My little story by Tatyana

Write:
Think about a time you witnessed bullying/ostracism/peer pressure/exclusion/discrimination/violence. How did you respond?

When I was in Houston, TX. in my old school, my friend and I were playing during lunch. There was this girl named Wanda and she just wanted to play with me and only me and not my friend Arianne. Wanda did not like her so much. Every time I was hanging out with Arianne or my other friends Wanda would come near us and pull me away from Arianne. I knew that was going to upset her a little but at first Arianne was a little confused so she just hung out with her other friends. One day I left class and heard Wanda telling Arianne, " You better stay away form Tatyana because she is my friend and no one can be her friend especially you" Arianne said " Why can't we be both be friends together?" Wanda says, " I just want to be Tatyana's friend only hers!" When I heard that going on I first thought that Wanda was telling Arianne that Wanda want's to be my friend only and Arianne said " Why can't we both be her friend". Right away I knew that Wanda wanted to ostracize my best friend Arianne so I knew that I had to do something and so I did. I was going to tell my other friends what was happening and when that did not work at all I when straight to the teacher and told her what was going on. The teacher went outside to the playground to where Wanda and Arianne were and the first thing that came out of Wanda's mouth was " you got the teacher and your told on me I thought you are suppose to be my friend". When I looked at Wanda I felt very bad and I thought I was a tattle tale. My teacher told me to not say that to my self. She said that I did the right thing to tell her what was going on. So me and Arianne went on playing for the day and finish school for the day too. If Wanda got to know Arianne more maybe Wanda would like Arianne and then we can all be the best's of friends and all of this fighting and the ostracism would not happen and we would be friends and have an awesome day at school.
How do you wish you had responded?

I wish I would have done things differently by telling the teacher and not trying to handle it myself. Also, I would of course stand up for Arianne and tell Wanda to not say mean things to my friend. Wanda is making me choose between Arianne or Wanda but I can't do that so I would love to choose both. That is what I should have said to Wanda and maybe Wanda would like Arianne and get to know her. It all worked at the end and Wanda and Arianne and I became the best of friends. All you have to do if that happens to you and your friend you just need to do is to invite them into your little group and they will warm up to your friend and then all of you guys will be friends forever hopefully. That worked for Arianne and Wanda and I. We had our little fights but it all worked out all right and we all became the best of friends your have ever seen. That is a couple of things that I would like to change.

What stopped you from responding that way?
I wish I would have got the teacher first because they have more control and often others will not listen to me because I am just a kid. I also didn't want to be considered a tattletale and then others would bug me and I didn't want that.


Respond to the questions below
1.Where have we seen examples of bullying/ostracism/exclusion occurring in texts studied so far this year- factual as well as fictional?

The In-Group
Watch the video clip below
Eve S: The In Group


1.Select one line/phrase/group of sentences that are significant to you. Explain why.

" I sat down and laughing till my sides hurt heard my voice finally blend with the others". I chose this because she was also making fun of another person even though she knew what it was like to be made fun of. She wanted to fit in.

To think about:
How is ostracism different from other forms of bullying? When does ostracizing or excluding someone from a group become part of bullying?

1.What’s familiar about the incident Eve describes?
I have also lived that moment when I have laughed at someone when I tried to fit in with others.

2.What surprised you?
I was kind of shocked to see that she also laughed along with them. I thought because of how she felt that she would have not gone along with the group.

3. How does Eve’s story relate to bullying? Was she bullied? Did she bully? How would you explain her behavior?( perpetrator/bystander/victim?). make sure you justify( back up your answer.

Yes, it does relate to bullying. She made fun of the other girl just like the others did. I feel she did this to fit in. She was afraid that maybe they would turn again on her. She was a bystander even though she did get involved.

Psychologists Michael Thompson and Lawrence Cohen point to the powerful influence of peer groups in guiding our behavior: ‘We all know that groups can go terribly astray in terms of their moral reasoning. Everyone not in the group can be considered an outsider, a legitimate target…It affects every group because we are all prone to that feeling of us versus them and the idea that if you’re not with us you’re against us. Speaking out against a risky, immoral or illegal decision is hard to do because that makes you an outsider yourself’.

