Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Foreign Policy, Day 9 - Class Recap


For Memorial Day weekend, I visited the Alvord Desert in Southeastern Oregon (and a lot of other landmarks in our state) with family!

Dear class,

This was our designated work day this week on the conflict presentations (the final project for the year), along with wrapping up Apollo 11 from last class. Here's what happened in class today:

Learning Targets Addressed:
Knowledge LT 8: I can identify how technological knowledge and innovation shapes a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 22: I can describe the influences, impacts and resolutions of historical conflicts.
Critical Thinking LT 4: I can evaluate information and explanations within a given context and develop a relevant conclusion.
Critical Thinking LT 5: I can justify and support arguments or interpretation with appropriate evidence.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Research LT 1: I can effectively conduct and apply research.

Soundtrack: "Space Oddity" by David Bowie. Selected for today because we finished Apollo 11 in class today, and this song was made in 1969, as well! Lyrics here.

AGENDA 5/29/19:
News Brief - Jack
Apollo 11
Work Time

Homework: Read the blog! Continue working on your conflict presentation! All late/missing/revised work is due this Friday! Next news brief: Connor.

News Brief: Jack had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - 4 shot in Cleveland, Texas, including sheriff's deputy. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.

Connor was assigned to do the next news brief.

As part of the 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):


Apollo 11: Last class, we watched most of this impressive documentary on the Apollo 11 mission to land people on the moon for the very first time, in 1969 (this July will mark 50 years). There were only a few minutes left in class to watch, but I wanted to be sure to do so. I hope everyone enjoyed this documentary - our last of the year!

Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to work time on the conflict presentation - assigning roles for what to do, creating the presentation, etc. Here is the assignment for the United States conflict presentations, which is the final major project of the year (hopefully not too stressful, though):


Here is the PowerPoint that shows who is in what conflict presentation group:


Here is the calendar of what I think we will be doing for the rest of the year in American Studies, to help students plan. That calendar is linked here (and may be updated, so use the link over the paper copy you were given):

Google Drive - American Studies 10 Foreign Policy Calendar 2019

See everyone next class, which will focus on current American foreign policy. Keep working on any late/missing/revised work to get to me at the end of this week, please!

Update - here are Jackson's Top 15 films of all time (subject to future revision):

1.) Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2.) Avengers: Endgame
3.) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
4.) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5.) Transformers
6.) Spider-Man 2
7.) Logan
8.) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
9.) Searching
10.) Guardians of the Galaxy
11.) The Dark Knight
12.) Booksmart
13.) The Avengers
14.) Bumblebee
15.) Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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