Posts published by Annissa Hambouz
In this lesson, students learn about the 75th anniversary of the day Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany, and the various ways Germany commemorates the victims of the Nazi regime today. They then take part in a collaborative writing exercise in which they have a “conversation on paper” with each other about various documents related to Hitler’s rise to power.
In this lesson, students create K/W/L (Know/Want to Know/Learned) charts to learn about the political violence following Kenya’s 2008 presidential elections, and to draw connections between this and other events currently taking place around the world.
In this lesson, students consider the notion of “home,” as it applies to those living in diaspora. They learn about the new locations of several New Orleans evacuees who do not intend to return to the city; then trace the migrations and write profiles of other evacuees. For homework, students write “point of view” pieces from the perspective of those who either left New Orleans or stayed behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
In this lesson, students read about a number of the 53 recommended travel destinations for 2008 published in the December 9, 2007 Travel section of The New York Times. They then select, at random, another one of the destinations to research for the creation of a class geography game.
In this lesson, students learn about a December, 2007, National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran’s nuclear status that undercuts the Bush administration’s rationale for an aggressive foreign policy in that country. They take part in a close reading of the New York Times news analysis on the report in order to understand the resulting foreign policy debate about Iran as a serious nuclear threat, and then create “one-pager” responses for homework.
In this lesson, students learn about the November, 2007, Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in Annapolis, Maryland. They then return to the year 2000 to assess the changes that have occurred in the region since the last peace talks at Camp David.
In this lesson, students learn about the new 52-story New York Times Building in Manhattan. They then research prominent structures from some of the world’s most famous skylines to review using descriptive language.