The classes during which the students presented their propaganda assignments, shared the rationale of their choices and engaged with the responses the works elicited, were some of the most intensive and fun we’ve had in my time with this programme in Akshar so far. In my last report (presentations by group 1 and 2), I’d…
The aim of this class was to define genocide. To do that we picked up the basic identifiers of genocide according to the module: (a) killing members of a specific group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to…
The propaganda assignment I mentioned in my last report took two and a half sessions to cover. Each group presented their samples of positive and negative propaganda, sharing their rationale before opening to questions/observations from the rest of the students and (minimally, from) me. Each group was also asked to send in a written note…
We began class with two images: What do you think you see? The responses sounded uncertain, a few surprised giggles here and there.Were those toys; were they grenades of some kind? That has to be Hitler, why are there two Santa Clauses? Is that a lightsaber? ccccThis session continued where the last had stopped, on…
We began the second class with a basic overview of what we had done in the previous class since there had been a two week disconnect. As this class was a double period we had the opportunity to cover a lot of ground. ccccWe intended to cover the Jewish Holocaust next as per the module,…
