Naomi's Teaching Business

Rethinking Thanksgiving Video Notes  A women at the beginning of the video was talking about thanksgiving and food Problematic and racism. Violence. Emerging leader of child hood education. Learning about Language. Vanessa uses Language as a tool to heal. Vanessa was in Dakota talking to someone that speaks another language. she is from south west Minnesota she works at Head start and is the director there. children of color Early Head start center based. Home based teacher. Expectant families program.  They serve sixty in the center Dakota language the school is called children are sacred school . An early childhood program in the lower Sioux Indian community in Southwestern Minnesota where children learn Dakota history and language .The thanksgiving pilgrim and Indian stories that many of us were taught as children perpetuate harmful stereo types. Vanessa Good thunder a director of Cansayapi Wakanyenzi for the lower Sioux children are sacred school. I think Vanessa is very c...

 Anti Racist book I feel good that the book is about anti racim because its good to not be Racist. There is a lot of discussion on self identity so it was interesting reading about that. This content was new because I have not read a book about identity before. This book is about your identites, your class, who you are. In the book it says you are made up of your family, your neighborhood, your school, what you see on social media, what you hear in books and what you read and listen too. I think that's cool because there's tons of things I read and listen to each day. I watch some of the same things as my sister so we see and hear the same thing.  When I read this book is anti racist i thought it was interesting. It talks about who you are. And I heard about identities. But I haven't read something like this. You get to decide which identities you will share with the world and how you’ll do so. Anti racism is actively working against racism. It is making a commitment to res...

 Who I am blog  I thought the Ted talk video was interesting. The women was talking but with street slang. But it was nice hearing what she had to say. She was saying she's articulate. Her teacher asked her a question. and she said different things. articulate means to express ones self clearly and effectively or to be well spoken. what's good with you son? Was something she said. why these books never be about my people is what she said. Meaning books are never about black people. who controls Articulation. Meaning you cant control it. The only God of language is the one recorded in Genesis. She was wearing a black t shirt. Black jacket Suite. and Black glasses. . She sounds like she's speaking and ryhming. she speaks broken English.  I think she is a good speaker. And she is talking about her race. And her thoughts and opinions. And she's just being herself which is good. you cant expect me to speak your history holy. These words are spoken by someone who is feed up. ...