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THE POINT OF DOING THIS IS TO SHARE YOUR THINKING, ENCOURAGE OTHERS' THINKING, AND FOR YOU TO BE OPEN TO BEING CHALLENGED BY OTHERS' IDEAS. Thinking of an essential question to help us further understand what type of activity we should do.

As of now our group is a little unsure of how this project will unravel, and what exactly to do for our group activity. However, we have come up with a survey question to clarify the specifics of the activity

__**Day 4**__ Rather, I hung out with them because I found myself to be most similar to them in both interests and values. I felt that I best fit in with them more than any other social group at Punahou School. This is not to say that I didn't fit in with anyone else, but I simply found more in common with them particularly. Especially at Punahou, the topic of my own cultural identity has been a topic h

We have students that like to spend all their free time playing video games, students who enjoy playing all the sports they possibly can, students who like to involve themselves in theatrics and drama, students who simply like to have an extremely healthy social life, and so on and so forth. In fact, my naming of these groups at Punahou is sheer proof of how I, myself, culturally identify other people

By labeling where everyone hangs out on Punahou campus and what type of people they are in m perspective, I was able to see that where you hang out also defines you as well as what type of person you are. Although this seems very stereotypical, it’s ture! My point of view differed from some of my group members opening another category we could use to classify our selves and our identity.

"We got a large variety of answers from people in different grades and different ethnic backgrounds. " "It made me realize that Punahou does have many cross-cultural connections, we just have to make people aware of our challenge so connections can be even more frequent. "

"The guiding activities better specified the problem of cultural diversity. " "I like this project because I think school should relate it’s teachings to how it affects my life now, not about how many formulas we can memorize, that we’ll use maybe once again in our existence."

 This may seem simple to others or stupid but I think my shoes have more of an effect on my cultural identity then my ethnicity does.

It also led to conclusions that friends have just as much of an impact on cultural identity if not more than race. I then arrive at the conclusion that peer groups and friendships need to expand rather then focusing on accepting others ethnicities.

"The results of the survey helped me better understand the challenge because it showed individual opinions as well as a group opinion." "When we wrote the survey questions, I answered them myself, and it helped me think deeper about culture."

"Through the asking of other people’s ideas, I have been able to reflect and compare them with my own. This has allowed me compare and contrast what others believe and what I believe, and find a happy medium. "

As my group and I performed these guiding activities, I found out how people feel about each clique. We asked them their views and stereotypes each hangout has and how well they do academically.

"Meaning that one of the most important aspects of this project is going to be making it clear and understandable for people of all ages."

"The guiding activities helped to better my understanding of the challenge because it showed the diversity but at the same time, it shows how everyone’s culture gets mixed into one. So there is not an exact culture that each person has."

"The guiding activities helped me to see that although I am of one race, the culture that I live in is made up of many different races because of the environment I live in."

I see different perspectives of different people of multiple different ethnicities, and grades. this project we had to think about our opinions of our identities and what cultural identity is, and knowing what cultural identity is forces you to realize things about your identity that you didn’t realize before.

"It showed me how each hang out spot consists of different races with different interests with a different stereotype." "Whether or not the assumptions are true or not, good or bad, they affect our lives in some way."

"To increase cross-cultural connections in the community, I must destroy the barrier of stereotypes, and allow students to gain better understanding of one another." "The survey questions made me think of what I considered to be my cultural identity, and how my surrounding environment affects my cultural identity."

"Actually, [the activities] didn’t [help]. I felt that the activities we did were shallow and generally didn’t give us a view of the community as a whole. Our outside of class activity actually did little to open up the view of cultural stereotypes." "[The activities didn't push us]. This is also due to the lack of time we had. In order to collect accurate data for an entire community, time is a necessity, and it was something we lacked."  " It helped me understand more about the different cultures of different people at Punahou. " "It also made me more curious to know what different answers I would get and motivated me to go out and start asking people."
 * __Day 3__**

You would think that, given the entire class time to discuss our guiding questions and activities, we would eventually find ourselves talking about other irrelevant subjects. However, we remained on task and were able to not only come up with guiding activities, but also be able to execute them successfully.

