In class: Sandinista policy dilemmas

Date assigned
Friday, April 28


Assignment
Read the handout "Sandinista Policy Dilemmas."  In groups, discuss the policy dilemmas and write down your answers and explanations to what you think the Sandinistas should have done.


Due date
Friday, April 28, end of class

In class/homework: Imagine You Were a Nicaraguan

Date assigned
Wednesday, April 26


Assignment
View the Nicaraguan slide notes, located here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-LC12Du7s19WsV92gYZUV4dfU-bVGs87b5s7c-sBjmM/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p13

Read the handout "Imagine You Were a Nicaraguan..." located here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j8C5OhbF_iVKmix94BMhBvaBZ5wmXQQHDvkihcBBayA/pub

Answer the question at the end of the reading in at least one handwritten page.  If you don't finish in class, it becomes homework.  


Due date
Friday, April 28

In class: Immigration free write

Date assigned
Tuesday, April 18


Assignment
Watch "Crossing Mexico's Other Border" located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEUHF1KPY8

Free write for 4 minutes about the video.  What surprised you about it?  How did it change your perception of immigration?

Then watch "The Fruits of Mexico's Cheap Labor" located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT6AvAhDx8Q 

Free write for 4 more minutes about the second video.  What surprised you about it?  How did it change your perception?  

Finally, watch "Immigrant America: The High Cost of Deporting Parents" located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOEn0iBWWx0

Free write for 4 more minutes about the third video.  What surprised you about it?  How did it change your perception?


Due date
Tuesday, April 18, end of class

In class/homework: We're Going To Smash Him

Date assigned

Monday, April 24

Assignment

Read "We're Going to Smash Him" about the 1973 coup in Chile.  Answer the following questions.  Turn in by the beginning of class on Wednesday, April 26.

1) Summarize the methods the United States used to remove Salvador Allende from office.

2) How were the methods the United States used to remove Allende from office similar to the methods the United States used to remove Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz from office?  How were they different?

3) Why did the United States want to remove Allende from power?

4) Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she considers former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to be an important foreign policy influence on her.  Does this make you more likely to support Clinton or less likely to support Clinton?  Why?

Due date

Wednesday, April 26, beginning of class

In class/homework: Get Rid Of This Stinker

Date assigned

Thursday, April 20

Assignment

Read "Get Rid of This Stinker" about the 1954 coup in Guatemala.  Answer the following questions.  Turn in by the beginning of class on Monday, April 24.

1) Summarize the methods the United States used to remove Jacobo Arbenz from office.

2) How were the methods the United States used to remove Arbenz from office similar to the methods the United States used to remove Iranian prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh from office?  How were they different?

3) Why did the United States want to remove Arbenz from power?

4) Why do you think the Guatemalan people remember Arbenz so fondly that 100,000 of them turned out for his funeral 24 years after he died?

Due date

Monday, April 24, beginning of class

In class/homework: Mexican Revolution propaganda poster

Date assigned
Friday, April 14


Assignment
After reading "Seeds of Revolution," create a propaganda poster about the Mexican Revolution.  After finishing your poster, answer the following questions:

1) Who is the author of your poster? 

2) Who is the audience for your poster?

3) What is the message your poster is trying to convey?

4) What methods did you use in your poster to convey your message?

5) Why did you choose the topic that you chose?


Due date
Poster - beginning of class, Tuesday, April 18
Questions - end of class, Tuesday, April 18

In class: The Rise of ISIS

Date assigned
Monday, April 10


Assignment
Watch "The Rise of ISIS" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rise-of-isis/

While watching, write 10 questions that occur to you.


Due date
Monday, April 10, end of class

In class: Mexican Revolution

Date assigned
Wednesday, April 12


Assignment
Read "Seeds of Revolution" and chapter 12.4 in groups of 3.  Answer the following questions as a group:

1) What were the causes of the Mexican Revolution?

2) Why were there 4 distinct phases of the revolution?

3) What was accomplished?

4) What goals were not met?

5) Why did the Mexican Revolution take so long?

6) Why did it end? 

7) What similarities can you see between the Mexican Revolution and the American Revolution? 

8) What differences can you see between the Mexican Revolution and the American Revolution?


Due date
Wednesday, April 12, end of class

3rd quarter slide lectures

Islam 101 - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15guJxhP_HdNnuad8HJsPnSdeJRg6Tgi6YOMlhRqWvuo/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Middle East border creation - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12Ms-i7M3vUsS8xTECb827SQBeCZ4--ZLxi9Kz_ZbL70/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

The Holocaust - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z5lQqtpF0AHVASa0c_XNtNCS9gtbd4-2qT997VfT-OI/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Israel-Palestine conflict - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ejwB7mJYIFWnr2YjJdmOgM0DoStFFBCMOl6-AboMOLQ/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000