Learning Profile B

Have you ever struggled in class, feeling the need to move, or simply change seats so that you could listen better with your left ear or view the whiteboard from a difernet angle?
The amazing characterstic about understanding your Learner Profile is that it will help you and your teachers know more about the best learning situations for each student; that is your strenghts, your preferences and areas that we can all work on and improve.
Today's blogpost is a reflection on the Learning Profiles done in class today. In a well structured response (using the information you gained in class), please reflect upon and answer the following:
1. I learn best when...
2. I need to....
3. The strategies that would help me in my learning...
4. I would like my teachers to know this about me....



My learning profile is B, which means that I am a logic learner, my dominant ear is my left ear, and my right eye, hand, and foot are dominant. I learn best when I am sitting in the front of the room on the right hand side where I can hear with my dominant ear. For I am a logic learner, I am a visual learner who needs to see, speak or write to learn. I am able to follow instructions in steps, and I prefer them as well. When I get an assigmen or a project, sometimes I might get confused or lost because I fail to see the big picture, but usually I'll end up just giving myself a to-do list and finish one step at a time. A good strategy for me would be to follow a set of instructions if there are, and if there isn't, just make one up. Something teachers should know about me is that where I sit in the classroom is really important. For example, I sit in the left side in the back of the room in math class, where I feel totally unfocused. Although I'm not exactly under stress, the information goes through my ear but I'm unable to process the information. Fortunately I'm able to make up for it by taking notes. This doesn't have to do with the learning profiles, but another thing I want my teachers to know is that sometimes I might be staring into space when I'm trying to focus or process information. It might look like I'm zooming off, but for real I'm just trying to block out noise and think.

Kristillnacht; Taking a Stand

The reading 'Taking a Stand' is located on moodle under "Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" section. Read it, and respond to the following: Describe the choices that were made by Germans in response to Kristillnacht. What choice might you have made?'

The majority of people in Germany chose to be a bystander. They were aware of what had happened and they felt terrible for a moment, but they decided to ignore it by trying to not think about what had happened to the Jews. But not everyone reacted this way. In the reading it said Andre knew what was going to happen beforehand, and for Andre didn't want to participate in destroying the Jewish people's shop, they decided to flee from Germany. Some of the members of the Nazi Party resigned in objection against mob violence. Some other people secretly helped the Jews to give the message that they were not part of this pogrom. If I was in the same situation, I would feel terrible and disagree with the violence at first. However, I would be aware of what might happen if I spoke out, and I probably wouldn't have said much. I would have felt like these actions were wrong, but I would be too scared to speak up.

Nazi Propaganda Posters

The Caption on the above poster reads "Healthy Parents Have Healthy Children". On your post please do the following:
1. Describe what you see in the picture. Consider color, placement, people and objects, and composition. Everything that you see.
2. Interpret: Guess about the creator is trying to express through the caption and images. Why is this message being conveyed?
Evaluate: What is the intended purpose of this image? The intended audience? Does the image achieve its purpose?

1. In the poster you can see a very 'ideal' family. First of all, the family is at the center of the poster, grabbing people's attention. The happy family stands out from the dark background. It's hard not to notice the huge smiles on each of their faces. All members of the family look smart, fit, and content. The father figure looks tall and proud, and so does his son. The boy is wearing a uniform, and he looks like a young determined soul. The mother and the girls look like they are having a wonderful life. Besides the boy, they all are dressed 'traditionally'. The familiy seems to be perfect.

2. The father gives the impression that there is absolutely no doubt that he can lead and protect his family. The boy's uniform and eagerness suggests that he is a member of Hitler Youth. The fact that they are wearing traditional clothes show that they are probably a very 'German' family. The creator is trying to give hope to the audience hope by saying the Nazi Party can restore Germany's health and that their families' state can be as good as the ones in the posters. The message gets through because as I mentioned before, it is an ideal family. People would see this poster and think that they want a family just like that. The intended purpose of this image is to get people to believe that voting for the Nazi Party can really solve your problems. This poster is probably aimed at the adults. The poster definitely achieves its purpose for not only does the 'perfect' family grab attention, but gives hope to the people who are caught in the middle of the depression.

