Child Soldiers

Please watch the following interview and complete the activity described below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kEL_LRBSqk 

The 4C's

Connections: What connections can you draw between the text and your own life or your other learning? Read the article "Teaching Kids to Kill" and describe any similarities or differences in the concepts.

Challenges: What ideas, positions, or assumptions do you want to challenge or argue with in the text?
Concepts: What key concepts or ideas do you think are important and worth holding on to from the text?
Changes: What changes in attitudes, thinking or action are suggested by the text, either for you or others?

Guidelines for Posting and Responding

Your goal for responding to the posts of your classmates should be to add to the direction of their responses by elaborating on the evidence they have given, or to offer an alternative idea or concern. You do not need to weaken the arguments in your classmates' blogs. You should be respectful and polite. While you may offer an opposing viewpoint, please do so cordially. Your responses should be written in a well-written paragraph of approximately five sentences.

Your work will be evaluated using the following criteria:

Initial Blog Post

• How well does the blog post address the prompt?
• Is the point of the blog clear?
• How well does the blog provide the necessary context?
• To what extent does the student support his/her thoughts with references to the core text or material?
• How well does the blog provide a space for response?

Response Blog Post

• How well does the response address the issues raised in the earlier blog?
• Is the point of the response clear?
• To what extent does the response provide necessary content?
• How well does the responder support his/her thoughts with references to the text and the initial post?
• How well does the response incorporate ideas or thoughts from the other person's blog?

Media Project 1

Select a news article that is connected to our theme, War and Conflict. Link the article to your post. Summarize the article. Make a connection (text to text, self or world) and describe how the connection extends your understanding.