What a Riot….another late response.

Middle school and high school is an interesting time for students in the US, The developing minds and changing bodies and body chemistry. As stated in the reading, some were perturbed by the content and process of Mady’s CAP process, but what is interesting is that while the words were written by Mady who has a more educated notion of the history and effects of the Rodney King trial and the political situations of that time, the workshop really seemed like it was being lead by the student’s understandings. And not only their understandings, but their fears, emotional responses and their team work to understand the differences and path of other human beings in various situations. It seems to me that really what this workshop was, was a study in a collapse of what the mythologist Joseph Campbell calls, “The Heroes Journey,” which is ultimately the path of an individual.

-Chase