From here to sempiternity,
I want to thank you for letting me join you for this past month and a half. And although my time here has flown by and it's been great, I have some pretty important things back in the U.S. that I need to attend to i.e. my college exit interviews and my wedding.
One question that has been asked of me numerous times since coming to Taejon is, “Why did you come to TCIS to student teach?” I guess as opposed to SFS or some other school. The undertone I hear in that question, and I’ve heard elsewhere, is that somehow TCIS is an inferior school to SFS or other similar schools, also hinting at a further insecurity that somehow the TCIS students are inferior to SFS students. Honestly, that kind of sentiment bothers me because after having worked with you for the past month and half I can say that you are in no way inferior to SFS students so pick your chin up and have some pride in your school and your identity as a TCIS student. All of this to say that I am proud to have worked with you, and I am proud of the things you are accomplishing here at TCIS.
I'll be making one more post in the near future, and I am going to continue posting on your blogs, although I may not be able to in the next week or so. Press on Sempiternal Class, Press on.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Student Created Blog Prompts:
These are the questions you created in your discussion groups today. Feel free to write a blog based off of any of these questions/prompts.
1) Why enter a tribe/culture if they already have "eternity in their hearts" according to Don Richardson?
2) Write Yae's last moments from the killers' perspectives.
3) How would uncivilized cultures react upon receiving technology beyond their comprehension?s
4) Does everyone have a specific culture? Define culture?
5) What do you believe and why?
6) Can traditions be broken completely? Support/provide answers.
7) Using the five senses, describe life through the eyes of a Sawi Child. How would they perceive the arrival of the Tuans?
8) What makes faith so important?
9) Theorize as to what would have happened if Don Richardson had never gone to the Sawi. What would the Sawi look like forty years later?
10) Are primitive cultures, like the Sawi, necessary in our present world?
1) Why enter a tribe/culture if they already have "eternity in their hearts" according to Don Richardson?
2) Write Yae's last moments from the killers' perspectives.
3) How would uncivilized cultures react upon receiving technology beyond their comprehension?s
4) Does everyone have a specific culture? Define culture?
5) What do you believe and why?
6) Can traditions be broken completely? Support/provide answers.
7) Using the five senses, describe life through the eyes of a Sawi Child. How would they perceive the arrival of the Tuans?
8) What makes faith so important?
9) Theorize as to what would have happened if Don Richardson had never gone to the Sawi. What would the Sawi look like forty years later?
10) Are primitive cultures, like the Sawi, necessary in our present world?
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