The Votes Are In! A Key Passage & Reminder

The votes are in from yesterday's "story-off", and the complete results are:

240A (1:00)
Garcia (Yellow) 4
Frankie& Linda (Red) 6 WINNER!
Hector (Black) 2
Brother citizen/alien (Green) 1
LA & GA Schools (Yellow) 4
Trujillo (Blue) 2

So, the Red family earns 2 bonus points.
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240B (2:30)
Victor Ley & Sergio (Red) 6 WINNER!
Americanismo (Blue) 3
Brother citizen/alien (Green) 2
Frankie & Linda (Green) 4

So, the Red family earns 2 bonus points.

I am not sure yet whether I'll make up any questions based on the winning stories. If I do, I will post them on the blog.

KEY PASSAGE: as I noted when I handed back your essays yesterday, I believe the following passage from Chapter 8 of Killing the White Man's Indian really gets at the crux of meaning of the title of that chapter, "the hollowness of a person needs to be filled."

"The lost opportunity to integrate culturally intact Indians into American society may have been the greatest failure of public education in American history. It is a failure that strongly suggests that Indians, like most other people, will only grudgingly submit to schooling that they perceive as hostile to their own values. In an era when an ever-more complex world market is creating new kinds of opportunities for the educated, young Indians might theoretically be better off learning German and Japanese than the tongues of their ancestors. However, it cannot be surprising that Indians feel urgently compelled to reclaim what remains of their cultural heritage before they embrace the wider world." (p. 297)

REMINDERS:

Next Tuesday (11/20) we'll be seeing the video program, "My America, or honk if you love Buddha!"
You should also begin reading Yellow.
Finally, your Interview paper assignment is due on Tuesday 11/27, right after we come back from the break. In addition to the paper, please be prepared to give a brief synopsis of what you learned (no more than 5 minutes, max.)