Contemporary Issues
During the 2012-2013 school year, the 11th and 12th grade humanities class, called Contemporary Issues, studied revolutions, uprisings and African truths. Below you'll find links to the projects I completed during this year.
The French Revolution
For this semester-long unit, we extensively studied the causes and legacy of the French Revolution. Then, each group picked a different revolution in history, and studied that revolution in more depth. The final project for this unit was a newscast, comparing the two revolutions.
African Truths
During this unit, we approached the study of Africa, and grappled with a lot of the problems in the Western education system. Because so many high school curricula don't include African nations at all, or include a brief mention of "Africa" as if it was one country, it was a difficult unit to undertake. Every high schooler studied a few nations in depth, and as a class we learned and discussed Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s.
The French Revolution
For this semester-long unit, we extensively studied the causes and legacy of the French Revolution. Then, each group picked a different revolution in history, and studied that revolution in more depth. The final project for this unit was a newscast, comparing the two revolutions.
African Truths
During this unit, we approached the study of Africa, and grappled with a lot of the problems in the Western education system. Because so many high school curricula don't include African nations at all, or include a brief mention of "Africa" as if it was one country, it was a difficult unit to undertake. Every high schooler studied a few nations in depth, and as a class we learned and discussed Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, and the Rwandan genocide of the 1990s.