Thursday, February 16, 2012

Child witches in Africa

        


View the documentary and picture gallery at http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2007/dec/09/video and http://www.guardian.co.uk/observer/gallery/2007/dec/09/witches?picture=331488389. The tyranny of the Salem Witch Trials is as relevant today as it was in the 17th Century. Leave comments about what have you viewed. What does it make you think and feel? How does it expand your ideas about what it is to encounter conflict? As you study conflict and encounter stories such as these, does it have an impact on you? What does it make you think about the world?

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Encountering Conflict 2012

THE CRUCIBLE AND THE RUGMAKER OF MAZAR-E-SHARIF

 

Reading and knowing your set texts well is vitally important to doing the best you can in SACs and the exam.