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SECOND - Comment here regarding your initial thoughts about today's introduction to our Women's Studies unit. What did it make you wonder/think/ponder?
After today's class I realized how we have been taught all of these years. At the beginning of the drawing exercise I knew we were trying to be led into something but I did not know what. I thought it would have to do with stereotypicalness, but I didn't know it would be towards women. I realized that what we have been taught throughout the years was mostly about men. We rarely learn about important women figures, and if we do we hardly scratch the surface.
Our introduction to the Woman's Studies unit today was actually really interesting. The drawing activity caught me off guard and I didn't even being to think that it was the transition into Women's Studies. It made me realize that men control this society, whether people like it or not. In my independent writing, I wrote about how men can consume a women's thoughts and that men are the superior to all, even if it isn't the wanted image. I mentioned how as a little girl, they rely on their fathers and they create the image as all men are like the father. Later in life, during adolescence, girls are exposed to relationships with males and they tend to start trying to impress them by making sure their hair looks nice, or that their clothes make heads turn. The introduction opened my thoughts to what I have never taken time to think about. I have always known that women were thought of less than men, but I never realized that it consumes everyone. We rarely ever look into the women figures that shape our history as so. We only focus on the bad that women do, while men just sit and look powerful with their "jacked" bodies or the political views. Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart are very important women figures that are acknowledged for their good, but why is it that only women from way back when are recognized as good? I really enjoyed the introduction and I am really looking forward to this new unit.
Today's discussion made me wonder why women have not been remembered as well as men in history. There has not been as many women as there has been who have made a big influence in America but when they have they have done huge things. It made me think about how women are also regular humans and what made men think different about them. Why were men made dominant in the first place and why they had this idea that women were not as good as men. It was not surprising to me that the majority of the class drew men because in the pilgrim times there was not stories about women and in the other two events those both were wars in which women were not allowed to participate in. I liked the way we opened this unit i was not expecting it and I am already really interested in it and we barely begun.
Our introduction to Woman's studies made me very curious as to how much woman have done throughout our history. It made me think about how much my life has revolved around what woman have done throughout the past years that have resulted in my life now. I know information about Rosa Parks and Helen Keller but I think that the relevance of their effectiveness on society does not really affect me now. I want to know about the people who have gone through their lives wanting to change the lives of future people in America rather than the ones who did things for themselves.
After beginning our unit in women today it made me wonder why me being a female didn’t think to draw any during our experiment today. It made me wonder why men were the first thought in my head after three times in a row. It didn’t even occur to me that women hold those same positions men do. Seeing the rest of the classes’ drawings made it evident that I was not the only one in the class who thought to draw men. Also while we were doing the activity at the end of class where we listed ten famous males and females it was harder for me to do women that were successful and appropriate and deserving reasons. I found that the women on my list were famous for no apparent reason and the mean were typically more successful leaders. While we were discussing the answers to the three questions on the front of that sheet it really made me wonder why the women’s role was so suppressed and not given much value. Like Erika, I wrote about how in today’s society men are superior to women whether we like it or not. I have not been taught about women shaping history like men have and therefore, I believe that is why it was not apparent to me while creating images in class today.
The introduction to the next unit about Women's Studies really surprised and got me thinking about what I've learned the past years in school. I never realized that the majority of acknowledgment from history went towards the men and to think about this made me question myself on why I hadn't realized this trend before. I'm a bit upset that many women are seen as second place to men and that not a lot of recognition goes towards them. The images that we had to draw really showed that we've been influenced that men are seen as the superior gender and women are put in the background, given little credit or none at all. For the list activity, I barely had to think about famous men to put in the category, but it took me quite a while to think of women. I tried to think of women that have been involved with historical events, but not many came to mind. I find it disappointing that women aren't given as much recognition as they should be.
I believe the introduction to women rights was very interesting. I had never realized how easily our minds had been shaped into subconsciously excluding women from a substantial amount of the recollections of historical events. I believe that this could be because throughout history woman in earlier times were not allowed to play large parts in government or war acts because of the social customs of the age. Yet on the other hand, there are several women figures that do stand out and are not noted as such. For example, Erika had stated Helen Keller and Amelia Earheart as examples of noteable women figures, yet I realize even now as I am typing this that I know little about these and other women figures. Women often accomplish fame by going against the social norms and taking changing a situation. For example, John Adams confided many of his theories on Government with his wife Abigail and she helped shape his opinion and offer new theories for the development of the Government. I now realize that we glorify many of the impacts of men and select women throughout time. Overall, upon viewing the slideshow in class today I realize that there are a lot of women figures that go unnoticed in history (those being women soldiers and political figures).