Although not all of us were able to come up with both an ‘in-class’ and ‘outside-class’ activity, we were able to share the ideas that came to mind with everyone else in our group. This, in turn, generated our group’s thoughts and allowed us to think of remarkably liable and capable activities of our own.

__**" ** //. I really like working in my group and learning about cultural identity. Creating our guiding activities was very fun and interesting to see what kinds of activities we came up with."//__

" //I didn’t learn anything new that much today. Just on making guiding activities."// "I accomplished contributing ideas to the list of guiding questions such as how to get rid of cultural differences." "I learned to cooperate with my group members."

"We shaped questions and activities from our ideas and altogether streamlined yesterday’s notes." "I think the project is okay, but I don’t feel very active or inspired."

I learned that everyone has a different opinion about what cultural identity actually is. It’s interesting trying to learn from our classmates and our own ideas, rather than just doing what our teacher tells us to.

" I learned how to debate and develop activities in response to issues in our society."
" I like working in groups rather than individual."

"Although there seems to be some conflicting ideas here and there, we always listen and compromise."
"As of now, I am still a tad unclear of where the final aim of this project is pointing, however, in time it will unravel."

"We brainstormed and documented some guiding questions that will help us understand our challenge better and help us to gain information." "I like the amount of freedom we get. "

"I learned that it is really hard to come up with an activity that comes up with an answer to our question. " "So far, ideas are being thrown around but we haven’t decided on one yet. Talking with our group and coming up with lots of ideas is working well. So later on, we can choose one idea from the many we had. "

Today, my group and I thought of two guiding activities to do inside class and two that we are able to do inside class. When we were thinking of activities for outside of class, we tried to think of ways to incorporate the different "hangout spots,"

"We thought of a lot activities that we can do inside and outside of class." "I'm a little confused about where we are going to end up."

"Today we were able to accomplish a few more guiding questions. These were questions that helped us to understand the point of the project a lot better, which in turn will help others understand the point of our project." "I learned that Punahou tends to have a lot of cliques that come from the same “cultural identity.”

"I don’t feel like I’m learning anything. " "Today we brainstormed ideas for the activity. "

"I think that really, there isn’t much to go wrong in these first days. In the later days, however, I think we will come across difficulties." "I’m not entirely sure what we’re supposed to be learning right now."

This project is something that I feel can unfold nicely but just hasn’t been doing so lately. I believe the reason for this is because the topic is too broad and students do not exactly have a full understanding of what we’re trying to do. I myself, have no clue what we are trying to accomplish. We needed to have a better foundation and base from the start.

I understand what’s going on, and I now see more of what is going on and where the project is going.

we brainstormed and figured out three of the four in and out of class activities that we wanted to do." //We came up with a good number of activities from having people come up with about 5 words that describe their identity, to having a possible newscast or culture day."// //"Then I began to understand the meaning of it and found it very interesting. Our group did pretty well in discussing their ideas and their views, and it worked really well."//

__**Day2**__

Our group brainstormed and thought to ourselves how does cultural identity affected us first.
It was difficult because other group members were saying that other people’s questions weren’t good, yet they couldn’t think of any questions themselves.

"We related it to our lives to see what kind of questions might arise."
"We wanted to be somewhat specific, making it even harder to develop questions specific to the essential question. " " Some of us expressed much more ideas than others, however I’m sure those other members had lots of good ideas as well. " " I think to have the best arguments and conclusions, you need many different points of views and opinions to prove your points. " "We came together and contributed questions." "It got frustrating when we couldn’t think of any more questions. " "To improve the ways in which my group worked, I could’ve contributed more to the conversation and thought of new guiding questions as well. By doing this, we could have had more minds working on a thoughtful guiding question."