4.How did Eve’s need to belong affect the way she responded when another girl was being mocked? Why does her response still trouble her? How do you like to think you would have responded to the incident?

She wanted to fit in and went along with the group. She was more concerned about fitting in than whether it was right or wrong. On reflection she new it was wrong but her need to fit in had overpowered her. I hope I would have not laughed and been strong enough to not get involved.

5. Eve concludes “Often being accepted by others is more satisfying than being accepted by oneself, even though the satisfaction does not last.’ What does she mean?
Initially it feels good and at the time seems right but when you stop and think clearly about it you realize it was wrong.

The Mysterious Major

The Mysterious Major

What did Schmahling mean when he said that in crushing the boy in his classroom, he was destroying something in himself? What was he destroying? How was it like what the Nazis were destroying in the people they ruled?

What was he destroying? Schmahling was destroying was the moment of sunlight in the little boys life. That means he was destroying the good in the boy and the good things that will happen to him in the future .Also he was having a good day intill the teacher told him to sit down then the boy lost his happy day thought.

What did Schmahling mean when he said that in crushing the boy in his classroom, he was destroying something in himself?

When the teacher yelled at the little boy she crushed the spriet of the boy of letting out his feelings and opinions and that made the boy stop talking in class. Also the teacher hurt himself by tell off the boy and when he did that the boy stopped talking and giving his thoughts and the teacher vowed that he would never yell at anybody again. Also when he yelled at he boy he destroyed the spriet and the sunlight meaning the good thoughts in the boys mind were gone when the teacher yelled at the boy in class. That is why the teacher vowed to himself that he would never yell at anybody because he hated yelling at the boy and taking away the boys happy thoughts.

How was it like what the Nazis were destroying in the people they ruled?

They would take away their jobs and when they have no jobs they don't have no money and when they have no money they will go hungry and probably die. Also if they do live some were they will lose their homes because they have no money to pay the rent. So when they are poor and have no where to go the Nazis will bring them to the consternated camp to work. When they are healthy they will be put to labor( hard work). But when they are sick( handy cap and sick) they will shoot them or gas them.

In memory to my mother

The poem I chose was "In memory to my mother". I just took some important parts about the poem that was about he mother. For an example on the top of the poem it saids Where is your grave? Where did you dit? why did you go away? why did you leave your little girl that rainy autumn day?. I though that was when Sonia Weitz was asking her these questions about her mother and what happend to her. Also she was giving a description about what colour her mother's eyes were, their was a little mood their when it said " So mild". I thought that was a mood to me. Also their were some smilies in their too for an example " Face was white and silent like a stone". Their was a lot of moods I thought I saw in the poem and not so much smilies in their but I thought those were my important annotations I found in the poem and thought it was important. In some of the parts of the poem I thought it was sad but all of the poem was very sad and a little happy because the sad part was when Sonia Weitz was a little girl during the Holocaust she had to leave her mom and when her family past away she had wrote a poem and this is the blog I am doing about her poem. Also the sad thing was that when she was little she did not get to see her mom no more and back then she had to travel alone in a box cars. That is what they called it back then when they did not have no chairs to sit in. Also they were put in a concentrated campe. When she saw he mother die she was suffering though the pain. But the happy part about he poem was that it was good that she remembers a lot about her mother and ever little detail. Also she was happy that her sister and her self lived though the Holocaust and she gets to tell us all about what she lived though and what she had to see and what she had to suffer. So this poem it happy and sad but I thought it was a good poem and I am glad that I chose it and it cough me one when she was remember her mother and she lived so she could tell every one what she lived though and she was still alive that she could right a poem about her mother so she could remember her always. So that was a good poem to read and I was happy to read it and see and read with my own eyes what she had to live though.

Tatyana Germany 1918-1933

Consider the first stage of our unit of study on Nazi Germany. For this blog post consider the following prompt and respond:

What conditions were present that allowed Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to take control of Germany in 1933?