The way you introduced the women's rights unit really made me think about all the different ways women have influenced history but have not been really recognized for. I believe that this is because of the patriarchal society we live in. Since males have predominantly run life and history since the beginning of time the have influenced the way we read history as such. The fact that only three people drew women for one thing, shows that whether we like it or not we have been influenced by this patriarchal system. Even when we were doing the experiment at the end of class I didn't actually put down a lot of influential women, mainly women who were famous for sports and acting or just for being famous. The men were politicians and public figures. Its interesting that my mind instantly goes straight towards influential men rather that women when I am a woman. Overall I am really excited to begin this unit because we haven't really studied this before in class, and I am excited to get all this new information.
After the work that we did in class regarding our next unit of study, I have found that women in our history have not been depicted as much as men have. I find that women have not been studied as much as women and that men seem like the dominant historical figure. The drawing activity caught me off guard as I didn't realize it was the beginning to our Women's Studies Unit. It surprised me how just about the entire class, including myself, drew men historical figures instead of men because that's how we all characterized the topics given to draw. I didn't even think to draw a woman even though it would fall under those topics (Pilgrim, WWII Hero, Revolutionary), just as well. Also, I find it unfair how with the list activity, I could think of plenty of men historical figures and not many women came to mind. The most historical figures that came to mind right off the bat was Sacajawea, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. That said, I thought of another ten or fifteen more men. Above all, I find that this was a neat activity to tie us in to the beginning of the next unit of study. The fact that we think of men more than women, tells me that men have been taught as more dominant figures, but women are just as equal and do the same jobs and fall under the same categories as men do with the drawing activity. I find that this women studies unit is good so then we can learn more of women rather than the men that we've been studying throughout our educational career. Men shouldn't be the dominant study, women are just as equal, and I think that this unit will be good to justify that. The activity done in class really got me thinking on why we think of men more then women.
My initial reaction towards today’s activity in class was very surprised. I have never taken the time before to take a step back and realize that my knowledge of war heroes and people who have created a revolution have been about men. In a way I wasn’t that surprised that my peers as well as myself focused on drawing images of men because previously we have mainly focused on learning about men in our history. I understand that this is unintentional but I think it’s great that we are going to be focusing on a Women’s Studies Unit. It made me ponder why I didn’t decide to draw a woman as an icon of one of the categories. Drawing a man for each category was the first thing that came to mind for me because of previous lessons I have been taught, such as drawing pilgrim men for Thanksgiving. I thought this transition to the next unit was very successful because it made me more aware that we do lack knowledge on the impact that woman have had throughout our history. It makes me very curious to learn more about Women who have made a difference in our history as well as currently. I am excited to expand my knowledge on revolution leaders rather then just being aware of the stance Rosa Park took in our history. This also makes me wonder how many other high school students as well as United States citizens are uneducated on women in our history.
After today's class introduction to our next unit of study, Woman's rights, there are several things that are on my mind. I have never really noticed until after we had the introductory "arts and crafts". All my life i had thought as many "iconic" and important people, such as a pilgrim, a war hero, and a revolutionary icon as males. However, I did know that there are several females who are serving our country today, and also who would be considered a revolutionary icon. I do wonder why i have never noticed that woman were not shown in my mind as "iconic". I think that it is because all throughout history, men have been shown as improving the world we live in today. Thinking back to the introduction, I am not surprised that i was the only one who thought this. Many of my classmates had the same feelings and thoughts towards woman in today's (and the past) world. I have never studied Woman's history in depth. All i have ever really been taught was that in the past woman had no right to land, voting, and could not enroll in the US military forces. I look forward to learning where woman used to stand on the worlds totem pole, and where they are in today's modern world.
Not being in class on this date i will do my best to complete this blog. Knowing some things already about our next topic in class, women's rights, I've noticed and really haven't come to much surprised that women weren't as depicted and frequently demonstrated than men were back in time. Men were viewed as he changers of life and were given almost all the opportunities presentable while women where pushovers and servants only needing to worry about cooking cleaning and chores. Because of this idea men have run life in the past making it seem so that life was influenced more towards men than women. Having this background information on this subject being limited, i am very curious about this subject and excited to learn more knowledge on this topic. I am excited to learn about what type of women had such a significance to this issue instead of just knowing that they exist. I am looking forward to these next upcoming days and cant wait to get started.
My initial reaction towards today’s activity was, also as many other students have said, surprised. I thought we were just drawing for fun and was not thinking how this could affect us. Little did I know, I was thinking of Men every time a critical point in time was asked to be represented by a person. I did not think of using a women to represent a WWII hero or as a revolutionary, I thought of Men that have been taught to us continuously over time, like George Washington and a Code talker from WWII. I also thought that this activity brought us into this unit with open because it gave us a clearer picture that we really do not consider the impact of women on our society as anything important. I am excited to start this new unit because I would like to learn about the impacts women have on society instead of quick little names thrown out there to say we have learned about them. To be honest I can only think of very few women in history that I know what they did to get their place in the history books, I would like to change this because a lot more than a few women have changed history and they deserved to be taught to the world.
Today's introduction to our Women's Studies was really interesting and a creative way to start off a new topic. The drawing caught me off guard; I didn't think we would be starting a new topic by asking people to draw what they precieved as a Pilgrim, a World War II Hero, and a Revolutionary person. This made me wonder why majority of people, including women, don't usually think of women when they hear these topics to discuss. Also, this made me wonder why me being a female, I didn't draw a female for any of the drawings. We rarely look into women figures in many classes; we mainly focus on what the men have done to help shape what we are now. I really liked the introduction into this unit and I'm looking forward to learning more about this topic.
I thought today's introduction into our women's rights unit was very interesting. It caught my attention and made we aware of the lack of women's studies in schools. I wasn't sure what to think when we first did the drawing exercise. I wondered what the point of it was, but when I figured it out it made me realize that there really is a major difference in the amount of famous men and women we study. When I thought of all the things we drew, I thought of a man. That was what came to my mind first. I would credit that to being what we have learned over time. We've learned that women have always been there, but never learned the impact they made. All we have studied is the impact that men have had on the country. This exercise really opened my eyes to how we view women in our history. Women as a whole have made a great impact so learning about their history will be interesting. In our history we have been taught that men were always the domiant successful ones, so that has been engrained in our minds. Seeing the other side will be a very interesting contrast to what we have learned in the past. I thought the introduction to this unit was perfect and I'm looking forward to learning about how women have impacted our country.
Today with the activity we took i noticed that all the things that we did, like draw a picture of what you think of a pilgrim, WWII, and revolutionary, all i thought of was great American men doing heroic things. i mean know i realize how much history i am missing on the American women because i really have only learned about how men are heroic. i mean when i think about it i never pictured like a women fighting side by side with George Washington or Adolf Hitler. i mean i know a lot of famous women out there but i mean i really wanna know more about famous women that people don't normally talk about.
In today's activity I was completely caught off guard by the Women's Studies unit tying in. If I had known what we were doing I could have drawn an accurate picture of a woman pilgrim. World War 2 I would not have been able to draw an accurate picture of a women during that time. This is because i have never learned about World War 2 specifically in any of my classes. Most of my knowledge is from stories and shows that I have seen on television. For revolutionary figure it could have gone both ways with Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and so on. I just so happened to pick a man. It was alarming to see how only 3/99 pictures of women were drawn out our large class. Personally I need to educate myself on this important topic and realize women have played an equal role as anyone else in our countries history.
I was surprised about today's introduction of the unit about women's history. When we did the drawing activity I thought it was just for fun but had no idea how much meaning it ended up having behind it. First thoughts coming to my mind of a pilgrim, WWII hero, and a revolutionary are always men, naturally. I guess it has to do something with the sort of things we were taught when we were younger, for example: the typical pilgrim with the hat and buckles, the strong man known as the war hero, etc. I was surprised by the outcome of how many women were drawn, out of 33 students making 3 drawings, only 3 of those drawings were women characters. Even though those drawings were the first thing to come to mind, I think it's wrong how the thought of a woman fitting into one of those roles is not even considered in our train of thought due to the things we've been taught our entire life.
I was very surprised with the way we transitioned into the unit but i liked the way it was done very much. It showed me just how one sided our thinking is when it comes to women and men. I ponder what we could learn about since I have never really been exposed to this before. We may have briefly touched this from time to time but just very quickly. I am really looking forward to learning all about this unit so I can have more balanced thinking.
Even though there are many women hero’s (heroin’s)many of them are not acknowledge, or known by the general public. I think it was interesting how almost everyone in the class knew of more famous men than women. And even if they could mention a lot of famous women they were unable to mention what they were famous for. I thought it was neat how we “fell into the trap” of the activity today in class. It was surprising to see how many people didn’t draw females, including myself. I also didn’t really realize until today’s activity in class how we really don’t learn about what women did in history. I’m pretty sure in one class we briefly talked about how women were nurses, but that’s basically all I can remember. I’m glad we are doing this unit it’s going to be nice to learn about women history and what role they had in society. Besides just being the clichéd housewife; doing all the cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children.
I actually thought today was pretty interesting and I definitely didn't expect the drawing thing to turn into an introduction about women studies. Typically we hear about women struggling for their rights and being denied them in the past and we know as a whole a decent amount about what women went through before the women’s rights movement. But looking at the results of the drawings, it’s very evident that despite the fact that we know the things women went through and how they have contributed, we still think of society as dominated by males. We didn’t intentionally draw men because we though they were superior, we just drew them because that’s what we typically think of when we think of important characters in history. Today made me really wonder how much of women we are missing in history and the contributions they have made, and what was really done by any group of people who have been denied the spotlight.
