HWC Day 65 - South Asia Review

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Objective:  Analyze the historical foundations of contemporary issues in South Asia.

Task:  As you arrive to class, please get out your tablet and pick up the Taliban worksheet on the cart.  We'll spend the first portion of class examining the Taliban.  Then, we'll spend the remainder of class reviewing for the test.

Homework:

• TODAY - Kundun & Silk Road extra credit due
• TODAY - The World is Flat return deadline
• Monday, December 9 - Unit 6 Test
• Friday, December 13 - South Asia Regional Study extra credit due
• Monday, December 16 - FCP Student Summit
• Wednesday, December 18 - PLAN testing
• Thursday, December 19 - Gandhi extra credit due
• January 16 & 17 - Semester 1 Final Exams

Resources for Class Discussion:

• "Pakistani Gen. Musharraf's Past Comes Back to Haunt Him" (NPR, Morning Edition, 12/6/13)
• "Return of the Taliban" (PBS, Frontline, 10/3/2006)
• "Gender Apartheid" 
• "Children of the Taliban" (PBS, Frontline, 4/14/2009)

• "The Story of Malala, and Its Misuse for the Western Culture War" (Pravda, 11/29/2013)