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=Welcome to Facing History and Ourselves=


 * Week of 5/21**
 * Monday:** sorry, I am sick as a dog, (where did that phrase come from anyway?) work on something.
 * Tuesday:** I tried, so sorry. You should email me by the end of class. Your question is to list the top 5 places you hypothesize bullying takes place at BHS, and the secret 5 that no one else is going to think of. That is right, 10 places total. Also include your thoughts on how we should go about getting data on where bullying is taking place in BHS.
 * Wednesday:** Hopefully a convo.
 * Thursday:**

How do these issues connect to LRA/Kony in Uganda, Luango in the Congo, The Holocaust, and various genocides that we have been exploring? Please begin by defining justice in your own words. Dictionary.com is the refuge of poorly educated middle school students. Use your own brain.
 * Week of 5/14**
 * Monday:** What is justice? Reckoning Is it ever too late for justice? Sometimes is justice even possible? Is justice the same thing as revenge? Can anyone but the victims decide if justice has been achieved?
 * Tuesday:** Continue video and discussion about justice.
 * Wednesday:** no class.
 * Thursday:** finish video begin discussion
 * Friday:** time to reflectively write your responses. Pick one or two of the following or above questions and using what you saw, studied, experienced, and have learned from your classmates, please write a written reflection. Are wrongdoers less likely to commit crimes when they think they might be caught and punished? What is justice? Does it look the same in all communities? How can individuals and nations work together to create a safer, more just community? What is more important, peace or justice?

(your situation(shared)rise of NSDAP)
 * Week of 5/7**
 * Monday:** research and discussion
 * Tuesday:** Create a Venn Diagram comparing similarities and differences between your situation and Weimar Republic's fall. ex of setup:
 * Wednesday:** complete research (make sure bib is in order) turn in discussion starters to me.
 * Thursday:** Round-table begins.
 * Friday:** Round-table concludes.


 * Week of 4/30/2012**
 * Monday:** presentations continue
 * Tuesday:** presentations (plus a Peace Corps visitor)
 * Wednesday:** presentations
 * Thursday:** rise of reactionary groups around the world
 * Friday:** research for those who are here...


 * Week of 4/23/2012**
 * Monday:** work on finishing up project. Discuss progress.
 * Tuesday:** work on finishing up while I have jury duty.
 * Wednesday:** Presentations begin.
 * Thursday:** Presentations continue.
 * Friday:**

project due tuesday after vacation.
 * Week of 4/9/2012**
 * Monday:** genocide resources and definitions. Begin project.
 * Tuesday:** research
 * Wednesday:** research discussion
 * Thursday:** silent research.
 * Friday:** roundtable on discussing why your scenario is or is not seen by the international community as a "Genocide"

Over long weekend begin to think about which modern genocide interest you and why. Here is a non-definitive list: [|link] THe project will be an individual research endeavor and presentation to the class.
 * Week of 4/2/2012**
 * Monday:** Saw this foxconn and thought of you. Please read Kitty Genovese before class on Tuesday.
 * Tuesday:** bystander, upstander,, perpetrator...
 * Wednesday:** Finalize discussion of roles. **[|zimbardo.]** modern analysis of Kitty, what would you do. [|American History X clips.] How does someone change roles?
 * Thursday:** Begin modern genocide unit, project discussion. Please get me your four journal entries, (titles, whatever).

Keep it simple Make it connect Urge a do-able action Emotional appeal Appeal to nationalism Oversimplify Fear Insecurity Fear of other Fear of being an outsider Reactions: Pity? Purpose Incentive, terrible lives in the schools who can be controlled? age, poverty, escape, desperation, what were the schools doing? Taliban version of events, no access, in a lang they didn't understand....
 * Week of 3/26/2012**
 * Monday**: While I am out please read propaganda Answer these questions in writing. What is it that made three of these posters so effective. Pick any three. Are these still effective ways of communicating ideas? Compare the messages in any two of these posters to contemporary advertisements/campaigns/PSAs/whatever you can think of to compare.
 * Tuesday:** in class discussion about efficacy of propaganda.
 * Wednesday:** notes from Tuesday, what to add? and training suicide bombers.
 * Thursday:** in class reading and discussion found here.. Further interviews (audio) [|on NPR.]

Reflection: of the situations we have studied, Nazi Germany, KONY 2012 followers, teens in the Middle East, who was brainwashed, who made their own decisions, what does it mean to be brainwashed, please give examples from your own life. Over the weekend, written reflection to the question above, please include at least 3 of the people/examples we have looked at in this exploration KONY on...
 * Friday:** What does it mean to be "brainwashed?" [|Jesus Camp excerpt.]


 * Week of 3/19/12**
 * Monday:** konyppt
 * Tuesday:** report on what you are doing, have done. Hmmm, things might not be as they appear...whoa. [|foxconn]
 * Wednesday:** read before coming to class W [|link1]and read law that is linked to then [|link2]
 * Thursday:** eugenics discussion
 * Friday: field trip day**


 * Week of 3/12/2012**
 * Monday:** discuss response to Kony. Options: Action, Education, Both? [|climate change video.]
 * Tuesday:** decision time
 * Wednesday:** action.
 * Thursday:** action
 * Friday:** action

What does it mean to be a member of a nation? What does it mean to be a citizen? How does one test or establish citizenship?
 * Week of 3/5/2012**
 * Monday:** Please read this Ordinary People, Extrordiary Evil and reflect by Friday. Nuremberg Laws.
 * Tuesday:** Comparing Jim Crow Laws, Indian Removal Act, Chinese Exclusion Act, and Patriot Act to Nuremberg Laws link.
 * Wednesday:** Rubric due, research T night the N. Laws and your assigned laws to make comparisons.
 * Thursday:** "detaining" or "concentrating" people. Who was in a concentration camp and why?
 * Friday:** Ordinary People due.