I think that today's activity was a pretty eye-opening experience. It was interesting to see what people imaging when they think of people in history. I think it also made me think about how we have been taught and how that effected our idea of women in society. In school, we tend to learn more about the famous men in history while we only occasionally brush the topic of historically famous women. It made me think of all the women in history that made a difference and we don't even know about them. It is sort of motivating to try and change the thinking that was displayed by today's experiment in class.
I was completely surprised by the purpose of the drawing activity today. I had absolutely no idea what it was going to lead to and I realize how women may have come a long way, but our society is still dominated by images of male heroes and males in history. When I think of most of history, it is from a male point of view. I know that I can never understand what it is like to be a woman or to be in the shadows in history because of your gender. I know that women have played an active part in history but I really don't know a lot about what that part is. I am excited to learn about women's history because I think that it'll be good to see history from such a different viewpoint.
When we talked about women's rights and roles today in class it made me realize that the problem isn't completely fixed yet and our drawings today were evidence of that. It is a problem that usually goes unnoticed, but I am glad we got the chance to see it. As a kid, the pictures we were shown, the movies we watched, and the texts we learned talked about one side more than the other. Because of this, we think about events in history (like the ones we drew about) and link them to men, and forget about women's roles. We remember the men more than the women, which is not right because their achievements are overpowered by men's achievements when both contributions to history are equally important. I liked the discussion today because it made me realize something that is happening to us that I would have never noticed before.
Today's topic on woman rights showed me that when we think about great people in history we do not think about the women. And they played a really big role in our history. As kids in elementary school we did not really learn about the women it was always the men and what they did. I remember the women always stayed home and did the cooking and the cleaning but they really did play a big role in the way the county started without them, we would not be the same. The men were always the hero in every story so they stuck in our mind with the big events.
Women's rights is going to be a very interesting unit. There is a lot about that period of history that i have no knowledge of. It is topic that we don't usually study in any class. And for me when ever i think of women in history, i really need to take a moment to think. Unlike men where i can named ten right off the bat no problem. The unit will be a first fore me and probably for the class as a whole, it should be interesting to learn about.
After doing the drawing activity in class today I was completely shocked because I did not expect it to relate to Women's Rights unit. For myself being a women I was surprised that I only drew one woman out of the three pictures that we had to draw. That makes me think that throughout the years of learning about our history that the male has been more dominant and important in what we have studied and we only touched upon a few important women in our history. I believe that is why I did not think to draw one when I thought of a WWII Hero or Revolutionary; my first instinct was to draw a man. But, oddly enough I did think of a woman to draw for a pilgrim. Even though when we had learned about the pilgrims most of it was about men, I decided to draw a women. I was one of the two other students who did so, but I am not exactly sure why I did. So this lesson did make me think a lot about our past and how important women have been in it and why we haven't learned too much about them. But I am interested to see what I do learn in class during our Women's Rights Unit.
Ever since that class on Tuesday I began to wonder why women were overshadowed in America history. There are many women in America that have made a big impact in our society, yet we never acknowledge them as an American hero. I think that this topic on women rights will be enjoyable to study, and I hope to learn many new things. It would be interesting to learn about many other great women that have made an impact on our society such as Rosa Parks and Hillary Clinton.
After the discussion in class I was very surprised and confused on why nobody drew or really thought about women. For example, when I think of a war hero, a man automatically comes to mind. As Matheus said, there really are many woman who have made huge impacts on our society. But, when someone asks what they picture a hero of, a guy is more likely to come up. I am also very interested to learn more about Women's Rights.
I thought that although it is true that media portrays women in a negative way, I dont think that ALL media portrays women like this. In most tv shows, the women is actually the main character playing a doctor or a detective, or its the women who get their "dumb" husband out of trouble. I also feel that women play a roll in putting this negative sterotype on themselfs. If women do not like they way they are portrayed in media, then stop taking rolls as strippers and the "dumb blond" character in tv shows and movies.
After the discussion in class i was confused as to why the thought of drawing a woman for any of these images never crossed my mind. It goes to show how the media and history lessons where we learn about these people mainly portray men rather than women. This doesn't mean that women have barely accomplished anything over the course of history, but most of what has been taught to us in earlier years has focused male accomplishments. I look forward to doing more of the modern portrayal of women, however, because i do feel that they are exploited in today's media.
After today's class I realized how we have been taught all of these years. At the beginning of the drawing exercise I knew we were trying to be led into something but I did not know what. I thought it would have to do with stereotypicalness, but I didn't know it would be towards women. I realized that what we have been taught throughout the years was mostly about men. We rarely learn about important women figures, and if we do we hardly scratch the surface.
