We played the Sporcle country game today as welcome back after the pressure of the Rwanda speeches last class!
An official welcome back from break and to 2016! It was so great to see everyone and check in about break, after we had all of last class dedicated to the Rwanda speeches! 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 1/6/17:
News Brief - Ranger
Winter Break
Speech Debrief
Hotel Rwanda
News Brief: Ranger had the news brief today and chose this story to talk about: BBC.com - Syria conflict: Russia 'withdrawing aircraft carrier group'. We found Russia in your world map packets and talked for a while about the ongoing situation in Syria and Iraq with ISIS. Lots of good questions here - thanks!
Sammy 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):
Break: After the news brief, I gave students some time to check in about how break was and what they were up to with the class. I talked a bit about my break and my experience with going to France and England with my wife!
Speech Debrief: I did not talk about this in class, but this is how I will be grading the Rwanda speeches over the weekend. 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. I will hope to get these grades to you next class.
Hotel Rwanda: Before the movie, we played a surprise Sporcle "name the country" game, as evidenced by the top of this post. 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 32:24 in class, and will watch most of the rest next class
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