The sun has set on the Rwanda unit! Hopefully it had a great impact on you. Next week, we will move on to the last (shorter) unit before finals! Photo taken in Washington, 2009.
Dear class,
Today was spent finishing Hotel Rwanda and going over everyone's grades, to see what could be improved in the lead up to finals. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 20: I can identify the critical components of imperialism.
Behavior LT 2: I can self-direct my learning.
Soundtrack: "Million Voices" by Wyclef Jean. Selected for today because it is a powerful song from the Hotel Rwanda soundtrack. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/7/16:
News Brief - Alex
Finish Hotel Rwanda
Movie Assignment
Make Up/Late Work
News Brief: Alex had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Charlie Hebdo anniversary: Paris police shoot man dead. We discussed how this story from France was related to the attacks in the past year and found France again on our world maps to note we did a news brief.
Trent was selected to do the next news brief.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Finish Hotel Rwanda: We finally were able to completely finish the movie today! Here is the worksheet of questions to answer as we watched:
I hope you enjoyed the film and found it powerful. I've now seen it dozens of times and I am always struck by how good it is - especially about showing the stages of genocide. Thank you for your focus and attention here!
Movie Assignment: After finishing Hotel Rwanda, I gave students most of the rest of class to be working on the notes that went with the movie. We discussed them at the end of class, then I had students turn the assignment in.
Make Up/Late Work: As students were working on the assignment after the movie, I had every student come up and individually check in with me about grades and what could be improved before finals, if anything. If you were in class, you should now know exactly what you need to work on! Grades have been updated on the back wall and on StudentVUE, as well.
Have a great weekend! Next week, we will start a smaller unit on the Holocaust, which ties in with Mr. Puterbaugh's class and your reading of "Night" there.
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