Week Fifteen - Cambodia and Bosnia

This Week

We are moving at a much more rapid pace now as we get through the remaining genocides. This week students studied the Cambodian Genocide and the Bosnian Genocide. Students also presented today on selected passages from the books they are reading in Language Arts and the sources we have studied in World History to try and draw parallels and dissimilarities between the ways in which the two sources talk about the conflict or genocide. Now would be a great time to talk to your son or daughter about what they are reading and ask them to explain the premise of the book and how the conflict they are studying unfolded in that part of the world. Also, today is the 19th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords (which students studied yesterday)! Check out what is being done to celebrate its 20th anniversary next year below:

Check out the full story from WYSO here

Upcoming Week

Next week is obviously a short one, and it is made even shorter by the fact that we are going on a field trip on Tuesday to the Air Force Museum. Thanks to the parents who have volunteered to join us, I really appreciate it!

This weekend I would encourage you to ask your son or daughter to think of some questions they would like to ask the Holocaust survivors. They should brainstorm and come prepared to ask questions when we meet with him or her. For more information on the exhibit they will be exploring, check out this link from the USAF Museum website.

When we return from break we will begin studying the Rwandan Genocide before moving on to our study of the Conflict in Northern Ireland and others. 

Have a great weekend!

~Mr. Grieve