Curricular Response

Explain how you chose one image and one quotation to create or support the meaning represented in your map assignment. 

I chose the peace sign because the song “this land is your land” seemed like a cry for peace. The line “Forget a treaty, I still call them crooks” Shows the meaning behind the ‘treaty’ indigenous people made with the colonizers, basically exploiting them and their land. It wasn’t fair what the colonizers did to the indigenous land and life and it has made permanent damage on their culture.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

As this assignment was in some ways different from a “typical” assignment for English class, discuss what challenges you faced completing the assignment and how you overcame them. 

This assignment was interesting to do but a bit challenging to grasp a hold of. I was confused as to what I needed to connect to each other but once I figured that out I don’t think I struggled too much. A few of the images and quotes were hard to extract fromthr songs because you really had to look between the lines for them and turn on my ‘Critical and analytical thinking’