Assignments for Week of May 12-16

Mon, May 12       SLAM     Final draft due

                             RCG       Answer questions about A Force More Powerful, Part 5. Answer these
                                              questions:

 1    Why did the workers in Poland go on strike?

2     What are the workers’ demands?

3      Some activists called for expanding the list of demands to include free elections and an end to censorship. What might have happened if these demands had been added?

4      Industrial workers have played key roles in several stories presented in this series.  Why have workers and their unions been such effective vehicles for nonviolent action? What leverage do workers possess that ordinary citizens don’t?

Tues, May 13        SLAM      All class poetry slam

Wed, May 14        RCG        Action Project Presentations

Thurs, May 15      RCG       News Bowl          

Fri, May 16          EVALS      Self-evaluations due.

Assignments for Week of May 5 - 9

Mon, May 5    SLAM     Slam poem due.        

Wed, May 7     WTG       Screenplays:  Scenes due.

                         SLAM       Revisions due.

                         RCG:         Answer these questions about A Force More Powerful, Part 3:

 1.  How did activists in both India and South Africa use these three forms of nonviolent sanctions: protests (such as parades and demonstrations), noncooperation (such as boycotts, resignations and civil disobedience) and direct intervention (such as factory occupations and blockades)? How did the sanctions neutralize or limit the power of the regime?

2. Early in his career Gandhi once labeled a campaign of nonviolent action as “passive resistance.” Is this a good description of what the Indians shown in the program were doing? Is it a good label for nonviolent action in general? Explain.

3. Starting in the mid-1980s anti-Apartheid movements in the United States and Europe succeeded in pressuring governments and corporations to take economic measures against South Africa. At the time, some people in these countries opposed such economic punishment; they argued that it harmed the people it was supposed to help more than it harmed the oppressive regime. What impact did these sanctions have on the South African government’s ability to sustain apartheid?

Thurs, May 8    RCG       Action Project check-in.

                                          Post annotated citation and link for News Bowl article at
                                          http://newsbowlrcg.wikispaces.com

                                          Send 5 good questions on your article to Martha. (Make one of
                                           them inferential.)

                                          Read pages 1-10 of A Force More Powerful study guide. Answer these
                                          questions:

1  What are some of the lessons nonviolent resisters learned?

2  What is the most vulnerable characteristic of all hierarchical institutions and governments?

3  Who is James Lawson?

4  What does the term satyagraha mean?

5  What is apartheid?

6  In South Africa Mkhuseli Jack’s mission was to win the “high ground in the community.” What did this mean?

7  What were the demands of the nonviolent resisters in South Africa?

8  What methods did the resisters use to topple apartheid?

Fri, May 9          RCG         Answer questions about A Force More Powerful, Part 4.

1      How did the Danes resist the Nazi invasion?

2      How did they organize to protect their Jewish citizens?

3      The Danes did not defeat the Germans, but how did their resistance thwart Germany’s progress?
 4   What were the Ten Commandments for Danes?

                          SLAM     Revised poem.