Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Neocolonialism

Agenda 2/6:
  1. Returned and reviewed final exam.
  2. 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.
  3. Students wrote down aspects of society during the colonial period and made predictions about society during the neocolonial period.
  4. 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.
  5. I talked briefly about the history of American interventions in Latin America.
HOMEWORK:
BBF Chapter 6 - DUE Friday 2/10
QUIZ - BBF Chapter 6 - Friday 2/10

Journey to Bananaland: 


La United Fruit Co.: