Monday Feb 11

Today we finished SHWTD. It may be the last story we do, thanks to all the snow days we've had and are expecting tomorrow.

If we don't get a snow day tomorrow, we will keep right on going.

We also chatted very briefly about the assignment board in the class and the website and how all of the due dates for the assignments are coming close. We chatted about how this week - including Wednesday when the quiz is on for - will work.

We also finished off conferencing about presentations for next week and the expectations for that assignment, too.

Finally, after the film, we chatted about the Culminating Activity in this class and how this film was a very brief introduction to it.


Here are the questions for the film we finished today.

1.     What are your impressions of an average Canadian soldier? Have you met a member of our Armed Forces? What did you think about them?

2.     What does the term “genocide” mean? What other 20th Century events might you consider similar to what happened in Rwanda?

3.     How might race be an important role in this event, or in this film?

4.     How did the world react when it heard about what was going on in Rwanda in 1994?

5.     Gen. Dallaire claims that the word “hero” makes him uncomfortable, in fact, he sees himself as a failure. Is he a failure?

6.     Do a 150-ish word film review of this film that you would share with a buddy of yours.