Thursday, June 4, 2009

Introduction to Critical Thinking Skills

In our first intermission, we watched the movie Spanglish. Our main goal was to realize what it means to be an outsider and to take in different perspectives from different characters. Everyone can feel like an outsider at some point or another. After watching the film, we had a timed write and the assignment was to demonstrate how the film defines what it is to be an outsider and explain how this definition upholds or challenges our own cultural understanding of what it means to be an outsider. I believe I had a very good understanding of the film and interpreted well what it meant to be an outsider. Before watching the film, I understood the term "outsider" well, but I think the film made me realize that most everyone feels like an outsider at some point or another, depending on different situations that they are in. The part of the timed write that I feel best shows my ability to be a critical thinker is when I said "it seems as if Flor feels that Cristina is losing those values by spending too much time around the Clasky's, particularly Deborah, and is becoming too Americanized. When Flor wakes up one morning to find a note, that she cannot read, and her daughter nowhere to be found she finds this very upsetting. She feels like she is losing control and has no say in what is being done with her daughter. She wants Cristina to appreciate life for what it is and who she has been raised to be. She doesn't want her to become anything like Deborah." This part of the movie was not so easy to understand. Through the group discussions and watching the movie time after time, I was able to think about this situation critically.

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