Assignment 1c

Rebekah
1. Rebekah loves California for its diversity and beautiful country-side. She has family in the east that would never come out here because they are afraid there might be an earthquake. She also had created a blog before for her Interdisciplinary Studies 4 class she took over the summer.
2. A. From Rebekah I learned that Freire’s first job was a lawyer, before coming a teacher and teaching Portuguese in schools from 1941-1947.
B. The second thing I learned was that on March 31, 1964, there was a coup d'etat in Brazil and the military ruled for twenty years. I read something like that, but I don’t think I read about it lasting for twenty years.
3. It relates to our study because we are learning about culture and the nature of humans. Freire’s ideas were all about education and as a culture that is what we are getting.

Samantha
1. Samantha has taken other humanities classes and finds then fun, enjoyable and educational. She has created web pages, but never a blog and believes that when she thinks of California it is how most people do, just not as glorified.
2. A. From Samantha I learned was what the “banking” system Freire used really meant, which was that he viewed students as empty and ready for a teacher to fill with knowledge.
B. I also learned that he wanted all student teacher relations to be gone, that students and teachers should be equal and that they should learn equally from each other.
3. This relates to our study of humanities because the system that he created and put in place is what many teachers in different cultures use today.