education of the Native American society. I say ironic because of his emphasis on the individualization of the Native Americans in which he describes the Carlisle IndianContinue reading “Blog Post #2: “Individuality” of “Indians””

In analyzing Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed, after my close look at just the first chapter alone – I am in complete understanding that it’s breaking apart the way in which humans understand oppression and the roles it plays in society. At least in the first chapter, Freire explores specifically the relationship between oppressorsContinue reading “Blog Post #1”