9th+Grade+W+History+B

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.
 * Evidence = Quotations, Statistics, Anecdotes, Examples, and Descriptions **


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



Max, Emma , Michelle , Julian

Riley, Izzy , , Jake

Kyra, Eddie , Paola , Zach

Rachel, Katy , Henry , Danny 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.** **[|Here's the instructions for our Final and our Rubric]**
 * 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.**

Work in groups on your Final. Work on your questions.
 * Thursday, May 30th**
 * Homework = Read the viewpoints of the other teams, and work on your presentation for the Final.**


 * Friday, May 31st.**
 * Iran Twitter and HRs. **

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

[|Here's an article] by a rich man who realized that possessions weren't making him happy (of course, Buddha and Socrates 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 abou[|t Obama's decision to assassinate] an American citizen

[|This article from the NYTimes] got a lot of attention for its interesting theory on the causes of autism. Is the argument the author makes Rousseauian or Hobbesian?

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.