Thursday, October 22, 2009

NY Times Journalist...Kidnapped by Taliban

Read this chilling first hand account of being kidnapped by Taliban forces while on a journalistic assignment in Afghanistan. Grab it here. David Rohde the NY Times journalist was detained for over seven months. Read the first installment of the article. Actively read and annotate. Expect to need to know details about the situation. Apply it to your study of US Govt. Watch the "interactive features." Two videos, one is an introduction, the other is a video companion to the first installment of the article. They are helpful and should be viewed first. Respond to the article as Journal #17

Subsequent Parts are not due Monday, I just wanted to permalink them before they wind up in the NY Times archive.

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Epilogue

Friday, October 16, 2009

Friday, October 9, 2009

Obama & Peace


Resources for Obama Nobel can be found anywhere. The stuff we use in class is from NPR News (http://www.npr.org/).

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Welcome to October, It's Gonna Get Scary!


All assignments due Monday!

On Friday, you will receive a vocabulary supplement. Something to get creative with and have some fun. Will be graded and collected on Monday as a quiz grade.

Should be completed on your own. Do not cooperate.

Journal #10: Read the following articles and react to the issues contained within. One is about Michael Vick. The other is an abstract about ethical practices of the Nike corporation in general for your information.