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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

  How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Daughter of Invention Mami, Papi, Yoyo Dictator Rafael Trujillo Rafael Trujillo was the Dominican dictator who ruled from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo ruled as a military strongman and was responsible for many deaths throughout his dictatorship. Papi had lost brothers and sisters and friends to this dictatorship as stated on page 146. This timing would put Papi and his family in America during or just after Trujillo's assassination which would also pre date Lau vs Nichols, which was in 1965. This background helps me better inform my understanding of what this family had endured in the Dominican Republic and what it was like in America at this time. Mami, Papi and Yoyo are all dealing with their new lives in America in very different ways. Unfortunately, each has their own fears in adjusting which seems to not allow them to each support one another in their perspective struggles. Mami Mami seems to be enjoying the free...
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Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) shifts U.S. policy toward Native American right to self-determination on June 18, 1934.

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  Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes handing first constitution issued under Indian Reorganization Act to delegates of Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, 1935                                                    Courtesy US Library of Congress (LC-USZ62-115958) The Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) of 1934 was enacted to give native Americans back the power over their own lands and to establish their native way of life. As explained in this article Wheeler-Howard Act . In 1879 Richard Pratt established the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, his famous quote was, "Kill the Indian in him and save the man". The US government forced 100,00 or more Native American children to attend assimilation boarding schools similar to Pratt's in the hope to rid them of the native values, traditions, beliefs  and langua...
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  Social Cultural Foundations To blog or not to blog...why is it technology capabilities have advanced the way we get our messages to our students but the practices have not kept up. Some of our structures are 20th Century, it's like having a GPS on a model T Ford. As I reflect on my career over the past 33 years it amazes me how I've moved from a plan book to Google Classroom. I welcome these advances and enjoy incorporating them into my classroom routines and culture. Flexible seating, station rotation, and circle time are practices that provide a space for communication amongst students which is so very important for our MLL's. Building a sense of community and belonging is paramount, where all students from different backgrounds come together, where every voice is heard.  This leads me to the first of the Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy, Joint Productive Activity (JBA), indicator 3, states arrange classroom seating to accommodate students' individual and gr...
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