Critical Listening Response Journal (at least 30 minutes/week)

Podcast/webcast & Fact/Opinion What seems What connections (or Possible implications
Date significant about this disconnections) can related to being a
to you? you make to yourself, HRL teacher
the world, other texts
you’ve read/heard?
Code Switch: A -George Floyd’s last -The police knew he -There were several -My students could go
Decade Of Watching words were “I can’t was killing George protests this summer to a protest and get
Black People Die breathe” as an officer Floyd, and he didn’t because of George hurt by just supporting
pinned him to the need to restrain him in Floyd’s death, and it a cause.
ground with his knee this way. started the BLM
on the street. movement.

-An eighth-grade boy -This student noticed -We learn about -Students of color in my
asked, “Why have that white people have slavery in social studies class could despise me
white people been continued to kill black classes, but we don’t because of what my
killing us since slavery, people for several realize that the brutality ancestors and white
and they’re still killing decades. that black people face people have done to
us?” is the same as years them.
ago.
-Black people didn’t -People want to defund -It could be hard for me
-People didn’t know if see police in a positive the police. When I went to defend law
the police were there to way because of the downtown this summer enforcement because
protect them. way the police treat I saw “ACAB” written all black students would
them. over the place. have negative attitudes
toward the police.
The United States of -Who is this country -Many people feel like -This has been seen -If my students feel like
Anxiety: Can We for? the US doesn’t support through white they don’t belong, it
Finally Build a them because they supremacy because might be hard for them
Multiracial Democracy face discrimination white people believe to participate in class
in 2020? from people who don’t that they are the and contribute to
think they should be superior race and want discussions.
here. to send people of
different races back to

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 “where they came
from” even if the people
were born in the US.
-Who gets access to its -White people get to -My students might feel
rights and its privileges -Not everyone has fair enjoy the rights, like they cannot
and its wealth? and equal opportunity. privileges, and wealth succeed because they
of the US more than look different than their
other races. white classmates.

The Stoop: Connecting -African cities have -Protests have -We’ve seen coverage -African American
Black been protesting about happened in several of protests that have students might not
the BLM movement cities in the US as well happened in various appreciate their
because of the killings as in African cities. cities. ancestry as much as
in the US. they should because
-When brutality -Africans feel like police -We don’t see police they don’t see what’s
happens in Africa, brutality in Africa does brutality in Africa on the happening in Africa.
there are no protests or not get as much news, but we do see -Students only hear
media coverage. attention as police police brutality in the about police brutality
brutality in the US. One US on the news and in that happens in the US,
of the podcast hosts social media. but they don’t realize
said that police brutality that it is happening in
in Africa has to do with other countries.
abuse of power, and
police brutality in the
US has to do with race.
The Stoop: The Black -Black women are not -Black women are -Black women are -My students might get
Introverts allowed to exist in expected to be loud portrayed as people the wrong idea about
peace without providing and lively, but some of who like to dance and people if they are
entertainment to them are quiet, which talk to everyone, but forming opinions based
others. people take as being this is not always on what they see on
rude or mean. realistic. TV.
-Teachers think the -Quiet students do not -My students might be
-Quiet students can get quiet students are nice volunteer to answer overlooked because

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 ignored because and well-behaved, questions in class, so they are quiet, but I
teachers don’t give which they are, but their voices are not should try to get
them as much attention they aren’t participating being heard. everyone to participate.
as other students. in class.

The Stoop: Black -The black kids that -Kamau realized that -Sometime black -Black students might
Enough were not in Track 1 he was being naive people shame each not perform at their
(the gifted class) did when another black other for not acting best because they are
not like that Kamau classmate told him that “black enough” which afraid that their peers
was in Track 1 he was only hanging is what this whole will make fun of them
because he didn’t hang out with white podcast was about. or not accept them.
out with other black classmates and that’s
kids. what was making the
black kids mad, but
Kamau didn’t think of it
this way.

The Stoop: You may -In the US, black men -Black men marry -I haven’t noticed black -Students need to
not get it, but I love you are twice as likely as outside of their race men being with a know that it doesn’t
black women to marry twice as often as black women of another race matter what race their
outside of their race. women. more often than black friends or significant
women. others are.
-In 2016, close to two- -Black kids don’t grow -It’s common to see -It is important to
thirds of black kids up with a father figure single black mothers recognize what
were living with a more often than white more than single children have grown up
single mom compared kids. mothers of a different without a father, but
to just one-quarter of race in the media. they might have issues
white kids. that children that have
grown up with a father
don’t have.

Susan Adamson, ED 228, Fall 2020