Frontline Bookmark for The Tank Man

Here’s your bookmark for the Frontline segments for The Tank Man. When you get to this page, click on “Watch the Full Program Online” located on the right-hand side of your screen. A new window will open.

After you watch a clip, click the chapter bar to return to the menu to watch another clip.

For the first clip, 1.”Prologue” from 2:40 to the end, it is fine to start right from the beginning. It does not add that much time.

When Should a Person Be Considered an Adult?

The Learning Network - Teaching and Learning With The New York Times

November 17, 2009, 2:09 AM

When Should a Person Be Considered an Adult?

By KATHERINE SCHULTEN

Questions about issues in the news for students 13 and older.

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At 18? At 21? Should you be able to fight in a war before you can rent a car? Is it cruel to sentence a teenager to life without parole? Why are our laws and rules on this issue so inconsistent, and how do they affect you? As the Supreme Court considers the question of whether children should ever be sentenced to life without parole for crimes that don’t involve murder, Catherine Rampell asks

“How Old Is Old Enough?”: (Click here and read this before reading on.)

…When should a person be treated as an adult?

The answer, generally, is 18 — the age when the United States, and the rest of the world, considers young people capable of accepting responsibility for their actions. But there are countless deviations from this benchmark, both around the world (the bar mitzvah, for instance), and within the United States.

For drinking, driving, fighting in the military, compulsory schooling, watching an R-rated movie, consenting to sex, getting married, having an abortion or even being responsible for your own finances, the dawn of adulthood in America is all over the place.

Students: Tell us how you feel about this issue. Where would you draw the line to separate adulthood from childhood? Why? Do you think there is one age that could be established as the threshold for everything from drinking to driving to fighting in the military to watching an R-rated movie? Why or why not?

Remember, before you begin writing your post, copy this into your post before you begin writing. That way, you’ll remember to what you are responding:

Where would you draw the line to separate adulthood from childhood? Why? Do you think there is one age that could be established as the threshold for everything from drinking to driving to fighting in the military to watching an R-rated movie? Why or why not?

Remember to sign your post this way:

Kaitlynn S.— Washington (Remember to spell your peak group name correctly.)

Proofread your response out loud in your head before you post it. Make sure it makes sense and addresses all the questions.

Digging Deeper Into Craft and Content

We have a variety of things planned this week for the documentary project.  In class on either Monday or Tuesday this week, one goal will be to “marinate” while viewing more documentaries. We want you to study craft and content in depth even more.

First, we will look at three documentaries that  Mr. Davidson has bookmarked on his Diigo page. One is from Frontline, the second is from Discovery Education, and the third is a C-Span StudentCam documentary.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Here’s what we did today:

We watched and took notes about craft and content on YouTube video—Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story. We stopped the documentary at three minutes and had a whole class discussion. Everyone added things that we put on the board that were not in their notes. Check copies of the notes for the AM group notes and the PM group notes:

AM notes 11-9-09 Windmills YouTube

PM notes 11-9-09 Windmills on YouTube

Finally, everyone was assigned a group and finished class by viewing three documentaries Mr. Davidson bookmarked on his Diigo page.  Here are the three videos:

•C-Span’s StudentCam 2010 Healthcare

•Welcome to Discovery Education Player

•Frontline: Sick around the world: five capitalist democracies & how they do it PBS


Follow this link to see the videos above:


Mr. Davidson has bookmarked on his Diigo page.


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The second goal will be to “marinate” while reading about news stories. We want you to learn about topics and current issues and build a “documentary someday list” and begin to explore possible topics. Go to Mr. Davidson Diigo page to begin your news reading. Take notes on the stories that might interest you and don’t forget to bookmark your source on your own diigo page.

Here’s what we did today.

We gave everyone 25 to 30 minutes to finish taking notes on craft and content on Monday’s documentaries. Next we met for a whole group debrief and put notes on the board. Click on the link below for a copy of the AM group’s notes or the PM group’s notes:

AM Notes 11/10/09 on the 3 documentaries

The Harlem Renaissance

Here’s some background information for you to learn about the Harlem Renaissance. It will help you to better understand Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes.

Go to Discovery Education and watch this video segment about the Harlem Renaissance. Remember the to use the username and password to view the 6:40 minute segment. Take notes using this 2 column notes template. Don’t forget to complete the summary section at the bottom.