What I learned from Mr. Fielder's Classroom

At the beginning of the year, I was nervous for Global Education Language arts. Mr. Fielder told my class that “yes Global Ed is challenging, but it will be good at the end”. And at the beginning I didn’t know what he was talking about or what to do. But as the year went on I learn how to do these things better.

One thing that I learned this year in Mr. Fielder classroom is how to write a one or two paragraphs response with a thesis. None of mine are great but each time I write one my writing skills improved. The things that I learned from this are to have less clutter. If it isn’t needed or doesn’t belong get rid of it. I also learned better way to use Ethos and facts. And the structure of this should look like this… a thesis at the top, most likely should be only one sentence then the first paragraph should be an support of what the thesis should be and then two sentences of what that first support of the thesis . Then the same thing but different supports for the second paragraph.

I also learned about different places and what happen in their histories. Like in the movie “Hotel for Rwanda,” I learned there was a country called Rwanda, that they had a major Genocide there against the Tutsis and the Hutu’s and half of the people died in it, I thought that it was even worse than our civil war. In “Rabbit Proof Fence,” I didn’t know there were native Austrians and how the way the British treated them (which weren’t very pleasant). The people saw the natives the way the Americans used to see the African- Americans her in America. In the movie “The Power of One,” it was okay and I thought that the other two movies were more educational. But in this movie there was this British boy who grew up with everybody dying and that the Africans weren’t treated as equal as they were promise.

Then there was the Debate about Rwanda Genocide. I thought that was a great experience for the class and that we should do it again to practice for a Simon. I learned from it how some parts of the game goes and a lot about my person Juvenal Habyarimana. He was killed on the plane way back from a peace agreement and somebody shoot down his plane. And then there was a radio station that wasn’t in our control we just funded it at the beginning.

And also I learned to have a creative yet a logical mind about stories like the “Man in the Well”. He was a guy in the well and these kids came by and they just kept him there and he was asking the kids for them to get their parents and they just sat around the well and just asking them questions about who he is and why he is in the well. And the creative but logical part is guessing who he is and why he is in the Well. And also in the class stories that go on like the myths we were just doing. It was easy to think of a creative myth but to make it logical was tough.

At all this semester was a very good semester and I learned a lot from Mr. Fielder and I hope that next semester that I will have him again.