The website Rejected Princesses focuses on an underrepresented part of history and uses a comic-style format: “”Well-behaved women seldom make history. Rejected Princesses celebrates those who did. Part art project, part standup routine, part book report, this site imagines what if we made animated musicals about the women of history and myth Read more
Article: Riots erupt in Vancouver after Canucks loss “Riot police fired tear gas, pepper spray and flash bombs in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night to try to disperse angry rioters who set cars on fire, looted stores and taunted police officers after the Canucks’ 4-0 Stanley Cup final loss to the Boston Bruins. With crime-related RLEs, one Read more
Article: Why ‘Maus’ remains ‘the greatest graphic novel ever written,’ 30 years later Art Spiegelman’s WWII graphic novel Maus is a fantastic source on the Holocaust and WWII. Of course it does not take the same approach as a history textbook. This RLE can be used to explore the two Read more
Article: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz “The Polish resistance had been hearing horrific first- or second-hand accounts about the conditions inside Auschwitz. These early accounts came primarily from released prisoners, but also from casual observers like railway employees and residents of the nearby village of Oswiecim. The resistance decided Read more
The following sample is a rough start to a TOK presentation. Make sure you look carefully at the TOK Presentation Assessment Instrument and the requirements of the TOK TK/PPD document. When you put together your own complete presentation you must ensure it meets the requirements of both. Real Life Situation: An Read more
The TOK Presentation is an Internal Assessment. That means TOK teachers will give each student (or each group) a mark for the presentation and will put the mark and comments on the last page of the TK/PPD form. After a school’s marks are submitted TOK markers will re-mark a random batch Read more
“The poetry slam was invented by Marc Smith, a construction worker in Chicago in 1984. He was frustrated by snooty, elitist poets who appeared to have no interest in connecting with a live audience, and decided to stage a poetry reading in which the audience would have a way of Read more
Article: The tiny islands that could explode the China-Vietnam relationship “Named by 16th century Portuguese mapmakers, the Paracels are a collection of 130 small coral islands and reefs in the northwestern part of the South China Sea. They support abundant marine life. But more than being just a rich fishing Read more
Article: The Depths of Animal Grief “Elephants’ response to death has been called, “probably the strangest thing about them.” They almost always react to a dead elephant’s remains. Occasionally they react to a human’s. The remains or bones of other species, they ignore. Joyce Poole writes, “It is their silence Read more
Article: “Woman takes helm of Japanese Aegis destroyer for 1st time” “Capt. Miho Otani became the first woman to take the helm of a Japanese Aegis destroyer on Monday, pledging to set an example for other female sailors to follow. “I expect you to pursue our missions without hesitation,” Otani, Read more