Reminder:  Your journal should be written after each class meeting and consists of the following:

Journal:   You will be asked to keep a journal about responses to class content and how the class may other areas of your life.  At the end of each class, you will also be given a question to answer in the journal as well.  You are responsible for a journal entry each class day even if you are not in class.  Thus, each journal entry should answer the following questions:

 

  • What struck you/stood out for you the most strongly in today's class?
  • What personal values/beliefs did you find challenged?
  • With which points did you have the strongest agreement?
  • Question from that class (this  will be given at the end of each class).

 

Question from each class:

 

1) Monday, January 9, 2006:  What do you think will be your biggest personal challenge in this class?

2) Monday, January 16, 2006:  In what ways have you been like John Doe?  What fears do you have that make you like John Doe?

3) Monday, January 30, 2006:  If you were "popular" in the Shodop exercise, what did you like about it?  What didn't you like about it?  If you were "unpopular" in the exercise, what was most difficult for you?  What thoughts did you have about yourself before you understood the culture?

4) Monday, February 6, 2006: What is your reaction to Charles Alston’s paintings of faceless African Americans?

5) Monday, February 13, 2006:  How do you think you would feel at a Bahai gathering?

6) Monday, February 20, 2006:  What do you think you would experience at a Unitarian Universalist service?

7) Monday, March 6, 2006:     What was going on in your mind when you were meditating (how was the experience for you)?  

8) Monday, March 6, 2006:  Macky Alston’s father talked about the “lightbulb” moment when he realized how badly he was treating another human being.   Think about your own life and describe similar moments that you have had