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Each question presented will be answered individually, chronologically according to the Midterm Draft. Four subsections will be created;
 * First
 * Theorize
 * Connect
 * Enact

Accompanying images will also be included throughout this response. Additionally, all material referenced will have a citation beside it.

First

 * What are the designers of the website trying to say based upon the way they have presented these stories?
 * How are you thinking about both the critique and tensions Gilbert (2015) addresses in chapter 3?
 * What tensions arise as a you move through the website and consider Gilbert’s (2015) argument in chapter 3?
 * What struggles might you face and what do you do with both the tensions and the struggle?
 * How you might link the ideas of sexuality, sexual, and gender identity to your emerging sense of pedagogy?
 * What curricular and subject matter can you weave together with the ideas you perceive to be within the stories?

Theorize

 * Why are you becoming a teacher?
 * What does it mean to teach, why and how do you know that?
 * Upon what ethical, ideological, philosophical, and ways of knowing and acting upon the world is your sense of teaching based?
 * How do those ways of knowing and taking action upon and in the world effect what, how, and why you teach what you do?
 * How do all the above affect those young people with whom you are fortunate enough to work?
 * How have the readings thus far informed your answers to the above questions?
 * What are the intersections across the readings?

Connect

 * Please address at least 3 of the following topics we’ve covered in class:
 * Concepts of culture
 * Culturally responsive/sustaining pedagogies
 * Critical pedagogy
 * Intersectionality
 * Engaged pedagogy

Enact

 * How does the It Gets Better project help you think about all the above in relation to the theme you developed?
 * Which ideas help you make sense of what the designers are trying to do?
 * What curricular and subject matter can you weave together with the ideas you perceive to be within the stories?
 * How do you take up the critique of It Gets Better that Gilbert (2015) discusses?
 * How does this critique impact your thinking across readings?
 * What can you do through an engaged pedagogy for all of your students beyond the context of It Gets Better?