9th Grade Year Improvement Writing
Athletic Experience Narrative Story

Guest Speaker Reflection

Class With Adam Aronovitz

The Conclusions We Make About People Before Really Knowing Them

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Even a sheet of paper has two sides.

~Unknown

 

    A few days ago during english class we had a guest speaker, a good friend of Fitz’s, Adam Aronovitz. I walked into the library, lazy and tired, and plopped my backpack down against a wall. I saw a bunch of my classmates sitting on the stairs, so I joined them. We patiently waited, cracking jokes and talking to each other, until the the speaker began talking. 

    Adam started by talking to us in the library about what he does as a job. He seems to have a pretty cool job, he travels all around the world with students and guides them on trips. Adam has been to a lot of different places and seen a lot of different cultures which I found cool. After speaking about himself for a little about who he is and what he does, we started doing an activity. We were split into four groups by advisor. Each group got assigned a country, two of them got a rich country with lots of materials and resources (I was in that group), and two other groups got assigned a poor country with not many resources and not much wealth. Both groups read all about their own country, but knew little about the others. The main part of the activity is that my group got a lot of paper and other things which represented wealth, and we went over to the group without much wealth’s table and we offered them our resources to help build a monument of some sort. Since they did not know much about our country, they saw us as arrogant rich people, and since we had not learned about them, we saw them as poor people in need of help. 

    We wrapped up the activity with a discussion, each group said what they thought about the other. As I said earlier, they thought we were arrogant and rich and we thought the were helpless and poor. To conclude the whole conversation we read the description of each country out loud and finally all understood both countries. It was fascinating how we made all these conclusions about the countries after seeing how they acted, but we really did not know the story behind what they were doing. 

    I enjoyed this english class and I am glad that Mr. Aronovitz could join us for the class, it was a great learning experience about perspective and conclusions about people (or countries) that we make without knowing their true story.

 

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