Propaganda

(That is to blame for the war)

Today we studied some of the aspects of propaganda and its uses, particularly in regard to Nazi Germany. First of all, answer this question: What is the definition of the word propaganda? Next, why was it used so extensively by Hitler and the Nazis?

The definition of propaganda is spreading information or ideas that are misleading and bias purposely to help promote a movement, a person or a group such as the NSDAP (Nazi Party). Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda a lot because they had little success in the 1928 election, and they needed a way to attract attention from the public and seem appealing. They used their posters to send strong messages that weren't necessarily true. They made the Jews look bad by describing them as the traitors and the reason for Germany's economic failure, while they promoted their party by having paintings of happy families and strong, proud teenagers that contrast from the Jews.

Source of image:

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Where does Eric von Ronheim stand?

Briefly describe the person that you represented in today's activity. Then, state the poitical party you think that the person would vote for in an election. Be sure to give specific reasons for this choice! Besides agreeing with what a political party stands for, what other factors might be involve in a person's voting decision?

Eric von Ronheim is a German who owns a textile factory. He is against the Treaty of Versailles, because he has to pay heavy taxes and he believes if the treaty didn't exist, Germany would be in a better state. Because people have to pay the taxes many people don't have money to buy products from his company. In addition he believes that the taxes won't go down even when the depression ends. Ronheim fears the comunnists, because he thinks capitalists like him won't be respected any more, and he thinks that Germany will become obedient to the Russians.

I think that Eric von Ronheim would vote for the Nazi Party. I think so because first of all, Ronheim does not like the Treaty of Versailles at all, and one of the points on the Nazi Party Program is abolition to the Treaty of Versailles. Another reason is that Ronheim is person who has to pay a lot of taxes, and he thinks that the taxes won't go down even after the depression because Germany would still have to pay the French. The Nazi Party had declared abolition against the treaty, and that would end Ronheim's problems wth taxes. On top of that, Hitler and the Nazi Party didn't like communists such as the Russians. The Nazi Party would seem appealing to Ronheim because he doesn't like the communists either. A factor that affects a person's voting decision is whether or not the party will take action on things that will benefit that person.

"Anger and Humiliation" & "Voices in the Dark"

Read and annotate "Anger and Humiliateion" with questions and comments. Make specal note of the description of Adolf Hitler. Highlight any clues or statements on his personality, personal life, beliefs. In class on Tuesday we will be making an identity chart of him. Also, on pg.124, carefully read the Nazi Party program. Choose two points of this program that you think are epecially unfair. Why are they unfair? Which one do you have questons about?
Then, read "Voices in the Dark". Annotate with questions an comments. Then, answer this question: If you had been on the train do you think you would have said or done anything? Have you or someone you know ever had a similar experience?

The two points of the Nazi Party program that I think is the most unfair are #5 & 8. #5 states that, "Non-citizens can live in Germany only as foreigners, subject to the law of aliens." I think this is not right because although I understand that they do not want non-Germans as citizens of their country, the foreigners should still be treated equally. They might not get all the benefits of a citizen such as voting, but I believe that they should be respected of their place. They might not originaly be from Germany, but they are people who came to live there, and they should be treated the same; not like an object the government just decides to toy with and throw away. Point 8 says that, "No further immigration of non-Germans. Any non-German who entered Germany after August 2nd, 1914, shall leave immediately. " I do not have so much problem with the first part of the statement, but the second part bothers me. This Nazi Party program was created in February 1920, and that means that the people who are subject to this point are either; have gotten accustomed to Germany, is getting settled in, or ones who just arrived. These foreigners might still be in the process of "fitting in" and for the party to tell them to just leave them is absurd. These people might have thrown away everything to move to Germany, and they might not even have anywhere to go.

If I were positioned as the Jew in the train, I'm not sure if I would have fully stood up to them. I would probably say that I disagree in a quite voice without stating the fact that I was Jewish. It might seem cowardly but honestly I don't think I would have the courage to stand up to seven or eight other people, who especially are pointing their anger directly at my kind of people. I have been in these kinds of situations a few times, but of course not as intense. I don't recall the details but I do remember that I mumbled my disagreements about what they were saying. I do remember feeling extremely awkward wondering, 'How can they just assume that I agree with them?'