A photo I took of the MAX train on the Steel Bridge in downtown Portland in 2008. It's nice to have the city moving again!
Dear class,
Welcome back to school! Today was spent finishing Hotel Rwanda as we closed down the unit. 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 1/19/17:
News Brief - Jimmy
Rwanda Speech Grades
Hotel Rwanda
Movie Assignment
Make Up/Work Time
News Brief: Jimmy had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - 2 killed, others feared dead after avalanche buries Italian hotel. We talked for a bit in class about this tragic event in Italy and found it in the world map packet, before continuing on.
Juan 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 finished the movie today, finally. About a month after it as scheduled to be done! Here is the worksheet of questions to answer as we watched:
I enjoyed going through the answers together in class - this was a good discussion! Thank you! In wrapping up the unit, I told the class that if they were interested in continuing to talk about issues such as race and ethnicity, they should consider forecasting for my new Diversity and Social Justice class here at Westview. It will be .5 elective credit, team teaching with Ms. Labossiere! If the course happens as we want it and you get it on your schedule, you would be guaranteed (we think!) of having me as your teacher for it, along with Ms. Labossiere. Here is a flyer to check out more information!
Consider it as a part of your forecasting for next year! Forecasting will start in early February. :-)
Make Up/Work Time: Grades have been updated on StudentVUE. Please know what you need to be working on to improve your grade. I tried to conference with students who need to turn in more work to me by next Friday! Keep working hard! We are almost at the end of the semester!
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