FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES
Mr. El-Amin Rm 251
“We Make Thinking Citizens Out of Students”
Goal 1: Create an environment in which students come ready and motivated to learn.
Goal 2: Facilitate the development of academic and practical skills to prepare students to be able to research, think critically, study, and think on their own.
Goal 3: Through the study of International Relations, analyzing political, social, economic, geographical, and individual factors that led to significant events like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Iranian Revolution, Oslo Accords, Balkan & Rwandan Genocides, 9/11 Terror Attack, Sudanese Partition, and the Arab Spring; students will become that much more aware of their own and other cultural environments and ready to take on the challenges of political and social responsibility in their own lives.
Skill Sets: Reading
Scope: One Semester Course going from the Cold War to Current Events, looking at change and continuity of cultural political societies.
Tests: 100-200 pts: Fill-In Blank, Identification or Matching, Short Answers, Short Essays (BCR) or Essay.
Projects: 100-200 pts: Debates, Presentations, Essays (ECR)
Homework: Current Events Critiques, Vocab Flash Cards, Short Essays, Essays, & Movie Reviews
Communist Research Paper: End of Semester 10 pgs. Connecting the past to the present
Choose a communist or former communist country: Russia , China , Cuba
Classwork: Participation, Behavior, Readers, Socratic Seminars
* Read every night to increase knowledge, vocabulary, and imagination.
Extra Credit: Book Review – Two Pages: 1pg Summary & 1pg Critique 30 test pts.
1st Semester: Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 Classical Fiction
or Wretched of the Earth- Franz Fanon 1961 Non-fiction
2nd Semester: 1984 –George Orwell 1949 Classical fiction or
Golden Age of the Moor – Dr. Ivan van Sertima 1991 Non-fiction
