On Monday, I was in a science classroom this time to help assist students. The topic was the solar system and the differences between planets. The planet for the day was Saturn as it compared to Earth. I personally enjoy anything space related because its something I really don’t know about as well as its just cool. Even though, this doesn’t compare to our topics in class but I mean it’s nice to know this is taught to them. I don’t remember having anything space related taught to me at my primary school. They even went over the atmosphere gases in Earth and in Saturn, only thing I remember being taught was the debate on whether or not Pluto was considered a planet.
Anyways, on Wednesday in english class: the topic of the day was on the Salem Witch Trials. Honestly, forgot about that but I mean its spooky season so not surprised its making a comeback. Anyways, if you don’t know about the Salem Witch Trials then heres a short recap of it: Men accused women of being witches if they were wearing all black, ill, or basically acting not normal to them. They hung and executed a bunch of women, whether they were guilty or not; as in if they assumed you were a witch and you said no they would still execute you. So, one pretty messed up thing in our history books. Although, at first I didn’t see a connection with witches for this unit but then I further thought about the assumption men put on women in Salem. We also put assumptions on Islam and civilians living there. As discussed in class we all are guilty of thinking any islamic person is Muslim and the media labels them as terrorists. But not everyone is Muslim there, even though we just think so but other religions are also there (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity). In addition, making connections between the Qur’an and Bible in class, on how there are similarities between the two. From a young adult prayer group I attended, there was a speaker who talked to everyone on how their mission is going over to Islam and teaching Christianity. To my surprise he said that many people attended and also had bibles with them. I would of thought no one there practiced Christianity at all (not sure on Catholicism). I think this also connects to what we talked about in on Cairo House, how Gigi missed morning prayer often and we all assumed they had to make every prayer and their religion was strict. But it wasn’t like that at all… we tend to assume a lot but you can’t really prove anything unless given evidence or talk to someone who has experience in that subject.
During advisory class, was a lighter mood since its the week of Halloween. We walked around and voted on our favorite pumpkins that each grade presented. Always something fun/new every week I visit and different connections to topics discussed in class.