ReplyDeleteOur introduction to the Woman's Studies unit today was actually really interesting. The drawing activity caught me off guard and I didn't even being to think that it was the transition into Women's Studies. It made me realize that men control this society, whether people like it or not. In my independent writing, I wrote about how men can consume a women's thoughts and that men are the superior to all, even if it isn't the wanted image. I mentioned how as a little girl, they rely on their fathers and they create the image as all men are like the father. Later in life, during adolescence, girls are exposed to relationships with males and they tend to start trying to impress them by making sure their hair looks nice, or that their clothes make heads turn. The introduction opened my thoughts to what I have never taken time to think about. I have always known that women were thought of less than men, but I never realized that it consumes everyone. We rarely ever look into the women figures that shape our history as so. We only focus on the bad that women do, while men just sit and look powerful with their "jacked" bodies or the political views. Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart are very important women figures that are acknowledged for their good, but why is it that only women from way back when are recognized as good? I really enjoyed the introduction and I am really looking forward to this new unit.
ReplyDeleteToday's discussion made me wonder why women have not been remembered as well as men in history. There has not been as many women as there has been who have made a big influence in America but when they have they have done huge things. It made me think about how women are also regular humans and what made men think different about them. Why were men made dominant in the first place and why they had this idea that women were not as good as men. It was not surprising to me that the majority of the class drew men because in the pilgrim times there was not stories about women and in the other two events those both were wars in which women were not allowed to participate in. I liked the way we opened this unit i was not expecting it and I am already really interested in it and we barely begun.
ReplyDeleteOur introduction to Woman's studies made me very curious as to how much woman have done throughout our history. It made me think about how much my life has revolved around what woman have done throughout the past years that have resulted in my life now. I know information about Rosa Parks and Helen Keller but I think that the relevance of their effectiveness on society does not really affect me now. I want to know about the people who have gone through their lives wanting to change the lives of future people in America rather than the ones who did things for themselves.
ReplyDeleteAfter beginning our unit in women today it made me wonder why me being a female didn’t think to draw any during our experiment today. It made me wonder why men were the first thought in my head after three times in a row. It didn’t even occur to me that women hold those same positions men do. Seeing the rest of the classes’ drawings made it evident that I was not the only one in the class who thought to draw men. Also while we were doing the activity at the end of class where we listed ten famous males and females it was harder for me to do women that were successful and appropriate and deserving reasons. I found that the women on my list were famous for no apparent reason and the mean were typically more successful leaders. While we were discussing the answers to the three questions on the front of that sheet it really made me wonder why the women’s role was so suppressed and not given much value. Like Erika, I wrote about how in today’s society men are superior to women whether we like it or not. I have not been taught about women shaping history like men have and therefore, I believe that is why it was not apparent to me while creating images in class today.
ReplyDeleteThe introduction to the next unit about Women's Studies really surprised and got me thinking about what I've learned the past years in school. I never realized that the majority of acknowledgment from history went towards the men and to think about this made me question myself on why I hadn't realized this trend before. I'm a bit upset that many women are seen as second place to men and that not a lot of recognition goes towards them. The images that we had to draw really showed that we've been influenced that men are seen as the superior gender and women are put in the background, given little credit or none at all. For the list activity, I barely had to think about famous men to put in the category, but it took me quite a while to think of women. I tried to think of women that have been involved with historical events, but not many came to mind. I find it disappointing that women aren't given as much recognition as they should be.
ReplyDeleteI believe the introduction to women rights was very interesting. I had never realized how easily our minds had been shaped into subconsciously excluding women from a substantial amount of the recollections of historical events. I believe that this could be because throughout history woman in earlier times were not allowed to play large parts in government or war acts because of the social customs of the age. Yet on the other hand, there are several women figures that do stand out and are not noted as such. For example, Erika had stated Helen Keller and Amelia Earheart as examples of noteable women figures, yet I realize even now as I am typing this that I know little about these and other women figures. Women often accomplish fame by going against the social norms and taking changing a situation. For example, John Adams confided many of his theories on Government with his wife Abigail and she helped shape his opinion and offer new theories for the development of the Government. I now realize that we glorify many of the impacts of men and select women throughout time. Overall, upon viewing the slideshow in class today I realize that there are a lot of women figures that go unnoticed in history (those being women soldiers and political figures).