This event " The Nazi party gains 33% of vote. Weimar Government decides to appoint Hitler chancellor". Germany was in chaos trying to recover their lost of world war one. The Government had no money because they were paying for all the damage they made in world war one. Hitler was in prison because he did some bad things. When Hitler was in prison he wrote "Mein Kampf". Hitler was in prison because he did bad things. Hitler came to Germany and started the Nazi party. It shows that Hitler gained higher authority he can order people around, He could speak up his ideas and no one could tell him what to say or what do, More people would know who he was.

My other event: " A worldwide depression as the markets " crash" Hitler sees this as a great opportunity". I chose this event because the markest went down and lost a lot of percent so Hitler had his chance to get more power and he would take control of Germany. With the weakness of the money and the crash of the world economy, everyone was in bad shape the Germans and the Jews. Hitler saw this chance to take control by saying "Ill make everything better, ill fix this,"

Hitler Takes Control: Targeting the Communists and other Political Parties

Hitler Takes Control: Targeting the Communists and other Political Parties

1. What are Civil
Rights?
Civil Rights are all people should expect in a civilized
society. Also they are a persons personal rights that is guaranteed and protected by the US Constitution and the federal laws enacted of Congress.

3. What are some that we have?

• freedom of speech
• The right to vote
  
• equal protection of the laws
  
• protection from unlawful discrimination.
• Freedom of Religion
  

Miranda Rights: You have the right to remain silent and You have the right to an attorney and If you can't afford one, then one will be appointed to you and anything you say can and will be used against you.

2. Why might some of Hitler's measures in
abolishing personal freedoms and Civil Rights be seen by some as a
positive, or necessary move?

Some people may have thought
abolishing personal freedoms in that time maintained order where people
were poor and starving. The people were stealing food and money and
other rich people who got robbed thought

Restrictive Laws in Nazi Germany

The Nuremberg Laws. In 1935 a series of laws were introduced which further restricted the civil rights and personal freedoms of Jews. Upon reading the information provided on the link, answer these questions:

1. Who could now be defined as a "Jew"?
Instead a Jew was defined as a person who had three or four Jewish grandparents regardless of whether that individual belonged to the Jewish religious community.

2.What was meant by "Aryanizing" Jewish Businesses?
Aryanizing means that the works and managers were fired form their job, the businesses was taken over by none Jewish people were given given businesses for bargain prices.
3. How were Jews who were professionals (lawyers, doctors etc.) restricted?]
Jewish doctors were not allowed to heal no-Jews and the Jewish lawyers were not allowed to practice law on no-Jews.

4. What did Jewish identity cards need to include now?
They need to include a the letter "J" and Males had to have Israel and the Females had to have Sara that would be their new middle name for Male and Female. Also the cards allowed the police to identify the Jews easily.

5. What was the "Law for the Protection of the Hereditary Health of the German People" (sum up in your own words)?
The law was about anyone who wanted to get marry had to have a certificate to marry, but if you were not of German blood you could not get marred and could not get a certificate.

Targeting the Communists and other Political Parties.

Hitler Takes Control: Targeting the Communists and other Political Parties

1. What are Civil Rights?
Civil Rights are all people should expect in a civilized society. Also they are a persons personal rights that is guaranteed and protected by the US Constitution and the federal laws enacted of Congress.

3. What are some that we have?

• freedom of speech
• The right to vote
  
• equal protection of the laws
  
• protection from unlawful discrimination.
• Freedom of Religion
  

Miranda Rights: You have the right to remain silent and You have the right to an attorney and If you can't afford one, then one will be appointed to you and anything you say can and will be used against you.

2. Why might some of Hitler's measures in abolishing personal freedoms and Civil Rights be seen by some as a positive, or necessary move?

Some people may have thought abolishing personal freedoms in that time maintained order where people were poor and starving. The people were stealing food and money and other rich people who got robbed thought it was a good thing for them because it may have prevented them from getting robbed no more.