Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Protest Math!



  Come next monday, where we will be rallying a protest in Mene square!  We will be protesting against the Math department for their deficiency in the field of math education.  This is to show the teachers that we need help, not to go over checking homework to make time for textbook work!  We need to boost our skill, as most of us are earning a Proficiency in the math grade, and only a disappointing 38% earn an Exeeds Standard rating.

Come next Monday!

Bring:
Posterboard
Markers
Enthusiasm
Pride!

See you there.

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel Documentary

The details regarding the Holocaust that became clearer for me was the section regarding the torture and mass killing of the Jewish race, with descriptions and reasons for why Hitler wanted only the Germans with blond hair and blue eyes, dubbed the "Master Race", which he selected to rule with him.  Interviewing Elie was a clearer insight for me, as he was able to describe in detail about the camps, and further discuss what he experienced in there.  The camera angles focused primarily on the sections of the camps that would make one feel the force of what happened in the camps, and focused on areas with many casualties, to highlight what really happened to all of the Jews during testing.  The use of graphics was mainly with pictures and 16mm footage of the labor camps, which showed the innocent and civillians lining up to be experimented on, and aerial views of the buildings that they suffered in.  In his interviews, the lines did not differ much from the excerpts from the book, although, when he was asked about the camps, his descriptions were a lot deeper and more understandable than the writing in the book.