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ReplyDeleteThe way you introduced the women's rights unit really made me think about all the different ways women have influenced history but have not been really recognized for. I believe that this is because of the patriarchal society we live in. Since males have predominantly run life and history since the beginning of time the have influenced the way we read history as such. The fact that only three people drew women for one thing, shows that whether we like it or not we have been influenced by this patriarchal system. Even when we were doing the experiment at the end of class I didn't actually put down a lot of influential women, mainly women who were famous for sports and acting or just for being famous. The men were politicians and public figures. Its interesting that my mind instantly goes straight towards influential men rather that women when I am a woman. Overall I am really excited to begin this unit because we haven't really studied this before in class, and I am excited to get all this new information.
ReplyDeleteAfter the work that we did in class regarding our next unit of study, I have found that women in our history have not been depicted as much as men have. I find that women have not been studied as much as women and that men seem like the dominant historical figure. The drawing activity caught me off guard as I didn't realize it was the beginning to our Women's Studies Unit. It surprised me how just about the entire class, including myself, drew men historical figures instead of men because that's how we all characterized the topics given to draw. I didn't even think to draw a woman even though it would fall under those topics (Pilgrim, WWII Hero, Revolutionary), just as well. Also, I find it unfair how with the list activity, I could think of plenty of men historical figures and not many women came to mind. The most historical figures that came to mind right off the bat was Sacajawea, Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman. That said, I thought of another ten or fifteen more men. Above all, I find that this was a neat activity to tie us in to the beginning of the next unit of study. The fact that we think of men more than women, tells me that men have been taught as more dominant figures, but women are just as equal and do the same jobs and fall under the same categories as men do with the drawing activity. I find that this women studies unit is good so then we can learn more of women rather than the men that we've been studying throughout our educational career. Men shouldn't be the dominant study, women are just as equal, and I think that this unit will be good to justify that. The activity done in class really got me thinking on why we think of men more then women.
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction towards today’s activity in class was very surprised. I have never taken the time before to take a step back and realize that my knowledge of war heroes and people who have created a revolution have been about men. In a way I wasn’t that surprised that my peers as well as myself focused on drawing images of men because previously we have mainly focused on learning about men in our history. I understand that this is unintentional but I think it’s great that we are going to be focusing on a Women’s Studies Unit. It made me ponder why I didn’t decide to draw a woman as an icon of one of the categories. Drawing a man for each category was the first thing that came to mind for me because of previous lessons I have been taught, such as drawing pilgrim men for Thanksgiving. I thought this transition to the next unit was very successful because it made me more aware that we do lack knowledge on the impact that woman have had throughout our history. It makes me very curious to learn more about Women who have made a difference in our history as well as currently. I am excited to expand my knowledge on revolution leaders rather then just being aware of the stance Rosa Park took in our history. This also makes me wonder how many other high school students as well as United States citizens are uneducated on women in our history.
ReplyDeleteAfter today's class introduction to our next unit of study, Woman's rights, there are several things that are on my mind. I have never really noticed until after we had the introductory "arts and crafts". All my life i had thought as many "iconic" and important people, such as a pilgrim, a war hero, and a revolutionary icon as males. However, I did know that there are several females who are serving our country today, and also who would be considered a revolutionary icon. I do wonder why i have never noticed that woman were not shown in my mind as "iconic". I think that it is because all throughout history, men have been shown as improving the world we live in today. Thinking back to the introduction, I am not surprised that i was the only one who thought this. Many of my classmates had the same feelings and thoughts towards woman in today's (and the past) world. I have never studied Woman's history in depth. All i have ever really been taught was that in the past woman had no right to land, voting, and could not enroll in the US military forces. I look forward to learning where woman used to stand on the worlds totem pole, and where they are in today's modern world.
ReplyDeleteNot being in class on this date i will do my best to complete this blog. Knowing some things already about our next topic in class, women's rights, I've noticed and really haven't come to much surprised that women weren't as depicted and frequently demonstrated than men were back in time. Men were viewed as he changers of life and were given almost all the opportunities presentable while women where pushovers and servants only needing to worry about cooking cleaning and chores. Because of this idea men have run life in the past making it seem so that life was influenced more towards men than women. Having this background information on this subject being limited, i am very curious about this subject and excited to learn more knowledge on this topic. I am excited to learn about what type of women had such a significance to this issue instead of just knowing that they exist. I am looking forward to these next upcoming days and cant wait to get started.
ReplyDeleteMy initial reaction towards today’s activity was, also as many other students have said, surprised. I thought we were just drawing for fun and was not thinking how this could affect us. Little did I know, I was thinking of Men every time a critical point in time was asked to be represented by a person. I did not think of using a women to represent a WWII hero or as a revolutionary, I thought of Men that have been taught to us continuously over time, like George Washington and a Code talker from WWII. I also thought that this activity brought us into this unit with open because it gave us a clearer picture that we really do not consider the impact of women on our society as anything important. I am excited to start this new unit because I would like to learn about the impacts women have on society instead of quick little names thrown out there to say we have learned about them. To be honest I can only think of very few women in history that I know what they did to get their place in the history books, I would like to change this because a lot more than a few women have changed history and they deserved to be taught to the world.
