- Returned and reviewed final exam.
- Students watched a brief clip from RACE: The Power of Illusion, reviewing Social Darwinism and US foreign policy at the beginning of the 20th century.
- Students wrote down aspects of society during the colonial period and made predictions about society during the neocolonial period.
- Students compared the clip from the United Fruit Companies 1950s film, Journey to Bananaland, with the song La United Fruit Co., which is based on a poem by Pablo Neruda.
- I talked briefly about the history of American interventions in Latin America.
BBF Chapter 6 - DUE Friday 2/10
QUIZ - BBF Chapter 6 - Friday 2/10
Journey to Bananaland:
La United Fruit Co.: