In 9th grade Humanities we just finished the content portion of our Socialization and Identity project. For the last couple of weeks we have been focusing on what we want to do for the exhibition piece of this project. Today, we selected one final idea that we will be creating for our exhibition. The final idea was a maze that parents and community members will go through. This maze will take you through all of the agents of socialization. When walking through the maze, you will be tagged by many different factor of peoples identity. These will be random and not targeted at you. The purpose of this exhibition is to show people different perspectives of how other people have been socialized and how different characteristics change the person you become.
The problem this exhibition is showing to community members and parents is to demonstrate what we have been learning also to educate them about the harmful cycle of socialization.
I am very excited for this exhibition because it is like no other we have had. This idea really stuck out to me as one of the best ways to demonstrate what we have been learning. My idea, along with many other people’s, was similar to this one. I feel like this idea was what everybody had in mind, this idea took the words out of everyone’s mouth and is the perfect idea for a socialization exhibition.
The roles that I am interested in are fundraising and exhibition crew. I am interested in fundraising because I feel like I can communicate with people really well about this idea and show them how much they can help. I am also interested in exhibition crew because I like to be involved with organization and with this job, I can help construct new elements and help keep this idea organized.
I really liked this was of coming up with this idea because everybody had their own voice for their ideas for the exhibition.