My family History

1. My family History White Privilege: Personal History Report

2. Where my ancestry begins • Arrived in America from a variety of cultures and countries. Such as: • England, Germany and the Netherlands. • Predominantly white cultures. • My family has benefited and has had opportunities that other ethnicities may not have had.

3. My Great Grandfather and my gran • His accomplishments • Successful business owner • Logging mill, grocery store, car dealership, Auto Shop, and Built and sold homes My Gran’s story: • Built her own Accounting Business. • Her and my mother currently are co-partners in the business.

4. My Life and the impact of white privilege • Grew up in a predominantly white community and schools. • College and my pre-internship have been the most rewarding learning experience about white privilege and what it means to other cultures and races. • My hope: Take what I've Learned to become a better teacher.

5. Generation to Generation • My brother and I: Our chances and opportunities to Succeed • I will be the first person in family to graduate from a four college with a bachelors in Secondary Education: History Major with an English Minor • My brother will be the second in my family to graduate from a four year college with a bachelors in Chemistry and Italian WMU-Go Broncos

6. What I’ve learned • White Privilege is still a very important issue present today. • It is important that we incorporate this issue within our classes and in literature. • I think Sherman Alexie’s Novel is a perfect novel to Incorporate into an upper level English classroom. A good way to teach and inform our students of the important issues and complexities of White privilege.