ReplyDeleteToday's introduction to our Women's Studies was really interesting and a creative way to start off a new topic. The drawing caught me off guard; I didn't think we would be starting a new topic by asking people to draw what they precieved as a Pilgrim, a World War II Hero, and a Revolutionary person. This made me wonder why majority of people, including women, don't usually think of women when they hear these topics to discuss. Also, this made me wonder why me being a female, I didn't draw a female for any of the drawings. We rarely look into women figures in many classes; we mainly focus on what the men have done to help shape what we are now. I really liked the introduction into this unit and I'm looking forward to learning more about this topic.
ReplyDeleteI thought today's introduction into our women's rights unit was very interesting. It caught my attention and made we aware of the lack of women's studies in schools. I wasn't sure what to think when we first did the drawing exercise. I wondered what the point of it was, but when I figured it out it made me realize that there really is a major difference in the amount of famous men and women we study. When I thought of all the things we drew, I thought of a man. That was what came to my mind first. I would credit that to being what we have learned over time. We've learned that women have always been there, but never learned the impact they made. All we have studied is the impact that men have had on the country. This exercise really opened my eyes to how we view women in our history. Women as a whole have made a great impact so learning about their history will be interesting. In our history we have been taught that men were always the domiant successful ones, so that has been engrained in our minds. Seeing the other side will be a very interesting contrast to what we have learned in the past. I thought the introduction to this unit was perfect and I'm looking forward to learning about how women have impacted our country.
ReplyDeleteToday with the activity we took i noticed that all the things that we did, like draw a picture of what you think of a pilgrim, WWII, and revolutionary, all i thought of was great American men doing heroic things. i mean know i realize how much history i am missing on the American women because i really have only learned about how men are heroic. i mean when i think about it i never pictured like a women fighting side by side with George Washington or Adolf Hitler. i mean i know a lot of famous women out there but i mean i really wanna know more about famous women that people don't normally talk about.
ReplyDeleteIn today's activity I was completely caught off guard by the Women's Studies unit tying in. If I had known what we were doing I could have drawn an accurate picture of a woman pilgrim. World War 2 I would not have been able to draw an accurate picture of a women during that time. This is because i have never learned about World War 2 specifically in any of my classes. Most of my knowledge is from stories and shows that I have seen on television. For revolutionary figure it could have gone both ways with Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and so on. I just so happened to pick a man. It was alarming to see how only 3/99 pictures of women were drawn out our large class. Personally I need to educate myself on this important topic and realize women have played an equal role as anyone else in our countries history.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised about today's introduction of the unit about women's history. When we did the drawing activity I thought it was just for fun but had no idea how much meaning it ended up having behind it. First thoughts coming to my mind of a pilgrim, WWII hero, and a revolutionary are always men, naturally. I guess it has to do something with the sort of things we were taught when we were younger, for example: the typical pilgrim with the hat and buckles, the strong man known as the war hero, etc. I was surprised by the outcome of how many women were drawn, out of 33 students making 3 drawings, only 3 of those drawings were women characters. Even though those drawings were the first thing to come to mind, I think it's wrong how the thought of a woman fitting into one of those roles is not even considered in our train of thought due to the things we've been taught our entire life.
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised with the way we transitioned into the unit but i liked the way it was done very much. It showed me just how one sided our thinking is when it comes to women and men. I ponder what we could learn about since I have never really been exposed to this before. We may have briefly touched this from time to time but just very quickly. I am really looking forward to learning all about this unit so I can have more balanced thinking.
ReplyDeleteEven though there are many women hero’s (heroin’s)many of them are not acknowledge, or known by the general public. I think it was interesting how almost everyone in the class knew of more famous men than women. And even if they could mention a lot of famous women they were unable to mention what they were famous for. I thought it was neat how we “fell into the trap” of the activity today in class. It was surprising to see how many people didn’t draw females, including myself. I also didn’t really realize until today’s activity in class how we really don’t learn about what women did in history. I’m pretty sure in one class we briefly talked about how women were nurses, but that’s basically all I can remember. I’m glad we are doing this unit it’s going to be nice to learn about women history and what role they had in society. Besides just being the clichéd housewife; doing all the cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children.
ReplyDeleteI actually thought today was pretty interesting and I definitely didn't expect the drawing thing to turn into an introduction about women studies. Typically we hear about women struggling for their rights and being denied them in the past and we know as a whole a decent amount about what women went through before the women’s rights movement. But looking at the results of the drawings, it’s very evident that despite the fact that we know the things women went through and how they have contributed, we still think of society as dominated by males. We didn’t intentionally draw men because we though they were superior, we just drew them because that’s what we typically think of when we think of important characters in history. Today made me really wonder how much of women we are missing in history and the contributions they have made, and what was really done by any group of people who have been denied the spotlight.
