You have several tasks to accomplish. They are due before next Wednesday's class, and you will have both Friday sessions and Monday's SL session to work on them:
1) Watch Hans Rosling's TED talk ("The River of Myths") and answer the viewing guide questions:
blog.ted.com/2013/02/04/hans-rosling-shatters-the-myth-of-developed-versus-developing-nations/
2) Watch Paul Collier's TED talk ("The Bottom Billion") and answer the viewing guide questions:
blog.ted.com/2013/02/04/hans-rosling-shatters-the-myth-of-developed-versus-developing-nations/
3) Download the 2015 Millennium Development Goals report and use it to answer the following questions.
4) Read Ch. 10 of The Undercover Economist and answer the reading questions.
1) Watch Hans Rosling's TED talk ("The River of Myths") and answer the viewing guide questions:
blog.ted.com/2013/02/04/hans-rosling-shatters-the-myth-of-developed-versus-developing-nations/
2) Watch Paul Collier's TED talk ("The Bottom Billion") and answer the viewing guide questions:
blog.ted.com/2013/02/04/hans-rosling-shatters-the-myth-of-developed-versus-developing-nations/
3) Download the 2015 Millennium Development Goals report and use it to answer the following questions.
- Who defined the Millennium Goals, and when?
- Pick the five goals that you consider to be most important, and briefly outline what progress has been made against those goals.
4) Read Ch. 10 of The Undercover Economist and answer the reading questions.
undercover_economist_-_ch._10.docx |
viewing_guide_questions.docx |