"We each spoke about what we think cultural identity is and how we think our classmates could relate to that topic." "It was also hard to word the questions so that they aren’t too broad."

"After listing what we wanted to know, we brainstormed questions that would give answers to what we wanted to know." "We moved beyond that point of frustration by continuing to think together and contributing suggestions."

"I think the group work is a really good idea because it involves each person instead of just the large class group." " I learned today that in order to better understand our essential question about cultural identity, you have to break it into smaller pieces."

"In order to come up with questions for the survey our group thought about our own lives and how we ourselves are affected by our own cultural identity. " "I think what caused that problem was that our questions were too broad. It would be a lot more specific and easier work with if we came up with many focused questions."

"Once we determined a definition of cultural identity, we worked together to devise the questions, speaking out to each other and working together to form questions that we all felt would help us better understand Punahou’s status on cultural identity and cross cultural connections. "

"No one in our group got particularly frustrated, nor was our discussion difficult. We all agreed on the same things for the most part so it wasn’t difficult to agree on the questions to ask, nor was it difficult to come to a common definition to work with. "

"Our group discussion was difficult from the start. Since ”Cultural Identity” itself is such a huge area, it’s hard to find a smaller discussion topic to initially work from. Frustration was most seen in the very beginning when we had nothing to work with. After a while of having everyone compile their own thoughts, we shared and narrowed down. From there it ran much more smoothly and successfully."

Personally, I think that my culture affects who I hang out with, and how people see me.

We figured that we would go to the library and that there would be a bunch of different groups of people there.

// "we couldn't really come up with many good questions at first but once we started we kept coming up with questions and it was good // " // " I think we did a pretty good job, and maybe next time we should all talk a little more cause some of us were quiet." // ** __Day 1__ **BIG IDEA ESSENTIAL QUESTION GUIDING QUESTIONS GUIDING ACTIVITIES

I think that this will be a very interactive and social project that will make it a whole lot more fun.

"In the long run, I think this project will rise the awareness of cultural identity and the affects that it may have on people today. That is definitely something that I will gather from doing this project."

"By making a survey about race and cultural identity, I will raise awareness in the Punahou community." "The thinking process will include thinking of questions and unknown information." "I think this project will be different from any assignment that I’ve done before." " From this project, I will be able to learn more about cultural identity and the views my classmates have on it." "I believe this project will be an exciting and hands-on experience. The project requires us to cooperate with other people to discuss what they believe cultural identity is and how they feel it affects them. Thus, this project undoubtedly takes the idea of learning “outside the classroom,” which a learning technique that most students tend to enjoy."

"One of our group members was a bit unfocused because they were on their computer. Personally, I think that the only person who should’ve had their computer open was the note taker." "Actually, we didn’t get frustrated. We were generally focused and there was never a point where we were confused. We carried on with an interesting and enlightening discussion."

"The challenge question suggests that there aren’t any cross cultural connections in the Punahou community. However, Punahou has a very diverse ethnic population and we are not culturally segregated like the challenge question assumes we are."

"By taking this project out to the academy student body I believe that I can help students become more aware of where they derive their culture." "Punahou is a very diverse school with so many cultures mixed together that it becomes hard as a student not to accept all cultures as a part of who we are."

"It seems pretty difficult in that there are many steps and processes of editing, revising, and organizing."
"I think there is a possibility for success if we work hard enough." " I have never done a project that involved working with another class." "People always say that it only takes one person to make a difference in our world. Sometimes I doubt this, for one person to actually make a change a world so huge seems so improbable and impossible. " "I’m looking forward to seeing the impact we can make on our school community. "

"I believe that everyone has the power to make a difference with a good attitude and a strong idea." "A difference can be something as small as telling you’re parents what we’ve learned in class, to as big as holding a carnival about you’re problem, advertising the need for change and promoting the solution."

