(Assignment #1) During our first week, you should have read the articles in this packet, and begun to make a short timeline of Haitian events, and a list of key players in Haiti’s recent history. Once you have completed that task, you should augment your timeline and lists with the the information found in this article, “Mixed U.S. Signals Tilt Haiti Towards Chaos” from the New York Times.
(Assignment #2) Once you’ve completed your timeline, you should prepare for our “tribunal” regarding Haiti by selecting a character, and researching their past. After you have selected a character, and thoroughly developed them as a entity, you should submit a brief character analysis that includes your character’s name, occupation, history in Haiti, and particular feeling about who’s the most responsible for the current tragedy befalling the Carribbean nation.
(Assignment #3) Assuming you participated in the “tribunal” please post answers to the following questions as comments to this post.
- Was your character easy or difficult to obtain information on? And, why do you think that is?
- Did you identify or side with your character, or did your character act in a manner that was outside your comfort zone? Explain.
- What did you learn about your character through this process?
- What did you learn about the other characters through this process?
- In our deliberation, who had the most to say, and who was left out of the process? Do you think that our classroom dynamic represented the real world, in terms of who had the most voice?
- Did you agree with the final verdict reached by the jury? Why / why not?
- What do you see as the point of this activity?
- What could’ve made the activity better or worse?
