Sarah+G.

Phase I: Who Am I? What's My Place?


 * Hi Sarah! It's nice to meet you. Thank you for your thoughts on the Phase 1 questions. I see in your response that you consider the fact that you are a sister and a student/kid creates your identity. I see family as a common thread throughout our group page. I enjoyed reading your thoughts on how your identity makes you feel comfortable in a group. I would love to hear more about this! I hope that the fact that you are passionate about advocating for things you believe in help us to work together during this project. And as a teacher, I agree with your statement about more money should be spent on education. :) Thank you for your response and taking the time to complete phase 1. I enjoyed reading your post. - Katy (group facilitator) ||


 * What __really__ makes up your identity?


 * My identity is that i am a student an a kid and a middle schooler, sister. i am a friend who wants to help. **


 * What __really__ makes up your sense of place?


 * i think my sence of place is my family but it is also closer to nature that the city and straight lines. Though i did resently spend a night in a city and enjoyed the feeling of other people being near by, i would prefer being out in the woods then in a city. **


 * What roles do your identity and sense of place play when you work with others in a group project?
 * It helps you work in a group because it makes you feel comfterable in the group and around people but it also makes you trust the people you are working with alot like for exampl for them to pull there weight in the group, but i still prefur working alone and not haveign to rely on other people to do they work that your name isbeing put on. **

**Pasion for causes i belive in.** **Attemt to be open minded but not easly swayed.**
 * What are the qualities that you bring to the GLIP conversation that will help you make a contribution to your global group


 * What is one local problem (where you live) that you believe needs to be addressed? Suggest some steps could you take to try to solve it?

**Schools are lacking current tecnology IE- modernized camputers and laptops.** **More tax dollars need to be spent towards education.** **Respect for the school's tecnology property.**


 * Finally, some problems have been around for a long time. What qualities do you think a person must have to step up and try to solve them?


 * You need a clear understanding of the roots of the problem and NEW ideas that have not been tryed before. **

Phase II: Sense of Place

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I piced the picture of the soliders because it showed the history that happend here- i will do some more reserch to see what really happend in this area and i will add more meaningful pictures. i know that some of they in the area is mostly due to wars in the area like the civil war. -Sarah G
 * **Awesome pictures Sarah! I have enjoyed looking at your view of Cary. It seems like nature is a big part of where you live, though you feel that houses should be in those pictures. I would love to hear more about the museums and culture that can be found in Cary, and also why you chose the picture of the soliders. Now that you have done your pictures-// please go and add your thoughts to our Group Osborne-Phase 2 Table. Just click here !//** Katy (group facilitator) ||



Use these questions to help you determine which picture shows someone else why your “place” is so special to you.
 * Does a scenic picture represent the beauty you believe that your town has?


 * ** Yes, but in it it need to have houses. there is not many areasin the Cary Area of North Carolina that has no houses. **


 * Does a picture of a group of people represent and show a warmth and friendliness that your town has?


 * ** No. i dont think people in Cary are as warm and friendly as a friendly picture would show. **


 * Does a statue or building convey the feeling of history that makes your place important and unique?


 * ** Yes. North Carolina has lots of art and statues and buildings **


 * Is there a cultural event that represents the values of your home location?


 * ** No, not really. I do not know of any celebration that calebrates the cultur and history in Cary NC. there probably is and even if there isnt, we still have many museums and in down town areas, there are little signs on the side of the road that tells about some history that happend in that location. **


 * ** There is also lots of art and statues in the area in towns and near sidewalks. **

Sarah, you have made an excellent start. I really enjoyed seeing some of your pictures. You have a huge variety of pictures that shows how unique North America (and Cary, NC) is. Excellent job and make sure you start discussing the travel package with your group members. - Mr. Gore

What are your initial thoughts about how your image addresses the questions above? Later, you will be working with the members of your group to create a travel package that includes visits to each group member's home location (see Phase II)

**I origionaly thought that we should talk aabout cary in gereral but now i am thinkign that we should talk about our sence of place in our city and not judt in our scholls and in our group of friends.**

