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Jamie explains "critical mass" and nuclear bombs.
"It creates a puzzle and that puzzle goes fucking crazy"
A colleague came to me with a plan to talk about a debate about World War II in her class — American isolationists vs. interventionists. We talked about her plans, and did some revision of these plans with diagrams and maps and Brainstorming!
Her class has 23 kids in it. We decided that we were going to have Roosevelt deliver a policy speech, and then have two teams under him — one would propose the specific lend-lease legislation; a group of opponents would try to undercut it. The opposition would then propose their own legislation and Roosevelt's team would try to undercut THAT. But then we were left with too many kids sitting on the sidelines. We tried to resolve it by imagining teams on the sidelines producing graphic design materials and propaganda that would support or undercut both sides — or that would serve as "voices from the extremes" which would help make clear what a dangerous time this was in American history.
Before I could help my colleague understand how our debate club runs debates, I had to construct a diagram that showed her how my Debate Club conducts parliamentary debates.
Asha talking to some teenagers visiting the AI booth about women's rights issues. She was the main draw for the whole weekend!
Taken at Greenwood Cemetery in Wheeling, WV. There were some odd lights in this one that I can't explain.
Grandpa talking about their field hut, how the crops are harvested and local history of the French occupation, which ended when he was 30 years old.
Wednesday, August 19 2009
Disneyland Paris daytrip with Anke, Manu and Rik
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Karen is explaining the story behind her quilt called “Poppies and Scarabs in Sardegna”. She was saying that the smallest dung beetle was her girlfriend who was in the military and in very good shape. That one is pushing along a large ball of dung. The next one which is a bit bigger represented another friend, also in good shape but not as much so as the smaller friend. She's pushing along a medium sized ball of dung. The biggest beetle, not pushing anything, represents herself.
At least she has a sense of humour about herself!
Launch of The Holocaust Explained www.theholocaustexplained.org/ website, 25 January 2011.