What was the purpose of the study? What do you think inspired him to study obedience? Have you seen this sort of obedience/conformity in your life? when, where, why? What does it tell us about adolescents who chose to join Hitler Youth?
 * Week of 2/27/2012**
 * Monday:** long block, video on childhood in Nazi Germany **part 2.**
 * Tuesday:**journal on School for Barbarians on the www.facinghistory.org (you have to log in!) school for barbarians Please read and then pick a question or two at the end to reply to. If you have technical difficulties grab a FHAO textbook.
 * Wednesday:** Stanley Milgram! conformity or obedience. milgram on bbc!
 * Thursday:** conformity and obedience continued, read this or google on your own and respond,(sorry if I still have your journal!)
 * Friday:** Take another day with your reflection or to catch up on other journals. I am so sorry to not be there to have a discussion with you all.

Video in class part1 bbc, bbc part2 no homework unless you are behind on journals.
 * Week of 2/13/2012**
 * Monday:**Continue discussion/notes on end of WWI start of Weimar Republic.
 * Tuesday:** conclude video, begin writing your party's speech and creating your propaganda poster.
 * Wednesday:** political platform activity
 * Thursday:** Continue political platform activity
 * Friday:** Reichstag elections in class -only hw over vacay is to reflect upon the outcome of the election. Did it surprise you, why/why not. Explain what happened and why your person voted the way they did. How do you think they would feel about the outcome?

Log into facinghistory and go to what did you learn in school? Please pick one of the follow up questions and respond in writing. Then compare your own educational experience with German students' at that time.
 * Week of 2/5/2012**
 * Monday:** in class finish id chart discussion, hang them and discuss What is a Nation?
 * Tuesday:**Begin Weimar Republic. Guiding question "//What conditions influenced the choices individuals and groups made in Germany after WWI? Why did the democracy fail?"//
 * Wednesday:** discuss reading/reflections from tuesday is moved to TH, just got called out for a sick baby, please read No Time to Think I am so sorry to neglect you my friends I'll be back and looking forward to some great discussions!
 * Thursday:** Take today to catch up, I am so sorry to miss class, but think of all we have to discuss on Friday. Make sure you are caught up on journals, I'm grading Saturday am.
 * Friday:** All about Weimar...why was Germany so tired, angry, well educated, and frustrated?


 * Week of 1/30/2012**
 * Monday:** in class discussion of Harrison Bergeron hw from over the weekend. Tonight download this identity and do the reading beginning on pg 27 "Understanding Strangers" of the download. There are several open ended journal questions after that. Please pick one to explore for your journal.
 * Tuesday:** discussion of reading. Bring in images/photos/whatever for your personal identity chart.
 * Wednesday:** from the download on M, please read either the reading beginning on p 92 "Accepting Diversity" or p 97 "Alienation," again do a journal response to one of the open ended questions.
 * Thursday:** continued discussion and completion of identity charts/universe of obligation..
 * Friday:** from the download on M, please do the What is a Nation reading on pg 27 or 20 respectively and respond.

This is a very interesting semester elective, welcome aboard! Please see the course expectations to the left for an explanation of what we are doing and some ideas about where we are going before the end of the school year. Here on the homepage is where you will be able to find all of your assignments. Do please remember that if you are absent, we will do things without you -and you will be responsible for catching up. You must bring your charged iPad every day to class. Please contact me at gould@bpsk12.org with any questions or comments.

article choices: Abercrombie not selling veils. Coming to US no longer means new name. Mississipi prom cancellation scandal Minority students achievement pressures from peers Parental pressure on tiger babies. or something you find on your own that interests you about adolescents making identity choices.
 * Monday:** HW create a login for wikispaces (like all websites, figure out a way to remember your own password, or be prepared to not be able to do or submit work).
 * Tuesday:** Discussion and identity chart of The Bear That Wasn't Begin personal identity chart. HW create your login for the Facing History and Ourselves' website. http://www.facinghistory.org
 * Wednesday:** explore how online journaling will work. My apologies for being absent, this virus is not something you want me to share with you. In class you have two things to do, pick a place to keep an online journal or decide to get a composition book, totally up to you. I do suggest wordpress, set it to private and add me as an admin gould@bpsk12.org so that I can see your journal responses. Make the page your own! Then pick one of the following articles to read and respond to the question of "how do adolescents choose/shape their identity or do others give them their identity?" Try to connect with your friend the Bear. You will be journaling several times a week, so set up your online space accordingly, or just title a new page of paper and attach it with tape after you go to Staples.


 * Thursday:** in class dscussion.
 * Friday:** HW response to Harrison Bergeron, Why were the people so obedient, so willing to conform? What could they have done to change things? Why didn't they? What were the consequences of their failure to act? Found on facing.or or here.

• bystander- a person who sees unacceptable behavior but does nothing to stop it • perpetrator- one who commits crimes and other acts of injustice or violence • upstander- an individual who witnesses injustice and takes steps to stop or prevent it.