TODAY IN CLASS
We finished the last several minutes of the "Welcome to North Korea" video and students who were here yesterday did a short written assessment.
*If you were absent yesterday (whether testing or gone for whatever other reason) you need to view the video on your own sometime this week and make up the quiz. I'll let you do the actual quiz in class at some point since you will have had to spend your own time to watch.
Welcome to North Korea
I collected the print-outs of recent articles on North Korea (past six months). If you did not turn in a printed copy (the best/intended option), and did not e-mail me a link to an article (because you absolutely couldn't print), either BRING ONE tomorrow or SEND ONE tonight.
The following are three of the many articles on the person who escaped from a labor camp; he is not the only person ever to have escaped (though there are very few others), but he is believed to be the only person actually BORN in the labor camp to have managed to escape. As you can imagine, his adjustment to humanity has been tough.
Though I had people who were not taking the quiz read these to make good use of their time, these are not required of everyone. Our time is better used to address the wider aspects of the totalitarian state that is North Korea and to get back to the main issue of 1984. But if you're interested in what we touched on in class after the quiz, here are some links:
http://www.google.com/#q=boy+who+escaped+north+korea&safe=active
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/30/living/escape-camp-14-book-story/index.html
https://theweek.com/article/index/225742/one-mans-astonishing-escape-from-a-north-korean-death-camp
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