The sun is setting 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,
Welcome back to school! Today was spent continuing to watch Hotel Rwanda as we close down the unit. Just one more day left! 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: "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice. Selected for today because of the obvious connection to the snow and ice storm that closed down school for a week! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/18/17:
News Brief - Gina
Rwanda Speech Grades
Hotel Rwanda
Movie Assignment
News Brief: Gina had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Syria conflict: Russia 'withdrawing aircraft carrier group'. We talked for a bit in class about Russia's involvement in Syria and found it in the world map packet, before continuing on.
Eric 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):
Rwanda Speech Grades: Since I had so much free time on my hands over the snow/ice break, I graded all of the Rwanda speeches and I am entirely up to date with student grades! In essence:
1) If you did not address imperialism in Rwanda at all, you received a score of 1 on that target.
2) The communication target was the score for your actual speech in front of the class, as well as how well your individual paper followed the format we talked about in class. I included my notes as well as everyone else at the table listening, so you can see what I wrote about how you did.
3) The critical thinking/multiple perspectives target was for talking about the United Nations own definition of genocide, and talking about the perspective of the people of Rwanda during the genocide in your written speech.
If you have individual questions, I would be happy to answer them in person. As with any assignment, you can always revise it (or resubmit it, if you haven't turned it in) to demonstrate a higher level of proficiency, if needed.
Hotel Rwanda/Movie Assignment: We stopped about 1:22 in today. Here is the worksheet of questions to answer as we watched:
Next class, we will finish watching the movie and prepare for finals! Grades have been updated on StudentVUE, as well. Please know what you need to be working on to improve your grade. It was great to see everyone today! Welcome back! :-)
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