"It also makes me realize that this project is meant to help us to make a difference in our school community." "I look forward to working with all of my classmates and putting our ideas and opinions together. "

" //I think not me but our class as a whole can make a difference."// //"I think personally I will make new friendships. I will really gain a feel for culture identity and it know for a fact I will appreciate my culture a lot more than I am now."//

"People tended to get frustrated when we couldn’t think of any new questions." "I could have added my ideas more."

//"I like the idea of us like teaching ourselves with of course the guidance of our teacher, especially because I am an independent person." // I think that we will also need to learn more about cultural identity and the results of the survey."

"Maybe other people are different, but I think Punahou students have a great sense of cultural connections mainly because of our diverse cultural identities. We share it with others and add to our own, but really, I don’t think that having connections is a problem within the Punahou campus."

"I think it is possible for anybody to make a difference. I think I can make a difference as long I put my mind to it." "I’m also looking forward to seeing how far this project takes us."

"I believe I can make a difference in what I choose to make a difference in, but I don’t think a difference needs to be made here. I think that these videos or podcasts or whatever we make will go unwatched by the rest of the campus—I can’t say that if I was a freshman taking ISS, a junior taking U.S. history, a senior taking European history, or even a fellow sophomore in Asian history that I would have any interest whatsoever in watching something having to do with forging cultural connections with my peers."

" I for one freaked and became ineffective because there was a guy I’ve never met with a tape recorder in my face." " Personally I could have been more comfortable sharing my ideas and thoughts."

" I am excited to learn really how other people’s heritage and family shapes or does not shape their identity so I can compare and contrast to my own."

" I will also need to do some research to look objectively and compare what people say and what they appear to do." "As for personally I could have improved the discussion by giving more suggestions to the group and by talking more to the group so they could listen in on my ideas." "But we overcame this by someone coming in with a good question that made everyone think and everyone had ideas."

"For me personally, one way I could’ve improved the way our group worked together is if contributed more to our conversation. I was mainly just listening to my group members and saying if I agree or disagree with what they were saying." "Our group discussion was a little difficult because there were many times where more than one person was talking so it was hard to understand."

"We also could’ve talked about why we chose the questions we did a little more because I know that I just accepted other peoples opinions over my own in some of the questions and didn’t second guess it at all."

"I hope that coming to the realization that there is such a drastic divide even at our school of will maybe inspire some people to want to bridge the gap. It certainly makes me want to. "

I am looking forward to not only working with my peers in this project, but also investigating how their lives and the lives of my peers are different from mine. Once we define “cultural identity” I look forward to seeing how their backgrounds, families, and different types of culture affect people differently.

Our group went through the questions by reading them first and then choosing the ones that were most relatable to us; the ones that seemed easiest to answer. We had problems with identifying what “cultural identity” is, and therefore posed some problems in choosing the questions.

"As we first started off, we began to simply break down the essential question (what is cultural identity and how does it define me?) into two main subjects: (1) the concept of culture and (2) how this concept may affect people in their daily lives. "

"However, I do feel that one difficulty we had was clarification. Although many of us had ideas, it was a different story trying to verbally explain these ideas to the rest of the group. Thus, when one member of our group had a liable guiding question and tried to share it with our group, not everyone was able to grasp at its significance." "Our discussion was difficult because it was so quiet, which was a result of a loss of ideas and direction"

"To improve how our group worked together I would have tried to initiate more conversation so that our discussion had more talking and more ideas flowing." "Our group went though a process of elimination when we were coming up with questions for the survey." "Overall the group discussion wasn’t that difficult. I thought that our group cooperated with each other and everyone gave good ideas to help choose the questions." "I think this might be an interesting project because Hawaii is very culturally diverse and there are different opinions that might come up." "It would make me look at race a little differently." " The only hard thing was coming up with the questions, but we ended up with some very good questions.  It didn't look like anyone was getting frustrated.  I have a pretty calm group."

"Once we had an understanding of that, we indentified the many stereotypes that we have heard about cultural identity." "Once we had an understanding of what cultural identity was, we indentified the many stereotypes that we have heard about cultural identity.

