Me no feel good :(

I am feeling very ill today - sorry I am not in! :( Sit wherever you please today, and I will reassign seats when I am back tomorrow...

I hope everyone had a great long weekend. Overall, great job on POLs...I cannot wait to start this semester with all of you!!! Erin will be in to discuss some things for internship today (later in the afternoon). Thursday will be SO exciting! :) Also, we will do our current events tomorrow, since I am not in today...

We will be watching the documentary, "Why We Fight" during class today - it should take 98 minutes, so after you watch it, you can have the last 20 minutes to reflect on the film. We are watching this documentary 1) because we will be starting our war documentaries next week, and I want you to see an example of a good documentary...please take notes during the film, so that you can make comments when you reflect about what makes a good documentary, and what maybe you did not like about it. Would you make your documentary similarly? Eisenhower, in his Farewell Address, warned against the rise of the "military-industrial complex," coining a new phrase - did his warning come true? (Reflect);

2) Later this semester, we will be putting "America on Trial," and there is a lot of information in "Why We Fight" about the anatomy of the American war machine - take notes during the film, in order to better understand some concepts for when we do put America on trial. If there are any questions, jot those down, so we can take a look at them.

Please blog your reflections by 10 pm today (you can do it in class, but some of you may want more time to do revisions at home - in your reflection, start off by reviewing the documentary (what was it about, etc.), and then follow up with your reflection answers.


In other news, 1) we will be posting the Oppression photo explanations downstairs tomorrow, so have them done; 2) I will bring you good examples of how I want your FBI files to look, so you can finalize them by Friday and turn them in; 3) who you are assigned to for your Candidate profiles will be up on the blog so you can start your research by this afternoon.

Lastly, Honors Book Reports are due today (if posted on your blog, let me know)...

All my love,
Elika :)