My Movie

Curricular Competency Reflection

A. It provided me with how people who are born indigenous or come from indigenous descent have been wrongly treated in the past. And it made me realize how much we have improved from our racist and discriminating pasts, while there are still major incidents that have been happening, ie “red dress day” which is for murdered indigenous woman. We are a lot more active in fighting for indigenous rights and at the rate we are going it should be even better in the future.

B. I learned different traditional indigenous ceremonies through reading my book, and also the fact of roles that indigenous people had back before the British came to North America. Like men were the hunter and gatherers and woman were their to take care of the children and village. The Traditional ceremony that was used a lot in the story was a smelling ceremony of burning a special grass to calm your senses and a pipe ceremony that did a similar thing.

C. I think it is to important read books from indigenous and other cultures because the experiences they might have had in their respective cultures can branch into their writing. so that people from all over the world can learn more of another culture through reading a book which supports the author and the culture overall.

D. I Would recommend this novel to anyone who is interested in the conflicts surrounding drug addiction, gang violence and the importance of learning ones culture, it deals with a lot about indigenous problems facing racism and stereotypes. And it is also good for people who want to learn more about these topics, but also don’t have the patience to read a normal novel or want pictures to help understand to tone of the story or the emotions of the characters.

Core Competency Refelction

This is how I select images and words to create impact for different audiences: I select images from the words i choose, I look for the images that best find the describing details of the words so that the image i choose is what you would picture in your mind. For the words i try to find words that sound powerful and can start to create that sense of imagery in one of the five senses.

In discussions and conversations, I help to build and extend understanding by: I help to extend and build understanding from listen to others talk and comparing the points they have to main and choosing certain things to say that match with someone other ideas. when i am going first i try to pick points that are easy to connect to and something that other people can relate to since it makes the flow of conversation start easier.