// **Hi Sarah! I like how you are thinking about your sense of place in your responses below. When you think of what represents your home your responses can be different from mine or your classmates. I would consider what comes to mind when you think of home or when you think of Cary. Things you like to do, places you like to go, or what makes up your community. Just a thought! It seems like you have a good start-I look forward to seeing more! Katy (group facilitator)** // **I think that my sence of place is mostly made out of the nature in our area, unlike a persone who lives in a city who's sence of place might me even lines and concreat and that they would mostlikely feel the most comfterable in citys if they traveled, i would feel the most comfterable outside of citys and more in the woods and near large bodys of water if i were to visit a new area. -Sarah G**

// **That's true Sarah! Your sense of place can be tied to what you are used too. Great point! I wonder if this makes people nervous to travel and experience different cultures. Does the thought of being uncomfortable make us shy away from new experiences? I love that your comments are making me think. Great job! - Katy** //

__** Travel Package- **__
//** Wow Sarah! Thank you so much for your hard work on the travel package. This will be helpful when we put everything together for the project. I think home can be representative in different ways to different people. For me, it is more of a feeling than a physical thing like a house. My house certainly plays a part, but the community around it influences my sense of place. It can be different for different people. Thank you for mentioning resources such as greenways and easy access to facilities. This is often a resource that is overlooked. Great job again and thank you for working so hard to add maps as well! Katy **//

**For our Travel Package thing... some of my awnsers that i will revise befor i put it on the main page that will represent my city.**
 * Cary NC **
 * ** Organizations - ASPCA, Food drives, **
 * ** For what represents our home- for duram some one put history, and conservation and stuff but i dont know how that represents your physical House, unless its not subpost to and it represents the city of town. i do not look at my Home as being the intier city. because i am representing the intier city of cary i guess we should put what are some parts of the city. i guess we can look at our city as our home. **
 * ** For three facts on te area, "Duram" put three general topics and then went into details so ill pice- History, Animals, and resorses ( not natural but ones like greenways and pahtes and easy acsess to phasilities. ) **



Phase III: Identify Local Issue:

**Hi Sarah! Thank you for your work on phase 3. I like the ways you looked at two different issues (technology needs in your school and animals in shelters). I can see that you are passionate about both of these issues! In thinking about what you said about the lack of updated technology, I was struck by this because technology is such a huge part of global learning. You made a great point about the fact that students need to learn how to use and apply technology to be able to be "in the real world." I love that you really thought about how to solve this problem and suggested raising the percentage of tax money that goes to education. As a teacher I am always for this! Why do you think this isn't happening in North Carolina? You mentioned that by having more technology, the student in the United States will be smarter. I agree that students will be more prepared to be global citizens. Your second issue mentioned animal shelters. You seemed very passionate about this. Can you elaborate on having more programs with the animals? Do you mean training more animals to be therapy or service animals? I would love to hear your ideas! Again thank you so much. You did a great job! Katy**  ** HEY! :) For animal shelters i am thinking that they need to be better managed and they do not need to have the animals killed. the animals have done nothing wrong. i understand that the animals take time and money and that they have reasons to put them down but akk they need is a home. they are lives! they one have one and we throw them away because there is no money!!! THATS NOT RIGHT! if no money=no lives then we would all be dead. we find a way when we dont have money but we survive! the animals have all right to live! ITTS LIKE MURDER!!!!** ** WE need to find a way for them to lie. the shelters also need to be better! there needs to be carpet and the animals need to be taken out more so they dont use the bathroon in there crates and inclosers. they need to be better taken care of ! thank you for the kind message. thats so much for helping our group! THANKS! -Sarah **

What is your local issue? 1. Problems in school. Spcificly the problem that schools dont have updated tecnology. i think schools need the newest tecnology there is because we are going in to a tecology filled world and how are we subpost to go into the real world redy, without haveing used and know how to use the new tecnology. 2.Animal shelters killing animals. What can you do to be address the issue?

1.Talk to people with more athority to solcve the issue. to solve the issue, we need to raise the % of taxes that go to education. 2. If you have herd anything about the Kony2012, we want him captured for killing people but thousands of every day people kill our family members every day and no one sees it. i mean, isnt your pet part of your family!? and if someone killed it then wouldnt you sue them!?! What is the global impact of your local issue? 1. more tecnoloy used and made. smarted USA students. 2. more pets and we can have more programs with the animals!

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