Period 4: Nonviolence and Gandhi, Day 4 - Class Recap

At my Lewis and Clark graduation on Sunday! From left to right, my dad, my brother, Mrs. DeFrance, me, my mom, my grandma, and my grandpa (my dad's parents). Fun times! It was a way too fast weekend! Time to finish out the end of the year!
Hello everyone!

Oh my goodness, we only have one more class together! This is all coming to an end really fast. I hope you enjoyed today's class - thanks for the attention, even with multiple things going on during the lesson. Please remember to finish out the year strong with the paper and any revisions that we asked you to do. Also, come see me or e-mail about any late work you may have to do! Let's go out on a high note!

Essential Questions: How does conflict arise and in what ways have various people responded? How did the concept of nonviolence develop and become implemented? - We looked at multiple angles of the answers to these questions today!

Soundtrack: "If You're Out There" by John Legend. Lyrics here. The verse that I especially wanted to highlight is:

If you're ready we can save the world
Believe again, it starts within
We don't have to wait for destiny
We should be the change that we want to see

Great song! :-)

AGENDA 6/9/09:
News Brief
Be the Change
Letter to Self
Class Reflections

Homework: Finish any late work – REVISE your papers (or turn them in for the first time), if needed! Read the blog and ask questions!

Seriously, if you do not have your paper in to me, I need it ASAP. As in, it is totally unfair to wait until the last minute and put even more work on both of us. We will hand back the grades for the papers on Thursday, as well as do final revisions.

News Brief: I tried to make sure that this section was shortened today, as we had a lot of stuff to do today. One item that was mentioned in particular was: KGW.com - Report: Murdered pregnant woman had infant cut from womb. This sparked a quick discussion about all of this, which was interesting!

Maritza in this article to talk about for the news brief: CNN.com - A week later, Air France mystery deepens. You can see the picture of the tail of the aircraft in the water! Really crazy!

Katelyn, you are up for the last news brief of the year on Thursday. Any article about anything currently going on around the world outside the United States. Thanks!

Be the Change: After the news brief, I wanted everyone to really be thinking about how they want to have a positive effect on the world. To get you thinking about this, I showed this video (one of the most popular on YouTube):


I then asked the class to write about how you want to be the change you wish to see in the world (a Gandhi quote). How are you going to leave a lasting positive impact? I then left you to be writing as Mrs. DeFrance checked in with many of the people that turned in the paper and I went around and made sure to talk to people with missing work about turning everything in.

Letter to Self: For this portion of class, I handed back the letters that you wrote to yourselves from the beginning of the year as well as a reflection piece to do on them. Mrs. DeFrance and I have read a few of these reflections so far, and they were really interesting! Thanks for doing such great, thoughtful work here! I hope you enjoyed the process!

Class Reflections: For the last ten minutes of class, I asked you to reflect on the year of Global Studies. I am looking forward to reading all of these and showing everyone what they thought of class this year!
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Have a great night! I have a million things to do: grading, blog writing, football practice, more grading, lesson planning, dinner, and possibly (hopefully) sleep at some point. Thus, please do not be offended if I can't post your comment right away. I will promise to read and respond to everything that you send me though! Please keep working hard through the end of the year! :-)