Chang and Cho's Lessons

Presenter: Max Chang

Objective: We were to learn about Finland and its focus/stance on recycling/environmental policies.

We read an article and told the class what we learned from it.

Effective communicator: We developed this skill by knowing what we wanted to say and saying it in a way that was concise and clear.

Critical thinkers/Problem solvers: To understand the article's contents, we had to think critically.

Community contributor: By sharing what we learned to the class, we contributed our pool of knowledge with everyone else, benefiting all.


Presenter: Kassy Cho

Objective: To give us some background knowledge on Danmark's history

Activity: We were made to do 'jig-saw'; everyone read a separate text and became experts at it. They then taught the rest of the class what they had learned.

Critical thinking/problem solving: We had to understand and pick out what was most important in our texts so that we could know what to summarize and what to focus on.

Effective communicator: We had to explain our texts in such a way that our fellows could understand, picking our words and ideas carefully.

Community contributor: Being the experts of our text, we were all key parts of the community. Each one of us had a part of the history of Denmark, making it so that we were all pieces of the Jigsaw puzzle.

Liao's Lesson

Presenter: Kevin Liao

Objective: I think the objective was to learn a bit of history about Austria and to connect that with Austria's general identity of today.

There were 3 activities: To write a quickwrite on an article about Austrian xenophobia, to argue a prompt given by Kevin on Austria, and to write a dialectical journal (did not get around to actually doing this one.)

The quikwrite gave us some general information about Austria and her current situation, and the prompt made us connect that information and his earlier lesson to a debatable topic.

We acted as effective communicators by arguing our stance on the our prompts, active learners by furthering that debate (Justin and myself. XD), and critical thinkers/problem solvers by responding to the article by quick-writing.