9th+Grade+W+History+C

Welcome to 9th Grade World History.

Course Expectations/Profile Win the [|New Yorker's Caption Contest] and you will earn a bucket of extra credit. Speaking of the New Yorker,[| here's a GREAT article]about a master pickpocket. And here's super-cool video of him doing his pickpocket thang.
 * Evidence = Quotations, Statistics, Anecdotes, Examples, and Descriptions **


 * For past work, check the archive page:**



Discuss last night's reading and the development of Human Rights. Assign case studies in Part III: 1. Balancing Rights – Freedom of Expression 2. The Right to Health – Brazil 3. Universal Rights? – The Rights of Children 4. International Justice – Augusto Pinochet and Chile 5. Military Intervention for Human Rights – Kosovo Discuss Guantanamo. **Homework = Be ready to present your case study on Tuesday. You need to be ready to present answers to the questions (verbally) to the class at our next class. Your answers should make use of the case studies.**
 * Friday, May 24 **
 * Guantanamo Bay. **
 * [|Habeas Schmabeas] **
 * [|Hunger strikes at Guantanamo.] **

Groups share each Case Study. in turn Make groups for the final. Explain the final.
 * Tuesday, May 28th **
 * Homework = read the bottom of page 38, the section on 39 called "Options in brief" and your group's detailed section which is between 40-47. **
 * [|Here's the instructions for our Final and our Rubric] **

Work in groups on your Final. Work on your questions.
 * Wednesday, May 29th**
 * Homework = Read the viewpoints of the other teams, and work on your presentation for the Final.**

Prepare for final. Approach the case studies from your group's point of view and from another group's point of view.
 * Friday, May 31st.**
 * Homework = be ready for the final.**

media type="custom" key="21865456" [|This] is too good to be true, except it is true. [|The Onion fooled the Iranian media.]

Here's some news that connects with our government unit. [|North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test.]Not good.

And [|Google Maps shows exactly where they are testing] (right next to one of their worst concentration camps).

[|Kissing is on the rise in India.] And, this is PG 11, so be warned, but did you know that while most animals don't kiss, Prairie dogs do. media type="youtube" key="QFwlQxiY9eo" height="315" width="420"

[|And here's a really interesting (but very long) article on whether Amazon hunter gatherers are peaceful or violent.]

In Japan, [|Robots are replacing girlfriends.] Really. According to [|this article], it has to do with Shinto.

media type="youtube" key="hCaRkyq02go" height="315" width="560" [|Here's an article] by a rich man who realized that possessions weren't making him happy (of course, Buddha discovered this first). This article is a runaway hit on the NYtimes.com, though I actually found its message a bit incoherent. See what you think.

Here's a[| fascinating article]about the new and interesting ways Chinese are trying to find spouses.

And here's a really interesting article about [|Obama's decision to assassinate] an American citizen __How Communist Are the Cubans?__

Meanwhile, let's try some[| teen repellent!]

[|An Anti-Semitic Hungarian Politician Learns Something Troubling About Himself]

[|NY Times on the Uses and Abuses of History in Politics.]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", George Santayana.