The United Nations negotiating table between South and North Korea. We watched Hotel Rwanda in class today, which also has the United Nations involved. Photo taken in January 2014.
Welcome back from break and to 2016! We did not get to meet as planned on Monday due to the Snow/Ice Day, so this was our first day of class back together. Here's what happened in class today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 20: I can identify the critical components of imperialism.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
Behavior LT 3: I can communicate and work effectively within a team or group.
Soundtrack: "Welcome Back" by Ma$e. Selected for today because it was great to welcome everyone back from break! Lyrics here.
AGENDA 1/6/16:
News Brief - Mr. Fritz
Break
Speech Debrief
Hotel Rwanda
News Brief: I had the news brief today, due to the break. Here's the story that I chose to talk about: CNN.com - Saudi Arabia-Iran row spreads to other nations. I talked about the recent execution in Saudi Arabia of a leader from the Shia branch of Islam, and how that really upset people in Iran, which is majority Shia. Saudi Arabia and many countries around it are majority Sunni, so this is a conflict within the religion of Islam. We will learn more about this next semester!
Grace was selected to do the next news brief, but will not be here on Friday, so I assigned it to Christian L. at the end of class.
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):
Break: After the news brief, I gave students some time to check in with each other about how break was and what they were up to, then provided the opportunity to share out with the class. I talked a bit about my break and my experience with Mexican culture in Puerto Vallarta and going to Texas for the Alamo Bowl this past weekend!
Speech Debrief: Since the last class before break was spent doing the Rwanda speeches, I wanted to again talk about how much I appreciated and enjoyed your work there. If you have not turned in your individual speech yet, please do so to the box, ASAP. Thank you!
Hotel Rwanda: The rest of class was spent watching the movie Hotel Rwanda (2004). I normally do not show entire movies in class, but this one is SO good and relevant to the Rwanda unit. Here is the worksheet of questions to answer as we watched:
We watched until 57 minutes into the movie in class, and will watch the rest next class
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