Last week, we introduced the girls to our Geographic Areas of Concern (GAOC) program in which they are going to be taking their knowledge of the world's countries a step further. Each week, students will be responsible for one region of the world and will be asked to scan the news headlines for their region - from non-U.S. sources. Along with a partner, they will select one article to report in-depth on either through a short essay post to our GAOC blog or by oral presentation to the class, due every Thursday. Over the next ten weeks, they will cover all ten regions of the world and by the end will have written 5 essays and given 5 oral reports.
Each week, the GAOC oral presentations will give the whole class a sense of what's happened in the world that week. They'll be given a short online quiz the next morning to make sure they got it all. For girls who are absent, they will be able to review the articles on the GAOC blog and take the quiz when they return.
We had a few class periods last week to show the girls how to use Google News to scan for headlines and search for news from a particular region or country and also to practice and crtitique how to give a concise presentation of the news. This Thursday will be our first "for real" GAOC day with essays written and presentations done for all girls across all regions of the world, with lots more to follow in the coming weeks.
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