Post your genocide power point here

Be sure your presentation is open to public viewing.  Also, please identify which conflict (Rwanda, Congo, etc) you are posting.

Ideas for our spring debates

Take some time to read the news summaries and responses on some of your classmates' blogs.  As ideas for issues that we could use for our debates come to mind, post them here.

A few things to remember:


* Issues suitable for debate need to have both a pro side and a con side.  Try to frame your ideas as a questions that set the issue up as something that can either be argued for or against.


* If the issue is going to lead to a good debate, there has to be enough people who would be willing to argue one side or the other.  So, if most people would have the same opinion on the issue, it's not going to work because there won't be anyone to argue against.




You can post as many ideas and comments as you can think of!

Stanley Milgram Shock Experiment

For homework, view the following links about a famous experiment that examined the topic of obedience to authority.  As you watch them, be sure to answer the questions in your packet.




First video gives an overview of the experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g1MJeHYlE0




Second video shows you a recent reproduction of the experiment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbqjLz0CmiQ

Individual Student Blogs & Outside Reading Books

“In a world….”

A blog trailer for your book….

Think of this assignment as a kind of movie trailer for your book, except instead of making a video, you must use your own words and whatever pictures and links you find that will give your readers hints about the plot, the characters, and/or the content of your book.  Don’t just use the back cover—craft this yourself.  Show me enough so that I know you read your book, but don’t give everything away--you can even put in some teasers.  Set it up to entice your peers to pick up the book themselves.   Be creative & have fun with it! 

Instead of doing this as a comment to my blog, you are first going to create your own blog.  I will show you how using Blogger.  As the author of your own blog, you can be very creative with the set-up as well as the use of pictures, videos, and music.  After we do this assignment you are going to use this blog for the rest of the year for future assignments.

**Note, if there is a movie version of your book, don’t use anything from it.  Make this about your experience with reading the book.

A good blog post will…

• Use language that is clear and creative and provokes interest and a desire to read the book.
• Highlight and describe important characters, key scenes or other significant parts of the book.
• Provide just enough detail to give evidence of reading but also set up teasers so that readers will want to examine the book themselves.
• Include relevant and meaningful images, music, and other links (perhaps even interactive ones) to enhance the depiction of the events, characters, ideas, symbols, and other content from the book. 
• Avoid using the book’s back cover or ready-made descriptions or trailers authored by other people—things that would take away from YOUR creativity and crafting of ideas.
   

Below put a link to the blog you created today in the comment box.  Make sure your blog is open to the public so we can all see what you came up with.