Reflection of How to Change, Importance of Racial Diversity, and the Issues of Racism

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-Week 3: Overview of the History of Immigration to Canada
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Reflection Paper and Discussion Posting Assignment

Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria

Each Reflection Paper will focus on one module:

• Reflection Paper 3 will focus on Learning from the History of Organizing for Change.

Each Reflection Paper will be approximately 400-500 words long, double-spaced and proofread.  In each Reflection Paper, discuss your personal thoughts about and responses to the assigned readings and Concepts for that Module. 

Please include the following in each Reflection Paper (for 7 marks):

1) Choose a short quotation (minimum 1 full sentence, maximum one short paragraph) from one of the assigned readings or videos in this course. Choose a quotation that refers to or includes  a lesson about how to make change happen, guides us in how to engage in effective activism/organizing, or that teaches us something about how previous generations made their lives – and the lives of others like them -- better. Include the quotation that you have chosen, with an in-text reference, in your Reflection Paper. Then explain why you chose this quotation. What did you find it has to teach or show us? (2 marks)

2) Which of the Concepts that we have covered (see list in each Module) applies to – or is used in -- the quotation that you chose? Explain how one or two Concepts relate to the quotation that you chose in question 1. (1 mark)

3) Describe your emotional reactions to the quotation from the reading that you used in question 1 – and/or to the reading as a whole. How do you feel about this quotation/reading? (Some options are intrigued, uncomfortable, surprised, pleased, displeased, angry, inspired, defensive, disbelieving, or impressed.) Why do you think you feel this way? What factors do you think influenced your emotional responses to this quotation? Please be as specific as possible and remember that this question is about feelings rather than thoughts (you discussed thoughts in your response to question 1). (2 marks)

4) How does the quotation you chose relate to your own experiences or those of your family and friends? How does this quotation apply today? What connections can you draw between the conditions for workers in the past, as discussed in that quotation (or the reading or video the quote is from) and situations today? Which workers are most vulnerable to abuse and exploitation today? What does this quotation teach us about? What lessons from this reading/video/quotation can we apply today? Again, please be specific. (2 marks)

You are welcome to comment on other aspects of the class (discussions, videos, exercises, assignments), but your mark for each Reflection Paper will be based on your answers to the questions above. 

Hints for writing excellent Reflection Papers

• Make sure you include full quotations (don’t stop mid-sentence), in quotation marks. Include the author’s last name and page number(s) after every quotation. Use APA in-text format: (Author’s last name, date of publication, pg. #). I.e., (Gage, 1991, p. 40).

• Avoid choosing a quotation from the first paragraph – or the first page – of the reading. Read the whole piece before you make your choice.

• Don’t worry about using a formal writing style. Use your own words and a relaxed, conversational style, but write in full sentences and paragraphs. Also, refer to the articles’ authors by their last names or their first and last names, but not by first names only.

• Do check your spelling and grammar and express your thoughts and ideas as clearly and accurately as possible. Editing and proofreading can help you clarify your viewpoint.

• Discuss (and think about) your own position. Do not make unsubstantiated (i.e. unproven) or vague claims or judgments.  It’s not sufficient simply to state an opinion; explore and explain why you have that opinion. What experiences have shaped your views on the issue? Be critical of your own perspective, as well as of those expressed in the course material.

• Avoid imprecise thinking.  Be specific. Give clear examples. Do not overgeneralize (i.e. don’t blame “society” or other abstractions. Try instead to pinpoint specific elements of particular cultures, institutions, or belief systems).