ReplyDeleteI think that today's activity was a pretty eye-opening experience. It was interesting to see what people imaging when they think of people in history. I think it also made me think about how we have been taught and how that effected our idea of women in society. In school, we tend to learn more about the famous men in history while we only occasionally brush the topic of historically famous women. It made me think of all the women in history that made a difference and we don't even know about them. It is sort of motivating to try and change the thinking that was displayed by today's experiment in class.
ReplyDeleteI was completely surprised by the purpose of the drawing activity today. I had absolutely no idea what it was going to lead to and I realize how women may have come a long way, but our society is still dominated by images of male heroes and males in history. When I think of most of history, it is from a male point of view. I know that I can never understand what it is like to be a woman or to be in the shadows in history because of your gender. I know that women have played an active part in history but I really don't know a lot about what that part is. I am excited to learn about women's history because I think that it'll be good to see history from such a different viewpoint.
ReplyDeleteWhen we talked about women's rights and roles today in class it made me realize that the problem isn't completely fixed yet and our drawings today were evidence of that. It is a problem that usually goes unnoticed, but I am glad we got the chance to see it. As a kid, the pictures we were shown, the movies we watched, and the texts we learned talked about one side more than the other. Because of this, we think about events in history (like the ones we drew about) and link them to men, and forget about women's roles. We remember the men more than the women, which is not right because their achievements are overpowered by men's achievements when both contributions to history are equally important. I liked the discussion today because it made me realize something that is happening to us that I would have never noticed before.
ReplyDeleteToday's topic on woman rights showed me that when we think about great people in history we do not think about the women. And they played a really big role in our history. As kids in elementary school we did not really learn about the women it was always the men and what they did. I remember the women always stayed home and did the cooking and the cleaning but they really did play a big role in the way the county started without them, we would not be the same. The men were always the hero in every story so they stuck in our mind with the big events.
ReplyDeleteWomen's rights is going to be a very interesting unit. There is a lot about that period of history that i have no knowledge of. It is topic that we don't usually study in any class. And for me when ever i think of women in history, i really need to take a moment to think. Unlike men where i can named ten right off the bat no problem. The unit will be a first fore me and probably for the class as a whole, it should be interesting to learn about.
ReplyDeleteAfter doing the drawing activity in class today I was completely shocked because I did not expect it to relate to Women's Rights unit. For myself being a women I was surprised that I only drew one woman out of the three pictures that we had to draw. That makes me think that throughout the years of learning about our history that the male has been more dominant and important in what we have studied and we only touched upon a few important women in our history. I believe that is why I did not think to draw one when I thought of a WWII Hero or Revolutionary; my first instinct was to draw a man. But, oddly enough I did think of a woman to draw for a pilgrim. Even though when we had learned about the pilgrims most of it was about men, I decided to draw a women. I was one of the two other students who did so, but I am not exactly sure why I did. So this lesson did make me think a lot about our past and how important women have been in it and why we haven't learned too much about them. But I am interested to see what I do learn in class during our Women's Rights Unit.
ReplyDeleteEver since that class on Tuesday I began to wonder why women were overshadowed in America history. There are many women in America that have made a big impact in our society, yet we never acknowledge them as an American hero. I think that this topic on women rights will be enjoyable to study, and I hope to learn many new things. It would be interesting to learn about many other great women that have made an impact on our society such as Rosa Parks and Hillary Clinton.
ReplyDeleteAfter the discussion in class I was very surprised and confused on why nobody drew or really thought about women. For example, when I think of a war hero, a man automatically comes to mind. As Matheus said, there really are many woman who have made huge impacts on our society. But, when someone asks what they picture a hero of, a guy is more likely to come up. I am also very interested to learn more about Women's Rights.
ReplyDeleteI thought that although it is true that media portrays women in a negative way, I dont think that ALL media portrays women like this. In most tv shows, the women is actually the main character playing a doctor or a detective, or its the women who get their "dumb" husband out of trouble. I also feel that women play a roll in putting this negative sterotype on themselfs. If women do not like they way they are portrayed in media, then stop taking rolls as strippers and the "dumb blond" character in tv shows and movies.
ReplyDeleteAfter the discussion in class i was confused as to why the thought of drawing a woman for any of these images never crossed my mind. It goes to show how the media and history lessons where we learn about these people mainly portray men rather than women. This doesn't mean that women have barely accomplished anything over the course of history, but most of what has been taught to us in earlier years has focused male accomplishments. I look forward to doing more of the modern portrayal of women, however, because i do feel that they are exploited in today's media.
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