" It really seems interesting and I had never done anything like this before, so I’m kind of excited to see the outcome and results of this. Especially because, even though in the middle of the pacific island we really have a wide range of ethnicities."

" we couldn't really come up with many good questions at first but once we started we kept coming up with questions and it was good"

" I was also shocked earlier in the game then I expected by one of my group members being COMPLETELY oblivious to everything that my previous life style included. I would contribute the majority of my cultural identity to my past lifestyle. The actions themselves and the lessons I learned from them shape the majority of my identity and he had no clue that things like that actually existed in a ‘Punahou kids’ lifestyle"  "I was also shown how much being embarrassed and shy to do things can hinder personal education. I think this embarrassment or leniency toward being shy comes from that person’s cultural identity and I am curious as to which part most contributes to these qualities." "Today was a much more productive day. We didn't play around as much and thought of a lot more questions to add to our guiding question section" "We are all starting to agree on things more and we are working a lot better together."

"I don’t know how to interpret [the question of making a difference]. This isn’t a personal project, so I won’t personally be making a difference, but in our groups, through this project, yes, I believe we can make a difference, especially in interactions between students, depending on whether or not the results of these surveys are released to the general student and faculty public." "I think I’ll have a better understanding of what Punahou students need to work on in their interactions, and I’ll have something to work on personally, because whether people realize it or not, cultural identity does indeed play a surprisingly large part in constant communication."

During the discussion, people became increasingly frustrated when voices became too loud, more than one person was talking, and/or people weren’t playing attention.

Each of us had an opinion of which questions we didn’t like, but not so much which ones we did like. So our process of deciding which questions we wanted was process of elimination. Our group discussion was difficult because some people were not totally focused. Then we tried to make the questions better by giving additional opinions about the question.

"If there were any discrepancies we would have a discussion about the pros or cons then hold an open argument." "Neither side wanted to give up the question that they thought seemed relevant and important to the topic of cultural identity."

Today I learned that the term “culture” is the culture, traditions, or same general interests of a particular social group or institution. Your identity is who you are, and how you are identified amongst a group of people.

Everyone has good ideas and all you need to do is either ask them the right question or listen carefully

"I think that by doing this project, you can make people aware of cultural identities that surround us in Punahou. But I don’t believe that by only this project, we can make a huge difference by increasing cross-culture connections."

"I will need to learn what exactly cultural identity is before I can try to make cross-cultural connections."

I am learning a lot about people in my group and more about myself

"I think that this project will be able to change perspectives." "I think that all the people in class working together can make a difference. Even people outside of our class taking our surveys will be exposed to our ideas. We will be able to educate people about cultural identity and allow them to think about their own lives and families. "

"What I am looking forward to doing is using my own creativity to supplement the bases we were given with. Also, using this wikispaces website, it proposes so many opportunities to customize things in a more appealing and modern way."

it will be a good learning experience, to see how we can make the cross-cultural connections grow throughout Punahou.

I don’t know what the outcome of this project is going to be. "I learned today that half of part of being in a group is working like a team." "I am kind of scared for next class because we are going to doing our activities and we don’t even have questions." “ Like my identity is like super complicated and detailed than I thought.” “I seriously believe that I have learned a tremendous amount in half an hour.”

The only place with real variety are the junior trees because practically all the juniors hang out there.

To me, it seems the area I hang out is culturally diverse, but when other people in my group labeled my peers geeks and gamerz, I realized how easy it is to label people. It made my really think who I am.

**"After doing that activity it made me think more about how other people stereotype each other because if someone thought I was a native, when I’m not, I wonder what other people could be thinking."** **"I believe that by doing guiding activities using people in the Punahou community, it also makes them to start to think more about their cultural background as well."

This allowed me to see how people with similar interests tend to connect with the same type of people, and moreover, their background and family history plays a bigger role than I thought in regards to one’s cultural identity. It was very interesting to see how cultural identity affects not only yourself, but those around you as well.**